This now sounds embarrassingly quaint, but many modernists have sought such authority from museums. |
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What I do know reminds me of the strident sort of PC left-winger who was embarrassingly mockable, and no one with any sense hung out with. |
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I think all my books are embarrassingly awash with sentimentality and emotion. |
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Up stepped Beckham, but he slipped horribly at the vital moment of impact and the ball ballooned embarrassingly over the bar. |
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This a question every musician has been asked, yet it can be embarrassingly difficult to answer. |
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The military embarrassingly admitted that it did not even know whether supposedly secret information seized from the officer was classified. |
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That is putting it pretty strongly, and there are admirable exceptions, but it is embarrassingly close to the mark. |
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Eventually, she requests an audition, but embarrassingly falls flat on her face. |
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Bennie and Walter play-act in a repetitive chant, as Ruth embarrassingly answers the door to let in George Murchison. |
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Your proposal is embarrassingly optimistic, like the product of a child's imagination. |
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Most embarrassingly, Mussina tied a major-league record by allowing six doubles in one inning. |
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Yet he himself is hardly objective in his analysis and embarrassingly reveals himself as being totally incompetent. |
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The busy staff were attentive, talkative and to be honest, a bit embarrassingly deferential at times. |
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Now it looks like an unwanted child still tied embarrassingly to the parent company's apron strings and destined for a future of neglect. |
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It isn't embarrassingly inept like his last film, but nor is it more distinguished than an average TV movie. |
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I knew by the time his eyes reached my chest area my face was embarrassingly red. |
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When that did not happen, there was no Plan B or Plan C in place, and the bowling looked embarrassingly aimless. |
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They're embarrassingly on the nose and incredibly douchey in their own self-satisfied cleverness. |
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A woeful shot in acres of space by Mullan at the top of the penalty box was embarrassingly bad. |
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I also had an almost embarrassingly large wad of cash stuffed into the waistband of my outfit. |
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In my next scene, I have to dance the hornpipe towards Basil, leading a line of children some of whom are, embarrassingly, as tall as me. |
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Yet there will still embarrassingly long blackouts for the audience to fidget through. |
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Although influenced by one and almost embarrassingly in awe of the other, he was more pluralist than either of his highly dogmatic mentors. |
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The acceptance speeches alternated between the embarrassingly grateful and the stridently self-promotional. |
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Yet, only a year ago, the conventional wisdom was that the Golden Jubilee was likely to be a frowsty and embarrassingly ill-attended affair. |
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It's now time for the lag, and his ball is glued to the cushion as my ball stops embarrassingly at mid-table. |
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, presidential memoirs are usually dull, uninformative and embarrassingly self-congratulatory. |
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To all but a few enlightened purists, ska equals white people playing reggae embarrassingly fast. |
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Once he began to waltz with Katie, these clothes seemed fussy, embarrassingly showy. |
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It was so stupid, so frustrating, so embarrassingly moronic, that it made her want to tear her hair out. |
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His embarrassingly manufactured cameo only adds to the lame silliness of the scene. |
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And Dr Sousa said that this gap in communication can often surface, embarrassingly, at business fairs and exhibitions. |
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It's a shame that this album highlight is immediately followed by a song so embarrassingly gauche. |
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I'm a gambling man myself, but I wouldn't make that bet, as those odds, one against infinity, are embarrassingly bad. |
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Or, even more embarrassingly, she did and opted to accost Aslan about his religion regardless of the claims in his book. |
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And that was probably all that saved them from another embarrassingly low finish as this plodding ballad sent the entire world to sleep simultaneously. |
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It is disquieting to join the ranks of futurist thinkers, for many so-called experts have made forecasts that have turned out to be embarrassingly wrong. |
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Buckley's novel, by contrast, is embarrassingly superficial. |
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More embarrassingly, he said, he was trying to keep secret that he was gay. |
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The so-called universal values of the European elites are embarrassingly hard to pin down, and it's this constant hypocrisy that undermines them. |
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I was constipated and when I had stools the odor was so embarrassingly bad that in self-defense I had to turn on the bathroom fan. |
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Many of the reasons these women claim for not needing feminism are embarrassingly bad. |
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Somehow, however, he manages to emasculate the idea in order to generate a second-rate thriller with cheap theatrics and an embarrassingly stupid ending. |
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We should have seen that choice two years ago instead of embarrassingly stumbling across it now. |
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These embarrassingly partisan perspectives have changed in recent decades, and a less confessionally oriented picture of Luther has emerged. |
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Yet we still have, as a research community, an embarrassingly large amount to learn. |
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Canada currently supplies an embarrassingly rich assortment of illegal and contraband goods. |
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Indeed, most MEPs in this House come to this House with an embarrassingly low mandate. |
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Conventional broadcasters spent embarrassingly little on Canadian content, particularly drama. |
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This analysis was impressively confirmed by the embarrassingly low turn-out in the election. |
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Yet Toronto, the most multicultural city on earth, has an almost embarrassingly low level of crime. |
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The issue of child care continues to be one on which Canada does embarrassingly poorly. |
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Despite warning letters, reasoned opinions, threats of legal action to the European Court of Justice, so it embarrassingly continues. |
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And survey after survey proves an embarrassingly high percentage of Americans are largely ignorant of how our government works. |
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In this case, Santorum received a major assist from Ron Paul, who left Romney floundering in an embarrassingly weak third. |
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When the mood strikes me, I can eat an embarrassingly large number of dillpickles or rollmops, even a bag of pretzels in a sitting, or more olives than I should. |
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The very lucratively paid Canadians are embarrassingly, shamelessly scrabbling for excuses as to why they were well-beaten by a much better team of non-professionals. |
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Rocking a man-tank, sunglasses, and sultry pout, Billy Ray looks both embarrassingly excited to be included and super confused. |
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Do you think her embarrassingly mechanical and unfunny monologue on Leno was ridiculous? |
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Having unsightly water spots everywhere, like your glass shower doors, walls, fixtures, and mirrors, can leave your bath looking embarrassingly unpresentable all the time. |
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There's an embarrassingly bountiful supply of good food in the kitchen. |
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Watching teenagers in America classily conducting interviews as he shuffled embarrassingly past unable to do it. |
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While other leaders around the world distinguished themselves with their immediate, positive and supportive comments, our Prime Minister remained embarrassingly silent, perhaps waiting for a poll, I am not sure. |
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It's easy to point out examples of the media catering to embarrassingly base interests or cravenly pursuing triviality for the sake of sales, in the name of news. |
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In a claustrophobic sweat box of a gym, a 99kg behemoth called Paul stands over me and laughs gently as I struggle to lift an embarrassingly small stack of weights. |
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The humanitarian terms in which this report is couched are an embarrassingly thin and hypocritical disguise for the barbarity of the superpowers and the world order which they impose on people. |
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Similarly, the documents relating to the discharge that we receive from the Council are always embarrassingly insubstantial and do not in fact amount to much. |
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For too long the age of protection in Canada has been embarrassingly low, allowing individuals to come from other countries to exploit 14 and 15 year old Canadians. |
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As worryingly, Forest were second-best to a well-organised, confident and physically dominant Sheffield Wednesday from the start, and at times in the second half, almost embarrassingly so. |
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I'm not a big fan, however, of the daleks stealing the Cyberman's bodyjacking schtick, and I thought the hybrid looked embarrassingly silly. |
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Here it is just me and my daydreams, which are embarrassingly transparent. |
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On the day the news broke, he wandered into his Kokugikan match sheepishly, like the boy who embarrassed himself at the school concert, and was embarrassingly thrashed by maegashira Kitataiki. |
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Along the way, he crosses swords with a sci-fi obsessed criminal, an embarrassing role played embarrassingly by Gibson. |
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It is still worth saying that such a hierarchy was introduced by evolutionist anthropology and applied by colonialism and embarrassingly so by colonial ethnography. |
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The summits' grandiloquent final declarations are frequently, and perhaps rather embarrassingly, contrasted with the paucity of the results they actually achieved. |
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They are embarrassingly close to the Irish dates. Ireland, as we know, has been looking at this legislation for many years and has done absolutely nothing about it. |
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Only a few days before Bear's desiccation, remember, some analysts embarrassingly pointed out that it had enough liquid assets and borrowing capacity to keep it going for almost two years. |
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His Jesus, who has important precursors in the Jesuses of Jewison and Greene, is embarrassingly riven and indecisive. |
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Its sales employee retention was embarrassingly low and overall employee turnover was a significant issue affecting sales and profits, disrupting customer satisfaction and confidence. |
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To solve these embarrassingly communication between them. |
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He said this was an embarrassingly large figure and that the Commission wanted to devolve more responsibility to delegations, and where possible, to national authorities in the field, so as to improve financial management. |
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He was presented with an embarrassingly long list of options. |
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We derive our embarrassingly parallel VI algorithm, analyze our method theoretically, and demonstrate our method empirically on a few nonconjugate models. |
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