| Political correctness is de rigueur while offering dinner guests non-organic vegetables is a serious faux pas. |
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| He spoke pityingly, as if saving a bewildered tourist from a cultural faux pas. |
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| Gail agreed with the remainder of the fashion faux pas top ten, saving her most withering comments for shell suits and puffballs. |
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| He admitted that his biggest faux pas in the music business was turning down the beacons of girl power themselves. |
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| The green chile was delicious, yet didn't commit the ultimate faux pas of overpowering the smooth queso in the enchilada. |
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| It reminds me a little too much of the leisure suit, a fashion faux pas we don't need to revisit. |
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| Upon realising my error, it all felt a bit awkward, but neither of us could bring ourselves to mention my faux pas. |
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| I tune in for the fashion firsts, the fashion faux pas, and to see what's in fashion. |
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| Although I did, for the most part, manage to avoid putting my foot in my mouth over the weekend I am guilty of committing one little faux pas. |
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| That faux pas aside, this book is entertaining, educational, and highly recommended as a worthy investment of one's time and effort. |
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| Its leader is a surreal portrait of art-school eccentricity, a social maverick up to his neck in the shifting sands of taboo and faux pas. |
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| The man didn't blink an eye at her faux pas, however, and merely got into the car after being handed the keys and drove away. |
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| Joking and speaking about bodies and bodily functions in the presence of such cousins is considered a serious faux pas. |
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| My father is famous for these kind of faux pas, partly because he is very deaf. |
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| This can be an amusing approach when you're talking about fashion faux pas and such like. |
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| Well, I personally don't think that was a faux pas at all, seeing as you asked whether anyone else wanted it first. |
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| Every social faux pas, every cruel word, every embarrassment returns with fresh power to demoralise. |
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| Correcting other people's children is a faux pas that will earn you a cold shoulder from the respective parent. |
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| Trust me, this will help greatly in preventing any possible faux pas or embarrassment. |
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| Even though it is no longer considered a fashion faux pas, I refuse to wear white after Labor Day. |
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| Arrogant pride can be a social faux pas, but feeling proud is important for a healthy sense of self esteem. |
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| Realizing the faux pas, the confused singer made up a few impromptu dance moves before walking off the stage. |
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| For example, they might be less likely to recognize that a social faux pas or insult could cause someone else offence. |
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| No matter how she blushed or crimsoned, most people who gathered at the Fine Arts Hall seemed to have enjoyed the judge's faux pas. |
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| It's the age of celebrities in Britain, where showbiz weddings, bad hair days and fashion faux pas have become weekly fodder for glossy magazines. |
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| Forget the faux pas of showing up to a costume party in the same costume as someone else. |
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| In 1993, a few months after moving into his office in the prestigious Cathedral Avenue, this senior diplomat committed his first faux pas. |
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| Whatever the facts, this grave diplomatic faux pas seriously threatened the peace between England and France. |
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| When bureaucrats pointed out the faux pas, she corrected the order. |
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| And the second faux pas is the proliferation of checked shirts. |
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| Where dissent rears its ugly head let us behave with studied disdain and act as if some oik has committed some dreadful faux pas and ignore the blighter. |
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| Will my nationally aired faux pas and charisma catastrophes ever desist? |
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| But publicly throwing shade at louis Vuitton wasn't Kanye's first fashion faux pas. |
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| But look at how confusion and indecision have prompted a fashion faux pas. |
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| What's the worst faux pas an Englishman can make in a pitch? |
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| Of course, a few social faux pas are better than grand theft larceny! |
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| For his Olympic-level faux pas, his fellow conservatives across the pond peeped rebuke and ridicule on Romney. |
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| Well you wouldn't want to read that book, obviously, but it's the sort of thing you need to know about in order to avoid making embarrassing faux pas. |
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| Clubs, bars, movies moving — all passe, bona fide faux pas in the 21st-century etiquette. |
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| But when I asked which firm she now worked at, I realized I had committed a faux pas. |
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| This is a faux pas the government should swiftly make amends for. |
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| Then there have been a series of other miscues and faux pas in the relationship between Canada and Brazil. |
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| The way Grant spun his publicity faux pas paved the way for many celebrities after him. |
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| But Madame Peng Liyuan is not the first celebrity to fall foul of this expensive face powder faux pas. |
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| This beauty faux pas interferes with your meibomian glands, which help in the production of tears. |
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| Hold a contest where employees share their goofiest mistake or funniest faux pas. |
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| Mark Braude looks back at a time when looking back was a faux pas. |
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| And dry oil sprays rather than creams are easier to apply – and less of a social faux pas – if you're on the hirsute side, because nobody wants to sunbathe next to a hot, greasy mess. |
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| Mr Bush has made the occasional faux pas with his base such as talking civilly to gay groups but not on matters that are top priorities for the right. Mr Norquist predicts bigger trouble from two other Bush mistakes. |
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| A separate analysis of the 2 kinds of faux pas questions identifying the faux pas and understanding the faux pas revealed other interesting findings. |
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| But life in the Big Apple proves to be fraught with social peril as the new arrival offends almost everyone with a series of howlingly funny faux pas. |
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| Maybe the most egregious flip flop faux pas of all was back in 2005, when members of Northwest University's championship women's lacrosse team wore them to the White House. |
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| Throughout life, the Japanese are judged by their handwriting, their ability to use the proper kanji combinations, the faux pas of each missed stroke. |
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| But the faux pas war to end all wars came too soon for the Big Tree Gang. |
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| It's a culinary faux pas graver than eating pudding with your soup spoon. |
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