embarrassment

An old man who sold tobacco, seeing that I was taking a picture of him, got fidgeted and hurriedly adjusted his clothes in embarrassment.

Maybe the tide is beginning to turn, ever so slowly, against infibulation, and at least we're seeing some embarrassment about the practice.

The expansion into non-core activities was one of the basic factors that led to the company's public embarrassment.

He wanted to tell John how surprised he was at his knowledge but embarrassment made him hold his peace.

It is all above board, you can do it in office hours and with none of the embarrassment of being on Match. com.

He looked away quickly, more quickly than I could, though in a flush of embarrassment I dropped my eyes at once.

And then the embarrassment is going to be crippling, to me, to the luckless company and to the Financial Times.

This is often accompanied by feelings of embarrassment and shame, but occasionally with the feeling of pride or freedom.

But he might be taken aback by the popular sympathy for his plight. So might the authorities: the case has become an embarrassment.

When a friend brought a kilo of beef that her mother had stolen for us from her factory canteen, my embarrassment turned to shame.

but , continued monsieur duval with embarrassment , the least i can do is to give you what you paid for it . please take it as a gift.

Newland Archer, during this brief episode, had been thrown into a strange state of embarrassment.

Yes, the bargain itself, from a liberal perspective, would have been a pretty bad deal, but it would have avoided this embarrassment.

But they should not be treated as if they experience such essentially human emotions as embarrassment and a desire for self-expression.

To his embarrassment, he then had to call his wife and have her bring him some money.

It seems to me now that he sighed and that I tittered to hide my embarrassment.

How much embarrassment will you accept to take a stand for Jesus?

This was a topic from which he always sheered away, as though unwilling to face the embarrassment it caused.

He came to see me and in generous and emotional fashion offered to resign his commission so as to relieve me of any embarrassment.

The word " cringe" is often used to describe the feeling of intense embarrassment in witnessing a certain kind of British comedy.

A publicity campaign explained the matter to the British hosts so as to save their pride and preclude embarrassment.

Lots of laughter, quite a bit of embarrassment.

However, if it is unable to avoid consciously the embarrassment of annoying complaints, the original intention to the program is lost.

To his terrible embarrassment, he found that he had no enough money with him after dinner.

In certain, rare circumstances voters do not tell pollsters the truth, more out of embarrassment than mendacity.

Simply ask her to guide you in with her hand. That way you'll save a lot of embarrassment, not to mention time.

In social situations, there is an uneasiness, clumsiness, or perhaps some sort of minor embarrassment or faux pas on your part.

But I was tortured for the rest of the day by that simple error, blushing anew and groaning with embarrassment every time I thought of it.

To be sure, had we left without progress, it would have been a major embarrassment to Nixon.

My first impression was that it was an embarrassment to anyone over 30.

There was no embarrassment, and no desire to progress to a quick feel, but it was a nice little interlude quickly (almost) forgotten.

Closer look carefully, how the figure of the "Pegasus" on its head with two horns, yellow and black coat, and a look of panic embarrassment?

And it was no surprise at all, because the faces of the people there were all covered with expressions of utter embarrassment.

It was a major embarrassment that we did not know how they worked.

It may be this sense of a return to childhood, consciously or not, that gives the pleasure of foreignness its edge of embarrassment.

Selling out to a foreign firm would be humiliating. But Proton's struggles are already a national embarrassment as it is.

Having your predecessor around can be a bit of an embarrassment for anyone.

I consciously had to shift from perceiving the situation as being about him to it being about me and my embarrassment.

When someone is wrong, is not always necessary to correct them, especially when it could cause them embarrassment or discomfort.

Party crashers were allowed into a White House State Dinner without being on the guest list is an embarrassment to the Homeland Security.

As the company braces for further embarrassment and disruption, it will also have to work out a future without BSkyB.

Weston had, by gentle encouragement, overcome so much of her embarrassment, as to bring her to converse on the important subject.

I nodded with embarrassment and told him that I'd like to do it a third time.

That's why India has been a bit of an embarrassment for those of us who believe in democracy, especially when compared with China.

Inevitably "Sanctuary" has become something of an embarrassment to Faulkner's admirers.

Proper capitalization and a space between the words of the KidsExchange logo could have saved this company a great deal of embarrassment.

For one thing, it has encouraged the sort of foreign entanglements that are now causing China such embarrassment.

Icahn's botched proxy contest in 2008 was a bit of an embarrassment to watch.

There was a brief pause, an air of momentary mutual embarrassment.

The rest, geneticists acknowledged with unconcealed embarrassment, was an apparent biological wasteland.

Asking the person if they even wish to be a reference is not only the right thing to do, but it will save you from some later embarrassment.

I stared at my chipped mitts in embarrassment.

In communication, misunderstanding of gestures or facial expressions tends to cause embarrassment.

She hummed quietly as she worked. It seemed to ease the fear and embarrassment she knew he must be feeling.

The String theory really was this so-called theory of everything. Five theories of everything seem like an embarrassment of britches.

But I can't think of any bigger embarrassment to me than not being true to myself.

My shock and embarrassment at finding mother in tears on Wednesday was a perfect index of how little I understood the pressures on her .

But controversies such as this promote a lingering concern that the system is set up to protect you and Mr Munger from embarrassment.

But it is also a sign of the changed politics around Murdoch that this news will now be a major embarrassment to Blair.

The meeting itself was an embarrassment for France on its own turf.

A It had caused embarrassment to the British government.

"It's not getting on at all, sir, " answered Presley, in some embarrassment, as they all sat down.

Some are hailing it as a welcome solution to a very Icelandic form of social embarrassment.

The president could have turned the embarrassment to his advantage but has let the opportunity pass.

This embarrassment taught me to be careful about the way I dress or I might end up making a fool out of myself.

My shock and embarrassment at finding mother in tears was a perfect proof of how little I understood the pressures on her.

Embarrassment also occurs when people do not or cannot say what should be said, or say things that should have been left unsaid.

A painful emotion caused by a strong sense of guilt , embarrassment , unworthiness , or disgrace .

He found with embarrassment that his new boss turned out to be his primary school classmate, on whom he used to play trick.

Sex education usually takes place in single-sex classrooms, students still suffer from embarrassment.

And it was not uncommon to hear otherwise well-read men confess to an ignorance of Hawthorne or Melville without embarrassment.

The evidence overwhelmingly suggests the only measurable "creativity crisis" America faces is an embarrassment of riches.

I felt weak and ashamed, and began to appreciate, too, the embarrassment and stigma my patients felt, ' he writes.

They were washed daily and hung inside her hut, away from the other clothes that were allowed to dry outside, to minimize embarrassment.

A warm-hearted came and saw his embarrassment, then he put a quarter into his hands.

to his mother's embarrassment, Baldy Li is caught doing the same thing.

The northern state of Bihar used to be even more of an embarrassment.

He never succumbed to the embarrassment some people feel about an honest expression of love of country.

But mostly it's fear of embarrassment. Over the last few years, there have been several disastrous accidents involving Chinese subs at sea.

But what was meant as a source of national pride and efficiency has instead become one of embarrassment and concern.

Senators can place a hold in secret, avoiding the embarrassment that such naked politicking might bring if it were known.

Bart Simpson: [crying of embarrassment, seen naked] This is the worst day of my life! Homer Simpson: The worst day of your life SO FAR.

But I've never felt anything other than embarrassment at the thought of possessing such glaring advertisements of personal worthlessness.

There was a distinct sense of embarrassment in the air.

Eventually, the website becomes such an embarrassment that management steps in and demands that it be sorted.

Tracy quickly put A. anb B. together and realized what was about to occur, and turned bright red in embarrassment.

local people suffer Martial Arts terminology difficult to understand, martial complex, successors lack of embarrassment.

Whatever the embarrassment, these did him no harm in the end, and long before he formally took over in 1993 he was largely running the bank.

When a politician becomes an embarrassment to his party in the Commons, he may be kicked upstairs, i. e. elevated to the peerage.

To her embarrassment she was regularly elected queen of various school pageants and dances, even when she refused to compete for the titles.

To her embarrassment she was regularly elected queen of various school pageants and dances, even when she refused to compete for the titles.

Though the teach asked a simple question about her parents, the little girl stood mute with embarrassment.

Today the acquisition looks more like a public-relations embarrassment and a potential legal liability.

On learning that she was married , he destroyed the negatives to spare her any future embarrassment .

a. When you think about putting the solution into action, you find yourself laughing in embarrassment.

My emotions continued to seesaw between pleasure and embarrassment.

Starting with a person who feels safe and non judgmental, raise the very conversational topics you've always avoided out of embarrassment.

Doyou consume unusually large amounts of food at least once a week, andfeel a loss of control, embarrassment and guilt?

The embarrassment seemed overwhelming; I knew that my parents would be very angry.

People can better adjust interpersonal relationship, transfer mutual conflict to harmony, embarrassment to easiness by means of humor.

"It is a huge question for regulators and arguably an embarrassment for all European capital markets, " he said.

He tried to cover up his embarrassment with the enthusiasm of his hospitality.

"Otherwise we'd be fined for violation of birth control rules, " she said with some embarrassment.

In neighboring Thailand my embarrassment was caused when a Bangkok tailor used "special" fabric to create a one-of-a-kind shirt for me.

This was not a false flag operation, but a genuine attempt by those resentful of the US to cause it distress and embarrassment.

The Liberal government's dispute with veterans quickly escalated into a full-scale political embarrassment.

Not understanding how the oldest adjuvant of all does its stuff was thus becoming both an embarrassment and a barrier to further research.

The only embarrassment that you should be embarrassed about is if you never had the courage to try.

My mum can't recall now whether the doctor was male or female, but she still remembers the deep embarrassment.

tactic, except out of embarrassment that the US Army fighting forces had fallen to the level of a cheer-leading squad?

to save us from embarrassment , master quickly came down the stage and sang with everyone , " little lamb wants to go home . "

Mr Obama bent over backwards after the raid not to rub Pakistan's face in the embarrassment of it all.

He then recollected her embarrassment a few days before, on his reading Mr.

But the embarrassment to supporters of a market economy now lies in a different direction, namely the instability of credit and banking.

Here's a short list of what not to say to avoid insult or embarrassment at any social occasion.

The UK's recent history of investigating allegations of bribery has been a source of international embarrassment.

The traveler's brain was in a whirl. To whitewash his embarrassment, he said hello to them.

Singer Carrie Underwood admitted she had her third nipple removed out of embarrassment.

The confrontation is seen as an embarrassment to Mr Obama, in his home city and in the middle of a re-election battle.

's special trade envoy and threatened an embarrassment less than two months ahead of a royal wedding.

"I think, I think, she can wear her clothes. " I said with some embarrassment smile.

She tried to cover up her embarrassment with the enthusiasm of her hospitality.

But the ban, seen as an attempt to suppress an embarrassment, has backfired gloriously.

We need to encourage women to take a more active role in their treatment and reduce the stigma and embarrassment of this problem.

Lots of people have fainted at least once in their life, usually with little consequence other than embarrassment.

Must be willing tobe indispensable one minute, and embarrassment the next.

For a country of our level of income and wealth, the state of the infrastructure has become an embarrassment.

Blushing is usually a natural and involuntary bodily response to an emotional feeling such as embarrassment, guilt, shame or nervousness.

One of the keys to understanding the modern multinational is to realise it hates embarrassment.

A few words will explain the greatest embarrassment belonging to the situation of our party.

They clucked to their horses and rode along in silence for a while, a flush of embarrassment on Stuart's brown cheeks.

The embarrassment, the time, the points, the frustration, the money?

I feel humiliated, not because of the failure of that embarrassment, but because we treat the team competition attitude.

To avoid further public embarrassment, the young man turned inward, keeping to a small group of friends.

To most military men, such a bomb is not a PR coup, but an embarrassment.

I nearly died of embarrassment when he said that.

In the single-sex environment, boys do not feel any embarrassment in showing an interest in those "non-macho" activities.

'Madame cannot see you now, ' she said, with some embarrassment.

Embarrassment rooted her to the spot.

Inside USA anybody of any age or income can drink Coke without embarrassment on any occasion.

If you don't want your date out of date, you'd better show your girlfriend funny jokes and odd stories to avoid boredom and embarrassment.

"She had to get married because of her premarital pregnancy, " She explained in embarrassment.

The company said 20 transactions had been cancelled, a huge embarrassment for Lee Shau-kee, Henderson's chairman.

His embarrassment inhibited him from talking to her.

Got to bear with the embarrassment even you're spiderman.

This means that you need feel no embarrassment or dismay about the financial predicament of your committee member.

It was not to be supposed that time would give Lydia that embarrassment from which she had been so wholly free at first.

Fear of embarrassment and of unwanted official interest in their financial affairs keeps mouths closed.

Mary stood up for me at the meeting, sparing me some embarrassment.

The thing that shocked me more than the dumbness of the question was his failure to show any embarrassment at all.

Such incidents are an embarrassment to officials, especially in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics, which start Aug.

Once the hoax was discovered, the medical community suffered great embarrassment. . . to put it mildly.

To his embarrassment these days, Mr Blair himself was once a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).

Adjectives that describe insincere humility, dissatisfaction, snobbery, courtesy to women, financial embarrassment, sadness, etc.

He was in a state of mingled embarrassment and defiance.

Coughing at a concert can be a real embarrassment.

She kept her head down, hiding a flush of embarrassment-and a small amount of fear.

Has raised suspicions the authorities wanted to avoid embarrassment after detaining Zhao for two years .

But Professor Rottenberg says those who felt shame or embarrassment while crying were less likely to report that crying had been helpful.

She affected embarrassment FOR quite a while beFORe she spoke.

Though the teacher asked a simple question about her parents, the little girl stood mute with embarrassment.

In short, the public mood is not one that should have made Mr Obama's position on gay rights a political embarrassment to him.

"I beg your pardon, " said he, with some embarrassment.

My embarrassment about forgetting the day soon subsided when I thought about what I wanted when I served.

Therefore, if a husband offers to take his wife for Hajj, she can accept without embarrassment.

He mistook me for a teacher, causing me great embarrassment.

The lack of official confirmation would also save China from embarrassment in the event of an accident during the tests.

It will save you from embarrassment of talking with him after dinner.

But when the same happens to us, it takes us a long time to get out of the embarrassment.

Mr Amiri's strange odyssey, Iranian jubilation and American embarrassment are all, somehow, part of this secret war.

Much to his embarrassment, the captain made duck in each innings.

This speaks more of our own fears - of social embarrassment, as well as our young boys' aggression and how we feel when they express it.

His behavior is an embarrassment to the company.

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is facing embarrassment over an internet film featuring explicit comments she made about sex and love as a young model.

It has a look of disappointment, so it's gained a new meaning: embarrassment or awkwardness.

Out-of-date names can be an awful embarrassment to young adults.

The E-reading Room of Public Library Should Walk out of the Embarrassment of the "Quasi Internet Bar"

They brought a sense of ambivalence, of being caught between please and embarrassment.

Those with dementia tend to have lowered levels of embarrassment, even when watching themselves sing along to cheesy Motown hits.

Egypt's Gaza policy, highly unpopular at home and an embarrassment for Mr Mubarak in the Muslim world, has grown increasingly untenable.

"You need fear no embarrassment, " I said. "You need only tell them that Kirinyaga's mundumugu is named Koriba. "

As the Kremlin pushes ahead with a drive to charm the West, its security agencies will be eager to prevent that kind of embarrassment.

Despite the embarrassment of fraudulent data and the fact that the Earth changes are not lining up with projections, Gore plunges on.

No question is ever an embarrassment to a Muslim, because there is always an answer.

They brought a sense of ambivalence, of being caught bet ween pleasure and embarrassment.

I kept still, as much out of fear as embarrassment, for my body was naked under the covers.

Whoa. . . imagine our suprise and embarrassment when we realized who we were beating. I mean, I guess we just got a little over-excited.

Getting dumped at the altar was the supreme social embarrassment of that time.

To save you and everybody else from embarrassment, don't bend the rules.

Design concept behind the lack of management experience to China's domestic ceramics industry is facing an unprecedented embarrassment.

The Polish embarrassment also underlined what could be the biggest challenge ahead for Chinese construction companies.

Uncle Lee laughed heartily at my embarrassment.

In recent years the number of new cases appears, however, the traditional torts law suffered the embarrassment.

Because of these factors, a sense of frustration, embarrassment, and even guilt arises in the veterinarian and owner.

These efforts to avoid embarrassment often keep us from imagining, let alone fulfilling, the measure of our destiny.

Bedwetting causes physical underdevelopment of the bladder and needless embarrassment and emotional pain.

Keep laughing. Last night was an embarrassment.

Cloud beginning snow heart is unclear embarrassment, to the Jin natural selection, she actually nowise understands and knows not a entity.

The unique centre hole works as a glass holder, catching any spills and therefore preventing embarrassment for those clumsy days.

In other words, we carry unresolved suffering inside us, and out of fear, pain, or embarrassment, we deny it.

But he does advise telling a candidate of any background checks in order to avoid embarrassment if they find out independently .

He covered his embarrassment with the enthusiasm of his hospitality.

It has become common to look back on this period of restraint as an embarrassment.

My mom only had one eye. I hated her. . . she was such an embarrassment.

Judith bent forward like her unsophisticated sister, and endeavored to conceal her embarrassment in a similar manner.

We're afraid of failure and embarrassment, despite the consequences normally being far from life-or-death.

The PLA's inability to locate the ships was a source of great embarrassment that helped spur China's satellite programme.

OK, so if you try the same exercise with kids, they have no embarrassment at all.

Like shame, guilt and embarrassment, it requires a sense of self and the ability to self-evaluate.

But that is unlikely to be the end of the embarrassment, either for the tabloids or for the police.

We will never invoke the privilege to hide a violation of law or to avoid embarrassment to the government.

Long-term growth seems certain, but India's spectrum regime, once admired, is now an embarrassment.

Do not always quiet, so bring a friend will give you more or less embarrassment.

Always, pantomime was a mystery to me--one that I chose to forget about because of the embarrassment it caused me.

The importance of duty crime preliminary investigation system forms a sharp contrast to its embarrassment in practice.

Either way , it went down badly and I apologise sincerely for any embarrassment caused .

If these women were having trouble with their three-year-olds, there would be an embarrassment of resources at their disposal.

At each address, I cringe with embarrassment and irritation at a show better suited to Pyongyang than to Washington.

"One day as a teacher, a life as a father, " he quoted an ancient saying, which gave me a feeling of embarrassment for the hypocrisy.

So I have not had time to tell her how I feel about her before embarrassment and surprise buried me.

But the case is an embarrassment for the central bank, long a symbol of German prudence and monetary stability.

The main embarrassment was from the possibility of other people getting into the same trouble from my profile page.

They are literally in it for embarrassment; to say 'your security is crap.

But what we don't like is silence, and almost anything is better than the embarrassment of a quiet party and silent guests.

The dreadful embarrassment of my situation was the uppermost idea in my mind.

Thousands of college graduates received their diplomas this year in fear or even embarrassment.

The allegations will come as a huge embarrassment for the Indian military, which has been viewed as professional and honest.

Firstly, the status of migrant workers is embarrassment, their occupation and identity (registered permanent) is dislocation.

" Hey! The" Chi clouds can just get rid of her embarrassment, runs back.

Teams now more likely to shut up shop when getting hammered against expectation to avoid further embarrassment.

Embarrassment came upon me when Mary revealed my secret that she promised to keep the previous day.

"Girls of a certain age know about the embarrassment of unwanted hair in unwanted places, " she says.

Most people find it hard talking about the use of condoms but you should not let your embarrassment translate into a health risk.

Secure, however, in the inscrutability of my place of concealment, I felt no embarrassment whatsoever.

"The power of embarrassment is greater than willpower, " says Stephen Gullo, Ph. D. , author of The Thin Commandments.

Thus, addicts cling to a quite rigid lifestyle and feel embarrassment with anything unfamiliar.

It is an embarrassment for educated girls like us to work like this.

In communication, misunderstanding the meanings of gestures and facial expressions always leads to embarrassment.

Last Friday's Nobel Peace Price ceremony was widely interpreted as an embarrassment for China's leadership.

Embarrassment is one emotional signature of a person to whom you can entrust valuable resources.

Fear of embarrassment seems to fly out the window.

The comments, made on his Facebook page, have provoked anger and embarrassment amongst Church of England members and MPs.

If modest deficits appeared in the federal budgets in Roosevelt's first term, it was mainly a cause for political embarrassment.

The collapse of the contract is an embarrassment for Donald Tusk, Polish prime minister.

Now, bedbug-related lawsuits can lead to thousands of dollars in punitive damages for mental anguish, embarrassment or humiliation.

These two books are remarkably honest and human accounts, both describing professional moments of fear, guilt, embarrassment and humour.

Mickey smiles with a little embarrassment.

Perhaps they were somewhat inhibited by the embarrassment of free-riding, though ?

For America, which is now no cleaner than Chile, this year's ranking was a fresh embarrassment.

Zhu Yanniancovered up his embarrassment with the enthusiasm of his hospitality.