These vast new opportunities for social embarrassment are now being charted by the Web site Damn You Auto Correct! (D.Y.A.C. for short), where victims of autocorrect are invited to submit screen grabs of their most inglorious gaffes.
It is easy, even across a vast distance in time, to conjure up a teen-ager's exquisite embarrassment.
And yet, there is a reticence - out of sympathy, out of embarrassment, perhaps out of the haunting incongruity between the memory of this vast, hulking man who radiated power, and the endless helplessness of his situation now.
The kind we carry is the vast back catalogue of memories (often guilty), beliefs, hopes, desires, fears, passions, conflicts and embarrassments.
"You Are Not Alone" (1995), the major embarrassment of this late period, shows him as an angel, quite naked, with a vast pair of feathered wings.
The April 17 Senate debate was a public embarrassment in which a minority employed insults to logic to thwart the will of a vast majority of the nation.
A vast majority of the fighters online apparently tell Sam to either quit the sport or that he's an embarrassment to fighting.
Perhaps her airy way of describing this vast archive, withheld in breach of the spirit of the Public Record Act of 1958, had something to do with embarrassment.
Instead, we learn about the vast range of motives that lead people to lie: from unreciprocated loyalty, to a desire to court favor with celebrities, to embarrassment, pride and fear.
Resentment.... Embarrassment.
