Indeed, they suffered the embarrassment of not having a single shot on goal in Switzerland. |
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A deep blush of embarrassment at being caught starring outside the window heated her cheeks and she looked down her hands, resting on her lap. |
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A blush of anger and embarrassment heated her cheeks and her irritation was further stretched. |
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Sights like this are common on L.A.'s skid row, a rock-bottom depository and national embarrassment. |
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I remember his raised eyebrows and the distinct embarrassment of being caught in my skivvies in front of a complete stranger. |
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Mrs M would have to excuse herself from the dinner table to vomit undigested food, and this caused her embarrassment. |
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The point was to minimize Bolshevik embarrassment caused by the relief effort and, where possible, to take the credit for the Soviet government. |
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The others murmur what could be approval or embarrassment, nurse their bourbons, and glumly fall back into silence. |
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Largely, this can be explained by the embarrassment many of them feel about their obscene and unearned mega-fortunes. |
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He was shameless in his sycophancy and usually unaware of the embarrassment caused by his actions. |
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Insistent, often unpolished, and flecked with humour, Shary Boyle's drawings expose private vice and public embarrassment. |
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You will have huge embarrassment value in later life showing your daughter's first boyfriend her as a baby with no nappy! |
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Then it happened, and our tepid prehistory was, quite literally, forgotten beyond a lingering embarrassment at my own callow unresponsiveness. |
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There can be problems with the length of time your child is required to wear the brace and the embarrassment it may cause. |
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What begins as a private family dilemma snowballs into a very public display of social embarrassment. |
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Finally, to avoid any further embarrassment, Aryan took out his credit card and did the needful. |
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That would have at least prevented the embarrassment of negative votes, which is really what this is all about. |
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If you're put off the idea of getting a Brazilian by pure and simple embarrassment, I have to say it wasn't at all like that. |
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In any case, I figure he is due the embarrassment given that he had the nerve to compare my beloved Moleskine to his dollar-notebook. |
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Her last efforts to brew chamomile tea only resulted in failure and harsh embarrassment. |
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The whole table broke out into laughter, leaving Jake with his brick-red cheeks flared with embarrassment. |
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The cost to the Brits in money, embarrassment and nerves was just getting out of hand. |
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Here is what I believe to be the vernacular understanding of the difference between shame, humiliation and embarrassment. |
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With embarrassment, feeling a fool, I admit I was a victim of a Nigerian fraud. |
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The face blotches with tears and blushes in embarrassment, blemishes appear, bad teeth are visibly hidden behind a nervous hand. |
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The embarrassment concluded with his attempt to kiss Princess Anne's hand, a royal no-no. |
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Telling the truth will open a can of worms, and cause huge embarrassment to certain establishments. |
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They're surrounded by heavy linen, sparkling crystal, gleaming silver, obsequious waiters, and an embarrassment of champagne glasses. |
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For the administration and its conservative allies, the United Nations represents embarrassment and obstruction. |
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Plus there are some seriously cheesy synth lines and fake handclaps etc that would make Lil Jon run from the room in embarrassment. |
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Compulsions are obvious to an observer and can cause considerable shame and embarrassment. |
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Last year, the lights were not removed until March, occasioning embarrassment for both the Chamber and the Council. |
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Giving readings was seen as an embarrassment, and generations of German poets were proud to fumble around in sullen cantankerousness. |
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I lay splayed out, face down on the hard floor for a minute or two, paralysed by embarrassment and surprise. |
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In the olden days if you were a dunce in class, you were made to stand at the back of the class, enduring unimaginable embarrassment. |
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It is hoped that the cashless system will save less well-off students from embarrassment and lead to greater equality among classmates. |
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I'm surprised that the council leader has had no word of censure for the embarrassment caused to his administration for this abuse of office. |
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He grabbed a hero sandwich and munched on it to hide away his embarrassment. |
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No credible alternative will brave the embarrassment of certain heavy defeat. |
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She stumbled over her words as her cheeks flushed a dark pink of embarrassment. |
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To his embarrassment and chagrin, not one of these claims has turned out to be true. |
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Too late, to his chagrin, not to mention embarrassment, he found that he had rather overdone it, and could not get near him. |
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The long-awaited breakup will ensue, to the embarrassment and chagrin of many. |
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At the mention of Vannington, the look changed to chagrin and embarrassment. |
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The embarrassment was such that Gilchrist found himself explaining that his words had been taken out of context. |
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Suddenly realising the potential for embarrassment, Kerry abruptly changed the subject. |
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I am now in the hilarious position of being an embarrassment to all concerned. |
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In hindsight I should have just stayed longer, lay down and waited without embarrassment. |
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Today, when he speaks to a top-heavy group of foreign economists and analysts in a Hinglish patois there is no trace of embarrassment. |
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Imagine her embarrassment when the checker got on the public address system and boomed out for the entire store to hear. |
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Any overt public criticism or disparaging remarks can result in a loss of face and cause extreme embarrassment. |
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It chimes with that awful embarrassment and fear of the family construct being dismantled. |
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How can I make it plain that I'm hot to trot while protecting both of us from embarrassment if the feeling isn't mutual? |
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It is full of howlers and is, in fact, an embarrassment to Scottish culture. |
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Was it an interlude, a parenthesis, a hiccup, an embarrassment, or a beginning? |
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In the meantime it created embarrassment and difficulties for the College in considering her extenuating circumstances. |
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Gruzelier also suspects that hypnotism may interfere with subjects' evaluation of future emotions such as embarrassment. |
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The excruciating embarrassment of finding one's personal peccadillos exposed to public scrutiny makes kiss-and-tell the perfect vengeance-fodder. |
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Such a system would be ideal for any school as children too would be saved the embarrassment of being singled out for resource room training. |
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She colored slightly in embarrassment, finally realizing just how close her new acquaintance was to her. |
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Every social faux pas, every cruel word, every embarrassment returns with fresh power to demoralise. |
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Trust me, this will help greatly in preventing any possible faux pas or embarrassment. |
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Even with a fawning audience, he wouldn't tolerate a record of any sort of embarrassment. |
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We realized we were in a pickle and knew how much embarrassment would ensue from most of the remedies that obviously presented themselves. |
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This event was a source of embarrassment and infuriation on one level and complete perplexity on another. |
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The comment stung Winston's eyes with pinpricks of embarrassment, and he wanted to run until he couldn't see straight. |
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They are a political fig leaf to cover the government's embarrassment over that. |
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It's that feeling one gets in the pit of one's stomach, a combination of embarrassment and anger at the idiocy of it all. |
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Postponing the inevitable anger, disappointment, and embarrassment my parents would surely feel upon my confession seemed like a good idea. |
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By his lying, stupidity and intemperance Lee has tarnished the club's image and caused embarrassment to supporters. |
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If I have caused any embarrassment or distress to the parties concerned I unreservedly, sincerely and contritely apologise. |
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I shrugged off the thoughts and went back to staring at my map, my cheeks flaming from embarrassment. |
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My face flamed with embarrassment at the blatantly southern direction of my thoughts. |
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Of course, I ended up looking down at the ground, my face flaming with embarrassment. |
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The poor man, caught senseless by the little coquette, dropped his mallet and his cheeks began to redden with embarrassment. |
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The embarrassment he's experienced, on the heels of a near suspension for corking another player, is penalty enough. |
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He flushed with embarrassment at the flood of fragments of the memories of that time. |
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Brellier's chin drops to his chest, his long hair flopping over his features, hiding an apparent embarrassment at the question. |
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He blinked sleepily at me, then realized what he was doing and immediately went into a flurry of apologies and embarrassment. |
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My eyes probably went wide because I felt my cheeks flush with embarrassment. |
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The servant girl looks at the ground, her cheeks flushing with embarrassment. |
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Gabrielle felt a pleasant feeling deep in her gut when his face flushed lightly in embarrassment. |
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Hot embarrassment flushed her cheeks as she threw back the quilt, taking care not to crease it. |
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Despite her flush of embarrassment at the small tradition, she grinned and ran down to them. |
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After a moment, though, it became clear to me that it was a flush of rage as well as embarrassment. |
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Sure to make you howl with laughter and cringe with embarrassment, this is a definitive highlight of the Michaelmas theatre season. |
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The muddle, fuddle, blunder and guddle that followed has only helped turn devolution into a source of national embarrassment. |
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Samantha bowed her head so that her hair curtained her face, successfully concealing the crimson that stole over her cheeks in embarrassment. |
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Both authors vividly describe James' subsequent embarrassment at being jeered off the stage during the curtain call for the play. |
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He looks a tad constipated to me, that or he has just emitted built-up gas and is clenching his carpentered cuspids in embarrassment. |
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They were so grateful for my muddled, yet earnest, attempts at educational help that it was a permanent embarrassment to me. |
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It gives the band an ability to loose the reigns and do something that precariously walks the line between excitement and embarrassment. |
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In an embarrassment of poor acting, Lil approaches David at the general store. |
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You can't put a price on the embarrassment when you are sitting in the auditorium during a performance and your phone rings. |
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Finally, he faced the embarrassment of being asked to pay for private treatment. |
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Many have wives, partners and girlfriends, the last thing we wanted was to cause embarrassment to them. |
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Millions of pounds are pouring into this ever-growing bureaucratic gravy train and it is now an embarrassment to the Government. |
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The ladies' chorus had tears streaming down their faces and Julie, the inadvertent stripper, was slowly dying of embarrassment. |
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Feelings of expectation, embarrassment, distress and emotional harm vary according to the individual. |
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As the addiction can be accompanied by feelings of shame and embarrassment, sufferers often find it difficult to seek help. |
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The embarrassment and shame it brings on the family means people are keeping quiet and women are being cocooned in their homes. |
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I felt a lot of shame, embarrassment and humiliation, I lived with all that for years. |
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Today I have no pride, no faith, only embarrassment, anger, and frustration. |
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He looks around and is consumed by acute embarrassment, even shame, at what he sees. |
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I wondered how much of this self-conscious embarrassment was induced by a few days in the surroundings of Oxford. |
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The actions of the fans were disrespectful, and they have brought shame and embarrassment on their club, and on this country. |
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It will be profound, a mixture of embarrassment, shame and a huge feeling of emptiness. |
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Horror, shock, embarrassment, confusion and sadness all swept across at the same time. |
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I put down my music, eyes pricking and throat closing up with anxiety, rage, confusion and embarrassment. |
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Pauline said today she feared that embarrassment and shame could be stopping Christine and Nicholas from contacting her. |
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This is a highly readable and strangely affecting comedy of embarrassment, resentment, grief and love. |
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Along with embarrassment and guilt, shame is one of the emotions that motivate moral behaviour. |
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He cannot say he was unprepared for York council's financial embarrassment. |
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What at first seems to be nothing more than a contractual obligation thing is actually an embarrassment of riches. |
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Suddenly, the selectors who hardly knew where to turn earlier in the season have an embarrassment of riches. |
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Given the generosity with which people describe themselves, such Web sites are an embarrassment of riches. |
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He has come full bloom at the time Indian cricket has an embarrassment of riches. |
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From being an embarrassment up front, they have an embarrassment of riches. |
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Turning to his bibliography, a rigorous catalogue of debates in book and periodical, we face an embarrassment of choice. |
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In short, what we have here is an astonishing wealth and stylistic range of soundscapes, quite literally an embarrassment of riches. |
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Dad greets him with a huge, welcoming smile, displaying no discomfort or embarrassment whatsoever. |
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Seeing Julia's discomfort and embarrassment, James did what he thought was best at the moment. |
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Derek paused a moment and shuffled his feet a moment, giving off the vibe of discomfort and perhaps even embarrassment. |
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He didn't say a word, just hovered somewhere between embarrassment, happiness and discomfort for a while. |
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I was a daughter of wealth, I told myself, and not subject to discomposure and embarrassment. |
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I prefer to get through this embarrassment by not discussing my job or where I've been on holiday. |
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At one point, her character turns away from Jonathan out of embarrassment of her disfigurement. |
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And, on the rare occasions when he does show embarrassment, it is always of the sort which endears him to ladies of a certain age. |
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The disgraceful attitude of these officers brings shame and embarrassment to all. |
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Regardless of the outcome of the trial, the whole episode has been a huge embarrassment to English football. |
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I had become so unreliable, unpredictable and frankly, an embarrassment they could do without. |
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But again and again, he was dogged by scandals of his own making that made him as much of an embarrassment as an asset to the party he served. |
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They have suffered embarrassment and worst from dopes, dubbos and incompetents. |
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Fearing exposure and embarrassment if he were to assume a conspicuous role at the new arts agency, he turned down the appointment. |
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Usually if a horror film takes itself too seriously it winds up being an eye-rolling embarrassment full of unintended laughs. |
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Once aboard, to his fugitive embarrassment, he is accosted by a young girl he vaguely remembers. |
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Too often the switching is not done in time and payments are missed, accruing considerable embarrassment and penalties. |
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Persistent questioners are much less prone to embarrassment than the rest of us. |
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The more ambitious and well favoured tend to become obtrusive, and, eventually, inevitably, an embarrassment to their masters. |
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Churches will not draw young people to their doors if they shy away from any mention of adoration as a matter of embarrassment. |
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Today, supreme court jurists and Washington politicians display no embarrassment in citing Magna Carta to support their case. |
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Her cheeks felt hot with embarrassment, but when she looked at her new husband, she saw that his face only glowed with his love for her. |
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It reassured me that everything was okay between us but I was still red with embarrassment. |
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His face was still red, he could feel his cheeks burning with the embarrassment. |
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Oshino's face was red with anger and embarrassment and he stormed off angrily. |
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His face was very red, but Pegasus couldn't tell if it was anger or embarrassment. |
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But there is a wide feeling among many others that these redactions were really just ways to avoid embarrassment. |
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It evoked feelings of nostalgia, embarrassment and wonder at how I was thinking then. |
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That caused plenty of embarrassment given that some Labor Party councillors from Fairfield turned up. |
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To be confronted by yawning gaps in the stands will prove an embarrassment and one Africa will not live down. |
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Don't let embarrassment or fear keep you from reporting fraud or abuse to the appropriate authorities. |
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I am aided along this expressway to embarrassment by Alec, who either makes things worse or laughs at me. |
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It's not for nothing that this laureate of embarrassment is an ardent admirer of Kafka. |
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A hetero Chicago hood, to his embarrassment, finds himself falling for this ambivalent androgyne. |
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The British endured similar military embarrassment at the hands of Indians, Afghans, Zulus and Boers. |
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His tan face flushed with embarrassment as the rest of the ten remaining guests egged him on. |
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Instead, it stigmatizes innocent children, subjects them to acute embarrassment, and teaches them to distrust authority. |
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On the other hand, the person may recognize her difficulties, but not seek help because of embarrassment or fear of being stigmatized. |
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When war broke out in 1914 the German antecedents of the royal family were a source of embarrassment. |
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The embarrassment of having a foreign head of state is compounded by our treatment as second-class subjects. |
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If labelling is to be effective, it is important that embarrassment, revulsion and even disgust be generated in the public mind. |
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But it does play on social mores and our embarrassment about natural bodily functions, albeit in a crude way. |
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The film is appallingly directed, exposing the actors to scenes of baffling embarrassment. |
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Since that moment, the football gods punished the team's rodomontade with injuries, embarrassment, and a 2000 flameout. |
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He flung an arm round Wilfred's shoulder, completely oblivious to his friend's shy embarrassment. |
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In the second half, though, the lopsided nature of proceedings threatened to become an embarrassment. |
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Lan shut his eyes tight, sinking his head down a little in embarrassment and shyness. |
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She looked at each pupil without showing any hint of embarrassment or shyness. |
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On the way home I might suddenly get a new low opinion of the flowers, and feel embarrassment at having bought them. |
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The look on his face as he saw Missy at the door was both of astonishment and embarrassment. |
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They paused with the same look of embarrassment and astonishment on their faces. |
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She had to borrow a plastic mackintosh from a friend to avoid embarrassment at the police station where she was to be interviewed. |
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These disruptions included blocking of thoughts, insomnia, having to stop what she was doing, and embarrassment. |
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The dive blokes shuffled their feet with embarrassment, trying to pretend that it wasn't happening, but unable to stop gawping. |
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When the whispering started, she began to shuffle her feet in embarrassment, her combat boots scarping harshly against the linoleum. |
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The campaign is unlikely to help, and quite likely to increase awkwardness and embarrassment. |
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Three times Dudzinski made excellent saves to spare his side from further embarrassment, including one acrobatic tip over the bar. |
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Ministers and backbenchers agree that his continued membership is a source of increasing embarrassment. |
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The backhanded compliment had made her blood rise with both embarrassment and a little bit of annoyance. |
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Kayla yelped in shock and embarrassment at the scene they were displaying to innocent bystanders. |
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The South at one time was viewed as the cultural backwater of the nation, both as an economic liability and a social embarrassment. |
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To the Balinese, being singled out as particularly talented in the arts would be a source of embarrassment rather than pride. |
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Fourteen-year-old Megan declares that her dad is an embarrassment, and even bans him from her soccer games. |
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Almost as bad as the direction is the embarrassment of a screenplay that tells us everything and shows us nothing. |
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I may end up in therapy for months and the potential for embarrassment is endless. |
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Eighteen months ago Finnigan suffered the embarrassment of baring her bra to the nation during a TV award show. |
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With her drinking and thieving, his mother proved a lifelong source of embarrassment. |
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During the war in the Crimea, the thinness of the British ranks soon became an embarrassment. |
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The staff are very approachable and we let more bashful people wander around to avoid embarrassment unless they ask us. |
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In awkward embarrassment they stripped down and continued their performance in the nude. |
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I quickly slipped out of my togs and under the sheet with some embarrassment. |
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Anonymous messaging and chat rooms let you flirt to your heart's content without any embarrassment or getting tongue-tied. |
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The crew recites the dialogue by heart and mimics the actors without an ounce of embarrassment. |
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She is said to be bracing herself for further embarrassment if her latest sexcapades end up on the net. |
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A touch of embarrassment swept over Rebecca as she remembered their last encounter and she could not bring herself to meet his eyes. |
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He suddenly looked acutely self-conscious, which at least had the plus point of making me less aware of my own embarrassment. |
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Suddenly it clicked and my eyes widened with embarrassment as I looked down at him. |
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Reasons include denial, the seeming mildness of symptoms, and the fear of embarrassment or loss of control. |
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Some in Mexico view the exodus of millions of people as an embarrassment while others as an escape valve for social unrest. |
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And then, with some embarrassment and sheepishness and a new sense of propriety, it ended. |
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I was about to give her a shekel when something about her expression made me look again, and my hand hesitated in embarrassment. |
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The delay is surely something of an embarrassment for the company, which recently promised the product would ship on 30 June. |
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While the stories sound amusing, attached to them are unheard feelings of embarrassment and hurt. |
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Although tradition suggests that young Chinese women be modest, no signs of embarrassment or shyness can be read on the waitresses' faces. |
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The embarrassment to baseball was so great that soon enough, after Dad sold the club, I was essentially blackballed from Major League Baseball. |
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Rebecca experienced a brief twinge of embarrassment as she wondered just what her children had seen if anything. |
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There was less enthusiasm from her school, where this sudden blaze of publicity was seen as no more than an embarrassment. |
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Sara whirled around, cheeks mottled red in embarrassment as soon as she saw the intruder. |
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Imprisoned by an English embarrassment, I was unassertive in my twenties, and so my friend was not called upon to explain the anomalies. |
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The condition is not a sign of uncleanliness, but it does cause embarrassment and many unnecessary days lost from school and work. |
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If they were exposed to humiliation or embarrassment in front of their families or colleagues, so much the better. |
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At this stage, my dancing is still awkward, rigid, uncoordinated, an embarrassment, to be frank. |
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She blushed deeply from embarrassment and tears grew once more in the garden of her eyes. |
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Rob lay down next to her, and reached out his hand, still blushing but ignoring his embarrassment and taking her hand in his. |
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Claudia shook her head, blushing slightly in embarrassment as all eyes looked at them. |
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He glared at her, and realised with embarrassment that he was blushing, which only made him blush all the more. |
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I blushed further shades of embarrassment, trying to hide myself under my raven dark hair. |
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I blinked a few times, embarrassment rising in my chest again. |
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We must commend the kindness of the Review Board in sparing their co-workers the embarrassment of having their risibility enshrined in a document of record. |
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His stated regret at bringing embarrassment to the bank and its staff, and his willingness to match his words with actions, do him credit at the darkest hour of his career. |
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The change from first person singular to plural evinces his embarrassment. |
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Her attempts to push the relationship forward move at a glacial pace, but eventually she and her new lover are forced, mostly by embarrassment, to progress from necking. |
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A lot of women still feel embarrassment and shame about their own desires. |
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The film, written by Stephen Beresford and directed by Matthew Warchus, offers an embarrassment of riches. |
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He rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment, giving a shy smile. |
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Brian noticed this, and broke out in a sudden blush of embarrassment. |
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At least the selection of stellar performers should intersect with the tastes of someone on your Christmas list and save you both some embarrassment. |
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A bloke who normally wears his locks in braids or cornrows, Tuitavake appeared with straight hair and accompanying amounts of self-conscious embarrassment. |
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Sixteen songs, and not a clunker amongst them, really is an embarrassment of riches and will surely bring this gifted singer songwriter the audience he deserves. |
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As yesterday's game showed the outfield is an embarrassment. |
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She nodded as a rush of embarrassment and frustration marked her face. |
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Now the weaknesses have overwhelmed them and Williams has become a raving, paranoid, conspiratorial embarrassment to himself and to any cause he attaches himself to. |
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The book discloses that occasionally, weights are sewn into the seams of dresses to avoid potential embarrassment. |
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Rabbi Landes cites Baruch Goldstein with the same embarrassment many of us feel. |
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Quinn wheezed with embarrassment as color rushed to her face. |
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For McDonald, it was a moment of undiluted embarrassment as he gifted possession to Alan Thompson and gave Celtic the platform from which they scored their second goal. |
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I would be crippled with embarrassment, but I am sure my friend has a lovely baritone voice and will soon be delighting audiences in the Royal Albert Hall. |
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Erial's response was to merely blush with maiden-like pleasure and embarrassment, which was also noticed with a subdued form of glee by onlookers. |
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Losing the vote would not mean the end of his government, but would be an embarrassment and expose the fissures within the 20-party ruling coalition. |
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Whatever the cause, fecal incontinence can be a source of embarrassment. |
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The embarrassment extends to discussing his work outside this building. |
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He made the shot from that strange straddling stance, almost weeping with embarrassment, one had to presume, and flubbed the shot, barely scraping the ball out onto the grass. |
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Spring Break girls were a tease for the guys and an obvious embarrassment for the parents and grandparents, but it was certainly not a boom for any of the girls. |
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I think the embarrassment factor is pretty self-explanatory there. |
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And with the bulk of those e-mails passing between places of work, the potential for embarrassment, offence and even financial damage caused by unguarded messages is immense. |
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In an effort to save myself the embarrassment of seeing other people embarrassed, I at first went around shrugging off the whole thing as simply a slip of the tongue. |
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He was always ready to spare a kid the embarrassment of not having enough for an ice cream while his friends slurped away. |
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Boys, to Nina's shame and embarrassment, were a constant preoccupation. |
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The possibilities of moral and political embarrassment, to say nothing of the implication of commanding officers in prosecutable actions, are simply too great. |
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But put me in a tank top and I am suddenly an embarrassment to the Republican Party and women everywhere. |
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The reaction of many conservatives, however, is frustration of a kind not tinged with embarrassment. |
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He could have spared himself a major embarrassment by simply not going to Bogor, south of Jakarta, where the meeting was scheduled to have taken place. |
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As for the breakout musicians, their brief moments of capital-raking before being consumed live on reality TV will hardly be worth the embarrassment. |
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Although teasing resembles bullying because it can prompt feelings of anger or embarrassment, teasing can be less hostile and done with humor, rather than harm. |
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A music teacher who was told her students were so bad they left an audience of parents cringing with embarrassment has won her claim for constructive dismissal. |
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Stark himself recognizes different senses of secularization when he insists that scholars not shift their ground in order to avoid embarrassment to the theory. |
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For much of the film, Emily courts embarrassment with wheedling, flirtatious attempts to stop the girl's uptight uncle from taking her back to the States. |
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Putting his glass down and stubbing out his cigarette, he smiles indulgently and tousles my brother's hair, whose face goes beetroot red with embarrassment. |
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In an up-period, there is an embarrassment of riches, too much to absorb and consume, a feeling of plenitude that seems to extend into any foreseeable future. |
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He turned to me and I hung my head in embarrassment, my face glowing. |
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Young people feel shamed and inadequate when they lack the proper clothing or necessities for school and will stay home to avoid public embarrassment. |
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Water got trucked in, and CNN arrived on the scene, creating a national embarrassment for normally boastful Texas officials. |
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No doubt Chatwin's elevated sense of otherworldliness originated partly in embarrassment over his undistinguished background. |
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This pathetic excuse of a party is an embarrassment to us all. |
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Each result was not only an embarrassment, but a downright disgrace. |
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This bizarro column apparently went to press without ever being read by any editor at the newspaper, which, to its great embarrassment, published it. |
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When finally she announced the news to Monty, he was so pleased that his expression collapsed, his eyes moistened, and he had to turn away in embarrassment. |
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In a week or three, I'll look back on what I've been writing recently and I'll either cringe with embarrassment or just be totally baffled by what was going on in my head. |
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Caught napping during a game against the Red Sox, one disgruntled fan is trying to turn his embarrassment into a fortune. |
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It should not be overlooked that this could be due to the feelings of fear, shame, embarrassment or anger that the victims may still feel during or even after the event. |
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In most cases, once such an affair has been exposed, the couple swallow their embarrassment and go their separate ways, especially if their relationship has ended. |
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In a time when most studios are remastering their catalogue titles and releasing them at very attractive prices, this transfer is an embarrassment. |
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The president immediately arose, and with evident embarrassment, and many preliminary beg-pardons, said that he hoped the members of the club would excuse him. |
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I noticed that the girl's ears had reddened with embarrassment. |
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Back in Hollywood, Myra Breckinridge turned into the worst kind of embarrassment for 20th Century Fox. |
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He would not be able to live down the embarrassment in the event of someone telephoning him, as it was he who proposed the motion at committee to ban mobiles. |
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When the judge finally asked Picasso if he knew Apollinaire, his embarrassment turned to rage. |
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The next day she suffered the embarrassment of the Turks announcing that no such approval had been granted. |
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My embarrassment was nothing compared to my father's sense of guilt. |
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For the White House, returning twice from Copenhagen empty-handed would represent more than an embarrassment. |
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Even some liberal commentators said that the raid was an embarrassment that could endanger Zidan. |
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All of us have done things in our lives we'd rather not have done, things that flood us with remorse or pain or embarrassment whenever we call them to mind. |
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It's an embarrassment, a sign of succumbing to the ever-increasing pressures of society, failing the sisterhood, giving in to the boring aspirations of the perfect body. |
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I could hear the crowd laughing and my cheeks flamed with embarrassment. |
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Many patients usually wish to conceal their condition as far as possible, to avoid embarrassment and being stigmatised by visible physical deformity. |
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Since legislators are not subject to diplomatic protocol, they have no hesitation in denouncing its participation in ASEAN as a source of embarrassment. |
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The alleged nighttime escapades of the Secret Service agents in Colombia are more than just an embarrassment. |
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While I have the support of my family, the fact that these charges are outstanding has created embarrassment and discomfort for them in our community and in our family. |
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Neither Howard nor any Minister had nailed their colours to the mast in a way that would have made revelation of torture stories an embarrassment for them. |
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We are drawn to his women not by attractive packages but by the humanity of his subjects, by their discomfort or embarrassment, mirth or sadness, the surge of their blood. |
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As a symbol of Britain's musical worth, it's a bit of an embarrassment. |
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Basically, my mother said with a touch of embarrassment, everyone else seemed to have a filter, so they bought one, too. |
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These disclosures caused the government considerable embarrassment. |
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Tom humbly bowed his head and his cheeks blushed in the embarrassment. |
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After that embarrassment we though it better to recommend that the guys do not go commando. |
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When Hel shrugged and changed the subject diplomatically, the nape of Diamond's neck horripilated with embarrassment. |
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He thought she would be an embarrassment. That kind of made me feel a bit ick. |
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Furthermore, the whole Becket matter was an increasing international embarrassment to Henry. |
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He later announced the news of his marriage as fait accompli, to Warwick's considerable embarrassment. |
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This embarrassment turned to bitterness when the Woodvilles came to be favoured over the Nevilles at court. |
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