Sentence examples for were rather embarrassing from inspiring English sources

Windows users hardly flocked to use the early versions of Internet Explorer, and its first reviews were rather embarrassing.

It was rather embarrassing.

That's rather embarrassing.

For the professional Little Englander, such a connection must be rather embarrassing.

Board members may never have met any patients, so it would be rather embarrassing to ask them.

It's rather embarrassing to look at his later credits, because they are yea-saying movies — decrepit "family pictures" like "The Enchanted Cottage" and "The Spanish Main".

This is rather embarrassing for the World Bank since almost a third of its aid goes on projects to boost local governance or is distributed through local bodies.

"It was rather embarrassing that the elections took place on 24 and 25 February; in the Vatican the sede vacante started on 28 February.

When nothing happened, I didn't feel guilty about it.' While he concedes that 'it's rather embarrassing that The Other Garden remains my only novel', he also likes 'sitting still' far too much to do anything about it.

I'd somehow caught a terrible cold during the previous 24 hours, and it was rather embarrassing to arrive at a stranger's house with a continually dripping nose, and halfway through my stock of Malaysian loo roll.

Given the current prime minister has repeatedly and without evidence stated we will meet the target of reducing our emissions by 26% below 2005 level "in a canter", the latest annual projections – when they eventually are released – could be rather embarrassing.