Sentence examples for vague embarrassment from inspiring English sources
That he did so was not a source of pride around our house but vague embarrassment.
Not being able to put on makeup has long been a source of vague embarrassment to me.
Even the Edinburgh fringe, an invaluable platform for new material, seems to treat musicals with vague embarrassment and a lack of critical seriousness.
But what if the child does not grow out of it, or if one's vague embarrassment is replaced by a deeper unease?
Now I look at them in the pantry and I feel the same kind of vague embarrassment that may overwhelm someone who stumbles across a Chia Pet in the attic.
Like Naomi Campbell's tearful insistence on Oprah this week that the only person who felt pain when she embedded a phone into a maid's skull was the utterly blameless Naomi Campbell, Jesse's statement of, if not apology, then at least vague embarrassment, is a masterclass in how to talk about something you have done wrong, while emphasising you cannot be blamed for it.
But he said that he watched Mr. Gibson's promotional tactics "with a vague sense of embarrassment" because he believed the movie deserved better.
In lieu of details about compensation or even a vague sense of embarrassment, theirs was a sprawling, Trumpian response in which they claimed it was "NOT the case" that we'd been scammed.
This painful, complex, beautifully acted and inexpressibly sad drama from Ira Sachs is about something that looms large in real life, but never usually gets acknowledged in the movies in any but the vaguest way – banal, undignified embarrassment over money, and the deadly serious damage this causes.
She had an emotional territory all her own, one that was defined not by pain, exactly, but by some subdepartment of it, some vague and clammy feeling — discomfort, embarrassment — and magnified by the extreme physical immediacy of the work.
The resolution she endorsed was extremely vague, more of a potential political embarrassment to the administration than a restriction on the military.
