Sentence examples for was less embarrassing from inspiring English sources

A more-than-averagely knowledgeable fan, Mr Blair's performance was less embarrassing than that of the England team in Germany.

He wrote poetry in quiet and private; on trains, he wrote prose, because it was "less embarrassing," as he told his friend Wallace Shawn in Strand's Paris Review interview: "Who would understand a man of my age writing poems on a train, if they looked over my shoulder?

It was a little embarrassing, but at the end of the day, it was less embarrassing than other things that I've done that didn't work, because I believed in what we were doing with the show.

All this might be less embarrassing if the jobs at stake were substantial — head of reality programming at CBS, for instance.

Clarke still makes the point that academies are not always subject to sufficient oversight, but he does so in a way that is less embarrassing to the government.

It is less embarrassing for me to ask him this question now than it would have been a few years ago.

America devotes twice as much of its income to universities and colleges as Germany (2.6% of GDP, against 1.1%) mainly because of higher private spending and bigger donations.Next year's figures should be less embarrassing.

It's less embarrassing for Yahoo to attribute an attack to a nation state, which typically have the most sophisticated hacking capabilities, than to attribute it to a cybercriminal group or individual – particularly as Yahoo is in the middle of being acquired by Verizon for $4.8bn.

She urges them to pick new names that are less embarrassing.

A sample: "It would be less embarrassing if more of us got into this whole school shooting racket".

He joked about "Muslims with beards," Donald Rumsfeld, and how it would be less embarrassing for Barack Obama if we all shut up and pretended that nothing was happening on this strange chunk of American land at the tip of Cuba.