How To Use Embarrassingly In A Sentence
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Though I was on friendlier, more relaxed and affectionate terms with my fellow western-New Yorker John Gardner, who'd published an early short story of mine titled "The Death of Mrs. Sheer" in his literary magazine "MSS" -- and who regarded me, somewhat embarrassingly, as a "major American writer" -- like himself -- it can't be said that John Gardner was a mentor of mine either.
Joyce Carol Oates's 'In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters': Narrative Magazine
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There have been a few teething problems, sorted out by a computer whiz-kid friend of my husband and - embarrassingly - my eight-year-old daughter.
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My lips parted in my confusion, and I stuttered a bit, embarrassingly, in my need to comprehend exactly what it was he was saying, ‘W-what?’
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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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By 19th-c. standards our political invective is embarrassingly lame.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Of All the Liars, That Have Ever Lived, Since Lying Was First Invented, [Members of the Other Party] Are the Greatest Liars”
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Your proposal is embarrassingly optimistic, like the product of a child's imagination.
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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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Came away with tummy nicely full (hope no-one noticed me in embarrassingly close proximity to the mini-pavlovas for much of the evening!) and a heart newly inspired.
Kakiseni at Alexis
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Nevertheless, all major networks signed on to the war effort with embarrassingly little resistance, the First Amendment taking second place to their fear of public excoriation by the President.
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He had a tendency toward hero worship and often gushed embarrassingly in correspondence with his heroes.
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The avatar customization is embarrassingly low-fi, there's no support for playing your own music from an SD card, and every so often you're mistreated to the grinning, spastic image of Bob Greene, pretending to congratulate you on your incredible accomplishments.
Pondering An Effort At Exercise Software
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, presidential memoirs are usually dull, uninformative and embarrassingly self-congratulatory.
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So if my ego swells up to the point where it won't quite fit with me down here in my office, will someone please remind me of just how embarrassingly drunk I was at our 4th of July party?
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Though the film is about sex, there are no embarrassingly frank sex scenes.
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The writing isn't just mediocre - it's embarrassingly bad.
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Their pew was well to the front and we were late, so that going down the aisle unushered, with them in the lead -- husband and spouse, husband and spouse, four couples -- we made a procession which became embarrassingly amusing as the preacher simultaneously closed the Scripture lesson with, "And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons 'wives with him into the ark.
Strong Hearts
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*** I should note that this particular nightmare is kind of embarrassingly humorous in retrospect, because the me-devouring monsters in it were obviously to an adult Muppets with the serial numbers rubbed off and huge scary bloody teeth added****.
Making Light: Open thread 136
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Buckley's novel, by contrast, is embarrassingly superficial.
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None was found but the ratcatchers themselves ended up embarrassingly trapped.
Times, Sunday Times
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Could it perchance be that we aren't producing the right stuff, because we don't have enough of a rugby culture, because an embarrassingly small number of new recruits has been attracted by successive ‘strategies’ laid out by the blazers?
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That Rock Band gives you its now embarrassingly too-familiar skronk on every missed note is key to sustaining the illusion that you're participating in the performance, even just by slapping a thumb onto a glass sheet.
Boing Boing
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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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Quite a few (almost all?) problems in that domain are what can be called embarrassingly parallel - be it Structural Mechanics, Fluid dynamics, or Virtual Modeling.
Sun Bloggers
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She went from 'telic' to 'intelligent design' to 'creationism' to 'teaching religious doctrine in schools' embarrassingly in record time.
A Case of Mistaken Identity?
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He had a tendency toward hero worship and often gushed embarrassingly in correspondence with his heroes.
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As with all the best American comedies, the sharpness of the script made the average British sitcom seem embarrassingly flat-footed.
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She was glad to be wearing something else; the nightgown was embarrassingly short and was hiked up even higher now that she was on the horse.
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This now sounds embarrassingly quaint, but many modernists have sought such authority from museums.
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Well now, I must admit this is a new one on me; not something I had ever heard of before and at this point in time I am undecided whether to feel embarrassingly demure and uneducated or fiercely proud and superior.
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Eventually, she requests an audition, but embarrassingly falls flat on her face.
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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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To me, camping conjures up images of that saucy scene in the Carry On movie when Babs Windsor bursts embarrassingly out of her bikini top while doing chest expansion exercises.
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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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The first is that our account of humanity remains embarrassingly incomplete.
Times, Sunday Times
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Doug writes: "She went from 'telic' to 'intelligent design' to 'creationism' to 'teaching religious doctrine in schools' embarrassingly in record time" – again, something I completely agree with.
A Case of Mistaken Identity?
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This a question every musician has been asked, yet it can be embarrassingly difficult to answer.
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I should note that this particular nightmare is kind of embarrassingly humorous in retrospect, because the me-devouring monsters in it were obviously to an adult Muppets with the serial numbers rubbed off and huge scary bloody teeth added
Making Light: Open thread 136
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Embarrassingly, various ladies in my family continue to cling to a belief in psychics, guardian angels, and other such bunk.
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The busy staff were attentive, talkative and to be honest, a bit embarrassingly deferential at times.
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Embarrassingly amateurish, he gives new meaning to the term lightweight, and it has nothing to do with his character's ability to float on air.
Movie review of 'The Last Airbender'
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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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The memory of the late, mainly unlamented Crossroads, when the acting - under pressure - became as embarrassingly threadbare as the clothes, is fresh in many a soap addict's mind.
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I think humans are embarrassingly resilient.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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I also had an almost embarrassingly large wad of cash stuffed into the waistband of my outfit.
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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 acceptance speeches alternated between the embarrassingly grateful and the stridently self-promotional.
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His embarrassingly manufactured cameo only adds to the lame silliness of the scene.
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The Child Trust Fund is embarrassingly reminiscent of US presidential candidate George McGovern's zany scheme to give every American citizen $1,000.
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Like many brilliant artists he seems beset by anxiety, self-doubt and an embarrassingly thin skin.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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But his chroniclings of social change can be embarrassingly jejune.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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It isn't embarrassingly inept like his last film, but nor is it more distinguished than an average TV movie.
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Isn't there something embarrassingly unrealistic about the fuss made over a couple of decent performances and acceptable results in recent days?
Times, Sunday Times
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Before I came to Paganism (by way of Google, rather embarrassingly), I was an altar girl at my church.
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Indeed, the only danger for the Kremlin is the possibility of an embarrassingly low voter turnout.
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The avatar customization is embarrassingly low-fi, there's no support for playing your own music from an SD card, and every so often you're mistreated to the grinning, spastic image of Bob Greene, pretending to congratulate you on your incredible accomplishments.
Pondering An Effort At Exercise Software
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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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The self-conscious artfulness that could glint and sparkle in his early novels becomes, in the big books, an embarrassingly grand manner that barely hides a smallness of spirit.
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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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At the end joy was unconfined - indeed embarrassingly so one might say - as if Kildare had won something of note.
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He looked totally off the pace as the former world champions flopped and embarrassingly crashed out in the group stage.
The Sun
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She gave an embarrassingly gushing acceptance speech.
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(Side note: using the kind of embarrassingly bad logic that Behe has roped you into, this observation alone proves that Darwinism operates with such blinding speed and efficiency that only the regular intervention by the Intelligent Designer keeps the bacteria from obliterating all multicellular life within a few decades.)
Behe's Test, Take 2
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The affair has robbed an embarrassingly long list of supposedly sophisticated investors of their swimwear.
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On the linoleum his bare feet looked embarrassingly vulnerable.
SLEEP WHILE I SING
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I think all my books are embarrassingly awash with sentimentality and emotion.
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I believe the best they can do is to continue to fall back on anecdotal and wholly impressionistic (mostly media-guided wish-fulfilling pronouncements) which appear, on the surface to have an objective basis in fact, but which, upon careful analysis and examination, is revealed to be embarrassingly hollow, mostly ephemeral, always reversible, and based on the filmiest and softest of evidence.
Is Obama's Election as the First Black President Conclusive Evidence of the Civil Rights Movement's Success?
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The first is that our account of humanity remains embarrassingly incomplete.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 1920, embarrassingly soon after becoming naval aide-de-camp to George V, Sinclair was divorced.
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I knew by the time his eyes reached my chest area my face was embarrassingly red.
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I remain embarrassingly weak in the face of Remy Zero's "Somebody Save Me", which apparently short-circuits any real brain function and cuts directly to the repository of Goopy Teenage Angst that lies in wait for that sort of thing.
We're back!
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Only when he has an embarrassingly large crop does he present a bunch to his wife, Pat.
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It also underlines, in a sometimes embarrassingly blunt way, why for many in the current generation of Quebec political leaders the status quo of the Canadian confederation is unacceptable.
The Association of Tomorrow
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The moment I read the line, “the fear of losing them, of being left alone, an orphan,” the tears I could feel welling spilled out embarrassingly all over my work space.
If Prayers Were Horses, Grievers Would Ride - Her Bad Mother
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Embarrassingly, I misremembered the Ray Bradbury title I listed as one of my top five!
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Only when he has an embarrassingly large crop does he present a bunch to his wife, Pat.
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I think all my books are embarrassingly awash with sentimentality and emotion.
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the great man was embarrassingly humble and self-effacing
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Once he began to waltz with Katie, these clothes seemed fussy, embarrassingly showy.
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But the effect is calculatedly bathetic, since it turns out that what saves or condemns you is such embarrassingly quotidian matters as whether you fed the hungry and visited the sick.
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She is embarrassingly emotional in public.
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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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Last month, the Mental Health Commission chairman said the rate of involuntary committals was ‘embarrassingly high’ compared to other countries and the rates in the Republic had to be brought down.
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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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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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The affair has robbed an embarrassingly long list of supposedly sophisticated investors of their swimwear.
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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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The colors of the film looked amazingly washed out and kind of embarrassingly grey.
Journey to the Center of the Earth « Skid Roche
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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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There's an embarrassingly bountiful supply of good food in the kitchen.
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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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It's paralysingly predictable, embarrassingly lame.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like many brilliant artists he seems beset by anxiety, self-doubt and an embarrassingly thin skin.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lots of genes turn up, but they still explain embarrassingly little.
The Failed Promise of Genomics
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Only when he has an embarrassingly large crop does he present a bunch to his wife, Pat.
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As a blogging newcomer sometimes watching your stats is a little depressing (although still embarrassingly addictive).
AtariBoy and Digg leads the Y-List revolt « Squash
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But you guys are the second commencing class since the last election, and a mighty change has been made, a page of sheer unadulterated chicanery, mass murder and horror written in embarrassingly awful subliterate prose has been turned, and on the very next page, to what in my opinion should be our continuing surprise, relief, ecstatic joy, it turns out that the story of a functioning, participatory pluralist secular democracy is still being written.
Tony Kushner At The School Of Visual Arts: 'Artists Know That Diligence Counts As Much, If Not More, As Inspiration'
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She is almost embarrassingly obsequious to anyone in authority.
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Finding that I had syphoned all the unleaded petrol out of its tank for either a Molotov Cocktail or, perhaps more likely, to ensure that the car didn't splutter embarrassingly to a halt twenty yards from my door, I then spotted this little patch of daisies amongst the long blades of grass.
Spring is Sprung
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There were even surprise guest appearances by long lost aunts and uncles, teleported in from a time called Way Back, and I'm confident Mum will be yakking embarrassingly about this for months to come.
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Embarrassingly, this talk makes me feel more hungry than guilty.
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Well, somewhat embarrassingly, I puffed my first joint at age 26 - blame it on the fact that my older sisters were uncontrollable hellions and left me terrified of the evil dope as a lad.
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Photograph: Felicity Cloake for the Guardian fish and chips proper (by which I mean not involving the word fingers until tragically late in life, in part because of a shameful childish antipathy towards things with fins, but mostly because I'm embarrassingly middle class (coq au vin, yes.
The Guardian World News
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The book twice quotes Dan Rather's embarrassingly over-conclusory statement in the late hours of election night: ‘Sip it, savor it, cup it, photostat it, underline it in red, press it in a book, put it in an album, hang it on the wall.’
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He is forceful and clear and with almost no flubs - and no embarrassingly funny flubs.
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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.
