Sentence examples for unseemly position from inspiring English sources

We attend late previews on designated press nights, and our seats are mostly (and deliberately) beyond range of any possible selection process for cameo roles. Otherwise, a critic might be put in the unseemly position of reviewing his own performance).

It's an unseemly situation.

Journalists depicted it as an unseemly place to live.

Your colleague saw that unseemly Facebook post.

His drug-induced death at the age of 50 in 2009 would itself turn into a worldwide spectacle of grief, speculation and unseemly jockeying for money and position among family members and lawyers.

Fortunately, no unseemly meltdowns took place.

While Jenny ran about frantically trying to raise a couple of pounds to pay for a coffin for one of their children, her husband employed a loutish, libidinous and thoroughly useless private secretary merely because he thought it unseemly for a man of his position to be without one.

"There's something unseemly about the state being in the position of executing people," Mrs. Pignatelli finally concluded.

The Met likes to position itself well above such unseemly embraces, even if it once feature an exhibition of rock stars' stage kit.

Don Cowie swung the ball into the mixer, where an unseemly scramble ensued and, from a seated position all of two yards out, Gunnarsson sent the ball trundling slowly past the wrong-footed Bobby Olejnik.

Then he rolled onto his back his front legs frozen skyward in near rigor mortis, his rear legs spread in a position that might be considered unseemly had he not been fixed at age 1, four years ago.