Examples of embarrassment

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Effectively the stuff of architecture - human counter-form, shelter and symbolic continuity - appears as an embarrassment to contemporary avant-guardians.
Hiring an outsider who becomes an insider is a way of preventing the embarrassment which would otherwise occur between parent and child (or daughter-in-law).
However, during the time frame of this study, they never expressed embarrassment over their bilingualism.
Moreover, there was the 'political aspect' to be considered which '[a]fter the honeymoon period' could become 'an embarrassment'.
Were we to object to this, risking embarrassment for our attending physicians and possible reprimand for ourselves?
Many individuals, through embarrassment, did not present until secondary infection had occurred.
A political decision may be taken to adopt a political direction in order to avoid the embarrassment of being overruled by the courts.
You will all have your own stories of the uncertainties and embarrassments generated when accepted local usages come into conflict with traditional standards.
They are essential to the enterprise and ought not to be regarded as embarrassments.
We were also apprehensive of the difficulties, humiliations, and embarrassments that are often associated with adult second-language learning.
Once their condition has stabilised they may have to face a whole range of issues: new restrictions; new sensations; new embarrassments; new lifestyles.
Nationalism and the imperial theme are now embarrassments, and diffidence is - as it is here - the usual rhetorical stance.
One's own failings are lovable, one's own peculiarities are interesting, one's own talents are important, one's own embarrassments are ghastly, one's own virtues are solid.
In this way the body and its embarrassments are rendered safe, abstract, subdivided and scientific.
There are, however, remedies against such embarrassments.
I have throughout this chapter been concerned with the place of embarrassment in what is said of our redemption.
The result was embarrassing, but the embarrassment here is not in the face of divine generosity but in the face of misunderstanding run riot.
We must accept the embarrassment that history can bring, and admit the vulnerability of the corpus mysticum.
Once his annual income began, he started to spend huge portions of it on books, causing himself financial embarrassment in later years.
To avoid the possible political embarrassment of such a referendum, the government preferred to make the law itself.
Secondly, embarrassment may be a reason for not reporting a crime; victims may want to hide an offence rather than report it.
In the boys' groups, any recognition that images of girls might have a different value from images of boys was met with intense embarrassment.
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