They’d take us into a room in twos and ask the most embarrassing questions imaginable. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He knew this was some real embarrassing stuff so he closed the bathroom door and sat on the tub and waited for me to stop, but I couldn’t. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too embarrassing to even look back, so I just kept on running till I got to the nurse's office. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was embarrassing to be so publicly colonized. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But having the kind of fun that seems daring and embarrassing in front of strangers requires a special bravery. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Except Ms. Ramirez doesn’t seem to notice how embarrassing she is. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Julia Bishop had seen my most embarrassing and hidden truths, and I knew almost nothing about her. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Many former friends thought the paper was too radical or too embarrassing, and they refused to subscribe. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Anyway, this story is embarrassing so I’ll tell you a few things first. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I want to get as far away from the Grand Banquet Hall and the newsies and the embarrassing memory as possible. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Translated it means, "Hush up, it's a shame for the children," but what it really meant was that Grandpa was embarrassing Grandma. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have any,” adds Ray, cartwheeling and rubbing the beige tufts, embarrassing me more. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We're having workmen in anyway, so why not make a proper job of it? The kitchen's getting embarrassing.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She was like one of those embarrassing crazy people you hear about who take kids’ sports way too seriously. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For some reason it seemed all right to dress that way in front of thousands of people, but in this small area it would have been embarrassing. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

With tongue in cheek, Neikirch explained his draw offer: “It’s sort of embarrassing to defeat a boy. Back in Bulgaria I would be the laughing-stock of everybody.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And then the Doctorita says how silly he’s being and then he yells at her and she says he’s embarrassing her and they argue some more. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took his hand, even though it was really embarrassing and I was secretly afraid of seeing someone from school. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Baba would just say his piece about “What’s this embarrassing?” and “Why do you care what other people think?” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I can talk about that first night now, although it is still embarrassing to me because I was so stupid, and scared, that I hate to admit it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which was a very dumb answer, but it's quite embarrassing when somebody comes right up and asks you a question like that. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

By Euergetes’ time, the situation was embarrassing—a spring planting festival, for instance, would actually take place in spring only once every 1,460 years. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Levi greets Pi with a tummy rub and some embarrassing kissy noises. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We lived in constant terror of letting slip some personal or embarrassing detail. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She had gotten up and was turning the stroller around because Jamie, who had obviously just noticed the kid, too, was about to say something embarrassing. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I would have said thank you, but it was too embarrassing. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“That was the most embarrassing, shameful display I’ve ever seen from a pro player. You tried to throw that game on purpose.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The woman before this one,” Cordelia tells us, in a hushed, scandalized voice, “was caught stealing potatoes. She put her bag down and they rolled out, all over the floor. It was so embarrassing.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’s the loudest of them all, and she can be the most embarrassing. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Kind of embarrassing, thinking back on it, but at that moment, I didn’t care about anything except my best friend, standing in my doorway on Christmas. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“He has his own room and he’s not interested in me at all,” she told him, which she found oddly embarrassing to admit. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“But enough about us,” said Marcus, saving me from embarrassing myself further. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

All the same, his coming up like that asking for a private talk was pretty embarrassing and threw me off balance. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either his lord father had a new respect for Tyrion's abilities, or he'd decided to rid himself of his embarrassing get for good. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Did I...Did I say anything...you know, embarrassing?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The house-elves all around the kitchen, who had been listening and watching with interest, all looked away at these words, as though Dobby had said something rude and embarrassing. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

This time round it wasn’t awkward or embarrassing any more; just sombre and serious. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no one to tell her about him, no one to share embarrassing stories about him that Birdie would love, or show her baby pictures of him. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Part of me was acting on tradition; part of me was worried about embarrassing myself and eating the wrong way—and part of me was thinking, I hope they ask me just one more time. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most annoyingly, her objections were not mere perversity: at this stage the embarrassing fact came out that my recollection of the water content of Rosy’s DNA samples could not be right. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

So, homecoming sucks and country music is just embarrassing, but I’m in love with the hay. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It’s embarrassing to spend all your time with a seven-year-old girl, but Jimmy is always fiddling with his mechanical devices, so what am I supposed to do? Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t exactly remember it, but all the embarrassing pictures on Mom’s phone was evidence enough. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

As for Blanca, I didn’t want to think too much about her, for I might have broken down and started crying in public, embarrassing the hell out of myself. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I saw how impossible and embarrassing it would be for me to try to switch from my free program into the stricter one. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It's embarrassing enough that he saw me sobbing. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But now that he’s assistant coach, she’s all by herself, and it’s much more noticeable and much more embarrassing. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

It was real embarrassing but tears just exploded out of my face and even though I knew she was going to be disappointed in me I told Momma how I’d hurt Rufus’s feelings. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rufus knew this was some real embarrassing stuff so he sat down beside me, looked the other way and acted like he didn’t see me crying. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know which is more embarrassing: Mango having a crush on the cat, or the fact that the cat’s name is Twinkles. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The most embarrassing part, she admitted, was that this made her start feeling that way right there in the middle of the prison hall surrounded by guards. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew from sermons and editorials that it wasn’t real music—just colored folks’ stuff: harmful, certainly; embarrassing, of course; but not real, not serious. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish England had got through. That was embarrassing, that was.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

His stomach does some embarrassing acrobatics he plans to never tell anyone about, ever. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At least her crippled partner could not be the murderer, but it was embarrassing being paired with such a . . . no, she shouldn't feel that way. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now, weeks later, they all had to “exchange papers with a neighbor” for “peer editing,” which was embarrassing. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

And I knew I couldn't really say nothing about it, because it's just not cool to put people's embarrassing situations on blast. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

After embarrassing himself at breakfast, Genie had come to the conclusion that the truth could sometimes make things weird. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It would have been too embarrassing to turn around, so I drove slowly across the bridge and was relieved when we had made it to the other side. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were too heavy to read, she wouldn’t play the pianoforte for fear of another embarrassing encounter, and she most certainly wouldn’t amuse herself with fantasies of what the feast was like. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He is deeply moved by this, you can tell, it’s embarrassing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you’d try to tell Dad after such a visit that his popping in like that was embarrassing. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got bored, so wandered off and got a bunch of embarrassing things and put them in strangers’ carts when they weren’t looking.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I spent a few minutes considering, as I paced the length of my bedroom floor, how embarrassing that incident had been. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Okay, I'm going to have to write something really embarrassing now. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

My dad had to break the embarrassing news that he couldn't, because he didn't have a green card, either. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I spring back in surprise and an embarrassing garbled sound flies out of my mouth as my brain catches up to the fact that it’s him, that Brian’s standing in front of me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

No matter how many times you have to admit this, it’s always embarrassing, it always makes you cringe. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might have been the most embarrassing day I’d ever had, but it was also the best day ever! Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I should be avoiding him entirely after my brainless and embarrassing babbling yesterday. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Good for you,” she said into my ear, embarrassing the heck out of me because I was surrounded by kids who overheard everything she said. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The letter itself was virtually endless in length, overwritten, teaching, repetitious, opinionated, remonstrative, condescending, embarrassing—and filled, to a surfeit, with affection. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

His philosophy was that death should not be embarrassing; he was not about to powder its nose. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Victoria said again, and soon everyone was chanting, “Speech! Speech!” in that embarrassing way and staring at me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He must have told his doctor, Lewis Fielding, all sorts of intimate and potentially embarrassing details. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Christ, it’s embarrassing—it used to remind me of her. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He has sung whole love songs to the cynical crowds, told tall stories of courage and honor, doing all this without any mythic display, without savvy, almost embarrassing the urban throng. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

That had been the most embarrassing moment of her life. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Probably. Trust me, I know. I’ve had plenty of embarrassing jobs.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Why did she insist on embarrassing me with that thing? The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

When I got to the part about how embarrassing it had been to see how Dr. Zamborska and Tina could hardly keep their hands off each other, he just stared across the room. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was embarrassing, I suppose, but it was also a precious secret, like a magic trick, where if I tried to explain it, or even talk about it, the thrill and mystery would be gone. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, the three of us held hands with the number 16 pressed between Twig and me, and it wasn’t even weird or embarrassing. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was super embarrassing to have to ask the school secretary to help me out. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

It was extraordinarily embarrassing and, after a while, horrible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But the sixth was the longest minute of them all—the embarrassing walk to the principal's office. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The Garcías could not afford extras, and they did not want to put their hosts in the embarrassing position of having to spend money out of largesse. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“The spelling,” a fellow German said of Fuchs’s name, “sometimes caused people to pronounce it in a somewhat embarrassing way.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There followed a rather long and embarrassing silence. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

That way there would be no embarrassing questions to have to answer. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s when Mom rushes out, throwing her arms around me, in a deeply embarrassing hug. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I think she was trying to make an embarrassing romantic connection. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Slightly embarrassing, but still awfully nice to be able to discuss it with him. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Kaira smiled, then leaned close and whispered, “Maybe it will be more embarrassing.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

They pitied the poor woman, but the scene was embarrassing. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now it was there in front of me, there was something vaguely embarrassing about the tape, like it was something I should have grown out of. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I get to the lunchroom, my stomach is making embarrassing noises. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Except, I could imagine him sitting between Mom and Nana, kicking me under the table as my brother unleashed his most embarrassing stories about me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Think how embarrassing it would be for you when you got trounced by a Fjerdan girl.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Only then did children begin to find their parents embarrassing. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“It’s not that, it’s just so obvious. It’s just so embarrassing.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a little embarrassing, but I did order a jersey. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Karaoke is itself the Japanese word for embarrassing oneself by singing in front of a room filled with strangers who are only there to laugh at you. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The entire thing was embarrassing and infuriating, but the worst part was Poppy, who was standing with her super-special and shiny coven, smiling and laughing. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I tried to picture myself in a missionary role, gathering the little children unto me, as it was embarrassing to be playing this babyish game with children waist-high to me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that I wanted her embarrassing me, having me stand up front and rotate around the sun. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian turned back to avoid embarrassing the pilot who was obviously in some discomfort. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I actually downloaded The Breakfast Club after that. My mom loves that movie, so she watched it with me. She sang along to the credits. That was embarrassing.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Of course slavery is a bit embarrassing, but that, of course, will go. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Birdie liked people, liked when they did embarrassing things like talk too much when they were nervous, or act shy because they didn’t know how to hide it. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Besides Dexter, Mason’s tics were probably the most embarrassing of the group. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She spoke her mind in the most crude language I’d ever heard, as if there were nothing shameful in it, as if calling a woman a puta were not embarrassing. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I suppose that would be embarrassing—having your mommy walk you in on your first day.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Jason smiled dryly, like he’d just found out he would die in an embarrassing way. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Plus, it must have been a little embarrassing that they were on really fast motorcycles and he was pedaling an adult tricycle. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But it was a common car, and it would be awfully embarrassing if I was wrong. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long while he was quiet, looking away, and the silence kept stretching out until it was almost embarrassing. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily he was stopped at a traffic light or I think he would have driven along beside me yelling in that embarrassing way. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry. This is embarrassing. We didn’t want to bother you, but Hercules sent us.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But that was an impossible question for them to answer without embarrassing me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had published a few pieces in small, serious literary magazines early in our marriage, written some book reviews, articles, but nothing, she said harshly, that wasn’t half- embarrassing. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He told Sven quite a bit about me, right while I was standing there. It was rather embarrassing.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The effect was still far less embarrassing to me than pure nakedness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, I did tell my friend the entire embarrassing truth. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It would be too embarrassing to come all the way from Puerto Rico so she could be somebody’s maid. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Right. So will you write me another letter? One that’s not so embarrassing?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

There was no need for an embarrassing walk to the correct classroom. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I guess sometimes all grandparents can be embarrassing, or maybe we’re just getting too old for Grands Day, after all. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

One of them was the test which the New York woman was in the process of giving us—not the embarrassing personal questions, but the business of circling numbers, spelling, and filling in blanks. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t going to say embarrassing,” he says, brushing a hand through his bushel of hair, only to find that it’s no longer there. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It wasn't as embarrassing as she thought—because it was like looking at a different person. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to have a marriage of convenience with you if you’re always embarrassing me with the way you eat burritos,” Alex says, watching her chew. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was embarrassing to hear his family bickering right over his bed, as if he couldn’t hear them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

JB ’s eyes are ocean wide, his mouth swimming on the floor, his clownish grin, embarrassing. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Ruth was always her most embarrassing when she was being her nicest. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I was congratulated by so many people that it was almost embarrassing. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

And photographs, as a rule, couldn’t be too embarrassing. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Old pencils, a couple of stories I’d written that were too embarrassing for anybody to read, a torn pair of shorts, a comb with most of its teeth missing. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tired of embarrassing myself in front of two-year-olds, I've started referring to everything in the plural, which can get expensive but has solved a lot of my problems. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

While they tucked into porridge and eggs and bacon, Harry and Ron told Hermione about their embarrassing conversation with Hagrid the previous evening. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I want to protect myself from any further, darker memories of hers, get myself out of here gracefully before something embarrassing happens. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s embarrassing about that? I have an Egyptian friend who might know his family.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

An awkward pause stretched into an embarrassing silence. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Major Major floundered bewilderedly from one embarrassing catastrophe to another. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“What’s your most embarrassing moment?” she asks when the bridge disappears from view. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Here in the Ivy, surrounded by these pristine people, where she didn’t deserve to be, embarrassing the poor, poor mother of a friend she hadn’t loved well enough, or had loved too much. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I say my own name, which is really embarrassing for some reason. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There’s something so embarrassing about that in a way I can’t even describe. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s one of the most embarrassing things in the world. He won’t stop and pretty soon you have to hit him and that’s worse. Then you’re really in trouble all around.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I know but it’s hard enough to make new friends without worrying he’ll do something embarrassing. I just want it to be nice today, a fun cookout with nothing going wrong.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you have one of these,” Alex says, sidling up to him, “you should do two champagne fountains instead of one. Really embarrassing to be at a wedding with only one champagne fountain.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And it was so dorky and kind of embarrassing, and in the back of my mind I hoped Mikayla was already too far away to hear us, but none of that really mattered. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then—this was starting to get embarrassing—a sergeant responding to the incident failed to secure a gate and had liquid of an unknown nature thrown in his face. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nodded and got excited in that embarrassing way parents get when they try to Be Involved in Their Kids’ Lives and also possibly try to Distract Them from Their MIA Mother. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

So of course I went weeping to the teacher, and I spent the majority of middle school trying to live down that one embarrassing event. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It’s embarrassing, and I wonder if anyone in the hotel hears her. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Okay, this is really embarrassing, but you asked for it. Every time I hear the song, it sounds like you’re singing, ‘Armpit. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I doubt you can really understand how embarrassing it is to only own two shirts, to cut your own hair as best you can because you can’t afford a barber. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I thought that if Cassius and I happened to meet, it would likely prove embarrassing for Cassius, since he had elected to remain with Elijah Muhammad’s version of Islam. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Huh. Like, it really shouldn’t be this hard to think of embarrassing Simon stories.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I look at him all the time, but not always like that—I feel like he just caught me doing something embarrassing. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was even more embarrassing than when my great-grandma in Kansas used a flashlight to get around in the movie theater. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Four days later he again prodded Hunt: “The delay you are causing us by not forwarding scale drawings is embarrassing in the extreme.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And I did not cry—because it’s way embarrassing to cry in the middle of your science classroom. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Also, it felt vaguely embarrassing—like perhaps there was something wrong with her. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I tried to back up a few times—I didn't want her to feel me or anything, because that would be embarrassing. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Even that embarrassing one from when I was twelve? Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Hannah flipping out for no apparent reason, embarrassing herself in front of so many people. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I groan because how embarrassing, but Mom says, “Actually, we did.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Rowan, at sixteen, had resolved he would experience gray hair before he turned his first corner—and even then, he wouldn’t reset so far down as to be embarrassing. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Finally she stops and puts a hand over her heart and breathes deeply as an embarrassing silence covers the room. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily’s dad put his hands on her mother’s hips and pretended to do an embarrassing conga that was mostly shrugging shoulders and the occasional kick. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He actually announced this during class—“Natalie, can I speak to you for a moment?”—which not only was embarrassing but also meant there was no way to escape. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The embarrassing truth: I was the only one who stayed in that cabin because I wasn’t supposed to be .alive. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

It would be embarrassing to have her there, but at least I could play. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the night of September 3, the Plumbers ransacked Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office, hoping to find something embarrassing in the files on Ellsberg. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I ask, because I want to remind us both that answering embarrassing questions is the least of what he deserves. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Such public displays of affection can be embarrassing to a prepubescent girl like me who is not accustomed to being in the company of two married people who like each other. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even today the artist remains a magician whose work can mystify and move us—an embarrassing fact to civilized people, who do not readily relinquish their veneer of rational control. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would have been embarrassing, his being son of the sea god and all. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I think I remember it. Talk about embarrassing!” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Civil libertarians see it as a violation of our Fourth Amendment freedom from “unreasonable search”; most jobholders and applicants find it simply embarrassing. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s super embarrassing, though, you know. Someone wiping your face with a cloth. Please,” Aileen continued. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s too embarrassing to have strangers look at your dirty drawers, even if the stranger is as nice as Mrs. Sleet. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I apologized like a madman, and they were very polite and nice about it, but it was very embarrassing anyway. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“They don’t know I have Tourette’s. That’s what makes it so embarrassing.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Um...wow. This is embarrassing. Not how this was supposed to go.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It would be embarrassing for Otrera if her followers failed in their duties—if, for instance, they were overcome by an outsider and a prison break occurred.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I thought I saw the guy that had broken through. I screamed and dove for the ground. It was pretty embarrassing.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I racked my brain for interesting factoids about myself, but I could only think of embarrassing ones. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t even reached the baggage claim and he had his arm around me, needling my sister with his embarrassing behavior. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I eyed the ceiling, but I couldn’t hold back the big, embarrassing sigh. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

And it’s too embarrassing, smearing snot across my upper lip and struggling to hold my balance on one foot, while my whole family is watching. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’d elbowed his chest, a warning not to encourage my mom’s obsession for embarrassing costumes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I will live a thousand lifetimes and it will still be the most embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to me.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t have any choice but to open the package in front of them, and I just hope to God it’s nothing embarrassing because, from Theodore Finch, you never know. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She gave me a big hug, which was a little embarrassing. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I remember saying this to him once—how embarrassing he was—and cringe at the former me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was embarrassing, in so many ways, to imagine him reading my personal thoughts. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then they looked away, like it was too embarrassing or painful to actually look at him directly. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

She had one of these very loud, embarrassing voices when you met her somewhere. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

His behavior then was truly embarrassing, and I actually kissed him on the top of his head in benediction when he had finished. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I'm about to stop Layla from embarrassing herself further when Marisol interrupts her first, ready to initiate one of her business transactions. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I’m actually kind of glad I'm not buying my new Mitchum, because a girl would be embarrassing to buy deodorant in front of. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And I didn’t do a single embarrassing thing! Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It’s embarrassing to keep a public display of affection for...Edward, but I can never bring myself to get rid of it. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s showtime, old friend. If that sphere doesn’t come down like you promised, this is going to be pretty embarrassing.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And for a few seconds he experienced an almost embarrassing and awkward sensation of well-being and importance. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could hardly keep their hands off each other, which made a lot of people smile, but to tell you the truth, I found it a little embarrassing, and I wondered if Branwell would, too. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why is that,” my voice shook, embarrassing me, “do you think?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Though I knew he had been drinking, I wondered that an educated man and an observer could be so obtuse—could create such an embarrassing situation for a Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was merely embarrassing but then—being prodded a bit too energetically by the attorney—he suddenly and quite without warning lost his head. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

This was a most embarrassing situation, one in which Lord Darlington would never have placed an employee. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever the doors parted, she shouted, probably embarrassing the American cousins, but she didn’t care. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must be embarrassing to sit in front when you find yourself dressed funny on the first day of school. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

For some reason him seeing those pictures feels way more embarrassing than Elsie seeing them. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

When Eleanor walked into the living room, Park had just gotten out of the shower, which was embarrassing for some reason. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

It occurs to me: Now that I might live, I have to be more careful about logging embarrassing moments. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It started embarrassing me. I began to feel like such a nasty little egomaniac.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He was making sure I absorbed this point, without embarrassing me by asking. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe that’s why she loved dressing up in her embarrassing costumes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Twig had insisted on dressing as an evil witch/candy cane hybrid for Halloween, even though nobody really celebrates Halloween in France, and Twig’s mom said she was being embarrassing. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mom had been my nurse, after all, and was more intimately familiar with all my most embarrassing atoms than anyone on the planet of humans and dogs. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“A couple of kids barked at me. It’s so embarrassing when they do that because I always bark back.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It meant walking, in my dirty, soggy socks, down the track to get my sneakers, which might've been more embarrassing than any joke anyone has ever cracked on me. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Bernabe knew the valley, he understood the people, and in the end he liked his life here, maybe he even had an embarrassing love for it all. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But now I must ask you an embarrassing question. Do you mind?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed myself with both hands and pulled my tank top down to cover the embarrassing bulge inside my flimsy shorts. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

DRACO: Harry Potter, asking questions about Harry Potter, of all the embarrassing things. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

What if they became like Bill and Fleur, and it became excruciatingly embarrassing to be in their presence, so that he was shut out for good? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Kind of embarrassing. Anyway, that’s how a Roman legion got to China. The Romans eventually put down roots and built a new hometown called—” “Li-Jien,” Frank said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I liked the way he just slapped you down and didn’t ask no embarrassing questions.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if my tears seemed to be nothing more than a child’s embarrassing reaction to his own failure? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Most embarrassing, but probably effective at giving us an advantage, were our starting blocks. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was embarrassing to think about the day that it happened— embarrassing, on top of everything else—because it really was Eleanor's fault. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The only generic hospital garb sitting around are those embarrassing gowns that they put the patients in. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. But don’t ask him, okay? That’s so embarrassing,” I plead. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The fact that the partners were expected to maintain contact throughout these clumsy contortions seemed a certain recipe for sprained ankles and embarrassing collisions. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Bathing is even more embarrassing, because I have to strip down to my birthday suit in front of a nurse. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It would be too embarrassing to have to describe how I’d arrived in this situation. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The absence of diversity was glaring—honestly, it was embarrassing—for a modern, multicultural country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was the most embarrassing thing, in retrospect. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She ran her fingers over the embarrassing song titles—"This Charming Man" and "How Soon Is Now?"—on her math book. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The original had the obvious questions, like what’s your middle name, your favorite color, most embarrassing moment. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even when I admit to something that I think is shameful or embarrassing, she doesn’t scold me or look at me like I’m a leper. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Briony felt the disadvantage of being two years younger than the other girl, of having a full two years' refinement weigh against her, and now her play seemed a miserable, embarrassing thing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But he would just say, in the Urdu accent he hasn’t lost after living in the Milwaukee area for twenty years, “Embarrassing? I don’t understand this embarrassing. Why do you care what people think?” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

"One last thing. With King Robert dead, it would be most embarrassing should his grieving widow suddenly grow great with child." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Was I mad at her for embarrassing me? Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I said, “Mr. Lewis, this is going to be very embarrassing for me.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It’s pretty embarrassing for Freckles and me, but it’s also pretty wonderful for me. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Almost twenty-four hours and a couple of embarrassing moments later, but here they were. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I was committing the sin of embarrassing her in front of a guest. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I want to explain to my father that it would be completely embarrassing to be the only kid tagging along with her parents at back-to-school night. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

When they got up to go, the two nuns, I did something very stupid and embarrassing. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Styx looked at us funny, which was a little embarrassing, but there was no way around our traditions. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Those were embarrassing to look at — I would have to see what I could do to get Charlie to put them somewhere else, at least while I was living here. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But it would be more embarrassing to lose to a boy, clucked the scoffers. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s too embarrassing now. I show too plainly. I won't go before any one and be married in this state.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

To tell you the truth, it was sort of embarrassing, in a way, to be talking about Romeo and Juliet with her. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He would hold up Ernest as an example to his other students— sometimes to an embarrassing degree. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She asked whether I wanted to stay for dinner, and I was feeling bad about coming over and embarrassing her, so I said no. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amanda complains that he is embarrassing her in front of her friend. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The two youngsters didn’t know where to put themselves, and nor did Julius, at this embarrassing mishap. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I’ve only had crushes, but it’s embarrassing to admit they were characters in books and TV shows. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s embarrassing, is all. I don’t want you to ask if you can read it.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She looked at the doctor and said suddenly, “It’s embarrassing. To think about being afraid, I mean.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

In later years I was to confront the stereotyped picture of gay song-singing cotton pickers with such inordinate rage that I was told even by fellow Blacks that my paranoia was embarrassing. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He called on me to solve a problem on the board. I didn’t know the answer, but he kept insisting. It was so embarrassing.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Almost at once it became embarrassing to sit there in silence; besides, it was too cold to keep still. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Why was singing any more embarrassing than talking was? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not because it is embarrassing, but because it is the most painful one . The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t, it was so embarrassing for me. I couldn’t help hearing at first, and then I was so angry and ashamed, I didn’t remember that I ought to go away.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was embarrassing to like someone who still didn’t know his times tables. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take my lunch bag from him. “it's not you embarrassing me I’m worried about,” I tell him. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I mean, well, yeah, but it was so...embarrassing” I half whisper the last word. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Earlier today in the record store with Rob was pretty embarrassing,” I say. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know which was more embarrassing, Natalie’s behavior or my mother’s. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Number twenty-nine. Share with your partner an embarrassing moment in your life.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“If at any time what I’m saying makes it awkward or embarrassing for you, just turn around and leave,” said Ehrlichman. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She was shy, but not in the stiff embarrassing way that makes other people feel embarrassed, too. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, I have to admit, a little embarrassing. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“It might be embarrassing, but it’s for the scepter.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Okay I was, because, it is totally embarrassing. I go to pay for my lunch today and pull out these.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

When I came out, Dad didn’t even ask me how it went, but he gave me a hug, which was embarrassing. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They were embarrassing to watch, but not so embarrassing that I didn't. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What if a possum or a raccoon sees you with me? Wouldn’t that be embarrassing?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She let her go out with her girl friends as always, she helped her get dressed for the Saturday parties, and she never asked an embarrassing question that might arouse her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Talking 'bout my stammer's nearly as embarrassing as stammering itself, but it's okay with her. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

But holding hands with a girl—that was embarrassing. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

They were always around, after school, and it took me an embarrassing length of time to realize that they were probably around all the time because they were getting together for practice every day. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But he rips his pants in the crotch, which isn't just super- embarrassing for him but makes Quang-ha start to laugh. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t mind sharing a roof with the most embarrassing dad of all times, maybe you could come over this weekend,” she says. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“We used to meet secretly in my father’s apple orchards, always after midnight when everyone had gone to sleep. We’d walk under the trees and I’d hold her hand.. .Am I embarrassing you, Amir jan?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I let that story circulate uncorrected, as it was preferable to the embarrassing truth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A constable might stop him and ask embarrassing questions. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just curious. How come you have never once mentioned either Travis or me on your blog? Are we that embarrassing to you?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Their job was to ask questions, to give the Hot Seat its heat: ticklish questions, embarrassing questions, nosy questions. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

A moment later we were out on the sidewalk and strolling home as if nothing embarrassing had ever taken place. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Emily’s dad put his hands on her mother’s hips and pretended to do an embarrassing conga that was mostly shrugging shoulders and the occasional kick. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Besides, I came here to talk about endorsements, not my embarrassing public relations nightmares.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

On the whole, Harry had to admit that even with the embarrassing prospect of opening the ball before him, life had definitely improved since he had got through the first task. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was embarrassing enough sitting in homeroom toward the end of the school year when I wasn’t handed my report card and had to go meet with the guidance counselor. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But it is always embarrassing to be loved. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s embarrassing to be watched while I walk back and forth. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Numbers five and six were male and did embarrassing things to legs, any legs—male or female—that happened to be onstage. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The embarrassing truth is that I am just too exhausted to work, especially for eleven hours in a row. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then suddenly it seemed sort of embarrassing, because I was finally talking, but I couldn’t actually think of anything else to say. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was disloyal to his squadron and embarrassing to his superiors. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It’s just pretty embarrassing and I don’t need to go into it here, okay? Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It felt shameful and embarrassing—something white people wouldn’t understand. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

After having sent him embarrassing fan mail when he was eleven—not that he was about to divulge that piece of information to Dimple. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The kids made me the bride, which was embarrassing because that meant I would be paired with a boy as my groom. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

To resume my parents’ story, I need to bring up a very embarrassing memory for a Greek American: Michael Dukakis on his tank. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

That should have been embarrassing, but Park's dad had a way of cutting past embarrassing. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Any reluctance to answering personal or embarrassing questions always yielded to the lure of appearing on TV. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Telling ’bout getting beat so bad you ended up buck-nekkid was too embarrassing. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Quentin, I’m sorry if she tried to drag you into her little game. You can imagine how . .. just how embarrassing this is for us. You’re such a good boy, and she . . . well.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Remember when I told you I saw him naked awhile back and it made me feel some strangeness down in my secret place? Well, in these dreams, he’s like...God, this is embarrassing!” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

She was a scientist; it was bad enough to have to admit to consulting the I Ching, but this was even more embarrassing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It’s embarrassing to say that, but it’s true. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I felt in me an embarrassing sense of pride that she was ours. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

She found it so embarrassing that she burned large parts of it. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

If they called him Uncle, he called them Aunty, which was embarrassing in Public. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they acted like newlyweds, and it was kind of embarrassing to watch. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

An embarrassing sense of pride tentatively bloomed in the middle of the sadness I felt at my surroundings. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

At this embarrassing moment, Bai Shan had caught the eye of his two best friends. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any Japanese defeat was too embarrassing for the military leaders to admit to their immediate superiors, much less to their divine emperor. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fine example. However, I’m now going to let you in on a secret about myself which is true. It's a touch embarrassing, so please don't spread it around at breaktime...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

When he wakes up after an embarrassing dream, I know about it. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And since she and her boyfriend never saw the show before, they were technically “virgins,” which meant they would have to do all these embarrassing things before the show started to get “initiated.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps to save me from embarrassing myself, Patrice led me into the hallway. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Because I wrote an embarrassing letter to you.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The headmaster had threatened me with death by in-school suspension if anything bad, embarrassing, or even mildly entertaining happened on this trip. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And she withdrew, sliding the door closed behind her.“People expect you to have cooler friends than us,” said Luna, once again displaying her knack for embarrassing honesty. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Howard sang louder than anybody and, personally, I thought it was a little embarrassing, but nobody else seemed to pay him any mind. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Pretending in words was too tentative, too vulnerable, too embarrassing to let anyone know. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was too embarrassing—barber’s sons, if they hustled, maybe got to be IBM salesmen, but writers? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And not because of something embarrassing I did, like throwing up or spilling my food, but for something really cool instead. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It took no great leap of intelligence to realize that Hamilton Knapp had laced Gingers dog treats with tranquilizers and laxatives so that she would do one, possibly two, embarrassing things on stage. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Juliet was the only person alive who laughed at him with embarrassing regularity. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Feels kinda nice, but also kinda alien and real embarrassing ’cause some of the neighbors are watching. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He had a wife we will not name, because it would be embarrassing to her family. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

This lag can be very embarrassing if, for example, you have waited until the last minute to realize that you are going to land short of the runway. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sometimes heard her giggling through the hallway and, I gotta be honest, it was kind of embarrassing. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I was in my old pink bathrobe when I opened the door, which was kind of embarrassing, but Little Jimmy smiled at me like I was wearing a ball gown. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much was made over this later handiwork, which, while not too embarrassing, did not warrant the fervent praise it received. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Volpe always had a knack for imparting life lessons without being gross or embarrassing about it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

That would be the most embarrassing thing ever. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was a little embarrassing, since Rabiya and Soojin were the only ones who ever said stuff like that to me before. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She’s always rescuing me, which usually is embarrassing, but not now. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It is embarrassing when girls see him peddle fruit cups or when they hear someone call him “the tamale man.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He realized he was doing the Morse code for I love you, the way he used to do with his mom, which would have been pretty embarrassing if his friends understood Morse code. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It’s the only green leafy thing on the street, which makes it kind of embarrassing. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m coming in now, fairy girl, so if you’re doing anything embarrassing, please stop.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The month that followed the accident was uneasy, tense, and, at first, embarrassing. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

"Honestly, Daddy,” said Ernestine, "it’s so embarrassing to go riding when you always make these awful scenes.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silence filled the great room like an embarrassing smell. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s also embarrassing to be around someone whose entire mouth has turned blue. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But judging by the way Needles acted when he spoke, and how Noodles slapped him around, I could see it being tough to, especially since it had to be pretty embarrassing. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Not that I’m so against it—embarrassing your father, I mean. It’s good for ministers to be embarrassed now arid again. Helps them to remember who they are.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Aside from having to wear those embarrassing red-and-yellow uniforms with matching floppy hats, I loved the job. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had come here with the intention of embarrassing a snide assassin, and had instead found a young woman pouring her secrets into a pianoforte. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It’s kind of embarrassing to admit, but all my old friends were kids my brother knew first. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I thought meeting you would help him, if he would see that his work has shaped real lives, but... I’m very sorry. It is very, very embarrassing.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Of course it was embarrassing, but I was in no condition to argue the treatment. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t move away, but he doesn’t seem all that into it; he acts like she’s embarrassing him. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sadly, this correspondent has been caught in the embarrassing position of barking up two wrong trees at the same time; but only because tastes have changed in the matter. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

The both of them kept thanking me so much it was embarrassing. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Knowing we were always being watched by an unseen audience made an embarrassing situation even more awkward. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We accept this is a little embarrassing but the attendant was doing his job - if a little too efficiently. Springsteen roadies' parking tickets 2013-07-25T15:54:06Z

During all the years when New York was a city of embarrassing or better-than-nothing barbecue, pork ribs and pulled pork were the most palatable options. Brisket Is Worth the Wait 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

“But it was embarrassing. I’ve sat and talked with this guy, and couldn’t recognize him.” We’re having trouble recognizing each other in masks, and it’s getting awkward 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z

They don't wear baseball caps, they don't have ponytails and they don't talk in some awful, embarrassing Americanised jargon. Suede: 'They're ordinary, that makes them glam' – a classic interview 2013-02-20T13:28:56Z

Now, to avoid embarrassing public exposure and litigation, Bunny and Laura must extract the truth from a reluctant Guillam, who has his own secrets to keep. John le Carré is back in fine form — with George Smiley — in 'A Legacy of Spies' 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

So if today’s reporters get a few facts wrong, it’s sad, even embarrassing, but hardly a recent development. Religion’s media persecution complex 2013-04-23T22:01:00Z

Here the values, embodied in a dating scene that proclaims wealth and handsomeness the most desirable male attributes and beauty the most desirable female attribute, scan as outré and a bit embarrassing. “Is There Still Sex in the City?” and the Decline of a Particular Fantasy Life 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

Dear Carolyn: My best friend of decades started yelling, “Dye your hair! It’s embarrassing to be seen with you!” the last time I saw her. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Jilted by the groom, then guilted by the guests 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

Now, late in the season, comes a small but noticeable cluster of comedies centered on transgressive, sometimes embarrassing women. Television Review: MTV’s ‘Faking It’ Stars Katie Stevens and Rita Volk 2014-04-21T21:55:24Z

It’s unclear who will succeed her at Sony, but Pascal’s departure from the role was likely hastened by embarrassing revelations from the Sony hack in December. Amy Pascal Will Step Down as Co-Chairman of Sony Pictures 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Because you know it's going to be so embarrassing. Manic pixie death girl: “Killing Eve” and the adorable assassin 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

For some people, falling in love can be awkward and embarrassing and just plain complicated. 6 Y.A. Love Stories to Add to Your Reading List 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

How do I stop this without embarrassing them? Our Daughter’s Rich Friends Are Driving Me Nuts 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

The expressions I want to use are melodramatic, hyperbolic, so much so that even to think them is embarrassing. I don’t know how to discuss being raped: I am different, permanently, but there’s no language to describe how 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z

You get rewritten, and it’s embarrassing, but in a comedy room, they put your script up on the screen and 12 people see what you wrote and rewrite it. Matthew Weiner on Life After ‘Mad Men,’ Sexual Harassment and His New Amazon Show 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

If we can't lock you up or take away your livelihood, we can make it embarrassing -- at least in some corners of society, anyway -- to play your records or watch your movies. Can we still listen to Michael Jackson? We wouldn't need "cancel culture" if we had justice culture 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

Which would be fine, if I wasn't the wrong side of 40, married, and with 13- and 16-year-old-kids threatening to disown me over such embarrassing behaviour. Matt Cardle: my X Factor crush 2010-12-02T11:06:00Z

It takes time and can be embarrassing to have to declare my disability every time I go to the movies. What's so hard about making movies accessible? 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

"The photos are innocent but embarrassing and there is no reason to splash them across a newspaper," they added. Kate Winslet's husband wins UK photo court battle 2013-01-08T17:22:47Z

Even the dignified movie-star-turned-stateswoman Shirley Temple had some embarrassing old videos. Before The Good Ship Lollipop, Shirley Temple Did “Baby Burlesks” 2014-02-12T01:49:17Z

But whatever embarrassing or illicit behavior was going on in Ginsberg’s circle he left off camera. Art Review: ‘Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg’ 2013-01-17T20:55:35Z

It resulted in scribbling instead of a signature, which was humiliating and embarrassing to my mother. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Mouse malpractice? 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

This is a security breach at the highest levels of the Russian security services that is so embarrassing. The Dangerous Challenge of Making a Film About Aleksei Navalny 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere in the book, she recalls refusing, in an audition, to talk about her most embarrassing moment, and encourages others to consider the same philosophy. Amy Poehler’s Confidence Lessons 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

The symptoms were so strange and embarrassing that I felt silly asking for help, so I handled everything on my own. In Matters of the Heart, We’re in This Together 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

“Which is more embarrassing for Trump: the fact that he kept top-secret documents or admitting he collects folders? I mean, how dull do you have to be to be a folder enthusiast?” Stephen Colbert is Underwhelmed by Nikki Haley’s Big Announcement 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

One of the more difficult-to-answer questions is said to be: “What is your most embarrassing moment?” Gene Weingarten: The worst thing my dog could do on a baseball field 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

That it's boring, embarrassing, or both, capable of inducing deep sleep and a clenched sphincter at the same time. Poet, comedian, or both? 2010-08-27T16:10:00Z

Low point Harry and Hermione slow dancing in a tent: it's just embarrassing for everyone. The great Harry Potter viewing marathon 2011-07-08T23:11:05Z

I, for one, do not expect any of my former girlfriends ever to pitch up at Sotheby's with the gruesomely embarrassing love letters I wrote them. Is it OK to sell love letters? 2012-12-15T18:04:01Z

It's a testament to Asimov's matter-of-fact writing style that all this is no more embarrassing than the average David Attenborough documentary. Back to the Hugos: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov 2011-01-06T15:34:14Z

For comparison, the The Inbetweeners’ First Day revolved around Will having to wear an embarrassing name badge, being photographed having a poo and then getting busted for underage drinking. How Skins went from teen noir to soapy despair 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

The rhetoric around Tidal was pretty funny, when it wasn’t embarrassing. How Jay Z's Tidal Press Conference Showed He's Out of Touch 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

Janice Dickinson was a supermodel once, but now she's known mainly for getting wasted, berating photographers and embarrassing herself on reality shows. The odd appeal of the "Celebrity Rehab" train wreck 2011-01-26T14:01:00Z

He’s skeptical of polling, calling it “a system designed to render us embarrassing,” even as he cites polls showing public support for the positions he’s advocating. Could Politics Be Fairer? Two New Books Say Yes 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

A proposed panel at next year’s South by Southwest interactive conference promises to teach attendees “how to be authentic and human without embarrassing yourself.” Cultural Studies: For Only the Authentic ? Cultural Studies 2011-09-09T21:41:28Z

Many people are disturbed by their fantasies; the images can be embarrassing, repugnant, even unacceptably shocking. I’m a straight man but I am disturbed by my fantasy of being a woman having sex with a guy 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

The embarrassing thing is that I had not heard of him, but most people are not aware of his life and contribution. In "Mr. Jones" James Norton plays a journalist who uncovers the truth of the Ukrainian genocide 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z

The government contends that no embarrassing photos ever existed. No plea deal in Stamos extortion case in Michigan 2010-06-29T22:25:00Z

"It's so easy to just become a commodity, and I think that's so embarrassing." Kristen Stewart: 'Twilight was so intense. I'm still a very intense person' 2012-05-17T19:00:02Z

How embarrassing if a museum official had to order me to give the kids a turn. The Ruthless Phronima, and Other Hidden Wonders of the Sea 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Most of us would be eager to sweep a personal episode this embarrassing under the carpet and move on. “A Gay Girl in Damascus”: Behind the twisted tale of a blogger who “catfished” the whole world 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

The breach has delivered one embarrassing blow after another to Sony Pictures, including the disclosure of Social Security numbers of thousands of current and former employees, confidential emails and other information. Sony Pictures execs debated risk of 'The Interview' before cyberattack 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

The stand-up comic is master — as all good comedians are — of the personal, embarrassing tale, and Birbiglia often uses his routines to delve into awkward childhood memories of girls, parents and bullies. Comedian Mike Birbiglia 2010-10-19T08:30:00Z

We sat and watched the thing, and she surprised me, when the baddie did an embarrassing bad-guy dance, by gurgling out a laugh. ‘I must have watched it 50 times’: a Frozen dad prepares for the sequel 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z

Another commented: “It is embarrassing that as a white man you are willingly stealing opportunities from men of color. This isn’t something to be proud of.” A Bollywood Favorite Is Remade for the Stage, Raising Eyebrows 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

The “special relationship” is a failed relationship, and the Biden administration would do well to distance themselves from this embarrassing alliance. On Barack Obama’s Memoir and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

Illegal activities were so ingrained that Hoover himself, after an embarrassing court disclosure in 1966, ordered them stopped and was ignored. Books of The Times: Tim Weiner?s ?Enemies? and F.B.I. Counterintelligence 2012-03-14T21:09:12Z

I thought it would be unsettling or embarrassing to ask such questions about oneself, but Lipska seemed energized by the mystery. She made a career out of studying the brain. Then hers veered off course. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be embarrassing, writing what I was writing, if someone found out I’d never looked into prepping myself? Worst case scenario: the ‘preppers’ gearing up for cataclysm | Alex Moshakis 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

I've stopped inviting my friends over because his behavior is annoying and embarrassing. Perspective | Ask Amy: Fiance’s incessant talking causes problems 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z

As a doting and loving mother of several children of her own, she also extends her motherly skills and knowledge to others in a patronizing manner, which is embarrassing and unnecessary. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Meemaw turns every conversation into me, me, me 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

“We’re not talking about embarrassing Jim Morrison-type poetry. This is quite achieved, and deserves to be taken seriously by people who might be snobby about the fact that it’s written by a musician.” Nick Cave’s ‘The Sick Bag Song,’ an Epic Poem Composed on Tour 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

I've always been a voracious reader and nerd, so why it didn't dawn on me sooner is a little embarrassing. Writer Nava Atlas reflects on the (vegan) return of her cult-classic "Vegetariana" cookbook 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

I did not tell him that in fact, many years ago, I did try my hand at a thriller, with embarrassing results which, I am glad to say, remain unpublished. John Banville on the birth of his dark twin, Benjamin Black 2011-07-22T21:55:11Z

That was so embarrassing, not even being able to afford some of the food. Motherlode Blog: Terran Lyons, McDonald’s Crew Trainer, on Raising 2 on the Minimum Wage 2014-02-15T01:43:03Z

By contrast, detective stories — whodunits, cozies, Golden Age puzzles — are commonly dismissed as utterly artificial and old-fashioned, mere entertainments of the most inconsequential and embarrassing sort. ‘The Derek Smith Omnibus,’ by Derek Howe Smith

Actors often have to perform a role badly, over and over and over again, before they can perform it well, which is embarrassing and exposing. Learning Lines. And Crossing Them. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

"She full of dat evil. Shawty career is nonexistent. What's more embarrassing is that she worked with all these people, and not one of us could save her career." The Chris Brown problem that never goes away: How he continues to maintain his relevancy and fans 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z

The degree to which your point — “any time a black person’s on trial, there’s a sinking feeling that blackness might be on trial” — had escaped me is slightly embarrassing. Just What Was on Trial in the Bill Cosby Case? 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

Justice William Douglas wrote: “The dominant purpose of the first amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of governmental suppression of embarrassing information.” Spielberg’s The Post tells of Pentagon Papers and time when media was trusted 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

It caused a lot of discussions that were kind of embarrassing, and honest and difficult. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ showrunner explains how the Hulu series went beyond the book in Season 2 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

The film was a banal, cynical and passionless rehash of a masterpiece, an embarrassing reminder of why Hollywood should be cautious in remaking French films. Letters: ?Breathless?: Don?t Buy American 2010-05-28T14:54:00Z

If Apple customers have an embarrassing tendency to anthropomorphise their gadgets, that is because Apple has explored the possibilities of the human mind and body more thoroughly than any of its competitors. We are all addicts now 2013-05-11T23:00:00Z

This puts Alan back on the dating scene, with predictably embarrassing results. Television Review: Moving in With the Folks, Who May Not Be Thrilled 2011-01-19T00:30:03Z

And because there’s nothing more embarrassing than starving neighbours attacking your post-doomsday compound, it is all “packaged discreetly for privacy in shipping”. DIY doomsday food kits: how to eat well after the apocalypse 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z

The brochure was disclosed at an embarrassing time — the same week that Air Force Lt. Should rape victims “submit”? 2013-05-08T21:35:00Z

Richie retaliates by hunting down those who humiliated him and embarrassing them too. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

For passengers who use wheelchairs, air travel in the United States can be an embarrassing, uncomfortable and perilous prospect. Embarrassing, Uncomfortable and Risky: What Flying Is Like for Passengers Who Use Wheelchairs 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

One by one, with the whole world watching, elite gymnasts kept falling off the vault, in ways that were embarrassing at best and dangerous at worst. 6 Podcasts to Whet Your Appetite for the Olympics 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

When we watch something embarrassing, she says, we feel – according to neurological research – that it is happening to us. From the King of Comedy to People Just Do Nothing: why the 'cringe com' reigns 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Or why the rituals of a distant future in which people can’t see so strongly resemble the more embarrassing products of 21st-century dance and performance art, or “Stomp.” Apple TV Plus: More Than ‘The Morning Show’ 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Emptying the cup in public restrooms is also an embarrassing dance I haven’t mastered. How Do You Pack for a Yearlong Trip? 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

The only people who were embarrassing in this whole ordeal were the cops — adults who work in public service with less impulse control than my child. My preschooler's first police stop: I'm embarrassed — but not for us 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

Last month, Twitter made it easier to find old embarrassing and awful tweets with the release of its first complete index. The worst tweets of 2014 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z

Fearful of embarrassing publicity, city officials invited the artists to select another empty building to remount the show. Art in Review: ‘The Real Estate Show Was Then: 1980’ 2014-04-17T19:10:50Z

The academy is also increasingly diverse, and nominations for “Get Out,” along with “Mudbound,” among other contenders, would be a bulwark against an embarrassing repeat of #OscarsSoWhite. ‘I’d Never Seen My Fears as an African-American Man Onscreen’ 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

As I approached adolescence, I began to find these poems painful and embarrassing. The Battle Hymn of the Papier-Mâché Mother 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

Here’s a roundup of some of the embarrassing Greek activity over the last few days: 5 horrific things frats have done just this week 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Al Pacino would either be the greatest Lear in recent memory or the most embarrassing. Searching for the next King Lear: A critic shares his casting notes 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next. Q&A: Ted Danson 2010-04-16T23:20:00Z

I read that when you were a prep school student in Britain, you felt that acting or performing as a comedian was an embarrassing career choice. Sacha Baron Cohen Plays It Straight in ‘The Spy’ 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

Taking the most embarrassing thing that happened to you and turning it into a story that changes hearts and minds? Sex, drugs and superheroes: Our 10 best personal essays 2013-12-31T12:45:00Z

"It's a bit embarrassing really," she cringes, shyly. 'Forces take you over' 2011-02-12T00:03:28Z

“The problem is the public trust in the academy is so nonexistent, really, it’s embarrassing,” Alexandra Pascalidou, the founder of the New Academy Prize, said in a telephone interview. Two Nobel Prizes in Literature to Be Awarded This Year After Scandal 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

I fessed up to my embarrassing situation and she handed me 20 euros. Why We Travel: Readers Share Their Stories 2011-05-27T18:55:20Z

But wouldn’t it seem like a worthy, slightly embarrassing artifact more than 30 years on? Review: ‘Cloud Nine,’ a Comedy of Fluid and Complicated Couplings 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Because the show is on all the time on cable TV, it feels like a faintly embarrassing 90s behemoth that will never die, a supergroup that keeps touring long after it has stopped making records. Still Friends after all these years: the one about the 20th anniversary 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

The illusion of alcohol is that you think you're loose and comfortable when actually you're falling on the floor and embarrassing yourself and your friends. Christian Slater: 'Being sober makes me feel sexier' 2013-01-31T14:36:00Z

“I can’t defend Daniel’s words because I didn’t see the joke, but sounds like he was trying to make a funny situation out of an embarrassing one,” Ms. Pescatelli said. Critic’s Notebook: When the Comic and the Heckler Both Take Offense 2012-07-17T22:36:45Z

“I was the only one on my block but it still felt really good, and just a little bit embarrassing.” Nextdoor Pivots to Neighborliness 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

I didn't have ice cream or syrup, but I made do quite nicely with a frankly embarrassing amount of whipped cream. Skillet cookies: An ode to the star of the '90s chain restaurant menu 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z

The proposition is embarrassing, but, then, so is everything the pruney fingers of creepiness touch. The Age of Creepiness 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

With leading questions and embarrassing exercises, the kiosks were assessing me — personality traits, risk tolerance and I.Q. — to construct a profile of the kind of spy I might best be. I Spy at New York’s Museum of Deception 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

Still, there’s an embarrassing amount of shock and awe when something like this happens. Why Benedict Cumberbatch's Engagement Is All About Us 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

On the one hand, their blackface is a cringe-inducing reminder of an embarrassing chapter in American entertainment history. Spectrum’s vivid, volatile ‘Minstrel Show’ hits its mark 2014-02-21T19:49:24Z

On Facebook, teenagers are presented with more options than just “it’s embarrassing” when they want to remove a post. At Facebook, Creating Empathy Among Cyberbullying 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

Bristol's redemption dance was the unforgettable monkey jive -- the "jump the shark" performance that, although her most embarrassing dance of the season, may have just triggered enough voter sympathy to get her this far.  "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Jennifer Grey finds her groove 2010-11-23T13:30:00Z

Perhaps some professors see the old-fashioned architecture as faintly embarrassing but a small price to pay for the very real benefits that come with relentless fundraising and growing budgets. Disneyland meets Hogwarts at $700-million USC Village 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

In Russia, the very word “Jew” was embarrassing, unseemly. After the Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting, a Russian-Jewish Immigrant Remembers Squirrel Hill 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

The Florida Keys often get a bad rap as a place where people booze the days away and buy cheesy mementos because their selfies are too embarrassing for social media. Gas is cheap. D.C. is hot. Here’s how far $100 worth of gas will take you this summer. 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

He's going great guns at the polls until an embarrassing drunken episode makes the papers and his numbers go south. The Adjustment Bureau ? review 2011-03-03T22:15:01Z

Authorities wanted to cleanse the great writer’s reputation by blaming a sinful “adventuress” for the politically embarrassing “Doctor Zhivago.” Pasternak’s Muse: The Real-Life Inspiration for ‘Doctor Zhivago’ 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Their awkward, edgy exchanges at the funeral parlour have the ring of truth and yes, to answer the question, AQP certainly does work in this City Opera production, despite a few embarrassing bits of dialogue. Bernstein's A Quiet Place: silence is golden 2011-01-14T22:32:01Z

At this show the young performers will explore a topic always worthy of a laugh: Mom and Dad, and their embarrassing habits, tastes and displays of affection. Spare Times for Children for May 17-23 2013-05-16T22:17:51Z

“It is embarrassing – I have massive amounts of shame,” says the 37-year-old. The private renters trapped in Britain’s new slums 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines failed the surprise inspections, incurring small, but embarrassing, fines from the DOT’s Office of Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings. Do airlines always give out accurate compensation information? DOT fines say no. 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Other times, as in an embarrassing in-joke added post-Feldstein, coyly referring to a song sung on roller skates in the 1968 movie, she looks lost, even as the audience yuks on cue. Review: In Lea Michele, ‘Funny Girl’ Has Finally Found Its Fanny 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

It's then that Chandler leans in, as if sharing an embarrassing secret, to tell the story of landing his first acting job in Los Angeles in the late '80s. Kyle Chandler fishing in new streams with 'Bloodline' 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

As one might expect, it’s a city with hiking, biking, wildlife and an abundance of natural beauty that borders on the embarrassing. In Anchorage, Natural Beauty Isn’t the Only Thing That’s Cheap 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

“Well, I don’t like to embarrass people for the sake of embarrassing people,” he says. ‘It’s John against the world right now’

Her admission came shortly after an embarrassing gaffe on the Billboard Music Awards, during which she misread a teleprompter and awkwardly blurted out: "Guys, I'm the worst reader!" For Maya Sloan, ghostwriting Jenners' YA book just part of fiction fun 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

After six years of increasing unhappiness and distance between them, Effie took the step of seeking an annulment, unusual at the time, which led to court proceedings that proved intensely embarrassing to them both. Books of The Times: Victorian Goddesses, a Real Wife and a Sour Marriage 2011-06-21T21:35:19Z

In fact, she found it embarrassing and offensive. Can you define offensive comedy? 2010-04-09T11:59:00Z

That censorship has been tightened since 2008, when Björk expressed support for the Tibetan independence movement at a concert in Shanghai, embarrassing the government. ArtsBeat: Elton John Dedicates Concert to Chinese Dissident 2012-11-26T17:27:40Z

At first all of this celebrity status was kind of embarrassing to me, like, “You’ve got to be kidding!” Make Dean Strang proud: If you really care about criminal justice reform, stop trying to get out of jury duty 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

It was Jane Campion’s 1983 “Passionless Moments,” a compendium of everyday awkward and embarrassing moments that earned the filmmaker a nomination from the American Film Institute before she made her first feature. Ari Wegner: A Cinematographer Who Knows Actors Down to the Eyelash 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

The most disappointing aspect of the three-day session is also the most embarrassing. Noises off: the little horrors of copyright 2011-07-07T16:48:38Z

She has some sex with Luke Cage that she regrets, and has some other embarrassing interactions with men caused by alcohol. What “Jessica Jones” lost in the move to TV: We’d rather watch a woman be abused than heal 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

I toyed with the idea for years, because I felt it could be very embarrassing — potentially disrespectful to my dad and to the movie “Jaws,” which I love. The ‘Jaws’ Shoot Was a Drama. Now It’s a Play. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

Some are amazed that it’s even in focus, while others tell me to delete it and stop embarrassing myself. I’m a self-publishing failure 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It's usually interesting, by which I mean embarrassing, to watch soap producers attempt to incorporate real-life events into storylines. Rewind TV: Bert and Dickie; Amy Winehouse – The Day She Came to Dingle; Absolutely Fabulous; Line of Duty; Twenty Twelve 2012-07-28T23:06:01Z

To everyone who has lived in the fear of being the world’s most embarrassing mother, this is a great day. Ryan Lochte’s mom explains his sex life 2012-08-02T20:00:00Z

“It was embarrassing to find myself in bed with a woman that way,” he told The Times in 1970. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Star of Celebrated European Films, Dies at 91 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

“This vital life process, one that we all possess, one that helps make us human, is deemed embarrassing and unprofessional,” Everts writes. Scents and Science Mingle in ‘The Joy of Sweat’ 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

McFarland, though he inspired vitriol, was also an inadvertent hero of the class war, embarrassing kids who felt entitled to indulgence, exposing the intertwined frauds of millennial-era wealth. The Fiends and the Folk Heroes of Grifter Season 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

For the academy to not honor performers like Tatiana Maslany and, indeed, the writers and supporting cast of "Orphan Black," or the many stars of "Walking Dead" or "Game of Thrones" is just embarrassing. Emmys 2015: Our take on bad habits, bright newcomers, 'Modern Family' 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Not just my books — I looked at old essays, interviews, the embarrassing grad school stories I crafted before I found my voice, op-eds for major newspapers like the New York Times and The Guardian. Why I won't stop writing about "trauma" to focus on joy 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z

She deems it “frankly embarrassing that we haven’t done this yet”. Two models, one goal: to free women from fashion’s weight tyranny 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

This would be more embarrassing...People realize there is a real story here to tell, it's not a compilation of arias which you do for Christmas. Soprano Bartoli: My voice has more colors, shadow 2012-12-27T14:42:49Z

It’s embarrassing for me to talk about contrition, because it’s self-focused, as if the thing that really matters is my sense of responsibility and not who Patrick is. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Reading With Patrick’ 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

Watch this video for the five absolute worst, most embarrassing social media fails by political candidates in 2015. 5 worst social media fails by politicians this year 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

Other moments make for embarrassing yet endearing waypoints en route to real intimacy. The sex scene isn’t disappearing — it’s simply shifting from clichéd fantasy to messy reality 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z

We’d do this over and over, sometimes — wow, this is embarrassing — at the same train station. The Welcome Return of the Run-In 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

“It was embarrassing, I was just going to deal with it and stay quiet.” The Unfiltered Faces of Monkeypox 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

Missy’s the watchful one, while the voluble Dean cozies up to Chris, dropping embarrassing slang and relating an odd story about Jesse Owens, the black Olympian who shocked Hitler. Review: In ‘Get Out,’ Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (Bad Idea!) 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

No sitting together for chats, no leaning in close to share embarrassing stories. Live from their homes: Late night hosts are back to show we're all in this together 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

What is hideously embarrassing, though, is when you recognise the person who has asked for a signature, but cannot remember their name. On the perks and pitfalls of signing books 2012-07-31T08:55:34Z

Is Cameron really at peace with centering the remainder of his career in one so-called embarrassing world? James Cameron threatens to tell only "Avatar" stories from now on, despite the harm done 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

I wish I hadn’t brought up my embarrassing tattoos – one is a tomato with sunglasses. Blind date: ‘I wish I hadn’t brought up my embarrassing tattoos’ 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Hulton Getty In his 1970s campus comedy, Changing Places, David Lodge invents a memorable literary parlour game called Humiliation in which players confess to embarrassing gaps in their reading. Share your literary humiliations 2010-07-19T12:26:00Z

Later that month, she canceled her European tour after embarrassing herself yet again with another disjointed mess of a performance in Serbia. Winehouse was more than 'Rehab' caricature 2011-07-23T21:49:08Z

“It’s ridiculous. It’s wonderful. It’s embarrassing. It’s all of it.” MacArthur Foundation Names 2017 ‘Genius’ Grant Winners 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

She’ll want specifics: “Exactly what kind of embarrassing things did you do when you were an ugly, careless drunk, Mommy?” Motherlode Blog: ‘Mommies Don’t Drink’ (Anymore) 2013-04-17T13:00:37Z

Consequently, it’s hard for a critic to avoid deploying an embarrassing number of scare quotes while trying to sort it all out. Keep Folk Music Weird 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

The 1990s saw the monarchy’s popularity sink to new lows as royal family dramas — from tell-all interviews to embarrassing phone conversations and topless photos — continued to play out in public like soap operas. Platinum Jubilee: Queen’s reign marks 70 years of change 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

It's such an embarrassing emotion that it's hard for us to be honest about it. The Newsroom's Emily Mortimer: why I still feel shame about going to work 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

We made jokes about the embarrassing things we would reveal. Date Lab: They agreed to keep parts of their conversation off the record 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

Between their halting English and my embarrassing French, aided by cellphone photos on both sides, we swap stories of our lives. Diving into the tranquility of Tahiti 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

There are bad movies, there are terrible, misguided mistakes and there are unbearable and embarrassing ordeals. 10 year time capsule: How "The Producers" changed Broadway 2011-04-19T20:08:00Z

In response, Bad Bunny fired off a tweet that read, “Homophobia in this day and age? How embarrassing.” Record labels said Latin trap was ‘going nowhere.’ Billions of YouTube views proved them wrong. 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

It’s a deliberate shedding of skin from a writer who not long ago announced in The Guardian her newfound conviction that conventional fiction is “fake and embarrassing.” ‘Outline,’ Rachel Cusk’s New Novel 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

All the hoopla is "a little embarrassing" to Scully, who reluctantly allowed the Dodgers to rename the street leading to the stadium's main gate in his honor in April. Scully heads into final week behind mic at Dodger Stadium 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Her worst idea is to set up a parallel between the story lines of “Desperate Housewives” and the actual lives she’s documenting, filming embarrassing scenes in which her subjects re-enact tableaus from the show. Review: ‘Now en Español’ Uncovers a Slice of Latino Life in Hollywood 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

I didn’t share it with anybody because it was so embarrassing. Lynn Shelton on Overcoming Her Darkest Moment on Set 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

Later, the garments became popular in the nonmedical application of appearing embarrassing on the beach. Style Invitational: Punku — 5-7-5-pun 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

After Dunham confesses that she finds her tendency to cry when she is angry “really embarrassing,” Steinem encourages her to embrace the power of a good old sob-fest. Gloria Steinem tells Lena Dunham why crying at work is powerful 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

It begins with him embarrassing himself at the behest of Larry, which sends him into an alcoholic spiral. 'Raw, sad, hilarious': how Rip Torn lit up TV with The Larry Sanders Show 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

She would have regarded doing so as both embarrassing and disloyal. Books of The Times: ‘Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History,’ by Michael L. Gillette 2013-01-08T15:00:00Z

We make embarrassing acceptance speeches and still get to cancel each other a day later. How Can the Oscars Be More Entertaining? Here Are Five Ways 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

The performance saved Murray, ranked 9th in the world in men’s tennis, from an embarrassing upset in the final major tournament of year. Andy Murray Needs a Raise 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

Of course now all the focus is on the slap, which was embarrassing and very sad. Does the Academy Hold Movies in Contempt? Our Critics Wonder. 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

The whole idea of dating felt disloyal and embarrassing. Motherlode Blog: Widowed, and Keeping Dates Like ‘Glamourpuss’ and ‘Crunchy Dad’ at a Distance 2013-07-14T14:02:31Z

I think I’m past the stage of worrying too much about embarrassing my kids. ‘I was so embarrassed I cried’: do parents share too much online? 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

Now all it takes is one pair of loose lips for TMZ to beam all manner of embarrassing information around the globe. Scotty Bowers and His Sexual Tell-All of Old Hollywood 2012-01-27T22:08:45Z

“The incident felt shameful and embarrassing, even though I knew I hadn’t done anything wrong,” she said in an interview. 5 Women Accuse the Architect Richard Meier of Sexual Harassment 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

Shorthand for both embarrassing dad and Russian falling for America’s charms. The Americans recap: Season one, episode one: Pilot 2013-05-27T23:20:26Z

In retrospect, the story of an American who teaches the Soviet Union that invading Afghanistan is both immoral and strategically futile is downright embarrassing. The MAGA fever dream of "Rambo: Last Blood" 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

Christoph Wolff — the dean of Bach scholars, a Harvard research professor and a former president of the Bach Archive — observed the festival closely, and he, too, said he found the notion of “best” slightly embarrassing. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

In one particularly wacky plot turn, Mac accidentally sends an email explaining the embarrassing details of her romantic history with Will to the entire staff. “Newsroom”: Aaron Sorkin does “The Daily Show” 2012-06-20T00:00:00Z

Most involve watching something I did that I thought was going to be really good and turned out to be embarrassing. Martin Sheen: ‘Which living person do I most despise? Yellow Hair' 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

Being such huge rock fans, so many before us have let us down and been sort of embarrassing. Nikki Sixx Says Goodbye for Good: Inside the End of Motley Crüe 2014-02-05T15:00:47Z

So, the last thing he could have is any family member disrespecting him or embarrassing him or saying the wrong thing. "It's hard to watch": Armie Hammer's aunt on her family's "sick and twisted behavior" in new series 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

Where stammering parents and mortified health teachers fumbled, Blume provided simple language for embarrassing and awkward conversations. The Essential Judy Blume 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

This will be extremely embarrassing to my husband and me, because we are prominent in the community. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: You’re wealthy, your brother’s ill, and help is … not on the way 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

Though the character of Aibileen is portrayed in a sympathetic, even saintly light, she endures the racial insults of the time, something that Ms. Cooper finds “embarrassing.” ArtsBeat: Maid Sues Author of ?The Help? 2011-02-17T19:22:53Z

Reality TV is the embarrassing lark that made Ms. Palermo famous, but that now dare not be mentioned. Olivia Palermo Got a Lot Out of That Internship 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

I am religious, but it is the most embarrassing subject to talk about in detail. Emma Donoghue: ‘I’ve ended up having a family and being a lesbian.' 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

There was a mean-spirited quality to Macfarlane's Oscars that went beyond the usual awkward imbalance of celebrating and embarrassing a self-indulgent industry in the same show. Oscars 2013: the meanest show ever? 2013-02-25T19:02:22Z

He manages to be persuasive even in the potentially embarrassing bit of tai chi-esque movement Ms. Waltz gives the character during the “Evening Star” hymn. Review: A Writhing, Emotional Revival of Wagner’s ‘Tannhäuser’ 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

It suggests both inner retreat and self-awareness, brought on by an awkward, perhaps embarrassing collision with physicality. Artist of the week 121: Phoebe Unwin 2011-01-12T15:42:42Z

But “Good Goes the Bye” suffers from a truly embarrassing lyrical conceit. Review: Kelly Clarkson's 'Piece By Piece' Is a Victory Lap 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

It will probably be really appalling to watch and embarrassing, and if you think that email scene was a farce… But it was really liberating and weird. “Newsroom” star Emily Mortimer: Americans are dangerously uninformed 2012-06-22T14:57:00Z

It’s the kind of laughter you share with your sibling when your mother does something embarrassing: You love her, but oh my God, are you kidding me? Why Christine Baskets Was One of TV’s Greatest Characters 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

And they rarely resist nosing into anything their parents treat as too embarrassing or taboo to talk about. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: The birds and the bees in the Internet age 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z

The Chicago Cubs made an error recently that was more embarrassing than a wild throw or a bobbled groundball. Chicago Cubs make off-the-field error with Wrigley Field mural

We learn about an embarrassing stretch of bed-wetting at age 8 triggered by the death of her grandparents, her history of disordered eating and, most recently, a battle with depression and suicidal ideation. Young Newshound Who Inspired ‘Home Before Dark’ Investigates Herself 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

For the routine, Waltrip dressed like your embarrassing uncle who insists you do the chicken dance with him at every wedding. 'Dancing With the Stars' Watch: Jives and Jams 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

Unforgivably, after too short a conversation covering everything else from US healthcare to the nuances of Chinatown, I find myself asking a breathtakingly embarrassing final question, just because I love his films. Olivia Williams 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z

In a movie such as Independence Day, the bad guys came from another planet, and that was fun, but Olympus Has Fallen is fantastically wooden and embarrassing all the way down. Olympus Has Fallen – review 2013-04-18T14:29:02Z

“It’s kind of embarrassing when people say, ‘You die in every movie,’ when you don’t.” John Hawkes Brings Years of Film Work to ‘The Sessions’ 2012-10-12T12:00:00Z

Early on, she told the administration what she was doing and said she didn’t think it would be “embarrassing to Princeton,” she recalled. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

When she sat down to write, her lyrics were clunky, embarrassing and not especially personal or meaningful. Glastonbury festival: Jessie Ware's wildest moments 2013-06-29T23:05:17Z

Ben Brantley in was not the only critic to pick up on Bloom's "cumbersome and embarrassing" entrance, "Leader-of-the-pack style, on a motorcycle, his jeans fashionably torn at the knees". Orlando Bloom makes Broadway debut 2013-09-20T11:36:57Z

Like going on a silent meditation retreat, I have immersed myself in the pumpkin spice lifestyle, and it is equal parts embarrassing and exhilarating, but that’s probably just the seven-day sugar binge talking. I used every pumpkin spice product I could find for a week. Now my armpits smell like nutmeg. 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Anyone who “breaks” a verbal is fair game for a “We Missed You” post on social media involving embarrassing photos. November Project: Hugs and fitness

But this incident is pretty straightforward and embarrassing. 'Homeland,' Graffiti and the Problem of Only Seeing Squibbly 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

When Cassian kills two security guards in self-defense, Syril is ordered to "conjure a suitable accident" to cover up the embarrassing loss, but instead decides to investigate and then apprehend Cassian. "Andor" reflects our ugly ambivalence, trafficking in antisemitic tropes while calling out fascism 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z

Cruise’s almost evangelical embrace of his faith — a belief system developed by a sci-fi novelist around the postulation of a soullike “thetan” that can neither be seen nor measured — is kind of embarrassing. Yeah, so I dig Tom Cruise, and ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ might make my year

The author said the entire embarrassing episode is a technical mistake. Kosovo schools to ignore 'rock is criminal' lesson 2013-03-20T10:54:08Z

Though political compromises put a slight crimp in the relationship, the true threat is a blackmail plot involving Wembley’s anti-environmental policies and an embarrassing video of Fred. “Long Shot,” Reviewed: A Timid Political Rom-Com with the Politics Removed 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

I was worried – is this cool, or is it a bit embarrassing? Michel Legrand puts his Umbrellas up indoors 2011-03-17T22:10:01Z

Paula, named for his estranged wife, was released on June 30th worldwide and July 1st in the US, and in the short time since it has racked up more embarrassing headlines than sales. The Shocking Downfall of Robin Thicke 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

After a girl who looks a lot like Meg Ryan is set up with a guy who acts a little like Billy Crystal, she accidentally taps something hideously embarrassing into her smartphone. ‘Selfie,’ ‘A to Z’ and Others Refresh the Romantic Comedy 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

Your sister’s choices sound embarrassing for you, but they’re still hers to make. Carolyn Hax: Sister’s relationship with brother-in-law rankles newlywed 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

“If I’m using my Dan Brown brain, it’s obviously Dan Brown putting the bar codes on fake books so that no one ever sees this really embarrassing book that he wrote in the ’90s.” Does ‘The Da Vinci Code’ Writer Have a Secret? 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

The accent drifts between BBC and amateur dramatic society Guys and Dolls and, frankly, it's a bit embarrassing. TV review: Any Human Heart, American Dream and JFK: The Making of Modern Politics 2010-11-22T07:59:00Z

The battlefield is littered with false starts and embarrassing flameouts that show how often a pretty face is as deep as it goes. Brooklyn Decker's model-to-actress challenge 2011-02-15T21:25:42Z

“I thought it would be embarrassing, seeing the characters start to sing, and it would be this big American thing which would not correspond with the spirit of the show.” How Orin Wolf Orchestrated a Tony Coup With ‘The Band’s Visit’ 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

It was embarrassing to have all these comics out in front with picket signs. Pauly Shore: Eyewitness to Comedy History 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

He said that every moment in your life, even the embarrassing ones, can be used to gain a deeper understanding of yourself. Lessons from the ancient philosophers to help improve our lives today 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z

Maggie was raised evangelical, but never felt at home in the “embarrassing” rituals of her parents’ church. Jamie Quatro’s First Novel Centers on Religious and Sexual Passion 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

Because while Fox News may be a goldmine, it’s been known for some time now that the younger Murdochs find it also to be, well, rather embarrassing. The Rupert Murdoch era is winding down: Why this could mean the end of Fox News as we know it 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Jake told me he enjoyed sharing “our embarrassing stories of how we were in high school.” Date Lab: She was psyched he was a fan of ‘The Bachelorette’ 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Until this development, which Cuomo recognized as "embarrassing" in his Sirius XM radio show, it hasn't been compelled to recognize that. Chris Cuomo's unethical blunder isn't solely his to own. It's CNN's "Epic News Bro" fail also 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

But if you have to draw up a contract over posting embarrassing pictures of each other, maybe there are some deeper issues going on. If You Need a Social Media Prenup, Your Relationship is Already Doomed 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Lamb is the boss of the fictional Slough House, a shabby warren of offices where agents of the British intelligence agency MI5 are sent if they make a sufficiently embarrassing or costly mistake. ‘Slow Horses’ Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Failure 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

He's far from original, but not embarrassing, either, a pleasant guy straining to seem abrasive. Meet the inscrutible, electric Hannibal Buress 2011-06-15T21:32:00Z

It was embarrassing for my daughter, and infuriating for me. Civilities: For trans people, being ‘terrified of bathrooms’ is common 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

The Inbetweeners first appeared on television screens as a group of teenagers dealing with the usual problems of embarrassing parents and unsuccessful attempts to get a girlfriend. End of the road for The Inbetweeners 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

What was your most embarrassing moment?My son introducing me to his nursery teacher with, "He sleeps through the day!" Q&A: Frankie Boyle 2012-08-24T21:59:30Z

She performs a public service by excerpting the treatment for Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” video, which might be the most embarrassing PDF in the history of entertainment. In a World That Exploits Women, Emily Ratajkowski Exploits Herself. Is That Progress? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

A woman from New York recently showed off how a pair of pants that she bought made an embarrassing noise when she bent down. Girl warns against buying leather pants that make fart-sound in viral video: 'Save yourself' 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z

“I felt the show was embarrassing and tragic when I left,” Ms. Frankel said. MTV Searches for ‘Jersey Shore’ Magic on the Florida Panhandle 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

It was embarrassing, and stupid, and Obama didn’t care. The meaning of Clint: what watching 40 Eastwood films has taught me 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

The cyberattack, which began last month, crippled Sony Pictures' computer system and led to an embarrassing leak of internal emails and sensitive documents. Sony Pictures puts 'The Interview' back in theaters 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

After a string of increasingly lame and embarrassing projects, Butler took charge on this one as a producer here in a role carefully crafted in a time-honored action-hero mold. Review: 'Olympus' is tense yet generic 2013-03-20T13:11:11Z

There’s something funny about backgammon, and embarrassing, in a seventies Hugh-Hefner-life-style sort of way. This Week in Fiction: Jonathan Lethem on the Poignance of Backgammon 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

Perhaps it was more convenient, and less embarrassing, to think that crazed Chinese ritual killers might be responsible. Midnight in Peking by Paul French - review 2012-06-08T21:55:15Z

There is certainly no gloss to Oldman’s character, Jackson Lamb, a perpetually rumpled and frequently drunk MI5 agent who oversees spies tucked away for being embarrassing or otherwise undesirable. Gary Oldman Found James Dean and His Wife at a Gallery 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

The proceedings in Virginia often became a stage where the couple, and many of their associates, recounted some of the most intimate, embarrassing and often contradictory accounts of their relationship. Johnny Depp Jury Finds That Amber Heard Defamed Him in Op-Ed 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

I’ve tried asking, but the topic of nudity is far more embarrassing to him than the nudity itself, and I don’t want him to feel like it’s a big deal. Motherlode Blog: Naked, With Children ? but for How Long? 2012-04-02T00:48:51Z

It was embarrassing to admit to other people that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was essentially telling people that I thought I was funny. Sacha Baron Cohen Plays It Straight in ‘The Spy’ 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

There are inspiring, embarrassing, and amusing stories throughout this affable 73-minute film. Comedians remind viewers to "Call Your Mother" in hilarious and heartwarming Mother's Day special 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

To avoid embarrassing accidents, it’s best to do a little prep. 9 ways to make anal sex more pleasurable 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

Scott and Sage’s parents, who are divorced, have cast a wary eye to their children’s books, which reveal all manner of embarrassing childhood traumas and family secrets. Stossel Family Problems Spelled Out in New Releases 2013-12-22T22:15:52Z

"That is so embarrassing. That is so unreal that I even have a song with R. Kelly." The Chris Brown problem that never goes away: How he continues to maintain his relevancy and fans 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z

They are ridiculous and embarrassing in ways that feel very true to teenagers. Lisa McGee Found it Hard to Say Goodbye to Her ‘Derry Girls’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Crowther has also collected an “embarrassing amount” of Mansion merchandise, primarily sculptures inspired by art within the ride. Disney’s Haunted Mansion at 50: The Ghosts Are Still Grinning 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

It was also to counteract the bank's embarrassing associations with apartheid-era South Africa. My prize-winning European tour with 50 other post-A-level teenagers 2010-08-17T19:30:00Z

NBC aired the Jets' embarrassing loss to the New England Patriots on Thanksgiving night, and followed it on Sunday with the Giants' easy victory over the Green Bay Packers. Football leads NBC to ratings win 2012-11-28T03:32:07Z

This man who, over and over, embarrassed himself in front of the world and keeps embarrassing us because we’re never sure how to react him, whether to laugh or cry? Art Review: Pride of Place, Brighter Than Ever 2011-02-18T00:30:05Z

It’s a bad habit, and a little embarrassing, this lack of clarity. Modern Love: Modern Love: The Ex-Husband Who Never Left 2010-03-19T16:03:00Z

Brand has described himself as someone whose life is "a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents". Brand designs 2010-04-06T07:00:00Z

I’ve watched countless hours of cooking shows, perused and collected an almost embarrassing number of cookbooks. They’ll let you cook in your PJs, but can online classes improve your skills? 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

When she chirps things like, “When I’m driving on the wrong side of the road, I feel like J! F! K!” it’s embarrassing on the first listen. Review: Charli XCX's 'Sucker' Outdoes Her Peers 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

It is actually really embarrassing when those comparisons start to come forward. Jessica Chastain: 'In Lawless, my character Maggie is always moving forward' 2012-08-25T23:05:48Z

The Republicans got painted as dim-witted bullies, but the Democrats were ineffective and ineffectual – you choose which one’s more embarrassing. How late-night comedy went from political to politicized 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

Watching the Bellas mash together pop songs without sound mixing or instruments in Khaled’s presence feels at best obligatory and at worst embarrassing. Review: ‘Pitch Perfect 3’ Keeps the Songs but Loses the Plot 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

Málaga’s evocations of Picasso provoked an embarrassing dispute last month, when one of the temporary exhibitions at the Museo Picasso Málaga opened. Art: A City Steeped in Picasso's Lore 2011-07-19T11:00:05Z

In the film’s opening moments, April botches a Broadway audition by way of an embarrassing public mishap. ‘Feel the Beat’ Review: Tough Love in the Dance Studio 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

It becomes embarrassing when it's selling a moral argument. | 'The Painted Word' 2012-11-07T20:00:17Z

This was so embarrassing when I was growing up. Margaret Cho: Babies scare me more than anything 2013-04-23T00:00:00Z

Then she swore, then she cried some more: "How embarrassing." TV Baftas 2013: 10 things we learned 2013-05-12T21:44:07Z

Asked whether anything embarrassing might emerge during his Senate confirmation hearing, Goldsmith replied: “My former stepfather is the leading suspect in Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance, and has long been associated with the Mafia.” ‘In Hoffa’s Shadow’ Details How a Famous Disappearance Hit Close to Home 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Borat emerges as if from a time capsule: All these years, the film’s nudgy-winky opening montage tells us, he’s been serving time for embarrassing Kazakhstan with his prior exploits. ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ Review: More Cultural Learnings 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

It’s an idea so ridiculous, so embarrassing, that he spoofed it on his IFC show — two years ago. How an angry comic who had a coke habit became the Barbara Walters of podcasts 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

Too much selling around me that was embarrassing. Singer Edie Brickell resurfaces with two albums 2010-12-29T22:52:05Z

Nothing is more embarrassing for a mayor courting new industries than sending visitors several miles up the road so they can stay in a proper hotel. Can rural America be saved? A new national ‘challenge’ tries to see. 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

But she’s candidly tough on herself, whether describing her drug addiction as a young woman or merely a brief, wretchedly embarrassing encounter with a music legend. Original ‘SNL’ player’s memoir looks back in fondness, humor 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

It's hard to resist an embarrassing future-self character that shows up to remind you of how doomed you are. An interview with 'Bravest Warriors' director Breehn Burns 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

More than anything, I now just find the whole business profoundly embarrassing. Olivia Williams 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z

This, however, might be of little use after an embarrassing incident like United’s. Why ABC reacted so swiftly to Roseanne’s racist tweet 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

“You can only do this stuff if you feel loved and secure and you don’t feel judged. They loved me being naughty, being funny and potentially embarrassing them amongst their friends.” Sacha Baron Cohen: This Time He’s Serious 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

But they’re also absurd, stale, embarrassing — in the same way that seeing the world through the lens of your social media feed is absurd, stale, embarrassing. Review | You’ve probably never heard of these artists, but they painted reality in a way we’ve lost sight of 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

It is, in part, to stop good people from doing mean things like revealing possibly embarrassing information about cousins at family gatherings. Nothing Wrong With Blabbing About My Cousin at the Strip Club, Right? 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

XXXXXXXXXXXX, his carousing and extravagance angered some locals, who viewed his activities as impious and embarrassing to the nation. Why is Beyonce untouchable? 2011-02-23T18:22:00Z

It was really embarrassing, and it was fine. "I'm actually not freezing my eggs": Nikki Glaser opens up about comedy, fertility and oversharing 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

"I don't see them embarrassing him in any way." Morgan's past resurfaces as he begins new at CNN 2011-07-27T23:28:13Z

A provocateur, under false pretenses, tries to get people of various backgrounds, from everyday Americans to sitting lawmakers, to make embarrassing comments on camera. Sacha Baron Cohen Is Duping Republicans. Is He the James O’Keefe of the Left? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

He was always falling down and embarrassing himself and he never got the girl. The safety of my unrequited loves 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

The truth is that fallibility is deeply embarrassing. Fact-Check of a ‘Lifespan’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

Our story, which featured some incredibly bad slingshot marksmanship and a near-death experience involving quicksand-like mud, appears here, along with some pretty embarrassing photographs. ArtsBeat: Take One Critic, Add Mud, Mix 2012-06-22T14:19:25Z

And it is embarrassing that Thomas is the show’s sole black female artist. MoMA Upends Its Collection to Celebrate Late Careers 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

Clogs, felt slippers, battered old brogues – one suddenly understood his embarrassing problems with podiatry, and the narrow range of available footwear. Bedwyr Williams: My Bad ? review 2012-05-19T23:05:32Z

Sure enough, as CNN was covering the fast-moving investigation into the Boston Marathon bombing, it didn’t make the same embarrassing mistake on an important story. Un-Arrested Development: On Boston Bomber, Media Outlets Walk Back a Big Story, Again 2013-04-17T22:12:05Z

The Wolfean method seemed to be slipping into shoddy anthropology, complete with an embarrassing use of dialects that sounded like your grandpa straining to be hip. Perspective | How Tom Wolfe saved American fiction 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

The drunken uncles, the weeping bridesmaids, the embarrassing best man's speech? May I Have the Pleasure?? ? review 2011-08-23T18:10:00Z

In doing so, he wants Rolling Stone to stand apart from much of entertainment journalism, which “tends to be either fawning and borderline embarrassing, or pure gossip.” Perspective | ‘More immediate, more visceral’ and a lot tougher on Eric Clapton: A plan for reviving Rolling Stone 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

"Cried on national television this am. So embarrassing. Lol. Thankful to God that I am recovering, finally getting on with my life and ready to help other people." Avril Lavigne cries over doctors who called her crazy: 'Lyme disease exists' 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

Being victimized is not a moral failure, nor a joke, nor in the least bit embarrassing. Michael Che and the "edgy," male comedian's obsession with rape jokes 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

He’s the one host who’s willing to ask frankly embarrassing questions of his guests; he’s the host people expect to be untrammeled. Andy Cohen's Apology to Amandla Stenberg Is Part of a Pattern 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

Before her tears started, Ms. Ruiz managed to stammer, “It’s embarrassing.” Ted Gibson, Celebrity Hairstylist, Lobbies for an Oscar for Hair 2012-02-14T21:01:12Z

These days, it seems the inverse is also true: in front of every embarrassed man is an embarrassing woman. Why a 'Blame the Woman' defense works so well for troubled politicians 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

Related: Q&A: Adrian Lester, actor – ‘My most embarrassing moment? Running naked across Trafalgar Square’ What song would you like played at your funeral? Q&A: Heidi Klum, model – ‘When did I last cry? Three days ago, when my makeup artist poked me in the eye’ 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z

This attitude has led to an embarrassing dearth of Munch paintings in American museums — rarely more than one, if any — but never mind. A Less Anxious Edvard Munch 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

The New Forest marathon took an embarrassing five and a bit hours, not least because I ran out of steam and ended up walking some of it. ‘There is a thrill to seeing your stomach getting flatter’: why I run 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

As a young journalist, and frequently the only woman in the newsroom, her duties included fending off sexual advances without upsetting or embarrassing the men involved lest she doom her own job prospects. Beckett, Beauvoir and a Biographer’s Bumpy Takeoff 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

It’s almost embarrassing to witness the exchange between her and the waiter at the hotel. From Sarah Silverman: an Adorable Look, Followed by a Pucnh to the Gut 2010-05-07T22:26:00Z

This might have been embarrassing for the Democrats, but fortunately nobody is watching CNN, including moderator Anderson Cooper, who is openly playing Candy Crush. Dave Barry’s Year in Review: The sad thing is, we’re not making this up! 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

Similarly, a colleague who requests the services of a copy editor should be grateful when that person identifies potentially embarrassing mistakes, large or small. Perspective | Miss Manners: If asked to edit something, go ahead and edit it 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

Buck tells SI.com that he lied because the truth was "embarrassing." Joe Buck says vocal cord damaged in 2011 hair procedure 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

Riggan is an actor of a certain age — no wrinkle too deep, no hairpiece too horrible, no indignity too embarrassing to escape this dark lens. 'Birdman' soars feathered and unfettered 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

"I'm such a California flake now. It's really embarrassing." Author Claire Bidwell Smith on life's good, bad and icky 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Sam Neill is one of the few celebrities whose quarantine web videos were endearing rather than embarrassing. ‘Jurassic Park’: Where the Wild Things Are 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

“Joined the Mile High Club . . . I mean, it’s embarrassing really— we both fly for a living . . . and we’ve had plenty of opportunities when we’ve been on trips together. We’ve no excuse.” How I joined the Mile High Club: Naked, weightless, giggling uncontrollably 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z

It seems that this approach is as helpful as any other in diverting attention from an embarrassing social-media cycle. Drake and Karena Evans Stage a Clever “Degrassi” Reunion 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

"That kind of emotional honesty — where you're willing to expose your true happiness or sadness even if it's embarrassing — is unbelievably rare." 'Obvious Child's' Jenny Slate ready to be in the lead 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

Johnson's interpretation is that the doc has to be made "embarrassing and buttock-clenchingly awful" for the central characters. Why did Rachel Johnson agree to that documentary? 2010-10-21T07:00:00Z

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. How we made: Michael Nyman and Jane Campion on The Piano 2012-07-30T17:30:44Z

But looking back, you are afraid that maybe we weren't any good and maybe this is going to look embarrassing. New documentary on The Doors offers unique trip 2010-04-07T15:47:00Z

I do have a hard time with cats, and once had an embarrassing experience with an art director and an owl, but I don’t want to go into it here. John Cuneo’s “To Fetch or Not to Fetch” 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

His statement followed an embarrassing retreat by NBC on Sunday from its cost-cutting experiment with "The Jay Leno Show" in the 10 p.m. prime time slot because of poor ratings and pressure from local affiliates. 2010-01-13T00:16:00Z

The answer was both simple and embarrassing; Dylan was singing about "midnight's broken toll," not toe. Dylan inducted as honorary member of arts academy 2013-05-16T06:36:08Z

The franchise had a long history of futility in the NFL, and some embarrassing losses in the regular season. Super Bowl wasn't always the audience magnet it is now 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

I had played Pale, which is embarrassing, a kid in a costume at 23, being like, “I know what I’m talking about!” Adam Driver and Keri Russell Share a Stage and Then, Maybe, Lightsabers 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

“These days to be cool, you don’t say stuff like that out loud. It’s almost more embarrassing in a certain way than Frank stuffing blue velvet up Dorothy.” “David Lynch should be shot”: Looking back on the madness and chaos of “Blue Velvet” and Ronald Reagan’s ’80s 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

The USA Today gaffe is merely embarrassing — though it should be deeply so — to the paper. Perspective | USA Today gave Trump ‘leeway’ for his opinion. Instead, he deceived in almost every line. 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

One of the late, kind of embarrassing ones in which Mr. Allen, a little shriveled and a lot gray, hooks up with Scarlett Johansson. | 'Limonade Tous les Jours': From Charles Mee, a May-December Romance, at the Cell 2010-04-14T21:21:00Z

Together, Brolin and LaBeouf have a fantastically embarrassing macho scene in which they metaphorically measure up the length and girth of their respective male members by challenging each other to a motorbike race. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - review 2010-10-07T12:00:00Z

I also find it kind of embarrassing that some of my friends see all this. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A family Facebook fracas, and how to deal with it 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

He said, “Why would you even write that? It’s embarrassing and humiliating.” Q&A with Jade Sharma, author of the edgy debut 'Problems' 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

I mean the supporting cast, whose names I almost hesitate to mention for fear of embarrassing them. | ?Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star?: ?Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star? - Review 2011-09-09T23:32:14Z

It should be free of calamities, of course: the puddle upon which you slip and sprain your ankle, the overflowing toilet bowl, the broken stall door that leads to the embarrassing intrusion. Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

“I wrote down that she let me know that it was OK to care an embarrassing amount. Because I do.” This Ballerina Has a Mission: ‘Being as Human as Possible’ 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z

She doesn’t know who posted the images, but about a year later, a friend messaged to say: ‘This is embarrassing, but I felt I should tell you I found this.’ ‘There’s no end and no escape. You feel so, so exposed’: life as a victim of revenge porn 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

This is “embarrassing”, the letter went on, because “Mr Plant was remembered for performing with his shirt open on stage, and obviously he cannot perform in his current condition as it would be very embarrassing”. Pools, ponds and 40ft aquariums: planning disputes of the stars 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

“I’d never have to worry about Hillary embarrassing me as an American.” Meet the South Carolina Republicans who are horrified by the Trump coronation 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

Other women in the book, however, were more active in their efforts to shed or complicate their white identity, and Ms. Kaplan doesn’t stint on the often embarrassing details. Uncovering Strangers in a Strange Land 2013-09-03T16:40:40Z

It’s mean girls, geeks, crushes, pranks and embarrassing parents, with rounds instead of class, and surgery instead of tests. Television Review: ‘Emily Owens, M.D.,’ With Mamie Gummer, Begins on CW 2012-10-15T21:55:29Z

His success deepens Smallbone's festering sense of inadequacy, with embarrassing consequences. Rev 'rather good' says Archbishop of Canterbury 2010-08-01T19:34:00Z

Today Christian Bale is the one getting his face emblazoned on collectable cups for playing Batman in a less embarrassing rebooted franchise, while Kilmer is mired in purgatory of straight-to-DVD action flicks. Val Kilmer's dramatic decline 2011-04-30T15:01:00Z

There are more effective ways to channel your desire to be an advocate than embarrassing individuals, which rarely works. Miss Manners: Sometimes cruel remarks aren’t worth addressing

There is nothing in quotation marks about her teenage mannerisms, or embarrassing about seeing her, at 63, wear the spot-on embroidered jumpers and colorful hair clips Sarah Laux has costumed her in. Review: ‘Kimberly Akimbo,’ Both Great and Small, Seizes the Day 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

“Any newspaper has in its archives enough clippings about you to make a far more embarrassing picture than the one I painted.” John le Carré’s Letters Show the Author at His Witty, Erudite and Pugilistic Best 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

First, I try to be careful not to share anything that seems goofy or might be embarrassing to him in the future. Why I can’t stop posting my kid’s photos and sharing him with the world 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

“Now this may stump you, and it could be very embarrassing to me, so just lie and say you’re sold-out. But do you have Rita Wilson’s record ‘AM/FM’ on vinyl?” Rita Wilson Takes Over a Record Store 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

It's quite embarrassing to even remember – I think I just got very fanatical, very religious, I wanted to control my friends. Life's looking up, Dame Harriet 2011-01-15T12:04:01Z

I haven't done anything that was too embarrassing, unless I'm just forgetting something. Ke$ha is Billboard's Hot 100 artist of the year 2010-12-10T23:59:00Z

It became very embarrassing for the government and everyone, but for the people of Tūhoe, it caused multigenerational trauma as a result. Cliff Curtis on his "slow burn" Maori cop thriller "Muru" and how it's like "Avatar" 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

All the more embarrassing for him is the whiny self-centeredness of Steph, who was not worth risking his marriage over. Movie Review: ‘Wish You Were Here,’ Directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith 2013-06-07T00:52:00Z

With that in mind, I asked some colleagues at Salon to reveal their deepest, darkest, most embarrassing attractions. Salon’s guiltiest pleasures of 2014 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

If parents don’t, that uncomfortable and embarrassing feeling could be replaced with something much worse. Parenting in the Age of Online Pornography 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

I read a lot of Y.A. books, and I just finished this book “Being Fishkill,” by Ruth Lehrer, that made me ugly cry in a public place which was incredibly embarrassing! Samantha Irby: By the Book 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

The tip-off for the tone is, no surprise, the title, which is so transparently ripe for innuendo riffing that it's almost embarrassing. Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart buddy up in the cliched 'Get Hard' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

This was not as embarrassing as the time when Mr. Chait, while working at the talent agency the Firm, was asked to sit in on a meeting to screen a video of a new artist. All He Touches Turns to Cashmere 2013-01-30T21:39:25Z

One friend read the entire back catalogue, mining it for embarrassing stories from my adolescence. 'I've been good and bad, caring but useless': Tim Dowling on two decades of fatherhood 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

How could I think I could snap back into a less embarrassing position of dating men half my age and loving it? Confessions of a menopausal nymphomaniac 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

Anything will do - as long as it's embarrassing and totally unplanned. Top tips for writing funny fiction: Wendy Meddour 2013-05-22T09:53:06Z

It all started with an embarrassing old car nobody would take a second look at. Art cars drive Fremont Fair fun 2011-06-16T19:00:10Z

By turns melodramatic, slapstick, sentimental, racist, misogynist, embarrassing and horrific, “The Sorcery Club” is hardly a great novel of the supernatural. Book World: ‘The Sorcery Club,’ by Elliott O’Donnell

He added: "I fell in three times, and we fell in once in front of the camera crew, which was mildly embarrassing." 'No 2012 ticket' jokes Matt Smith 2012-06-18T15:12:40Z

"I don't want to say this but, it's kind of embarrassing, but ... maybe, am I handsome?" South Korean rap sensation Psy honored at Tribeca Film Festival 2013-04-26T21:17:29Z

One takeaway of these writings is a sense that James found being a child embarrassing and maddeningly infra dig. Review: A Look Into the Life of Henry James, in His Own Unsimple Words 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

I was the victim of this, and it was extra embarrassing because a group of girls rolled up on me, like, “OK boy, you so cute!” How I got my Halloween groove back after candy thieves robbed me of that joy 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z

Just the stuff you carry around – it's sometimes embarrassing to admit because maybe it wasn't that harmful when you were a kid. "Blue Eye Samurai" cuts through multiracial shame, what it is "to be ostracized from both sides" 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z

The earliest works here, mainly Abstract Expressionist watercolors sometimes annotated with snippets of poetry, display a youthful romanticism that verges on the embarrassing. Art Review: Dan Flavin, Light Sculptor, in Another Medium at the Morgan 2012-02-23T22:36:10Z

He wants to confess his most unlovable, uncomfortable, embarrassing secrets, maybe as a means of feeling less alone in the world. TV's best new taboo-busting comedy 2010-06-26T23:01:00Z

Bernstein, we all know, is brilliant and maddening and embarrassing and lovable. Perspective | Too much Bernstein leaves a critic fed up with his music 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

And there is something a little embarrassing about an industry that keeps trying to replicate stars who are inimitable. Television Review: ‘Liz & Dick,’ Starring Lindsay Lohan, on Lifetime 2012-11-23T21:58:09Z

But such practices can lead to embarrassing gaffes, too. Ricky Martin?s Personal Spin 2010-04-02T21:35:00Z

Critics were quick to condemn the airline’s sartorial policy as “almost comical” and “super embarrassing” in a larger sense. Norwegian Air says flight attendants must have doctor's note to avoid wearing heels: report 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

More embarrassing for NBC than for Mr. O’Brien, the contretemps made a lot of media noise. | 'Conan O?Brien Can?t Stop': One Ticked-Off Comic, Venting to the Faithful 2011-06-23T21:33:28Z

When it was placed at the fountain, in 2002, the city councilman Tracy Larkin said that the past is often “painful and embarrassing” but that it must be studied and known. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

And there’s a fair measure of the kind of embarrassing sitcommery this premise would lead you to expect. Review: In ‘Turn Up Charlie,’ the Manny Isn’t Just a Man, He’s Idris Elba 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

When he saw that his Twitter account was under someone else’s control, it hit him how serious this was, and how potentially very embarrassing. Anonymous strikes back 2012-06-03T13:00:00Z

After all, bailing on dinner via text message doesn’t feel as disrespectful as standing up someone, or as embarrassing. Let Your Smartphone Deliver the Bad News 2012-10-28T03:47:18Z

Katherine Jackson called the case a search for the truth about the death of her son and the trial featured potentially embarrassing revelations for both sides. Verdict Reached in Case Against Jackson Promoter 2013-10-02T22:04:03Z

It was such an embarrassing situation that Alice Lee wrote Mills an apology, dated May 12, 2011, which Mills released to the media. To shill a ‘Mockingbird’ 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

The failure – the face-plant of our government in the face of this pandemic – has been unbelievably embarrassing and shameful. Nick Offerman: 'Trump is about to be presented with a gory butcher's bill' 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

"When a singer speaks onstage, it's usually very embarrassing, but we must always find something that hasn't existed before. . . the problem is that we must represent the tragedy and not become the tragedy ourselves." Interview: Salvatore Sciarrino - 'My problem is I want to change the world' 2013-07-15T15:17:00Z

It was exciting and embarrassing – not a bad summing-up of my later life as a broadcaster. My father paid four times his weekly wage for the greatest gift of my life 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

So the abolition of tipping, far from simply abolishing a servile practice, tips the whole table over into an ever-more subtle and complicated and embarrassing emotional, and transnational, transaction. Notes on the End of Restaurant Tipping 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

I spoke with a detective and re-lived the attack on multiple, painful and often embarrassing occasions. Daniel Holtzclaw’s conviction feels good: For once, a privileged, powerful rapist doesn’t get away with it 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

I extracted it from my money belt, always embarrassing, as I wondered what others must think of us Americans, holding our valuables so close to our underwear. The crime of being Armenian: Sick, dehydrated, I was following my grandfather’s path through Syria as he fled the Turks. How must he have suffered? 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

That he is still around, still making news, is, depending on your point of view, either remarkable or a little embarrassing. How Hef Got His Groove Back 2011-02-06T07:48:01Z

There is some embarrassing, eyeball-swivelling acting from the male leads, and the elegance of the film's premise is quite obliterated by its crude and misjudged violence. 'A cauldron of iffy acting' 2013-03-20T15:56:11Z

Did you do any embarrassing commercials back in the day? James Marsden: 'The D Train' Plot Twist Isn't a 'Cheap Punch Line' 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

“When the whole world sees these resources are available to particular institutions,” he said, “it becomes a little bit embarrassing.” How Weeksville, a Center of Black History, Fought to Survive 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

That would be the most embarrassing, but just because I work with him. James Van Der Beek on Starring in 'CSI: Cyber': 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

When she reached the podium and faced a standing ovation, she began her Academy award acceptance speech thus: “You guys are just standing up because you feel bad that I fell and that’s really embarrassing.” Jennifer Lawrence: whip-smart and witty star who likes a good fight | Observer profile 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z

Instead, most sitcoms roll through a series of awkward mismatches, mining embarrassing sexual encounters for excruciating comedy. Netflix and chill: how TV relaxed its view of dating 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

But she later confessed: ‘It was one of the most embarrassing moments of my entire life ... I cried.’ The problem with being 'badass' 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Murdo Macleod For a long time, musical comedy was the embarrassing uncle of stand-up, left dancing badly by itself when comedy was declared the new rock'n'roll. Edinburgh fringe comedy roundup 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

The whole thing became embarrassing, I said; I’d found it hard to assert myself and my needs. The Austrian says he’s turned off by women who are dominant in bed 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Morgan takes a British look at American politics, so Monica Lewinsky is an embarrassing distraction, and Mr. Clinton’s dithering over military action in Kosovo is a truer test of his character. | 'The Special Relationship': Dennis Quaid and Michael Sheen as Clinton and Blair 2010-05-27T22:06:00Z

The narrative here is the main order of business, and it's slightly embarrassing to see it enacted by grown-ups in a musical melodrama that takes itself a bit too seriously. 'Hunchback of Notre Dame' at La Jolla has identity crisis 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

The document says he called the incident "embarrassing." Document: 'Late Show' theater suspect had 12 beers 2011-08-05T00:37:08Z

They're more an accumulation of minor incidents, chance encounters, embarrassing mishaps and petty humiliations, as experienced by selfish characters so absorbed with their own lives and needs they never see the bigger picture. Seen it before? 2010-06-14T14:31:00Z

Then what’s even more embarrassing is a president that tweets online like a little kid. Psychologist Philip Zimbardo of the Stanford Prison Experiment: Donald Trump is an “unconstrained, unbridled present hedonist” 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Jimmy Kimmel’s staffers celebrated Mother’s Day by reading aloud the most embarrassing texts from their moms. Colbert Says Comey Firing Shows Trump’s Disregard for Appearances 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Wallace repeated that the papers would be preserved but not published, adding: "Officials have said that there are some sensational personal items in there that would be very embarrassing if they were released." Soviet spies! Orgies! Trollops! Profumo publication plea perks peers up 2013-07-18T22:57:05Z

Despite hangovers, occasional blackouts and a few embarrassing scenes, she took more from gin, she reckons, than it took from her. Patricia Highsmith Lived Extravagantly, and Took Copious Notes 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

On Tuesday there wasn’t that vaguely embarrassing feeling of an orchestra hall slumming it with pop. After Decades, the Philharmonic’s Hall Sounds and Feels More Intimate 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

I promised my editor this story about walking the Brooklyn Bridge so many months ago, it’s embarrassing. I love the Brooklyn Bridge. Walk across it and you will, too. 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

“It can help prevent all sorts of medical conditions that are uncomfortable, embarrassing and frustrating,” says Mark Hyman, medical director at Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Functional Medicine. Can toilet attachments make bidets mainstream in the U.S.? 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

As befits an Idol-scale show, The Voice threw itself a big party for its finale, complete with both big stars and the requisite embarrassing group numbers. The Voice Watch: And the Winner Is… 2012-12-19T14:22:31Z

To add to this, our children’s public outbursts are embarrassing. Helping a first-grader cope with life’s disappointments 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

Many critics found the text preachy and embarrassing. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

In any other arena it would be regarded as certifiably embarrassing behaviour. With the greatest disrespect: how Her Majesty's Press offers its candid friendship 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Where the riches become embarrassing is with the inclusion of videos of assorted actors reading each poem. Shakespeare’s sonnets on an iPad 2012-07-24T16:12:00Z

My secret fear was that nobody would get this at all, and it would be really embarrassing. Sophie Kinsella: 'You can be highly intelligent ? and also ditzy and klutzy' 2012-02-12T20:00:11Z

The conversation that followed with Brandon was brief and, frankly, embarrassing, with my father and I both caught off-guard and tongue-tied, offering up the most vapid of clichés.  I survived mass Internet rage 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

Why not bring him on stage as an "embarrassing dad"-style Bez dancer? Kelly Jones: 'I got caught peeing in the street. They gave me an £80 fine' 2013-03-28T13:22:56Z

But he was fast approaching his 30s, he said in a recent Zoom interview, and risked becoming one of those “cringe-y, embarrassing” rappers who act a decade younger than they are. A Rapper, Hitting His 30s, Reinvents Himself as a Scion of Spanish Pop 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

He has been fined by the Securities and Exchange Commission for his tweets and some SpaceX employees signed a letter calling his public behavior distracting and embarrassing. How Elon Musk became a new kind of celebrity 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z

Their — literally — overnight romance is preposterous and embarrassing, as is so much else in this creaky, contrived tale. 'A Night in Old Mexico' a waste for Robert Duvall 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

What was your most embarrassing moment?Being carried out of Madonna's birthday party in a drunken stupor. Q&A: Nile Rodgers 2013-07-13T07:00:02Z

Meanwhile Robert, often the amusing boor, seems like a much uglier sort of bully with his brother, taunting him and embarrassing all present with his talk about "making the eight"? Game of Thrones Watch: Talk to the Hand 2011-05-23T16:45:00Z

There’s something a little embarrassing about all this eternal coziness, but it’s not a sign of the poverty of Wodehouse’s spirit, but rather of its enormous strength. In Praise of P.G. Wodehouse 2011-11-23T16:50:44Z

But the truth is, the show was fantastic: smart, funny, warm and wise, a far cry from the "middle-aged women having embarrassing sex with various unsuitable partners" cliche that the above writer used. The death of Sex and the City 2010-05-23T23:11:00Z

If you have to do enough embarrassing things around strangers enough times, eventually, your gag reflex gets suppressed, and you can be ridiculous without feeling so compromised. "Life feels like an uncomfortable comedy": Zach Woods embraces the awkward and new movie "Downhill" 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

My more embarrassing stuff is the guest spot I did on Saved By the Bell: The New Class or when I was in Oklahoma doing Sunday newspaper modeling for a local clothing store. James Marsden: 'The D Train' Plot Twist Isn't a 'Cheap Punch Line' 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

The warrant sought all his communication about an embarrassing “Access Hollywood” tape that surfaced in October 2016, weeks before the election. National Enquirer sent stories about Trump to his attorney Michael Cohen before publication, people familiar with the practice say 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

A last-ditch attempt at resolution with emphasis on how embarrassing it is for all concerned is worth a try. My stepdad won’t stop watching porn in our house | Mariella Frostrup 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

Clearly Trump is concerned about how terribly embarrassing it would be to have the two ends of his tie flopping about willy-nilly. Half Windsor, all fiasco: Trump’s necktie-gate may undermine his statesmanlike gravitas 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

For $787.5 million, Fox bought its way out of the embarrassing — or, depending where you sit, satisfying — prospect of its anchors, its executives and its founding chief, Rupert Murdoch, taking the stand. Everybody Knows What Fox News Is Now 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

It shows people not just at their most vulnerable but their most mundanely unappealing – needy, clingy, and casually embarrassing. Sarah Polley: 'We're all kind of ugly in our relationships' 2012-08-09T20:00:02Z

Oh, bad time to start telling a story about bumblebees at the 89-second mark… CI: Still, I love a flagrantly emotional speech that doesn’t feel canned and may be slightly embarrassing the morning after. ArtsBeat: 'Book of Mormon' and 'War Horse' Win Big at Tonys 2011-06-13T03:23:03Z

NBC quickly cut to a commercial, but the damage was done: News outlets replayed the embarrassing moment for days. Ashlee Simpson’s New Reality 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

Kiran said Mr. Otedola was furious that she had spurned his entreaties to rekindle their relationship, and used them as scapegoats to deflect attention from the website’s embarrassing rumors. How to Date a Lot of Billionaires 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

“The fact that country radio ignored what was album of the year, that’s embarrassing,” said Larry Rosin, president of Edison Research. Why Kacey Musgraves, who keeps winning awards, still can’t get a country radio hit 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

Despite our belief that “stuff on the Web lasts forever, for better and frequently for worse: the embarrassing photograph, the regretted blog,” the truth is very different. Reading -- and thinking -- about memory 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

So even though we put Alan in farcical or embarrassing situations, he's never a particularly tragic figure to us. Alan Partridge: a look inside his mind 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z

Is it OK to blub, or too embarrassing for words? Crying out loud: Is it OK to sob at gigs? 2010-03-26T15:07:00Z

It contributes to the insidious notion, promulgated by Peggy Noonan and other conservatives, that Trump’s rhetoric is embarrassing but essentially benign. Perspective | Liberal satire is getting dangerously lazy in the Trump era 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

We old guys don’t like to worry our children with all the details about getting old, besides, it is embarrassing. A potpourri of advice from near and far 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

Devi and Sydney, unable to engage with their grief mentally and emotionally, encounter it through their bodies and are transformed by it, in ways that both find devastating, frightening and embarrassing. Now on Netflix: Portraits of Grief With Unplanned Relevance 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

Give me wrenching monologues, moments of profound personal triumph, a way to reflect on my own experiences, a character I care about so completely it should be embarrassing. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘The Last Man on Earth’ and ‘Being Erica’ 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

There are few things more exhausting, stressful, embarrassing and thankless, but it will for ever inoculate you against the sound of a crying infant that isn’t in your care. Why I love the sound of crying babies on flights 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

What about his loving behavior is embarrassing to you? Perspective | Ask Amy: Family member wanted to Zoom to a wedding 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

The police were under pressure to end such an embarrassing situation. Why Jack the Ripper and other serial killer narratives endure 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

What is happening is a farce and in one sense it is obviously comical and embarrassing, but it is also very dangerous, and the left seems too weak to provide effective opposition. Maurizio Pollini: a life in music 2011-01-01T00:04:05Z

As America continues its embarrassing freakout over the rights of trans people to use public restrooms in peace, down in the Lone Star State, Dan Patrick has come out swinging this week. Texas lieutenant governor freaks out over “respectful and trusting” transgender student policy 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

As you continue to speak to him, he will address you in the same tone because it's embarrassing for him to keep yelling when you're not. Lt. Joe Kenda of "Homicide Hunter": "I never pulled the trigger because I never had to 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

And he's just such a good actor and he had a lot of the more embarrassing stuff to do. "Talk to Me" directors on the film's most shocking scene 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z

“At the time, I thought it was funny and embarrassing and arrogant,” he said in an interview this month. Nicolas Cage Is in on the Nicolas Cage Jokes 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

Hackers also released emails sent and received by Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton, the latest in a series of email disclosures aimed at embarrassing top studio executives. Some theaters drop 'The Interview' amid Sony hacker threats 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Lots of people's parents have an embarrassing video of them performing as a kid, did you sing a lot for your family? BBC Sound of 2014: Ella Eyre 2014-01-09T08:07:16Z

After all, at any one box — that’s CrossFit-speak for gym — there is a finite number of datable options and a point at which it gets embarrassing. CrossFit Flirting: Talk Burpee to Me 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

Showmen exhibited her throughout Europe, where, in an embarrassing and dehumanizing spectacle, she was forced to sing and dance before crowds of white onlookers. Sarah Baartman’s hips went from a symbol of exploitation to a source of empowerment for Black women 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z

I also started to fill in some embarrassing gaps in my reading and took a plunge into the novels of Elizabeth Bowen and Penelope Fitzgerald. Times Critics Discuss the Year in Books, From Triumphs to Disappointments 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Just think how embarrassing the continued existence of rock'n'roll is for our children. The death of rock 2011-01-16T22:00:02Z

“It needs to be for people to plug in and say, ‘Actually I want to do this, and it’s not embarrassing, or I feel weird or the odd one out.’” The hippy is back: not so cool if you remember it the first time round 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

Choreographically, “Cave” is little more than a series of flash mobs, in which the men increasingly threw themselves into the action — and into the spotlights — to an almost embarrassing degree. Review: Exploring Nature and Nightlife at Martha Graham 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. Cline’s countersuit contends that Mr. Reetz-Laiolo has repeatedly threatened to release embarrassing personal information about her. Sex, Plagiarism and Spyware. This Is Not Your Average Copyright Complaint. 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z

The arrest at the Vista Hotel was embarrassing, but it “didn’t stop me from effectively running the city.” In ‘Mayor for Life,’ D.C.’s Marion Barry takes pride in himself but little blame for problems

Giving their combined name to a child “would be totally embarrassing,” she said. What’s in a Name: Family and More 2013-12-07T00:47:39Z

Now, I know firsthand it can be really embarrassing for young people to have their parents know they’re being bullied. My Sister Is Being Bullied at School. Should I Intervene? 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

Yes, I do find this embarrassing, but I’m always interested to see how other columnists answer. Perspective | Ask Amy: Luggage issue leads to mystery note 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

It is almost as embarrassing asking Plant those questions people want asking about Led Zeppelin as it is for him to answer them. The showman must go on 2011-01-30T00:03:02Z

In popular culture, it is easy to dismiss the South as an embarrassing punchline. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

“It could have been quite embarrassing if the opera had been grandstanding in an emotional, operatic way,” Mr. Pountney said. New York Premiere for a Long-Suppressed Opera 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

To some historians, the fracas represented an embarrassing abandonment of scholarly prudence amid a social media stampede. Clash of the Historians: Paper on Andrew Jackson and Trump Causes Turmoil 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

They are on the face of it, well-meaning, if slightly embarrassing, in their desire to be seen as good progressives, boasting about voting for Obama, engaging in fist-bumps. The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: No 3 Get Out 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

It’s tough, and maybe a little embarrassing, to answer. As the 747 Begins Its Final Approach, a Pilot Takes a Flight Down Memory Lane 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

A difficult teen, he found Abby intolerably embarrassing and everyone else boring. Anne Tyler’s new novel feels familiar, but that’s actually a good thing 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

In a blog post, Prokofiev wrote that composing an orchestral piece inspired by a hip-hop artist had “the potential of being an embarrassing ‘cross-over’ rail-crash between two musical worlds” that rarely mix. Pop culture remix: Key moments in ‘Baby Got Back’ history 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

The amateur hour is particularly embarrassing for the Rocky Mountain State, one of the most competitive in any presidential election, and the cornerstone of the Republican strategy for assembling electoral votes in the West. The Colorado soap opera that could be a major 2016 headache for the GOP 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

It’s hard for me to picture an “embarrassing” mishap here that would leave your sheets in fine condition but damage your mattress cover. How Long Can I Avoid Socializing With My Neighbors? 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday, he described all the encomia as “over-the-top” and said he found it “flattering, embarrassing and gratifying.” Review: David Letterman Says Goodbye, With Self-Mockery and a Little Mush 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

There’s a lot of yelling and passionate making up, but it’s all a little distant and slightly embarrassing, like watching a couple you don’t know arguing in a parking lot. Review: Helen Mirren Wears the Crown (This Time, Russia’s) 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

McDonald’s ordered several thousand of them from the original manufacturer Fritz Hansen, only for an embarrassing row to erupt when it also bought cheap copies of those chairs from another company. Design: How to Ruin a Great Design 2011-03-13T19:30:07Z

The solution Of course we should keep our cars clean, if only because it is embarrassing not to and reduces its value. How dangerous are the bugs in my dirty car? 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

“It’s embarrassing to ask my friends and writers I admire to work for me, for free,” said Ms. Hunt, a writer of haunting literary fiction. A Novelist Revisits Her ‘Haunted’ Childhood Home 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

I confessed to the reader that the nakedness of the emotions I was describing, undefended against the pitiless glare of irony, made them embarrassing to write about. How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

“I do think this particular stage makes parents feel incompetent; nothing is more embarrassing than a public tantrum,” says child development psychologist and author Tovah Klein, who directs the Barnard College Center for Toddler Development. We call them ‘terrible twos’ (and worse), but toddlers are just learning how to be people 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

But there's still a tendency to regard the Bee Gees with a certain knowing smirk, to view them as a joke or an embarrassing guilty pleasure. Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees: 'I want to keep the music alive' 2013-07-18T18:30:00Z

“My very early drafts were so close to the original as to be embarrassing,” Martin confessed, but the nicest surprise of “Roxanne” is its direct references to specific lines and sequences from Rostand’s text. Why Is ‘Cyrano’ Still So Potent? Ask Anyone Who’s Loved at All. 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

The women teachers kept telling me I looked so pretty, and I felt, acutely, how lovely and embarrassing this all was, to be witnessed in the damp fervency of my love for this boy. What my mother's "selfish" writing retreat taught me about being an artist and a parent 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z

“Right, time to brighten things up. Here’s a throwback to one of my many embarrassing moments,” he Tweeted Thursday. One Direction Member Says Band Is 'Far From Over' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Having participated in the government’s anti-gay agenda decades ago may be embarrassing to older politicians and retired bureaucrats. In America’s past, a culture of animus against federal workers 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

But Benedict's reference stirred recollections of those embarrassing evenings – and they happen to us all – when we are unable to perform the critical act. Michael Billington on theatre refreshments 2010-05-19T21:30:00Z

Here’s a confession even more embarrassing than living in Brooklyn: I loved it. Switchel: the new (but really old) apple cider drink hipsters can't get enough of 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

Or is I'm Still Here a brilliantly sustained if embarrassing faux-documentary criticising the cult of celebrity? Guardian First Film award: nominations 2010-12-23T22:44:00Z

“It was very embarrassing, but I cared more about my peace of mind than being fashionable on the set.” Midsommar director Ari Aster: 'I often cling to dead things' 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

On the one hand, I loved her for it, but on the other it was quite embarrassing to me. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: The birds and the bees and the uncowed teens 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z

If they do something embarrassing, it's just like, that's on me. "We beat ourselves up": Michelle Buteau recognizes our insecurities and reflects our sexiness back 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z

"It was embarrassing if people asked if you were a Christian or a Muslim." At historic Aleppo hotel, nostalgia for a Syria lost 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

Over the past two decades, the satirist has acquired a fearsome reputation for embarrassing high-profile figures on both sides of the Atlantic. Who else might be a victim of Sacha Baron Cohen's new show? 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z

At Korean restaurants, my parents would laugh uncomfortably as they would translate special requests for the waitresses, as though my vegetarianism was shameful and embarrassing. Korean Thanksgiving: why honoring my mother trumps my vegetarianism 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

Talking about “Bridesmaids,” she said, “It’s my first . . . starring role, I guess, is the term?” as if owning up to an embarrassing disease. Can Kristen Wiig Turn On the Charm? 2011-05-01T08:30:02Z

It’s not just that it’s embarrassing, it’s paralyzing — no one knows how or exactly why to move forward. Did porn warp me forever? 2013-01-13T02:00:00Z

Clem asks, “Do you have any idea how embarrassing it is to be your son?” Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads,’ a Mellow, ’70s-Era Heartbreaker That Starts a Trilogy 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

These screw-ups can be embarrassing, and they can also get you into legal trouble. Email can ruin your life 2012-06-24T14:00:00Z

I will forever love Seida for letting us use the embarrassing picture as the main illustration. Sex, drugs and superheroes: Our 10 best personal essays 2013-12-31T12:45:00Z

It is a huge secret and you can't tell anybody… Don't tell your parents and don't tell any adults because it’s pretty embarrassing.’ Woman caught dipping chicken tenders in soda at US Open releases music video, is debuting own sauce 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

The embarrassing spat is so feeble and poorly written, it doesn’t even qualify as camp. | 'Joyful Noise': ?Joyful Noise,? With Latifah and Parton - Review 2012-01-12T22:27:16Z

Lisa Daniel, festival director of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, said the move was embarrassing for Australia. Actor James Franco protests Australian ban of gay film 2013-03-05T16:26:23Z

Not only does the story tap into something real, it recalls those endlessly popular women’s magazine staples in which readers share their most embarrassing moments. Review | In ‘Roar,’ Cecelia Ahern uses fables to delve into what it means to be a woman 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

The first time I wore them, I found them deeply embarrassing. A Word of Thanks for My Compression Socks 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

And the New York Times quoted journalism professor Sue Carter’s assessment that the comments were “a major personal violation, and so retrograde that it’s embarrassing.” Was ESPN announcer Brent Musberger being a creep? 2013-01-09T20:45:00Z

A lot of times, the first step of improv class is having people do things that are really embarrassing and unchallenging in a technical way, but challenging emotionally. "Life feels like an uncomfortable comedy": Zach Woods embraces the awkward and new movie "Downhill" 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

It’s a detail about her life that she revels in sharing with her best friend, something sort of embarrassing but not actually all that shameful. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap: Destructive Secrets 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

The whole point of being a Wasp, as best as I can conjure, is to get through life without embarrassing oneself in public. "Low class" Donald Trump and the Wasps: Reckoning with vulgarity, snobbery and the presidency 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

She then had a series of increasingly embarrassing misadventures. ‘The Affair’ Season 2, Episode 4: A Bad Day for Everyone 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

Now if you can only figure out how to put on a show — although it’s unlikely even you could be more embarrassing than the Oscars were this year. ArtsBeat: This Time, The Tonys Grow Up and Get It Right 2011-05-03T15:22:17Z

“Dawson’s Creek” has not aged well — all its SAT words and metaconversations are neither old-fashioned nor newfangled enough to be charming; instead, they’re just embarrassing. Who are you, Katie Holmes? 2012-07-08T19:00:00Z

It's so embarrassing to walk by that treadmill every day and be like, "Nope, not today." From gas masks to kente cloth, "Sherman's Showcase" Juneteenth special is well-timed and prescient 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

He thinks rehearsals are "embarrassing... the whole theatrical idea of 'pretending' is embarrassing", and he never does a second take of the same shot. Michael Winterbottom on The Killer Inside Me 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z

I can only assume that Avedon chose the least embarrassing one. On Being Photographed by Richard Avedon 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Kafka’s tales pointed the way to a fiction where it was possible to admit vulnerability and express the most embarrassing doubts and feelings. If Kafka Were Israeli and Wrote About Talking Goldfish 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

It’s embarrassing to admit you care, but as a 20-year-old you do. Mia Wasikowska: ‘After a while acting leaves you feeling hollow' 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

Knocking down a straw man is always embarrassing. A shabby wall-text marks debut of new Whitney Museum 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

The communal freewheeling conversation barreled through topics from most embarrassing email addresses to disco naps. Imagine Spider-Woman With a Crochet Hook 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

And in an embarrassing sideshow, Mr. Miller made a series of complaints about the Rock Hall’s handling of the ceremony, saying, “The whole process is unpleasant.” Pearl Jam and Tupac Shakur Lead Nominees for Rock Hall of Fame 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

And I frankly told him that I would not swim with him because it would be embarrassing for me. The man who filmed Putin’s rise: “Compromises I made, we all made…led us to this deplorable... 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

It was cute when he was smaller; now it's downright embarrassing. Perspective | Ask Amy: Family member wanted to Zoom to a wedding 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

So I guess your, “Let’s forget this whole thing happened” philosophy only kicked in when you were at risk of embarrassing yourself. Ask Amy: After a false accusation, aunt now wants to move on 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

There’s nothing more embarrassing than a wardrobe malfunction unless the “malfunction” was actually caused by just wearing the clothes the wrong way. Woman doesn't realize that she's wearing her bathing suit upside down, accidentally exposes herself 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

The later version isn’t sad or embarrassing; he’s not trying and faltering. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Stone Temple Pilots and Steve Lacy 2010-05-30T21:14:00Z

There are few spectacles more embarrassing than a failed attempt at dark urban realism – but most do fail, often spectacularly, so I want to know how exactly Drew got it right. Plan B: 'I love directing. But does my art change lives? I don't think it does' 2012-06-07T19:00:08Z

“I think it’s worth thinking about, but we are waiting to be invited! That would be embarrassing, to say ‘And the next dinner will be at my house!’ Don't Call Lisa Kudrow "Brave" 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Late-night hosts took aim at Trump’s latest set of decisions, labelling his travel ban “immoral, embarrassing and inhuman”. Late-night hosts skewer Trump over travel ban: 'embarrassing and inhuman' 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

The late 90s were a time of political optimism in the UK, of champagne supernovas and champagne socialism, and the vegetarian stew-eating way of life that Crass represented looked, if anything, embarrassing. Crass's political punk is as relevant now as ever 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z

And what are your most memorable/embarrassing moments? What makes a good chatshow host? 2011-08-05T14:18:53Z

The Guardian’s Ben Lee writes that the scene is depicted with an “embarrassing Hays Code coyness.” Pop culture still fails queer people: Sanitizing LGBT romance is a tradition Hollywood can’t seem to break 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

If the Bad Place architects built a hell just for me, it would be a screening room filled to capacity, playing all of my most embarrassing moments from middle school on a 24/7 loop. Middle school was hell. "PEN15" makes me (almost) want to go back 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z

But most of all, I can’t believe how embarrassing and utterly humiliating it feels to be turned down not because I’m not good enough, but because I’m not skinny enough. 'She’s good, but she’s big': my years as a 'fat' ballerina 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

Mrs. Donaldson takes a part-time job as a “simulated patient” in a medical school, acting out often embarrassing and intimate symptoms and ailments, from Tourette’s syndrome to rectal bleeding. Books of The Times: ?Smut: Stories? by Alan Bennett ? Review 2011-12-29T23:29:06Z

After all, it was in Las Vegas that he was caught in those embarrassing pictures. Prince Harry makes war look more Top Gun than Wilfred Owen 2013-01-22T12:00:03Z

The film upholds the notion that the most repugnant and embarrassing insult that can be hurled at a straight man is the idea that he could be light in the loafers. Why can’t bro comedies stop making fun of gay men? 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

Those arguments are embarrassing; more than anything else, they reveal the ramshackle structure of current religious freedom jurisprudence in the U.S. The impossibility of religious freedom: Hobby Lobby, Wheaton College and the challenge for liberals 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

It was an embarrassing television show but it remained popular. Psychologist Philip Zimbardo of the Stanford Prison Experiment: Donald Trump is an “unconstrained, unbridled present hedonist” 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Guided tours and walking tours help in discovering new cities and let teens keep their distance from embarrassing parents. Trauma-free travel with teens 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

"It's not an embarrassing thing - it's a very important, major thing," he said. Ex-Kiss drummer raising money for cancer research 2010-09-17T16:56:00Z

It starts off embarrassing and gets worse, with a bewildering array of moves including double windmills and backwards choo-choo trains. There's nothing quite like a bad dance scene 2010-08-03T17:21:00Z

Final Fantasy XV left embarrassing scars on Square Enix because of its confusing story. Final Fantasy XVI Takes on Its ‘Star Wars’ Problem 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

Me: Do you suspect there’s some secret, embarrassing reason that explains a lot of breakage — one you never hear? Perspective | Gene Weingarten: ‘The cat broke the toilet tank lid’ and other likely stories 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

He found the whole business deeply embarrassing and later even claimed that the Beetle's numberplate began with KGB. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z

Proving that there is still some comedic genius left to be gleaned from the soon-to-be canceled Comedy Central series “Key & Peele,” the duo brings us “MC Mom,” a thoroughly embarrassing “mom rap.” Your must-see clip of the day: Key & Peele deliver a cringeworthy “mom rap” 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Many of Roy Johnson's players were robbed of their chance to go to college and compete on the next level because of the embarrassing IMG game and the fact that the school didn't exist. "BS High" shows how easy it is to fall for a football scam – because it happened to me 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z

When the force was quickly routed and the Bay of Pigs invasion became an embarrassing debacle for the president, Kennedy did not attempt to shift blame. Masters of their medium: JFK on TV, Trump on Twitter 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

There was an embarrassing moment during that show when I was grabbed and shoved onstage to sing backing vocals on their encore version of Love Train! Nick Hornby's favourite music – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-07-10T10:11:50Z

After being accidentally crowned as the pageant’s winner by host Steve Harvey, Gutiérrez discussed the mishap, calling it not only embarrassing for herself, but for also for all Latina women in the competition. Miss Colombia Says Steve Harvey Humiliated 'the Whole Country' 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

“It’s embarrassing to put it this way, but I guess it did feel somewhat like destiny.” How to Be a Star by Not Giving Your All 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

She seemed to be embarrassing them, so she picked up her fork. Fiction: “Double Take” by Jessica Francis Kane 2013-03-02T16:00:00Z

"I know it's embarrassing, but I simply can't help myself," says the president. "South Park" eviscerates Tyler Perry and his fans 2011-05-05T13:24:00Z

Welshman Chris Corcoran was losing his way when discussing his most embarrassing experiences, only to pull it around by involving the audience. Perfecting the laughs 2010-08-09T11:09:00Z

But, as most of us know, an enormous and consequential Russian mind-bending intervention — involving hacking Democratic servers, releasing politically embarrassing materials and using social media to spread disinformation — did. How Generations of Russians Have Tried to Influence American Elections 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

But it is kind of embarrassing, especially if your pants are hanging off your bottom.” Embarrassing, Uncomfortable and Risky: What Flying Is Like for Passengers Who Use Wheelchairs 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

“I don’t think it’s embarrassing at all,” Dolby countered. Scenes from the Oscar-Night Implosion 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

Byrne unearths embarrassing memories and painful ones, like the death of a boyhood friend and an incident of predation by a priest at the seminary he attended for a few years. ‘Walking With Ghosts’ Review: Gabriel Byrne Roams His Past 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

Recognize that he is embarrassing you as a white person. I am a white person against Trump: White people need to stop laughing and start taking responsibility 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

“The most embarrassing moment of my life,” Ms. Lappé said laughing again. The Godmother of ‘Plant-Based’ Living 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z

“Cathy is a symbol of how women’s anxieties and concerns can be considered embarrassing, and not worthy of discussion, if the character in question isn’t a perfect role model,” said Loftus. Aack! A Millennial’s Audio Odyssey Through the ‘Cathy’ Comic Strip 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

For parents, embarrassing their children is generally the least of it. Cyber Parents, Accessing Perhaps, TMI 2013-05-03T22:57:13Z

It’s embarrassing to observe that now Mr. Taylor is the chief drawback of his own new project. Review: Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance Gala Looks to Past 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Unbeknown to Mr. Roberts, he had taken part in one of the more embarrassing segments of the show thus far. Pranked by Sacha Baron Cohen, He Was as Shocked as the Rest of Us 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

As Holt points out, under his watch crime in Brooklyn has decreased, and even community relations have improved to the point that “everyone loves the police. It’s embarrassing!” The good cops of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" are a scathing critique of destructive policing 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Bringing this up to your “wonderful” father-in-law could prove deeply embarrassing to him. Perspective | Ask Amy: Mom doesn’t want to clean up after two humans 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

In a YouTube appeal, Franco labelled the decision to ban I Want Your Love "embarrassing". James Franco asks Australian censors to overturn ban on I Want Your Love 2013-03-05T11:03:25Z

After all, Nancy may not be on hand to help with his embarrassing college application essay now. Here's Everything We Know So Far About 'Stranger Things' Season 3 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

It should be embarrassing for people to scream at employees, for the fate of an entire company to rest on a bully’s whims. 'It was like tending to a disgusting baby': life as a Harvey Weinstein employee 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z

The bedroom pop queen had become the wicked witch of the Top 40, “an embarrassing form of career suicide,” as the New York Times put it. Perspective | Liz Phair is back, and she’s setting the record — and the record business — straight 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

It must be embarrassing, though – dropping the mic with a flourish only to hurry back on the stage. Soderbergh on Hollywood: 'It's not crooked – it's the most transparent industry going' 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

“If people knew exactly how long it took to make our shows, it would be slightly embarrassing.” John Oliver: ‘I’m used to audiences not liking me’ 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z

“Did you ever, like me, hope …” he says, abruptly pausing his cadence to let the audience anticipate his embarrassing thoughts about the possible benefits of the death of grandparents. John Mulaney Punctures His Persona in ‘Baby J’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

If the Pulse shooting has exposed what an embarrassing failure the U.S. blood donation policies are, why would our neighbors to the North make the same mistake? Time to end these blood bans: U.S. policy on gay and bi male blood donations is a failure—and Canada is repeating the same mistakes 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z

Tom Sharpe: 'the master of situations that couldn’t possibly get any more embarrassing, sensitive or tricky, but did'. How Tom Sharpe earned his seat at high table of campus fiction 2013-06-06T18:05:57Z

And they do embarrassing swimming-hole naked belly flops in front of lots of good-looking young folks. Today’s Movie Trailer: Grown Ups 2 2013-04-03T15:18:08Z

“For me, it was way more embarrassing to admit that a woman had me groveling for a really long time than it was to name the kind of sex we had,” Machado says. Perspective | For today’s feminist writers, sex makes a comeback 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

A McCarthy character is perpetually falling down or embarrassing herself, in a way that ultimately demeans the actress herself. This Is Why Spy Is Such a Triumph for Melissa McCarthy 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Many hotels are trying to avoid those embarrassing exchanges. Personal Journeys: After Gay Marriage, the Check-In Dance 2011-07-22T18:55:00Z

And on that score, "Too Big," for all its attention to detail, is a bit embarrassing. The Justice League of Wall Street 2011-05-23T19:24:00Z

Five episodes into the second series the Goodman family home has played host to angry pensioners, older girlfriends, embarrassing cars and a dream featuring milk baths and Princess Diana. Have you been watching … Friday Night Dinner? 2012-11-07T12:22:15Z

"As embarrassing as this has been from my point of view," wrote Ms Pascal to the film-maker, "you have to appreciate the fact that we haven't just dictated to you what it had to be." Rogen 'objected to Jong-un film cut' 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

What was your most embarrassing moment?Having some of my early comics easily accessible on the internet. Q&A: Daniel Clowes 2012-07-20T21:59:50Z

The T's were actually really embarrassing, but they made good souvenirs of a bygone moment. Boy band revivals descend on Tacoma 2011-07-01T17:50:11Z

It can drive a woman to the most embarrassing distraction. Chasing a Fast-Fashion Knockoff 2010-10-13T23:42:00Z

At an inaugural creative meeting, he got his team to write down their most embarrassing teenage experiences; all were used. Your next box set: Freaks and Geeks 2010-12-31T08:00:06Z

A rap number, for a party sequence, is embarrassing, and not only because it’s intended to be. Review: ‘Mean Girls’ Sets the Perils of Being Popular to Song 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z

I bet you mean well, but you don’t get to decide what’s “embarrassing” or “tone-deaf” about her work unless she reports to you. I Just Found Out My Best Friend Is Rich 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

The real embarrassing moment lies in the disrespectful way Williams was treated. Serena Williams has earned the respect of a world that can’t bear to give it to her 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

From where I sat, a few rows back, it was impossible to tell whose embarrassing faux pas this was. A Brief Encounter with Philip Roth 2013-09-28T02:57:06Z

From the season's start the star endeared herself to fans with self-deprecating asides to the camera, as well as occasional and embarrassing falls to the dance floor. Hines Ward scores "Dancing With the Stars" win 2011-05-25T04:37:02Z

Such breathy, inflated sentences may be even worse than this embarrassing novel’s cardboard characters and absurdly hokey plot. Books of The Times: Mark Helprin’s ‘In Sunlight and in Shadow’ 2012-10-05T05:17:21Z

Plaid Stallions His-and-hers matching waistcoats and other embarrassing discoveries from vintage shopping catalogues. Internet picks of the week 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

On your own, you may recall that viral stories about Assange have ranged from criminal to embarrassing — like when Ecuador said its increasingly unwelcome guest needed to tidy up after his cat. ‘Ithaka’ Review: In Julian Assange They Trust 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

Several rebuked him, asking if he had lost his mind and accusing him of embarrassing the chamber. SC filmmaker: Channels showed porn, not his comedy 2010-03-24T00:06:00Z

Rachel Cusk has decided that conventional fiction is “fake and embarrassing.” Kate Atkinson’s ‘A God in Ruins’ 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

"Our deepest apologies goes out to the #RoyalFamily and all involved in this embarrassing situation," the blog's statement outlined per Variety. Inside the rumors about Queen Elizabeth II, who is not dead yet nor using ivermectin (probably) 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

The embarrassing result is that the United States neither ensures that militants are taken off the street and interrogated nor gains the moral high ground that might accrue from closing the hated Guantánamo prison. Books of The Times: ?Counterstrike,? by Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker ? Review 2011-09-04T22:27:46Z

"Even when these lines are delivered by the fragrant Naomi Watts, doing her level best with a squirmingly embarrassing script, this film is still atrocious and intrusive," wrote Kate Muir in the Times newspaper. Critics savage 'cheap and cheerless' Diana film as tawdry soap 2013-09-06T12:15:10Z

Almost no personal detail was too embarrassing to share, anyway. Sarah Silverman’s Family Show (Really!) About Divorce and Depression 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

In an age of widespread insider gossip and the collective knowingness of social media, nakedly propagandistic cinema also might have seemed awkward and embarrassing. Why Hollywood's response to 9/11 involved Harry Potter and Spider-Man 2011-09-09T18:51:00Z

Making matters worse was that often, non-disabled actors would tackle these roles with embarrassing gusto. How the Sitcom ‘Speechless’ Understands Families Like Mine 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

But IT disasters are so embarrassing that most airlines add apologies, free tickets, and even more apologies to win you back. Travel Wise | Flight delayed because of a “technology issue”? Better get used to it 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

“In Sweden, it’s embarrassing and degrading to embrace such backwards gender norms,” said Thyberg, who has undergone an awakening since her time as an activist. The Business of Making ‘Pleasure’ 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

Bristowe is halfway through her nine-city “KB Fall Crawl” tour, a series of alcohol-fueled live podcast tapings that feature raunchy jokes and embarrassing “confessionals” from “Bachelor” franchise alumni and other guests. Kaitlyn Bristowe has become Bachelor Nation’s unlikely lifestyle guru. A scrunchie for $15, anyone? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

“What you’re thinking and feeling affects your body,” he would explain to his patients, using the analogy of something embarrassing causing someone to blush. The science of forgiveness: “When you don’t forgive you release all the chemicals of the stress response” 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

Initially I found the idea of living with strangers embarrassing. I gave a room in my house to a refugee – now she’s like my sister 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

The plaintiffs accused the district of capturing students and family members as they undressed, among other embarrassing situations. Reflections on Black Mirror – by those for whom science fiction became reality 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Women shied away from dumbbells for fear of getting bulky or embarrassing themselves. Has strong become the respectable face of skinny for young women? 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

For a few years there, Hathaway’s presence in Hollywood was attached to the narrative that she was trying too hard to be likable, that she was embarrassing herself by showing her work. Anne Hathaway Wins “Ocean’s 8” 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

In the broadest terms, MoMA wants to step back from the embarrassing business of telling big, confident stories about art and culture. MoMA turns itself inside out for the 21st century 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

These sequences are, at best, embarrassing, as is the alliteration-heavy courtroom drama that ensues. Review: In ‘Ye Bear & Ye Cubb,’ Colonial America Takes the Stage 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

I am less concerned about embarrassing myself than about damaging any friendships. Perspective | Ask Amy: Man with reunion crush wants to connect 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

But otherwise, they are just as embarrassing and distracting and dysfunctional. My tantric “awakening” turned me off sex 2013-03-17T01:00:00Z

He remembers his first forays on the stage as "humiliating and embarrassing". Noah and the Whale, and Bukowski 2011-02-11T09:52:36Z

“In a day, yes. Quite terrible. I think it was… doesn’t it break down how much of it was work? There was work on there. So I was doing some of that. But… it’s embarrassing.” Sarah Paulson: ‘If I’m terrified, I feel compelled to do it’ 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

Determining that if they take out the general they'd be sacrificing themselves to save the CIA embarrassing headlines, Barney and his boys turn down the assignment. "Expendables" revels in excess 2010-08-05T01:30:00Z

A speculum’s handle is at 90 degrees, which requires the operator to ask the patient to do what the Yona team call “the last scooch”, an embarrassing shuffle along the table. How to redesign the vaginal speculum 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

You do what you do in secrecy, so no embarrassing quality-control questions may be asked. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: The brilliant strategy behind ‘vegetable medley’ 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

In many cases, there’s a good reason for that: Their recent material is drab if not embarrassing. Paul McCartney: Busting a few myths 2011-07-22T13:48:00Z

She is conversational, self-depreciating and often seems to be confessing, without ever really yielding embarrassing details. A Cooking Blog Yields a Franchise and a Husband 2012-12-12T19:11:10Z

It’s somewhat embarrassing, in the twenty-first century, to produce an allegory on any subject; the technique strikes us as both antique and naïve. Inventing Climate-Change Literature 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

But the recent lawsuit revelations from his former business managers about the way he managed to blow through his money were just horrible in an embarrassing way. Oh, how I loved you, Johnny Depp. Now I see the purple-tinted truth 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

Disney's in-house animation studio, on the other hand, was an embarrassing albatross. Can "Winnie the Pooh" save Disney from Pixar? 2011-07-13T01:05:00Z

"These events continue to be embarrassing to me, and to the city," Kneier wrote in a letter to fellow City Council members announcing his resignation on Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times reported. California mayor lambasted for dog poop incident resigns: media 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

The government’s lack of preparedness was “embarrassing,” he said, before reaching for a metaphor right out of the more heroic story the nation tells about itself. Will a Pandemic Shatter the Perception of American Exceptionalism? 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z

I grew up in Singapore with a mother who detested the heels and makeup I stashed away in my room, calling them “improper” and “embarrassing.” "I want to know you're a girl" to "You’re a guy, right?": What our focus on gender leaves out 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

Deservedly poor reviews, too: early clips of Miranda on stage at Edinburgh and a radio programme in which Morecombe and Wise are trying to be American are frankly embarrassing. My Hero – TV review 2013-03-29T23:30:01Z

Whatever judgments are ultimately made, the case has already potentially devalued a fortune’s worth of art and entangled respected art-world figures in an embarrassing case. Federal Inquiry Into Possible Forging of Modernist Art 2011-12-03T03:33:26Z

While clearing out his place, I came across several embarrassing items, including nude photos of his second wife, with whom I have a cordial but not close relationship. Social Q’s: On the Amend 2014-01-23T20:48:57Z

I am disturbed by the idea of being narcissistic, and yet I find other people’s self-absorption merely embarrassing. What Happens When We Decide Everyone Else Is a Narcissist 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

Sure he is a good looking man, but the gushing by this writer is embarrassing. Antonio Banderas Doesn’t Think You’ll Remember Him. Not Yet. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

After an embarrassing kerfuffle over what it backwardly deems gender appropriate toys, the UK drugstore chain is moving toward a more equitable display system. Dolls for girls, science and Legos for boys: The toy aisle is still sexist 2013-05-03T15:06:00Z

It is going to be embarrassing, if you happen to think media coverage should include a healthy dose of critical distance. Perspective | Ready for the media’s Comey swoonfest? Nothing can stop it now. 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

These are banner days for embarrassing pronouncements from The Olds, scribbling their nonsense in their stodgy old people, old media venues. The problem isn’t that George Will is old 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

What was your most embarrassing moment?There are plenty – look on Netflix. Q&A: Rob Lowe 2011-08-26T21:59:03Z

Then there is a more embarrassing reason for preferring a male therapist. Massage’s First Issue: Man or Woman Therapist? 2012-09-15T00:57:13Z

Along the way, Watson made a few embarrassing stumbles. 'Jeopardy!' pits man against computer in Round 1 2011-02-15T14:10:39Z

As The Archers is 60 years old, Ambridge Extra is a happy, if embarrassing, event. Radio review: Ambridge Extra 2011-04-05T18:30:01Z

It's embarrassing to me in front of friends and family. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Angry comments on news sites and Facebook? That’s my husband. 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

It was embarrassing and costly for Microsoft, but customers didn’t defect en masse. Critic?s Notebook: PlayStation Security Breach a Test of Consumers? Trust 2011-04-27T21:46:03Z

And it's almost embarrassing how much pleasure you take in that little stroll… I more and more come to feel that the opposite of an artistic temperament is the temperament that takes everything for granted. Martin Amis: a new chapter in America 2012-06-02T23:04:03Z

When a celebrity opens their mouth to comment on world events, it’s deeply embarrassing at least half the time. Perspective | Arnold Schwarzenegger tries to show Russians a different kind of strongman 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

It was embarrassing, devastating, humiliating, a bummer of a mistake. Jenny Slate: ‘Ivanka Trump is a fake feminist and should be ashamed’ 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

Heavy-hitting and potentially embarrassing secrets, like drug use and sex, are out of the way. The real reason Prince Harry spilled his dark secrets in "Spare" – whether you want to know or not 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

Cohen reveals that far from eschewing any potentially embarrassing connection with their "simpleton" offspring, the Victorians tended rather to dote on them. Family Secrets: Living With Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day by Deborah Cohen – review 2013-01-26T15:00:01Z

But while the 1984 version now seems as cutely misguided as leg warmers, how to approach the embarrassing politics of the remake? Red Dawn: Chris Hemsworth Helms Lackluster Remake 2012-11-21T15:35:01Z

You've dumped your bags and coat and suddenly an inviting tryst feels very like waiting alone with a stranger for something possibly awful to happen in a cramped space which includes an embarrassing bed. A weekend away with my manuscript 2010-08-31T09:31:00Z

It is a little embarrassing to have dirty linen washed in public, but no more than that. WikiLeaks by David Leigh and Luke Harding - review 2011-04-10T04:29:00Z

They were most often small missteps, but as Ms. Yende’s fall showed, those, too, can interfere in embarrassing ways with the smooth running of Rossini’s finely tuned comic machinery. Music Review: ‘Le Comte Ory,’ With Pretty Yende, at the Metropolitan Opera 2013-01-18T23:09:37Z

“It was at my Catholic girls’ school in Manhattan,” she recently said, laughing at what was then a horribly embarrassing moment. After Curfew: Rendering Grinders Toothless 2011-08-12T21:22:27Z

For a guy who was then the director of academic communications at Parsons the New School for Design in New York, Mark Hannah was at a surprising, embarrassing loss for words. A Certain Metaphysical Attraction 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

It was embarrassing how little they understood about comedy itself. Comedian Tom Papa on the McCarthyism of the Left: "It's a terrifying moment" 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z

But my older brother didn’t want to have an embarrassing little sister, so he insisted that I be exposed to other things. Anna Kendrick May Be a Princess, But She's No Damsel in Distress 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

It will probably be really appalling to watch and embarrassing, and if you think that email scene was a farce … But it was really liberating and weird. “Anger Management”: Charlie Sheen’s crass comeback 2012-06-26T15:15:00Z

He'd been telling the lie for years, if anyone asked how he and Chevalier met, because the truth felt too embarrassing. Lord Browne: 'I thought being gay was basically wrong' 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

While in America, he learned of the show's embarrassing collapse, due to alleged fraud that involved fictitious investors and a faked death. An Aussie in New York _ Anthony Warlow in 'Annie' 2012-10-29T12:31:10Z

The hectic plot is fairly standard, with a soft therapeutic coating wrapped around situations that might be unbearably painful or embarrassing in real life. | 'Mr. Popper?s Penguins': A Home Invasion by the Antarcticans 2011-06-16T22:03:05Z

“Do you know how embarrassing it is to watch Friday Night Lights from start to finish for the second or third time and have your husband witness that?” People in Relationships Give 18 Reasons It's Great to Be Single 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

He noted he left alone and added "ultimately I ended up embarrassing myself and my family." Jason Aldean apologizes after photos released 2012-10-01T17:31:16Z

“It got to a point where it was a bit embarrassing,” he said afterward. Félix Auger-Aliassime Is Trying to Stay Calm 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

That was embarrassing to me, and Nick also tries to hide from it. Kwame Alexander’s new novel finds poetry on the field 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

But it wasn’t the fault of poor old Beatty and Dunaway, the presenters whose careers must now permanently include this embarrassing moment. Wrongbestfilmgate was a moment of pure chaos – my night of shocks at the Oscars 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

His son, who has no real direction, who has made this silly, pointless movie, can’t register as anything but embarrassing. Emma Cline on the Movie Business 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

He struck gold by discerning huge audiences who craved relentlessly embarrassing tales of the rich, powerful and famous — and clearly didn’t care about the tactics used. Chicago News Cooperative: Hildy Johnson Would Have Happily Hacked 2011-07-24T07:30:30Z

It’s extremely embarrassing to the state, and as chair of the ethics committee, I have to ask: Has anybody else worn blackface in college? ‘S.N.L.’ Features Halsey in Dual Role and Dips Into Bezos Photos 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

“All of this is fairly embarrassing. The problem of talking about it as a child is people can look at this and say, ‘You never left your childhood pursuits.’ How a community of obscure language inventors made it big with ‘Game of Thrones’ 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

Threaded throughout her revised assessment of Bowen is the story of a man who inflicted such little murders on Gornick herself, deceiving and embarrassing her again and again. Vivian Gornick Can’t Stop Rereading 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Flash forward a couple of months, though, and those series began falling like dominoes: Fox’s well-reviewed con-man drama “Lone Star” had its premiere in September, drew embarrassing ratings and was canceled after two episodes. The Texas Tribune: A Great TV Series Set in Texas? Sorry, You?re Canceled 2011-01-23T05:15:08Z

No one cares to contemplate more shamefully embarrassing images of disorder making their way around the world. The importance of the Notting Hill carnival 2011-08-25T18:59:03Z

“It’s embarrassing,” Gordon says simply, and in those two words is a world of undeserved humiliation. When Disenfranchised Lives and American Ideals Collide Onstage 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

Tower: That would be embarrassing in New York for Anthony Bourdain to have a hotdog shoot out of his mouth. Remembering Anthony Bourdain: The chefs and writers he knew and inspired reflect 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

The avidity of the acclaim is embarrassing: a version was shown at the United Nations and in the British Parliament. Critic?s Notebook: To Each His Own Museum, as Identity Goes on Display 2010-12-28T23:04:19Z

“It’s very embarrassing when you are forced to hang an original Renoir in the bathroom,” she once told reporters. Martha Hyer, Oscar-nominated actress for ‘Some Came Running,’ dies at 89

It's a succession of skilfully observed scenes, simultaneously funny and embarrassing, that illustrate her offhand humour, her self-deception and the web of little white lies that sustain her. Frances Ha – review 2013-07-27T23:07:03Z

There are childhood reminiscences and lifelong regrets, short-term schemes and sudden plunges of near-catastrophic awkwardness that, in various sequences of carefully stage-managed lunacy, highlight absurd comedic crises of indecision in petty but embarrassing disasters. “Only God Sees Me”: Revisiting a Brilliant French Comedy Released Twenty Years Ago 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

The practice of billing a meal to your room number leads to some embarrassing miscommunication with a waitress. Review: ‘Deutschland 83’ Focuses on a Reluctant Cold War Spy 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

You would think it would be embarrassing to present. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey Dance in ?Home? at City Center - Review 2011-12-03T00:30:22Z

Getting my cheeks out on film was the most embarrassing thing ever. Dev Patel 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z

It took lots of wandering and several embarrassing stares from dog walkers and young mothers walking their babies in overpriced strollers for me to discover the "employee entrance." I chopped 75 pounds of onions a day — here's how I learned to stop crying 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

A familiar idea plus embarrassing dialogue plus a main character no more developed than a stick figure adds up to more than it should in this thriller. New Books by Jim Harrison and Howard Jacobson 2011-10-19T22:58:24Z

Lange, a design critic, writes in the book’s introduction about her anxiety that malls were “potentially a little bit embarrassing as the object of serious study.” ‘Meet Me by the Fountain’ Takes a Tour of the Mall 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

Now, I get that a fiancé recoiling from your kiss may be embarrassing, and that it may cascade into hurt and anger. What’s Wrong With Kissing in Public? 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

This has got to be embarrassing for Canada’s least favorite alt-rockers, who have been waiting ‘with arms wide open’ to—wait, no, that’s Creed. Who Would You Rather See Play During a Halftime Show? 2011-11-08T14:00:10Z

“Portraits are more embarrassing than love poems. ‘Biotherm’ is a portrait of two with some love poetry in it. Review | Bill Berkson’s ‘A Frank O’Hara Notebook’ is a magical artifact from another era 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

And for sure, don't lob anti-Semitic slurs in the direction of that boss who has bailed you out of embarrassing scrapes over and over, while publicly defending you. What can we learn from Charlie Sheen's missteps? 2011-02-25T17:55:46Z

“We’re straitlaced individuals. It’s so embarrassing and it’s not really who I am today.” How we met: ‘Two girls had broken in. I threw on a towel and ran out to meet them’ 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

“It’s very embarrassing,” he said, squelching a laugh. A Director Making His Mark in More Ways Than One 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

There is an excellent chance of Bohemian Rhapsody converting some of these nominations into wins and indeed of Singer embarrassing the industry again with another pointed thankbrag on social media. Oscar nominations 2019: Roma and The Favourite deserve acclaim, but no female directors is woeful 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

"As painful as it is to hear Donald Trump talk and as embarrassing as it is as an American to hear him talk, I think it's good," Smith said. Will Smith showing different side of Mideast on promo tour 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z

And yes, it's embarrassing when your child misbehaves in public, especially when they lash out at you. When a royal child misbehaves, a mother is blamed. She shouldn't be 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z

A decade later, Simmons answered his own question, saying that Burke was, in fact, a “fantastic analyst” and that it was “embarrassing” that she was working the sidelines during the playoffs. In Praise of Doris Burke, Basketball’s Best TV Analyst 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

The previous year, when Ramsay was the head chef at a different restaurant, Aubergine, Gill had slammed him in the Times; the menu, Gill wrote, was “tasteless and embarrassing”, the restaurant “utterly forgettable”. ‘The chef started crying’: the Toronto critic who can make or break a restaurant 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

The more candid the final product is, the better: “Sometimes it’s even embarrassing to see that much of a person, and that’s when it gets really good.” How Robyn, Pop’s Glittery Rebel, Danced Her Way Back From Darkness 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

It’s fine if they’re just to me, but when our bosses or clients are involved, I think they’re embarrassing and tone-deaf. I Just Found Out My Best Friend Is Rich 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

If “This Is Us” receives a nomination, it would snap an embarrassing dry spell for the big four broadcast networks. Emmy Awards Nominations: What to Watch For 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

And as embarrassing as it is to admit, I've also missed the other side of the feedback coin — the likes. Life after social media: What I discovered after deleting all of my accounts 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

The improvisations work less well in the squad-room scenes, which can play like Detective Work for Dummies, and least well in the moments of friendly banter, which come off as forced and vaguely embarrassing. Review: ‘Suspects,’ Britain’s Unscripted Relative of ‘Law & Order’ 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

We can cope with starker, more squirmy, embarrassing stuff, that they don't get. Stephen Mangan, actor – portrait of the artist 2012-07-03T16:04:03Z

“It’s so embarrassing to talk about it, but it’s the truth,” Boodoo says, covering her eyes in mock shame. She’s a ballerina, a Wilhelmina model and a college student. But for Nardia Boodoo, it’s not enough. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Our target was the younger children’s collective habit of carrying around our toy poodle like an actual toy — not in and of itself embarrassing, just something the poodle, at least, would like to see changed. Motherlode Blog: When Teasing Is Loving, and When It's Not 2012-06-06T21:12:07Z

The Spice Girls’s relentless pep and revealing outfits became a little embarrassing, an easy shorthand for my childhood naïveté. ‘Spice World’ & Me 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

But getting older means that your tastes mature, your curiosity grows, your ignorance of a crucial swath of Western culture becomes unbearably embarrassing. Weekend Miser: Chelsea Symphony Offers Holiday Music 2012-12-06T20:51:05Z

There were several emergency overdoses, rushing Musashi to the veterinary hospital at dawn, the embarrassing explanation to the blonde female vet who always seemed severe and judgmental. I love my dog as much as my child 2012-11-10T17:00:00Z

She is often best when she places her characters in cringingly embarrassing situations. In ‘Rodham,’ Curtis Sittenfeld Reimagines Hillary’s Life 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

And parents are rightly concerned about the possibilities of missteps in the internet age: embarrassing messages and posts kept alive forever, predators and identity thieves, even the threat of criminal prosecution for youthful mistakes. What to Do If you Find Something Disturbing on Your Teen's Phone 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

To this day, Edmonds takes great delight in bringing up my corporate video work, seemingly certain he’s never produced anything as embarrassing in his career. Alan Partridge on Noel Edmonds – ‘He is a total wazzock and I cannot stand him’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

Related: Q&A: Richard Wilson – ‘My most embarrassing moment? Turning up to a dinner party three days early’ How do you relax? Q&A: Heather Graham, actor – ‘When I tell people how much I sleep they are horrified’ 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

Then Ms. Revlock’s character, while awkwardly sharing embarrassing moments from her childhood, hit up the audience for money, offering amusingly cheap gifts as incentives. Review: In ‘The Dance Apocalypse/Solos,’ the End is Full of Questions 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

Second, be plainly truthful, without emotion, to people who witness your brother’s embarrassing act. Perspective | There’s a name for her brother’s actions: Bullying 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

But heavy-hitting and potentially embarrassing secrets, like drug use and sex, are out of the way. The real reason Prince Harry spilled his dark secrets in "Spare" – whether you want to know or not 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

Jodorowsky pitched Dune in the years before the success of Star Wars, when science fiction was still seen as strange and embarrassing. The Hero’s Journey: The idea you never knew had shaped “Star Wars” 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z

The recriminations and regrets they exchange about the 2016 presidential election and its consequences bear an embarrassing resemblance to what I’ve heard from many friends, relations and like-minded strangers on that unavoidable topic. Review: Blue State Blues Meet the Black of Night in a Thrilling ‘Shipwreck’ 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

So here are Cooper’s oddest early public moments, ranked from least embarrassing to most embarrassing. Journalist to travel show host: Bradley Cooper's pre-fame adventures ranked 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

This would ensure that no such embarrassing judicial revelations ever occur again. Cruel Britannia by Ian Cobain - review 2012-11-23T08:00:01Z

One previously inkworthy neologism was disqualified by later events: Duncan Stevens’s “Unzinkable: Able to hang on to a Cabinet position despite numerous embarrassing scandals.” Style Invitational Week 1311: Nextra! Nextra! 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

I was really intrigued by the idea that this would be something that looked really pretty and cool, and that you could leave it on your night stand without embarrassing yourself or somebody else. Gwyneth Paltrow Is Selling Vibrators 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

Having invited 12 of my closest intimes to the Royal Box at Covent Garden, it was extremely embarrassing to find we were moved to less prestigious seating at short notice by the Prince of Wales. Building: Letters 1960-1975 by Isaiah Berlin – review 2013-07-07T17:00:00Z

The Globe will prioritize stories involving minor crimes and those from long ago, but will also consider ones about “embarrassing” noncriminal behavior. An old arrest can follow you forever online. Some newspapers want to fix that. 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

“One agency protects what another releases. … The dangerous, if natural, tendency to hide embarrassing or inconvenient facts can mask vulnerabilities and only keeps critical information from the American people.” What happens when a whistleblower returns to work after a decade’s fight 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

He always assumed that his study of folklore and mythology at Harvard was an embarrassing act of irrelevance. Review | Francine Prose’s ‘The Vixen’ turns Cold War paranoia into smart comedy 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

It—and a few others—made a brand-new embarrassing mistake on an important story. Un-Arrested Development: On Boston Bomber, Media Outlets Walk Back a Big Story, Again 2013-04-17T22:12:05Z

There was no more embarrassing example than the president’s showy bombing of Syria in April, when the cable news pundits fell all over themselves to praise Trump’s gravitas. Perspective | Trump’s message of mistrust is sinking in, even in journalism’s new ‘golden age’ 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

“The explicitness of this record is a little bit embarrassing sometimes, but it’s also extremely satisfying,” Mr. Stevens said. Mr. Strummy-Strum Tries a Synth Sound 2010-10-15T21:14:00Z

In this role, he's like a licensed fool, embarrassing people for the entertainment of others – for whom the price of watching is the risk of being next. Comedy Gold: Johnny Vegas's Live at the Benidorm Palace 2013-01-31T15:51:50Z

But the really embarrassing part is that she is Facebook "friends" with everyone in my family, and, believe me, her posts are a topic of not-too-flattering gossip. Perspective | Ask Amy: Facebook posts create relationship problems 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

The final version is less sensationalistic and controversial, less concerned with the embarrassing aspects of the Kennedy lifestyle and more focused on moving along a compelling narrative. "The Kennedys": what the first episode reveals 2011-01-19T18:45:26Z

All of us have anti-bucket lists of things we do not want to do before we die, and mine includes any activity requiring potentially embarrassing public participation. Starring Me! A Surreal Dive Into Immersive Theater 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Critics were unimpressed by Harris's performance during the three-and-a-half hour awards show, which saw him stripping to his pants for a Birdman and Whiplash inspired sketch - something the LA Times review called "embarrassing". Oscars audience reaches six-year-low 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

Over the last few years, television has been dealing with aging in remarkably direct and occasionally embarrassing ways. Ted Danson gambles comeback on "CSI" 2011-09-21T16:22:00Z

“The bizarre characters, the weird situations, the important meetings you have over something that’s unbelievably trivial and embarrassing. It’s really such great fodder for comedy.” In ‘Reboot,’ Everything Old Is New, to Streaming 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

It’s almost embarrassing to explain my obsession with jiu-jitsu to people who don’t know about it. How Ignacio Mattos, the Chef at Estela, Balances His 14-Hour Days 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

There is an almost embarrassing amount of creative and acting talent thrown at them. On TV, the Truth Hurts 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

“I’m not going to say ‘embarrassing’ anymore because I’m just over that. Embarrassing, Uncomfortable and Risky: What Flying Is Like for Passengers Who Use Wheelchairs 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

The most embarrassing thing is standing there in front of your family & everyone else while this guy probes your body. In Transit: Readers Share Thoughts on the T.S.A. 2010-12-11T16:58:00Z

The scientific calling that is for Lydgate the central fact of his existence is to Rosamond mostly just embarrassing in its eccentricity. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Being a clumsy girl is a way of life, but all of the public stumbles and splats never get any less embarrassing. How to Tackle Every Type of Party Stain 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

They were culled from etiquette sites and experts: Don't post embarrassing comments on your child's page — better yet, refrain from commenting. Should teens "friend" parents on Facebook? 2011-01-31T16:07:04Z

When the dust settles, l'affaire Interview may be remembered as much for being a watershed moment in on-demand viewing as it is for any White House press conference or embarrassing emails. Why Sony's digital release of 'The Interview' changes the game 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Word of warning You are likely to bump into your matches again, so it may be harder to live down embarrassing first dates. Newly single? A beginner’s guide to the best dating apps 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

It allows the troupe to be philosophically gooey in ways that might be embarrassing otherwise. Review: ‘The Grand Paradise’ Summons a ’70s Pleasure Palace 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

“It’s embarrassing to admit if you literally don’t know what a word means.” John Lanchester’s ‘How to Speak Money’ 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

The announcement was largely viewed as an embarrassing slap on the wrist for a company aiming to be recognized as one of London’s major cultural players. Amid Turmoil and Cuts, Support for English National Opera 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

Let’s be honest about it: The desire to walk around smelling like a fruit basket is, at its core, an embarrassing one. This Summer, Smell Like Fruit Salad 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

It was embarrassing to go to an ice rink and have 5-year-olds whiz around me. Generation B: It?s All Downhill From Here 2010-03-25T23:02:00Z

It took nearly 40 years, but the Sex Pistols, that snarling, sneering British band that helped launch the punk-rock movement in the 1970s has finally signed a recording contract without causing any embarrassing, tabloid-ready incidents. ArtsBeat: 'Anarchy' at 35: A New Record Deal for the Sex Pistols 2012-02-27T13:56:58Z

What I understand better now is that those embarrassing quirks are what keep us from being boring. Never show them your back 2012-11-24T01:00:00Z

The idea of performers donning silly accents to perform an embarrassing encounter in a pet shop became to seem rather quaint. An Edinburgh comedy judge's diary: the sketch show has left the pet shop 2012-08-13T10:54:54Z

The evening features comedians and writers for comedy shows debating topics provided by the audience, with the losing team earning an appropriate, embarrassing stunt. Spare Times for Jan. 6-12 2012-01-05T21:46:36Z

“Labor Day” is an embarrassing comedown for Mr. Reitman, the gifted director of “Young Adult,” “Juno,” “Thank You for Smoking” and “Up in the Air.” Movie Review: In ‘Labor Day,’ Josh Brolin Romances Kate Winslet 2014-01-30T23:07:17Z

The university’s embarrassing loss eventually enabled the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, a large museum and research center in San Marino, Calif., to acquire its first major work by an African-American artist. Art by Sargent Johnson, Berkeley?s Loss, Is Museum?s Gain 2012-02-20T17:59:44Z

My performance was clumsy and embarrassing, but also strangely exhilarating. A Jamaica Trip With the Ultimate Travel Amenity: A Nanny 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

“It’s probably a little bit — ‘embarrassing’ is the wrong word — but it’s a little weird to admit that freestyle rap comedy is probably the thing that I’m best at,” he said. Utkarsh Ambudkar Finally Gets His Broadway Shot in ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

He wept again as he told the story weeks later: “It was embarrassing. Even after they left, I wept in the dressing room for an hour.” He Used to Move Pianos. Now He Moves Audiences. 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

In 2016, the Independent ran the results of an actual study conducted to determine what millennials think of her, and the verdict was "desperate," "inauthentic" and "embarrassing." Madonna at 60: From Material Girl to Golden Girl, on her own terms 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

I did not get my period until I was 16, which was embarrassing in a whole different way. "Judy herself is furious": "Judy Blume Forever" directors on today's book banning and moral panic 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

Why, when men create dances for men, is there such an embarrassing preponderance of swan arms? Dance Review: David Hallberg in ?Kings of Dance: Opus 3? at City Center 2012-02-26T21:12:37Z

I also realised that there was an embarrassing bit about "dating" in the article, which seems even more out of date. Rewind radio: Chris Moyles; Nick Grimshaw; The Archers – review 2012-07-14T23:06:12Z

There is nothing objectively embarrassing about a hair transplant. What Happened to That Comb-Over? 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

"It was embarrassing: I was acclaimed as the new, young voice of Belfast, even though I'd never been there." Jonathan Harvey: 'I've given up seeking approval' 2010-04-27T21:00:00Z

Why is it so embarrassing to like reading? Five reasons why I love my library 2012-11-13T11:38:56Z

There’s obviously not been a moment that was embarrassing enough to lodge permanently in my memory. Daniel Radcliffe on Swiss Army Man: 'People fixate on the farting' 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Still, it’s embarrassing to watch top artists shill for their supper, even if BMW does not pay them for their trouble. | Jeff Koons, Car Painter 2010-04-09T18:58:00Z

May I ask her what happened, or is it better to keep quiet — assuming there may have been an accident that is embarrassing to her? How Long Can I Avoid Socializing With My Neighbors? 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

A few years ago I moved to New York in pursuit of a dream only to spend an embarrassing number of days existing on ramen and canned beans. 10 Ways to Make the Most of Your 20s Professionally 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

The cyberattack resulted in troves of sensitive data leaking onto the Internet, including some embarrassing emails between executives and thousands of Social Security numbers belonging to people connected to the company. Sony says studio hack cost it $15 million in fiscal third quarter 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

“I find it embarrassing when you don’t look like yourself, when you’ve had tons of retouching.” T Magazine: Victoria Beckham, Working Girl 2013-08-22T13:00:43Z

“At twenty-six, at the embarrassing end of a series of attempts at channelling Kerouac, I was beyond broke, back in my home town, living in my aunt and uncle’s basement.” Sunday Reading: The Holidays 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

So how do you avoid embarrassing yourself at a loved one’s wedding or, worse, humiliating the bride and bridegroom? This Life: The Art of the Wedding Toast 2012-06-15T21:05:26Z

A lifetime of embarrassing moments and misread cues. Welcome to the golden age of social awkwardness 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

There is something thrilling, and a little embarrassing, about this rarefied air. Can ‘Illuminati Tinder’ Save Us All? 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

MacFarlane was hired after two years of embarrassing incidents, beginning with the hiring of actors James Franco and Anne Hathaway to host the show in 2011 in an attempt to lure younger viewers. The Globes' and Oscars' new hosts: Dancing at the comedic edge 2013-01-09T16:36:23Z

“It would be terribly embarrassing for this material to come out,” lawyer George M. Gowen III argued in June. Bill Cosby's Drug Admission Could Help Women's Cases, Lawyers Say 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

"Quite apart from the obvious attack on her professionalism, the claim was particularly upsetting and deeply embarrassing," Mike Brookes said at London's High Court on Friday. Price pays damages to ex-manager 2010-03-19T11:50:00Z

"And the last thing ABC wants is a cycle of `The Bachelor,' topped by a minority male, where audiences watch less and less, providing an embarrassing display and hobbling a key franchise." Suit brings attention to 'The Bachelor' and race 2012-04-27T15:24:35Z

"And those were the managers. They were embarrassing us in front of everybody. You want people to fly your airline? Treat people with respect." American Airlines kicks family off flight because passengers complained of body odor 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

But the substitution, in the final minutes, of “tell us about a friendship that you’ve had that would surprise us” was flat-out embarrassing. Perspective | Five ways the debate could have — and should have — been much, much better 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

“It’s embarrassing that after all these allegations around the world nothing seems to have been done about such behavior,” said Jonathan Gray, editor of Dancing Times, in a telephone interview. Royal Ballet Suspends Choreographer Over Sexual Misconduct Claims 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

“No one stops and thinks, ‘What if one day my child does something embarrassing and wants to hide from it?’ ” Cultural Studies: Google Searches Help Parents Narrow Down Baby Names 2011-11-25T21:53:11Z

Even when Dr. Ken’s traditional Korean parents come to dinner, everyone pointedly uses modern Western cutlery; there’s not a single embarrassing chopstick in sight. Paging “Dr. Ken”: A TV show that should be one small step forward for Asian-Americans feels like two giant steps back 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Previously the world record was set by actor Robert Downey Jr who hit a million followers in a positively embarrassing 24 hours. Caitlyn Jenner smashes Twitter world record, reaching a million followers 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

We do know of at least one embarrassing bathing incident from the president's history that can be verified. From George Washington's teeth to Taft's bathtub drama: 6 presidential myths, debunked 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z

My new discovery on the 281 was a little embarrassing to admit. Get Your Texas Kicks on U.S. 281 2010-05-06T21:41:00Z

The phrase became widely used in a similar fashion: to acknowledge — and lighten the mood after — an embarrassing or jarring situation. 3 internet language trends from 2019, explained 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

After embarrassing a fellow inmate in a prison-league basketball game, he got clocked in the face. Jeff Smith was supposed to be in Congress by now. Instead he’s an ex-con — with a story to tell. 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

“It defined who was the world’s superpower. The Russians killed us in track and field. It was embarrassing until Jenner saved the U.S.” So you just won a gold medal? Welcome to the rest of your life. 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

It’s known for using hidden cameras and hiding identities to try to ensnare journalists in embarrassing conversations and to reveal supposed liberal bias. Judge upholds ruling against NYT over Project Veritas memos 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

The luckiest — or unluckiest? — hang on to a shred of their celebrity by embarrassing themselves on reality television shows or by singing ancient songs on oldies tours. Television Review: ‘About Face: Supermodels Then and Now,’ HBO Documentary 2012-07-29T21:44:47Z

One effect of menswear’s search for authenticity, in short, has been an outsize and somewhat embarrassing nostalgia. It’s Raining Menswear 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

In November, the hackers began making threats, leading to the release of a series of internal documents — from e-mails to salary data — laying bare embarrassing interpersonal exchanges between major Hollywood figures. Sony canceled the release of ‘The Interview.’ Here's how it could come out. 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

"There are no legal issues with the error or the design, but it is certainly embarrassing," Junko Fukuchi, a Sapporo representative, told the Post. Japanese brewer Sapporo delays new beer launch over ‘embarrassing’ typo 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

“This is my basement but it’s also my bedroom, which is even more embarrassing,” says Davidson, smiling on a recent interview by Zoom with his bed in the background. Pete Davidson: ‘The King of Staten Island’ is 100% me 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

“When I was little my parents took a picture of me being potty-trained. Three weeks ago they posted it on Facebook. Me on the toilet. It was really embarrassing,” another adds. ‘I was so embarrassed I cried’: do parents share too much online? 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

Some of its parodistic winks and turns are clever, and a few of its jokes are funny in a way that’s embarrassing to admit. The Fascinating Failures of “The Happytime Murders” 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

I think it's because I'm writing about the things they can relate to, the things everybody has – embarrassing parents, grumpy teenage sisters. Tom Gates's diary wins Blue Peter book award 2013-03-07T17:45:00Z

Like Dunham, I am a woman who was born in the 1980s who had a semi-miserable time at summer camp, and, as a stand-up comic, I, also, tell strangers embarrassing, personal stories. Review: ‘Not That Kind of Girl,’ by Lena Dunham

Then, in high school, it was Carlos Castaneda, which I now find totally embarrassing. A Man in a Cafe Asked Julie Otsuka What She Was Reading. They Dated for Two Years. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

According to Mr. Brühl, Mr. Morgan talked Mr. Howard into conducting an audition during which he upbraided Mr. Brühl in precise Viennese German for having attempted “my clumsy and embarrassing false Austrian accent.” Daniel Brühl’s Global Accent in ‘Fifth Estate’ and ‘Rush’ 2013-08-28T21:48:14Z

From the start, it establishes Ms. Schumer’s character in an embarrassing breakup scene that brings her comedy chops to the forefront. 4 Trailers That Have Us Excited for 2017 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

"There was one point, when I was 12, when I stopped speaking entirely, which was embarrassing not just for me but everyone who tried to talk to me," she says. Why Emily Blunt can't believe her luck 2012-06-16T21:31:04Z

Akin, I suppose, to applauding your kid if he kicks a goal or marries really well, but more embarrassing. Magnum Opus: ‘Bloom County’ 40 Years Later 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

I would call it treacherous and slippery, but that would be embarrassing, since we passed so many Dani who bounded along in bare feet as we struggled. In Papua, Indonesia, a Visit to the Welcoming Dani People 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Describing a trip to Saint Laurent, she said: “I go there and it gets rejected, and I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, this is embarrassing.’ Sky Ferreira: A Rebel, When Time Permits 2014-04-16T21:23:18Z

Too much movement or sound will wake him, and to be found out for something like this is not just embarrassing but potentially destructive. I masturbate while my husband sleeps 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

Exploring in a single exhibition this much material, often painful and embarrassing to the American psyche, is difficult. Review | The American Indian museum comes of age by tackling this country’s lies 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

The spectacle of talented cooks’ imitating the style of chains is embarrassing. Is Lodi Too Good for Rockefeller Center? 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

Which is, I think, a completely universal feeling, and one that's embarrassing for all sorts of reasons. Miranda July faces "The Future" 2011-07-27T00:30:00Z

I am now, finally, willing to admit deeply embarrassing things. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: The solution to all our problems? Soylent Gene, of course. 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

“I’m really, really that drama nerd person. I’m really nerdy about” — she silently searched for a less embarrassing phrase, couldn’t find one, and so said in a strangled voice — “‘creating content.’ Keke Palmer Keeps a Check 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

Andrew Colsky, the government expert who retroactively determined in 2006 that MacLean had unlawfully disclosed secret information, told the committee he was under “extreme pressure” to keep potentially embarrassing documents from public view. What happens when a whistleblower returns to work after a decade’s fight 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

The party’s caucus crisis was an embarrassing twist after months of promoting Iowa as a chance for Democrats to find some clarity in a jumbled field. Tech problem keeps Democrats waiting on who Iowa voters want for president 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

“Going broke to look rich is very embarrassing.” Jimothy’s Flex Looks a Little Different 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

Spencer, who is thin and handsome, soft-spoken and articulate, kept his cool while his dad, his face strewn with shaggy stubble, shared mutually embarrassing stories about raising him as the son of a rock star. Jeff Tweedy, of Wilco, Records With His Son Spencer 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

As far as my site goes, I’m using photos that these sites have already allowed, and I wouldn’t want to post anything embarrassing. 50 shades of Shutterstock 2012-05-29T01:00:00Z

If embarrassing someone was what it took to stop someone from driving drunk, I’m all for it.” The New Court of Shame Is Online 2010-12-23T23:45:10Z

In the first episode, Mannion is drafted to publicize a new government-smartphone-app program, despite knowing nothing about technology, a problem he compounds by embarrassing himself in front of a class of tech-savvy students. The Morning After: Back Into The Thick of It 2012-09-10T11:32:30Z

He digs deep, without any noticeable vanity, as someone plagued with embarrassing desperation, pathetically tugging on the jackets of those he wants to be around. The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: No 9 – Uncut Gems 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

An embarrassing final scene sees George sing Karma Chameleon while the whole A-Team sit down and appreciatively seat dance as if miraculously prefiguring The Voice. Pop stars who pop up as actors 2012-07-20T12:29:10Z

“It’s embarrassing to talk about,” she said when asked about her fashion choices. Up Close: Charlotte Gainsbourg ? Up Close 2011-11-09T23:07:30Z

When the lockdown came and my passport’s power shriveled, I made the embarrassing calculation that I’d been to four times as many foreign countries as I have U.S. states. Finding a Globe’s Worth of Art Treasures Close to Home 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Now other people have sorted through the discards, the rough drafts, the fragments, the songs that could have interrupted the flow of an album, the songs that might be forgotten gems or embarrassing dead ends. Arts & Leisure Preview: After Death, the Remix 2010-12-09T16:58:00Z

Unlike most fictional characters granted such powers, the narrator finds his new ability “loathsome and embarrassing.” Joseph O’Neill on the Burdens of Superpowers 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

Ms. O’Neal said that a few years later she ran into the crew member and it was shameful and embarrassing for her. Now Pass the Mic to Tatum O’Neal 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

“This is so embarrassing, disgusting, and an utter disgrace,” she wrote. Melania Trump’s office cut in half and White House residence has skeleton crew during shutdown 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

In another embarrassing episode, a video of Ford ranting in a Jamaican accent and slurring his words was posted online in January. Toronto Mayor Ford drops in on Jimmy Kimmel's late-night talk show 2014-03-04T06:28:22Z

"It was embarrassing when I became a teenager because you want your parents to be completely unremarkable, which is embarrassing now when you think about it," she says. My famous illustrator parents 2013-05-11T07:00:22Z

In the sun, it's slightly embarrassing, as if it's showing you too many flaws. Simon Hoggart's week: festival folks flip between jokes and soaks 2011-08-19T20:00:00Z

It’s pretty embarrassing, like sitting in study hall. On the Runway Blog: When Fashion Week Was Made of Simpler Cloth 2013-08-23T20:18:25Z

It's embarrassing but every time we meet with somebody we get asked: 'What do you want to do next?' Crazy like a fox: Norwegian comedy duo big on YouTube 2013-10-18T08:17:57Z

Because the word “sex” could not be used on television at the time, host Bob Eubanks often asked questions about “making whoopee,” which led to giggles, embarrassing comments and millions of viewers. Chuck Barris, ‘Gong Show’ host, author of ‘Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,’ dies at 87 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

Just turn the spines to face the wall, and then it doesn’t matter that one of them is an embarrassing title. 5 Steps for Styling Open Shelves 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

The evasiveness of their spokespeople on camera is often embarrassing, although perhaps the reason these NGOs wouldn’t want people building their politics around the film is its fast-and-loose use of highly questionable statistics. The unstoppable rise of veganism: how a fringe movement went mainstream 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z

Very often, the foreign language Oscar is an embarrassing misstep for the Academy. The Shape of Water's Oscars win is the triumph of a real artist and immersive cinema | Peter Bradshaw 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

But perhaps the most embarrassing twist in Corinthian’s recent history came earlier this year in California. Can’t a capitalist be moral? 2012-06-17T22:00:00Z

The dishy protagonists would look quite at home on one of the big screen's sunlit campuses; on the outskirts of Reading their allure is faintly embarrassing. Cemetery Junction may be joyous, but Brits were born to be glum 2010-04-19T10:03:00Z

“Memory,” then, is yet another embarrassing American adaptation. ‘Memory’ Review: Getting Too Old for This 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

“It’s a secret that we’re keeping because it’s shameful and embarrassing to us as a country,” Gutter said. Report: More than half a trillion dollars needed to fix U.S. schools 2013-03-12T12:15:00Z

It also feels somewhat embarrassing to be ‘sick’ — like a personal failure that one of my organs doesn’t work properly.” Listen up, doctors: Here’s how to talk to your patients 2012-05-23T11:45:00Z

At one point, he stripped to his underwear, a la Michael Keaton in "Birdman," and it was just as embarrassing as you might assume it would be. Academy Awards telecast is all too predictable 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

I’ve repeatedly found physical affection embarrassing and sex a wee bit soul crushing. Modern Love: Stuck at the Border Between the Sexes 2011-05-19T21:19:57Z

The government at first responded by wheeling out its major weapon, the Official Secrets Act, but with some embarrassing results. Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain by Christopher Moran – review 2013-01-10T08:00:01Z

The announcement follows an embarrassing data breach in April, which compromised personal data from more than 100 million online gaming and entertainment accounts and forced PlayStation Network to be shut for a month. Unauthorized access hits Sony PlayStation accounts 2011-10-12T13:57:28Z

Acceptances were brisk, and not all that embarrassing. The TV Watch: Veiled Apologies and Few Surprises 2011-09-19T04:28:08Z

Since his embarrassing antics — reportedly with Brazilian pole dancers, very young ladies, escort girls, etc. — it’s open season for divorce. T Magazine: Ciao, Amore 2010-10-13T15:00:00Z

The show portrays full-time childcare as exhausting, because it is, but not as humiliating or embarrassing. Dead Tree Alert: The Real Househusbands of TV 2013-08-15T14:04:31Z

It’s horrible and embarrassing and dangerous for our country. Sasha Velour: ‘Drag is darkness turned into power’ 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

As I read about the case and listened to the recorded conversations, taking in Buju’s brute talk of women and his hyper-masculine, almost embarrassing boasts about moving kilos, I was viscerally pained. Reggae star Buju Banton’s long walk to freedom 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

That film’s R rating came about because of a sequence in which Ms. Streep and Mr. Martin smoke a joint and suffer no adverse consequences beyond some potentially embarrassing giddiness. 2010-01-22T20:27:00Z

In the past the conceit struck me as predictable and a perhaps a little embarrassing. City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z

Mr. Kimmel found himself nearly sympathizing with President Trump: After all, he said, we all understand what it’s like to see an in-law do something embarrassing. Jimmy Kimmel Says Jared Kushner Is Making Your In-Laws Look Good 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

The story builds to an embarrassing moment for Kuhnke's character, who wails and wails in front of his family. 'Force Majeure' generating an avalanche of moviegoer reactions 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

In late 2014, the film industry was roiled by a wildly embarrassing hack. 6 Podcasts About the Dark Side of the Internet 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z

And if you don’t do X quickly, I will report the embarrassing information.’ The National Enquirer’s tactics have been revealed. But they’re not new. 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Kate remarks that she finds drug taking embarrassing because it was something older people did. Wild Abandon by Joe Dunthorne ? review 2011-07-29T21:58:00Z

If revealing his name would reveal something embarrassing about her or her past choices or the circumstances of your birth. Is it ever a good idea to keep a father’s identity secret? 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

“They wanted a happy ending for that embarrassing tale,” Mr. Lahr recalled recently by telephone from his home in London. John Lahr’s Biography of Tennessee Williams 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

Sharon, his wife of more than 30 years, said on CBS’s The Talk soon after that she was proud of him for owning up to the addiction, though it’s “embarrassing” to talk about. Ozzy Osbourne Says He Is In Therapy For Sex Addiction 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

“I got really wasted, and Mac helped me out, kept me from really embarrassing myself,” he said. A New Start And a Gumbo Of Old Sounds 2011-01-14T20:17:09Z

None of it is embarrassing, and Rhea's culture is even lauded by her school crush Max who deems the whole spectacle "legit awesome." Beyond brown shame: Refreshing "India Sweets and Spices" moves past struggles of hyphenated identity 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

Viacom chief Sumner Redstone is facing an embarrassing story about a voicemail message left to a reporter in an attempt to find out the source of a story. Viacom mogul tries to find reporter's source 2010-07-21T15:06:00Z

But it was embarrassing and bad that he said it. Al Franken and Olivia Wilde: Calling a Lie a Lie 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

But in that fleeting picture, he embeds a persuasive case for the codependency that rules them both, one that allows their partnership to survive, even in the aftermath of embarrassing, even humiliating, disclosures. Review | This new Broadway play about the Clintons’ marriage is as fascinating — and sad — as you’d expect 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

The common thread running through the essays in “So Sad Today” is Broder’s willingness to confess even those parts of her life that she considers shameful or embarrassing. The Hidden Vulnerabilities of @SoSadToday 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Like so many family movies of the past, "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" rests on the idea of the innocent and the unsuspecting caught in embarrassing, but amusing, situations. 'Alexander's' day isn't so terrible, film isn't so great 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

The music has to be brought to some level of respectability and not be embarrassing. Iain Banks: the final interview 2013-06-15T07:07:55Z

“To be against equality is embarrassing,” said Sanders, the Tennessee Equality Project director. Transgender teens face tough decision as Tennessee considers bathroom bill 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

A tally is kept of who succeeds and who doesn’t, with the loser being subjected to an embarrassing punishment at the end of each show. Television Review: ?(Impractical) Jokers? on TruTV - Review 2011-12-14T22:13:50Z

Some conversations get quite embarrassing, especially when people start to discuss their sex lives, or lack of sex lives, but that is probably because I’m a prude. ‘Passengers treat me like a therapist’: the cabbie, the hairdresser and others on the secrets they get told 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

For its risen stars, the film is now the largely estranged, embarrassing ex-schoolmate who turns up awkwardly at the wedding. Not coming soon: the star-studded films that almost didn't get released 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

It’s alternately stirring and embarrassing, a work so teeming that it needs to be approached with utter clarity if it’s not to seem simply messy. ‘Mass,’ Leonard Bernstein’s Teeming Effort From 1971 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

We've all been there: a family stroll through woodland with a new beau as our parents flit and fuss on the periphery, any last vestiges of cool evaporating in the heat of their embarrassing remarks. The new Cadbury Crispello advert 2013-05-18T05:00:00Z

In the clip, he asks her to name her most embarrassing moment. Their ‘Love Map’ to a Good Relationship 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

I am pleased and surprised to report that on the night I saw the show, none of these interactions felt remotely painful or embarrassing. Jonny Donahoe in ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ at Barrow Street 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

So Fishel started ruminating on her most embarrassing moments and came up with a book proposal. Danielle Fishel's world is in 'Normally, This Would Be Cause for Concern' 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Hart has a rather vile history of documented homophobia, ranging from offensive standup clangers to dumb interview statements to puerile tweets to a whole embarrassing film filled with it. Oscars host Kevin Hart's homophobia is no laughing matter | Benjamin Lee 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

“Maybe you’re right. Maybe you already knowing my references threatened me. It’s embarrassing. But here’s an upside: If I hadn’t been such an idiot then, we wouldn’t be sitting here now.” How My Worst Date Ever Became My Best 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

I mean, it’s embarrassing if you weren’t thinking of Tom Petty. | Rodarte for Opening Ceremony 2011-02-15T14:00:36Z

The culture industries rarely disclose how their goods get onto the Internet before they’ve hit stores – it’s embarrassing to admit that your own workforce is sabotaging you. Is piracy a radical force? 2012-09-03T14:30:00Z

“It’s hard. There’s so much attention being paid. It’s embarrassing.” Beloved author Judy Blume’s latest book and (supposedly) final tour 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

It is one of the more embarrassing ironies of the age that everyone who utters the phrase “But you can’t say that any more” has, quite literally, just said the thing you can’t say. Kevin Spacey and Louis CK have been out in the wilderness. Please, let’s keep them there 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

But he is also asked to mime the lyrics — he staggers under a bale of cotton, he lurches around drunk — in scenes that must have been as embarrassing to perform as they are to watch. Art Review: ?For All the World to See,? on Civil Rights Era 2010-05-20T21:48:00Z

I realized later that it wasn’t the topic of abortion itself that made her so uneasy—she was a nurse and a Roe-era feminist who usually responded straightforwardly to even the most embarrassing health questions. My Grandmother’s Desperate Choice 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z

“That was the more embarrassing part,” he recalled. Kehinde Wiley Puts a Classical Spin on His Contemporary Subjects 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

It doesn't sit uncomfortably with me, though: it's natural and important, not remotely embarrassing. United front: breasts without the airbrush 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

Last year — which also brought the embarrassing tragedy of eight Mexican tourists being mistakenly gunned down by Egyptian security forces in a desert in September — overnight visits sank to 9.1 million. In Egypt, a Setback for Tourism Amid Signs of Hope 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

Besides the quality of the film, what makes Benji so embarrassing? Emma Cline on the Movie Business 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

But this movie’s ache to believe in something, indeed in almost anything — in a highly sentimental and miraculous storybook teleology unhitched to any recognizable religious tradition — is so naked as to be embarrassing. “Winter’s Tale” and America’s tortured quest for the divine 2014-02-15T17:00:00Z

A sunny day means a laundry day, and laundry days fill me with an embarrassing amount of glee. It's spring: stop using your dryer already 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

It was a bit embarrassing, though, as she bought me the whole album. Six Songs of Me: Kele Okereke 2012-08-14T09:37:00Z

But it’s not like the best-picture nominees are bad films; in a clear break with recent Oscar history, there are no ludicrous or embarrassing entries on the list. The Oscars’ death spiral: The academy and Hollywood are locked in a crisis of their own making 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

"Friends used to bring it up more than I did because it's not like you want to brag about your embarrassing naked photo," Elden said. Naked baby from Nirvana’s “Nevermind” album cover sues for "child pornography" claims 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

But fast approaching 40, the age difference between Moyles and the DJ's intended audience of 18- to 30-year-olds has been starting to look embarrassing for some time. Chris Moyles: are you happy to see him go? 2012-07-11T11:47:31Z

At one point in the book, Anna gets a phone call from Chloe, threatening to tell Anna's class mates all of her embarrassing secrets if Anna doesn't let Chloe be Joe's girlfriend. Coping with Chloe by Rosalie Warren - review 2013-02-24T12:00:00Z

It is not that you are afraid he is looking at someone prettier; it is that he is embarrassing himself by harassing some other woman. Perspective | Miss Manners: Husband’s creepy habit is unlikely to change 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z

The internet is forever — and choosing not to drink and drive is the best way to avoid creating an embarrassing photographic legacy that may be very hard to erase, edit, or undo. On New Year's Eve, 22 smart reasons not to drink and drive 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

Thornton Fractional South, of Lansing, Illinois, was arch rivals with Thornton Fractional North, of Calumet City, and adopted an embarrassing secessionist as its mascot and franchise name. My hometown Confederate war 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

“He got Covid, and he shut down a state legislature. The only thing more embarrassing would be if he married his own cousin. He what?!” Late Night in 2020: The Show Must Go Home 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

These days, “The Mystery of a Hansom Cab” is frequently derided as ill-written or faintly embarrassing, although such reactions puzzle me. ‘Blockbuster!’: The strange tale of the best-selling crime novel of the 19th century 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

To see him being earnest as an actor, in a 1998 romance, felt wrong, embarrassing somehow. Jon Stewart, Employee of the Month 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

“Crisis or not, this is getting embarrassing,” he wrote. US rallies to stop British actors taking Hollywood movies by storm 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z

This is embarrassing us on a global basis. Wikipedia bumps women from 'American novelists' category 2013-04-25T10:45:32Z

As an expert on embarrassing moments, what makes one epic? Aisha Tyler on the Value of Failure (and Embarrassment) 2013-07-09T15:44:42Z

He also admitted the most embarrassing moment of his life was "publishing a poem of adolescent infatuation in my school magazine". Nick Clegg is runaway general election victor (in bookish vote) 2010-05-05T14:34:00Z

For every great scoop, there’s been an embarrassing moment of declaring the president statesmanlike for giving a speech without a history-making gaffe. Perspective | After 100 days, the media are still embarrassing themselves covering Trump. Just not as much. 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

When we arrived at the show, we immediately noticed there were plenty of older ladies who looked just as embarrassing as we did. Boy band revivals descend on Tacoma 2011-07-01T17:50:11Z

Removing them is often difficult, embarrassing or both. Perspective | When you leave a tip — whether you want to or not 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

And I was like, 'Wow, that's embarrassing, look at that number.' A Minute With: Matt LeBlanc on new 'Episodes' and life after 'Friends' 2014-01-08T19:04:57Z

Wow, more than an incident that led to embarrassing revelations about holes in presidential security? White House crasher Salahi ready for her close-up 2010-07-26T22:04:00Z

And some of it sounds, on the recording at least, embarrassing. John Adams's earthquake musical gets a welcome shaking down 2010-07-07T16:29:00Z

The results weren’t embarrassing, but they weren’t particularly distinguished or inspired either. A confusing but striking ‘Firebird’ comes to life at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

The result is by turns caustic, coy, baffling, impish, embarrassing, insightful and, as the pseudonym suggests, frank. Review: In ‘Black Exhibition,’ a Playwright Exposed 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

In addition to her anecdotal feature in the newsletter, she created the Theater Salaries Spreadsheet, a crowdsourced database that sheds an embarrassing light on a traditionally shadowy playing field. When Paying Dues Doesn’t Pay the Rent, How Does the Theater Survive? 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

“It’s so embarrassing; you think, ‘That’s the reason I’m an actor?’ ” Arts & Leisure: A Star Not Quite Overnight 2011-08-24T15:02:50Z

She called the article "embarrassing" for herself, family and friends. Charlotte Church accepts damages 2012-07-25T10:11:20Z

This wasn’t the Gray Lady’s only embarrassing misstep of 2015, nor was it the only time the Times apparently got played by unnamed and unreliable sources who may have been pushing a hidden agenda. The NFL doomed itself: “Concussion” filmmaker Peter Landesman on brain injuries, football and the “ethically challenged” New York Times 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

I think that, for supporters of God, it’s all rather embarrassing. The age of atheism: “If God exists, why is anybody unhappy?” 2014-02-15T15:45:00Z

No, it's just that I tend to celebrate Christmas with eating, responsible drinking and, erm, moaning about the Queen's speech as an embarrassing vestige of our feudal past. Season's readings: Babar and Father Christmas by Jean de Brunhoff 2010-12-03T11:22:00Z

Some might call me “low maintenance,” but in the three-and-a-half decades of my life, I’ve done hundreds of ridiculous, bizarre, and embarrassing things in beauty’s name. My year without makeup 2013-01-10T01:00:00Z

It wasn’t until she got home that she realized that the material on the pants had rubbed together to make the embarrassing noise. Girl warns against buying leather pants that make fart-sound in viral video: 'Save yourself' 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z

Out and about in Paris, Juliette had an embarrassing encounter with two university colleagues who sized up Noah and inquired pointedly about Etienne. ‘The Affair’ Season 3 Finale: A Day in Paris 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

In fact, what would be embarrassing makes me laugh. Peter Saul Doesn’t Want Any Advice 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

Nick does, however, have one the best job description chyrons with “tailor/magician,” but that doesn’t make him less embarrassing to introduce to your parents. The Bachelorette Watch: Desiree Enters The Thunderdome Of Love (and Hashtags) 2013-05-28T09:45:39Z

The reports about Mr. Weinstein were embarrassing to Cannes when they surfaced in October. Cannes, Where Weinstein Reigned, Reckons With #MeToo Fallout 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

There are few things funnier to a parent than embarrassing their teen. Parents' hilarious college dorm room gift for daughter is embarrassment goals 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

I've been eating brown rice and tofu and have been having embarrassing lunches my whole life. Jessica Seinfeld on being a part-time vegan: "If I can do it, anyone can do it" 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

But it’s embarrassing to see how hopeful he was about us: Asimov thought computers would have freed us from the most tedious forms of labor by now. When Science Fiction Comes True 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

Ian Jordan "The commentators on @BBCSport Winter Olympics are embarrassing. Cheering people falling over just because a Brit is going to win a medal." Olympic commentary draws complaints 2014-02-10T11:54:59Z

“When a musical doesn’t work—it’s such an embarrassing form—it doesn't work in a big way,” Marshall said after a screening earlier this month. How Rob Marshall Made Mary Poppins Sing Again 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

“It could have been embarrassing, if I couldn’t get cast in my own film.” Paddy Considine: ‘I never wanted to sell my soul for this’ 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

It's truly embarrassing that a male-driven genre has yet to mature beyond this point, and even more frustrating is that these two don't have more respect for their very large female fan base. We count every rap cliche in Chris Brown and Tyga's 'Fan of a Fan' 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

Guns N' Roses began their set almost an hour late – a record even in this week of embarrassing tardiness. Guns N' Roses bottled off stage in Dublin 2010-09-03T10:55:00Z

It doesn’t, however, excuse characters that are little more than props for embarrassing fashion or delivery systems for dated slang. ‘Ping Pong Summer,’ Michael Tully’s Nostalgic Comedy 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

On the Jersey Shore, officials are wasting little time in erasing the embarrassing error in the spelling of Lavallette on a sign directing drivers to the family-friendly beach town. Whoops! Typos on highway signs vex drivers from New York to Ohio 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Erskine's Maya is an explosion of unrestrained feelings and flailing, rubbery limbs capped by an embarrassing homegrown bowl cut. "PEN15" returns for another swim into the messiness of seventh grade 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

“I really don’t think much about that at all. It’s embarrassing.” At the Boston Symphony, Andris Nelsons Embraces Tradition but Looks Ahead 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

This is embarrassing, but I am a radically honest person, and I think he liked that. On the Runway Blog: Backstage McQueen: Q and A With Anne Deniau 2012-09-08T02:29:20Z

This month they mark their 37th wedding anniversary, which is, says Gallagher, “embarrassing for Hollywood”. Peter Gallagher: 'One of the most toxic things in the world is success' 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

My own journals from that time were full of embarrassing plans for self-improvement. Reading from my friend’s diary at her funeral felt wrong — back when we were still living off-the-record 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

Nothing is more embarrassing than watching a 50-year-old attempt to be cool. Readers' panel: What we think about Madonna 2012-02-10T15:51:39Z

Are you making up for some embarrassing time your trousers fell down when you were running for the bus? Olly Murs: 'The fastest I've ever driven naked is zero miles per hour' 2012-12-19T12:25:00Z

I remember every moment that I found profoundly embarrassing, and it's still horrendous. "I've done my share of bombing": Marc Maron talks about navigating failure, grief and embarrassment 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z

It is meant to evoke Riley’s transformation into some sort of mama bear-Batman hybrid, but the whole scene is just embarrassing. Review: ‘Peppermint’ Is Neither Sweet Nor Good 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Poet Alex Dimitrov summed up the criticism on Twitter: “It’s truly embarrassing to have the first gay presidential candidate of this magnitude be this conservative — next.” Review | Chasten Buttigieg’s ‘I Have Something to Tell You’ is refreshingly candid, but a missed opportunity 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

Though the character of Aibileen is portrayed in a sympathetic, even saintly light, she endures the racial insults of the time, something that Ms. Cooper said she found “embarrassing.” A Maid Sees Herself In a Novel, and Objects 2011-02-17T23:18:41Z

Marriage is an adult relationship: it separates the men from the boys and because of that I can trust J fully with the most embarrassing details. Want good sex? Get married 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

I don’t know that we need to process in depth embarrassing failures. 10 Questions With Brené Brown 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

The family is religious, she doesn't drink or smoke, and she is glad the profile of Mormonism has risen a little recently, so there aren't so many embarrassing questions or misguided stereotypes. Stephenie Meyer on Twilight, feminism and true love 2013-03-11T06:00:03Z

“It is rather an embarrassing lack of achievement for this economic powerhouse,” he wrote. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

“It was embarrassing to come into the office and see that your boss had been in a Twitter fight at 3 in the morning,” said the former staffer. Neera Tanden’s confirmation fight is the first morality play of post-Trump Washington 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z

At the time, Stamos' spokesman said there was nothing embarrassing about the images. New charge filed in Stamos extortion case 2010-04-20T18:46:00Z

But the show itself is often frustrating, facile — even a little embarrassing at times. Review: A Garden Idyll for Noguchi’s Stones and Steel 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

And also fairly embarrassing to partisans on both sides and ruinous to the movie’s sensuous, twee magic. ‘I Origins,’ an Emo-Science Thriller From Mike Cahill 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

She seems to know that being an actor, being a person, is nearly always at least a little embarrassing. In ‘Fatal Attraction,’ Lizzy Caplan Makes a Mess 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

All told, it just seemed silly, and a little embarrassing. Is Star Trek Into Darkness Too Dark? 2013-05-17T22:17:31Z

That and your intimidation say your biggest obstacle is your preoccupation with not embarrassing yourself. Carolyn Hax: Workaholic ready to dip a toe into the dating pool 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

The finale was bad, the showrunners appeared to demean their own fans at a film festival and HBO had to perform an embarrassing about-face when it came to making a prequel. Is it time to restrict nude scenes to the over 50s? 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Caligula was an embarrassing calamity, but it was at least fun to make. Malcolm McDowell: 'I have no memory of doing most of my films' 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

It’s probably embarrassing for an academic, but I have no books in this apartment, other than the one I am reading at the time. A Soothing Skyline and a Weimaraner, ‘the Most Architectural of Dogs’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

In that time, looking for a partner online has gone from weird to a bit embarrassing to totally normal. Perspective | Ghosting is normal now. That’s completely bonkers. 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Dadouncement: The old man’s embarrassing habit of saying things like “I’m off to lose a few pounds” when he leaves the table holding the newspaper. Style Invitational Week 1422: The Collaboratory 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

This will subsequently lead to an embarrassing shortage of bog rolls. Joanna Lumley's Nile and How to Win the TV Debate 2010-04-13T05:45:00Z

I understand that that would be embarrassing to him. Eric Fischl Goes Back to His Future 2013-05-15T23:11:56Z

It’s 1877 in Tupelo, Miss., and Bella is a young Black woman guilty of nothing but embarrassing a rich white predator. 8 Things to Do This Fourth of July Weekend 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

It’s enough to remind you how much scarier Donald Trump might be if he were a dashing middle-aged man who could actually string a few sentences together without embarrassing the entire human race. “Robin Hood” review: Revisionist history has never been dumber or more boring 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

For most people, the most embarrassing experiences of their lives, they don’t want to tell everybody, they go to therapy to get it out of their psyche. Aisha Tyler on the Value of Failure (and Embarrassment) 2013-07-09T15:44:42Z

But for every person who’s annoyed about having their embarrassing beach body posted online, there are other people who get upset that their significant others asked them not to post something. If You Need a Social Media Prenup, Your Relationship is Already Doomed 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

I wanted to protect her from that dissatisfied self-scrutiny—and the embarrassing attempts to “fix” our perceived flaws. Motherlode Blog: Makeup, and Feminist Guilt, at 13 2012-04-30T00:18:39Z

That’s an idea, something bigger and more productive–and funnier–than just: “Wouldn’t it be hilarious if we had two guys who are always saying really embarrassing, racist things.” TCA: Dads, FX, and How to Do Offensive Comedy Right (and Wrong) 2013-08-02T20:13:11Z

Ted Danson is the grumpy oil man, keen to drill in Alaska, but who sort of redeems himself, and Barrymore plays a Greenpeace activist, doggedly embarrassing the big corporations for despoiling the environment. Big Miracle ? review 2012-02-09T22:36:01Z

What is the most outrageous, embarrassing, indecent, or plain wrong thing you have witnessed another passenger – or, ahem, yourself – doing on public transport? Who can match G?rard Depardieu's alleged airborne pee? 2011-08-18T12:18:59Z

The winning idea was an app that uses an interactive “spin the bottle” feature to make the sex talk less embarrassing for families. Sex Ed, for Grown-Ups 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z

It is based on the vaguely embarrassing experience of shopping for clothes with your mother. No Guns, No Dragons: Her Video Games Capture Private Moments 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z

The policy is designed to generate either an ethical conflict for the critic, who cannot accept freebies, or an embarrassing public scene, which would cast doubt on the critic’s ability to write a fair review. From Dallas’s top kitchens, reviewer Leslie Brenner is feeling the heat

First there is the Prometheus DVD, which is being marketed with an almost embarrassing level of contrition. The Dark Knight Rises and Prometheus DVDs to shed a little light 2012-10-08T11:47:04Z

“The Christians in my life would find it blasphemous,” she says, “and the scientists would find it embarrassing.” Review | Yaa Gyasi’s ‘Transcendent Kingdom’ is a book of blazing brilliance 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Watching Berman persist is fascinating, embarrassing and undignified, like a politician on “Dancing With the Stars.” ‘The Amazing Johnathan Documentary’ Review: The Joke’s on Who? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

There were embarrassing videos released to the world on the Internet. Police: Singer Amy Winehouse dies 2011-07-23T16:56:09Z

Bright-eyed and pink-cheeked, swaddled against the elements in a kaleidoscopically patterned scarf and a hat shaped like a cinnamon bun, she offered, as she does onstage, the embarrassing minutiae of her day-to-day life. For Margaret Cho, Nothing Is Too Private for a Punch Line 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

Couric also tells of an embarrassing night downing shots at a disco where she got so sick she ended up in the hospital. In memoir, Katie Couric writes of feeling betrayed by Lauer 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

The whole thing raises questions of the type it is almost embarrassing to contemplate; it’s almost like “Donnie Darko,” for little kids. | 'Hop': Bunny Doesn?t Want to Work, Just Wants to Bang the Drum All Day 2011-03-31T22:41:55Z

"There's nothing inappropriate, embarrassing or awkward about asking about gratuities or tipping, whether people accept them, what usual amounts are." Should you tip your kid's camp counselors? The answer is tricky 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z

“You all just saw me cry, that’s embarrassing,” she said after the song was done. At Billie Eilish’s Arena Show, the Only Spectacle Is Herself 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z

His interviewing technique was relaxed, and he never shirked an awkward or embarrassing question. Obituary: Alan Whicker 2013-07-12T11:45:54Z

Beyond such embarrassing observations, U.S. officials fear the book may include classified information, as it did not undergo the formal review required by the Pentagon for works published by former or current Defense Department employees. SEAL book raises questions about bin Laden's death 2012-08-29T12:12:09Z

Further instructions force him to carry on a running dialogue with his mysterious tormentor while playing this embarrassing excuse for a piano concerto. Movie Review: In ‘Grand Piano,’ an Unknown Stalks a Musician Making a Comeback 2014-03-07T01:12:49Z

That dude is so bent out of shape about so many things and so am I, because everything is horrible and embarrassing. Samantha Irby: By the Book 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

It feels almost embarrassing to use those words in 2019, but that is what I engaged in last week. I'm on a lads' night out and my friend's just been homophobic. What do I do? | Romesh Ranganathan 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z

The underlying logic is fundamentally irrational: Because they’ve financially supported these industries their whole lives and received an embarrassing social stigma for doing so, these industries owe them. Toxic white male nerd avengers: What’s really behind the “Suicide Squad” super-fan freak-out 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

Keep it up for two more years, until he hits adolescence and/or it seems forced or embarrassing to one or both of you. Ask Amy: Parents wonder how to discipline other kids 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

The Independent, which describes the show as "embarrassing" and "trashy," writes that "everyone seems to be watching in secret." Why trauma is cozy on “Virgin River” 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

Everything from our presidents' most famous speeches to their most embarrassing moments has inspired legendary stories that aren't supported by facts. From George Washington's teeth to Taft's bathtub drama: 6 presidential myths, debunked 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z

Travel Association described the current screening process as “inconsistent,” “stressful,” or “embarrassing” than described it as being “fair” or “effective.” In Transit: Air Travel Survey Reveals Negative View of Screening 2010-12-24T19:20:59Z

In the new format, Flanagan will be joined by families in the studio, who will share with him embarrassing moments they've immortalised in home movies. Is the Edinburgh comedy bubble about to burst? And X Factor, the musical 2012-08-14T14:40:09Z

It is acutely embarrassing to hear about hot flushes, diseases of the ovary and the possibility of womb removal transmitted … at two o’clock in the afternoon.” What science doesn’t know about the menopause: what it’s for and how to treat it | Rose George 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

“Ah, this is embarrassing,” he said with his hands on his hips. Benjamin Walker, Sexypants Vampire Hunter 2012-06-17T06:13:01Z

Nobody likes to remember themselves as a student, but the fact that De Niro ended up supporting Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook means that this isn’t very embarrassing at all. Journalist to travel show host: Bradley Cooper's pre-fame adventures ranked 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

It’s embarrassing and somewhat depressing to tell interviewers about it. @Work Advice: So you were fired. How to talk about it during future job interviews.

Pascal's exit had been predicted by some analysts after hackers released embarrassing private emails she had written, including racially insensitive banter she exchanged with producer Scott Rudin about President Obama. Amy Pascal's exit hints at new script for Sony 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

You are totally embarrassing me in front of my friends. Congress invokes power of White Stripes, Led Zeppelin 2011-04-11T12:01:00Z

The 200-plus-page document filed Tuesday resurfaces two potentially embarrassing episodes from Pressley’s legal career, casting her as a lawyer with a checkered ethical record. Papers seek removal of a Cosby attorney 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

They were accused of demanding money from Stamos in exchange for turning over embarrassing photos of him. Stamos wants to be heard at Mich. court hearing 2010-10-02T02:55:00Z

Shocked, he realizes that this might refer to something embarrassing he did precisely 200 million years before. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Complete Cosmicomics,’ by Italo Calvino

"Ghosts" interprets the spectral state more lightly, making the space between life and whatever comes afterward embarrassing and occasionally rowdy but ultimately bearable. Between "Ghosts" to "Not Dead Yet," it's starting to look like TV is having a season full of spirits 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z

I let it affect me because it was embarrassing. Kelly Reilly: 'I'm not an exhibitionist' 2011-01-02T00:05:11Z

Through Boyle, Plaintiff Pluto acknowledges its status as "the embarrassing weird uncle of the solar system." 'The Case for Pluto': a plea for respect for the 'weird uncle' of the solar system 2010-03-23T21:12:00Z

He played some more clips and a behind-the scenes reel, and then said of his weeks of sendoffs and praise, “I can’t tell you how flattering, embarrassing, and gratifying it has all been.” Goodbye, Dave 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

It seems to me not embarrassing or shameful but just self-defeating and a little sad to forego such pleasures in favor of reading a book that might just as easily be enjoyed by a child. Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Any worst or embarrassing moment from the filming? Molly Ringwald Talks About the Most Embarrassing Part of Filming 'The Breakfast Club' 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

How will the industry bounce back from the embarrassing publicity? Humor: Landed at the Wrong Airport? Imagining a P.R. Response 2014-01-30T15:59:31Z

Don't share embarrassing photos that you think are adorable but your child most likely does not, and refrain from "liking" said photos. Should teens "friend" parents on Facebook? 2011-01-31T16:07:04Z

Dirty words, embarrassing stains and much more talk about sex than actual sex. Movie Review | 'She?s Out of My League': Playing the Odds of Love 2010-03-12T04:47:00Z

Prueher was then a producer on The Late Show with David Letterman, where "part of my job was to track down embarrassing old footage of celebrities and actors". Found Footage festival: 'Stupid videos might be the international language' 2012-06-18T17:50:49Z

For some children, having Mom or Aunt Jessie comment is just plain embarrassing. Cyber Parents, Accessing Perhaps, TMI 2013-05-03T22:57:13Z

When Homeland delved in there was an embarrassing moment involving Arabic graffiti, while Scandal’s treatment of real-life events were so ham-fisted that other show’s parodies made it look tame. 'Daca dramas': how immigration became US TV's new obsession 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

The escape itself was alarming and, for prison officials, embarrassing, and the manhunt was expensive, grueling, and scary for a fair number of people. Matt and Sweat’s Prisoner’s Dilemma 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

As a consultant, I attend a lot of my clients' holiday parties, and it's sometimes embarrassing. How to be a great holiday guest 2011-12-21T17:16:04Z

Now a history teacher in Brooklyn, Levy spoke with Reuters about being the only Jewish person in the province, some embarrassing language mistakes and what he learned about his assumed Chinese name. New memoir navigates rural China's social minefields 2011-08-04T14:16:16Z

To me, it was just another embarrassing stunt. Portrait of the artist: Sarah Parish, actor 2010-08-03T07:43:00Z

Were it discovered to be true, he tells her, it would be embarrassing for everyone. Homeland recap: season six, episode two – The Man in the Basement 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

It’s all going so well until a tabloid publishes a moderately embarrassing if damaging old photograph of him. | 'The Adjustment Bureau': Creepy People With a Plan, and a Couple on the Run 2011-03-03T20:00:07Z

It's actually considered embarrassing to be seen there by some groups, and I think some people are barely aware of their existence. Five reasons why I love my library 2012-11-13T11:38:56Z

A few news outlets wrote up the find, which was more comical and embarrassing than scandalous. Said something you’d like to forget? CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski won’t let it go. 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

I'm letting people in on that, even though it's kind of embarrassing sometimes. "I'm actually not freezing my eggs": Nikki Glaser opens up about comedy, fertility and oversharing 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

I arrived in shorts; it was so embarrassing, because everyone was wearing trousers. Happy birthday, Gen Z: celebrating with 16-year-olds around the world 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

Novels, historical tomes, movies and plays also contain references to locked letters with important and potentially embarrassing content. A Trove of ‘Letterlocking,’ or Vintage Strategies to Deter Snoops 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Watch an unwitting idiot have a nervous breakdown in real time in this embarrassing and self-absorbed memoir. How Rekindling a Love for Tennis Turned Into a Raging Fire 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

The sitcom's parents, whether that refers to Red and Kitty, or Donna's parents Bob and Midge, are stodgy, grizzled, intimidating or simply embarrassing. "That '90s Show" is here to remind Boomers, Gen X and Millennials that we're all alright 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

The often faintly embarrassing rustic masque also becomes a Slavic peasant ritual plausibly filled with "sunburned sicklemen, of August weary". The Tempest ? review 2011-04-10T20:31:00Z

But a lead role in this horrendously misjudged gun lobby drama is an embarrassing awards plea that removes Chastain from the Oscar conversation entirely. Nah Nah Land: the hyped films that failed to get any Oscar nominations 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

The unsuccessful efforts of Beth Israel Medical Center to squeeze a major contribution from its most peculiar long-term patient are especially embarrassing. Books Of the Times: ‘Empty Mansions,’ About the Heiress Huguette Clark 2013-09-04T21:26:20Z

My grandmother openly favored me in such blatant and obvious ways that it was embarrassing to me and created a rift between my siblings and myself. Ask Amy: Couple decides on deep-freeze to break up friendship 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

As embarrassing as enjoying pumpkin pie was, I was also going through a whole lot of other changes. The evolution of my Thanksgiving plate 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

I ladled a huge spoonful into a bowl and topped it with a little shaved parmesan and an embarrassing amount of oyster crackers. Burned Out: When you're sick of cooking, embrace the comfort of "sick day" food 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z

The hardest part — and maybe, the most embarrassing part — will be that phone call to the rental company, where you confess to a run-in with a redwood. Perspective | So your rental car is damaged. Now what? 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

The causeway homeless were evicted in 2010 after they became too visible and embarrassing, Mr. Banks said, and there is now a chain-link fence and a No Trespassing sign barring access to the area. Russell Banks Talks About ?Lost Memory of Skin? 2011-10-14T16:59:08Z

The only downside of her dress is that she had to constantly keep her arms at her sides otherwise the dress would fall completely off, which would have been very embarrassing. Oscar dresses reviewed by a man who knows nothing about fashion 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

It's an uncomfortable experience, embarrassing for everyone involved not because of any squeamish subject matter – quite the contrary, seeing retirement-age characters are refreshing – but because the story structure is so fake and so plodding. And So It Goes: embarrassing for everyone – first look review 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

"This is, on a personal level, probably the most seriously embarrassing thing I've ever seen," BBC Trustee Anthony Fry told the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee in June. Mark Thompson recalled to face MPs 2013-10-18T10:51:34Z

He’s always been a character, but the portrayal here is as moving as an embarrassing high school play. Joey Ramone's Posthumous "...ya know?": You'll Almost Wish You Didn't 2012-05-22T10:45:20Z

Sometimes Joyce Carol Oates sends out a Tweet that essentially paints her as that embarrassing great aunt who comes to family functions. Joyce Carol Oates tweets: With ISIS, 'is there nothing celebratory & joyous?' 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

While it’s “a little embarrassing” to admit, he’s basically the same shoe size Guillory was at 13 so he kept both pairs for himself. Kicks: sneaker violence gets its own movie 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Is it embarrassing telling people you met on a show where the commiseration prize is a microwave meal? Dogs, hypnotism and full-frontal nudity: how dating shows got weird 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

These days such beliefs seem as outdated and embarrassing as jokes about bra-burning feminists. Hello World: Where Design Meets Life by Alice Rawsthorn – review 2013-05-10T13:00:03Z

A slew of emails, including embarrassing exchanges about some of Hollywood's biggest stars, have also been leaked. Rogen 'objected to Jong-un film cut' 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

It’s an embarrassing fact of life, not an impassable barrier to communication. “But you’re basically white, right?”: I’m Latina and I don’t speak Spanish 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

My teacher pulled me in front of the class, castigated me for the “trivial” book, basically embarrassing me in front of my peers, and ended by chucking my paperback in the trash. Brad Taylor Has a Theory About What Makes for Good Thrillers 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

But most of the embarrassing stuff happens to him, anyway. Davy Rothbart on Tour for Book; Peter Rothbart, for Album 2012-09-19T22:57:14Z

It’s something I find hard, mainly because I don’t like that type of behaviour and find it embarrassing, but most of the time I try to ignore it. My husband’s boasts are worse since Brexit – and I can’t stand it | Dear Mariella 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z

No one understood my halting, embarrassing attempts at speaking French. Caitriona Balfe: The First Time I Left Home (and Fell in Love) 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

If you are then brave enough to tender an invitation, the entity will obligingly possess you while your guffawing friends, smartphones at the ready, gleefully capture its disturbing, sometimes embarrassing behavior. ‘Talk to Me’ Review: Letting the Wrong One In 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

Part of the inspiration came from reality television, particularly shows exposing intimate and embarrassing details of celebrities' lives, Phoenix said. He's still here: Phoenix rises again with 'Master' 2012-09-11T16:50:31Z

It was a bit embarrassing because I was standing in front of the entire high school and I was wearing this jacket that made my shoulders look weird. Experience: I saved my school bus from crashing 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

“It was also a little insane, a lot terrifying and sometimes wildly embarrassing. So this is not a story I ever planned to share with anyone.” Shonda Rhimes Will Publish Her First Book Later This Year 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

“I can’t tell if it’s embarrassing for me to be very good at this,” he said. Ben Schwartz, the Voice of ‘Sonic the Hedgehog,’ Hits the Arcade 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

It’s not OK for her to put you in an embarrassing and awkward situation, which I think is what happened the other day. My mum and maths tutor are flirting, right under my nose | Mariella Frostrup 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

I was almost the only chubby guy, and it was embarrassing for me. Sebastien Tellier on Eurovision 2012-05-25T23:03:00Z

The subject of what they have to say is profound enough to feel embarrassing. Review: ‘The Encounter’ Is a High-Tech Head Trip Through an Amazon Labyrinth 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

The book recalls an even more embarrassing slip-up, when Eric was a high school freshman and decided to quantify everything he knew about his female schoolmates. Books of The Times: ‘The Unknowns’ Is Gabriel Roth’s Debut Novel 2013-07-10T20:23:36Z

But he has built his reputation on a willingness to ask celebrities — and especially politicians — questions that are considered embarrassing, outrageous or disrespectful. ArtsBeat: Supplying Brazil's Laugh Track 2011-08-04T12:00:43Z

If I tried to phone a friend, a goblin would answer first: “Bothering your friends with your issues again? You’re embarrassing yourself.” My therapist helped me manage my negative thought goblins | Coco Khan 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

It was an amusing - and embarrassing - display of the food world's split personality, an ever growing chasm between how real Americans eat, and how real foodies want real Americans to eat. Of droughts and foie gras angst _ the year in food 2012-12-18T16:28:09Z

“I gave them carte blanche to ask me anything, whether it’s embarrassing, personal or whatnot,” said Folkman, who even has a bit of college acting experience. A blend of food and comedy in ‘The Dish’

But it is slightly jarring to find that the stuff you always found hideously embarrassing is back in fashion. The hippy is back: not so cool if you remember it the first time round 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

His jokes were not a match for my father’s humor, an occasionally embarrassing mainstay of our family trips dating back to the 1980s. Parents in Tow, Finding a Charming and Cheap Corner of Panama 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

They calculated this by adding all the ages of everyone in the Bible, which must be incredibly embarrassing for most mainstream Christians. My return to the Creation Museum 2012-07-31T00:00:00Z

The letters were passionate and at times rather embarrassing. The secret sister my father kept hidden 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

I watch news reports interviewing people in embarrassing hats that declared their affiliations or see photographs of bustling crowds in cavernous halls, and think Ah, those were the days with some strange, inexplicable, happy glow. Are Political Conventions the New Comic-Con? 2012-09-05T12:00:17Z

Though she is fully invested in her glamourous duty to carry the torch for all transgender people everywhere, I hope Jenner also finds the freedom to be embarrassing and strange. ‘I Am Cait’: Reacting to all the ways that reactions can be reacted to 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

Or is a brilliantly sustained if embarrassing faux-documentary criticising the cult of celebrity, the media and a gullible public? I'm Still Here 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

It’s sort of embarrassing to talk about it, because that shouldn’t have been such a shock. When Russia was the villain: How this moment echoes the era of Cold War spy novels and ‘Rocky IV’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

An embarrassing collaboration with a German pop star, Orlando. Andreas Scholl, countertenor – portrait of the artist 2013-03-19T19:30:00Z

“If people saw how tremendously unfunny he was, it would be embarrassing.” Bernie Sanders is the most humorless 2016 candidate. How did he land the comedian vote? 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

“That was an embarrassing moment,” he said in a telephone interview as he was driving through New Hampshire. New Host Needed: Be Prepared to Fill Big Shoes 2011-05-14T04:00:03Z

“You can’t tell embarrassing stories about me,” I warned my father. My father, the woman 2012-06-15T23:30:00Z

It’s not that I haven’t read the Jane Austen novels — I have — but it’s still embarrassing to have to be told by well-meaning friends and my wife what I’m supposed to get from them. John Lewis Gaddis: By the Book 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

Then she took aim at women's magazines that usually relegate female comics to embarrassing and demeaning photo shoots, saying that wasn't the case with Glamour. Amy Schumer makes no apologies in NSFW thank-you speech 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

An evening of hip-hop improv that asks you to lock up your phones and unlock an extremely embarrassing moment, which the cast then riffs on, runs out of rhymes. 11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

“Why is that more embarrassing than endlessly looking at a phone?” my friends said when I complained. Why I’m Breaking Up With the Apple Watch 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

His determination was made after hearing from three witnesses who testified Alpha Walker and Tamara Diaz attempted to sell a potentially embarrassing film to the Grammy-winning musician. 2 accused of extorting Wonder ordered to trial 2012-07-12T21:41:08Z

What was your most embarrassing moment?They happen every day. Q&A: Matt Smith 2013-03-30T08:00:07Z

The roasters knocked back glasses of Maker’s Mark on brown leather sofas in front of a roaring audience, tossing insults, good-natured middle fingers and embarrassing personal stories Mr. Carville’s way. Kennedy Center Goes for Ribald Laughs With District of Comedy Festival 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

On the TV game show “I’ve Got a Secret,” Meadows joined a panel of four celebrities tasked with guessing a funny or embarrassing hidden fact about guests. Jayne Meadows, actress and chatty wife of Steve Allen, dies at 95 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

No stranger to embarrassing evidence, Gibney said he insisted on creative and editorial control over the film, which he said the family allowed him. HBO's 'Sinatra: All or Nothing at All' sums up his life and career 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

The day after the subdued and embarrassing valedictory dinner, Hoberg panics, deciding he doesn't want to collapse into retirement and old age yet, and begs the dean to cancel the whole thing. Liberal Arts – review 2012-10-04T14:30:01Z

It’s really embarrassing, but it got me another audition!” For her role in ‘Dumbo,’ Nico Parker has a polar bear to thank 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

In "Knight and Day," the movie's absurd physicality is played as effortless clowning replete with repartee that is supposed to remind you of 007 but in fact is embarrassing flat and banal. "Salt" adds flavor to summer movie menu 2010-07-18T17:58:00Z

No matter how embarrassing, media can provide an opportunity for a bonding moment with your child — something David Gottlieb of Arlington, Va., didn’t get when he was a teen. Watching edgier TV with your kids during the pandemic? You’re not alone. 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

Her bid to be Miss Seventeen was ultimately unsuccessful and she found the show a tiny bit embarrassing. Two Filmmakers Write Their Own Love Story 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

I’ve worked as a journalist, but I’m a private person, and it was embarrassing to be caught mid-sob and to have such raw moments become public. Our marriage can’t be denied 2014-01-12T00:00:00Z

From the shocking to the sweet to the embarrassing, these live stories are told for an audience of you. Love live storytelling? These 8 podcasts tell the good, bad and mortifying truth 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

Most attempts to do what Irby does achieve little more than permanently tainting one’s Google results and embarrassing one’s loved ones. Some Personal News From Samantha Irby 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

Look at Robert Downey Jr., Rob Lowe or even Drew Barrymore: after a series of embarrassing drug-related incidents they all disappeared for a while, only to come back with better career choices than ever. Why Lindsay Lohan won't be winning an Oscar by 30 2011-04-27T13:15:00Z

And he proclaims his affection for all things Wynette openly in outbursts that only barely avoid being embarrassing. Books of The Times: Stand by Your Singer and Her Art 2010-03-03T22:54:00Z

“In my 22 years, I never remember him embarrassing anyone personally,” Kathy Welling, a member of the alto section, said Saturday. J. Reilly Lewis, organist, choral director and Bach authority, dies at 71 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

He and his wife will probably divorce soon — there are financial and legal complications — and our commitment to each other is real, and yet it's still a rather embarrassing situation for me to be in. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Why is my sister withholding information about our tax disparity? 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

His voice loses fullness as it ascends, his R&B melismas are whiny, and his patter is embarrassing. Queen + Adam Lambert Take On Madison Square Garden 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

But it’s all predicated on something embarrassing happening to someone rich and/or attractive. Golden Globes: thank you, famous people, for embarrassment, insincerity … and Mel 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

"And sometimes that made her do ridiculous and embarrassing things." Publisher, author, pioneer: Danielle Dutton's very Virginia Woolf life 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

You’re taking away from their experience when you scream, complain and act in such an embarrassing manner. Rant & Rave: kind firefighter and plant-stomping jerks 2013-06-05T23:39:19Z

“It’s not pretentious that I’m an artist. It’s not corny to sing songs that maybe other people think are depressing. It’s not embarrassing.” Cat Power Has a Lot to Be Proud Of. Now She Knows That. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

There's also fedoras, fiddles and a nauseating nod to when Jack and Meg would sing together and it'd be a bit embarrassing to watch. This week's new tracks 2012-08-10T23:05:29Z

How can I decline their embraces without offending them or embarrassing myself? Social Q?s: My Plate Is Full. Yours Is Borrowed. 2010-12-30T22:16:22Z

An embarrassing anecdote may be funny — but this may not be the time to share it. 7 Tips for Avoiding a Wedding Toast Disaster 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

I saw it in previews and found the production interminable and embarrassing, albeit pretty to look at. Review: Uma Thurman, Trapped in Trumpland in ‘The Parisian Woman’ 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Global Live Events apologised for its "oversight" in booking Kiss, which the Jackson estate described on Monday as "extraordinarily embarrassing". Gene Simmons can Kiss goodbye to Michael Jackson tribute concert 2011-08-17T10:04:18Z

Figuratively, it can be used to convey how one feels after an embarrassing interaction with a crush, the exhaustion of living through a pandemic and, of course, sarcasm. The Melting Face Emoji Has Already Won Us Over 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

I'll make a somewhat embarrassing confession right here: I've never seen the original "Dirty Dancing" movie, but I have seen the sequel/spin-off/whatever it is, "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights". The minty banana salad (yes, banana) that stole my heart 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

No one said or did anything excessively moving or embarrassing, if you don’t count the person who picked the lavender shorts suit Alan Cumming wore in the show’s opening. Critic’s Notebook: The Tonys Show Celebrates the Stage Without Any Real Theater 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

"It was between the ages of 17 and 22," she explains, as though talking about an embarrassing teenage ailment. The rise of Andrea Riseborough 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

But the exaggerated self-incrimination is mostly there to skim some embarrassing earnestness off the top of what she's actually come to say, which is usually something tender, wise, and kind. Have we forgotten how to read critically? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z

He is also expected to turn into a running joke last year’s embarrassing best picture envelope mix-up that saw musical“La La Land” being declared winner instead of“Moonlight.” Oscars best picture suspense crowns tumultuous Hollywood year 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z

In other words, the South is America, and its history and influence cannot be dismissed as an embarrassing relative at the nation’s holiday dinner table. Searching for America, South of the Mason-Dixon 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

Don't big horizons, peach-coloured hills, Joshua trees, hallucinations and enigmatic Indians properly belong to road movies and embarrassing rockers such as Jim Morrison? Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru ? review 2011-07-27T10:30:00Z

“It’s just embarrassing to have it up there.” The Latest High School Prank? It’s a Snooze. 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

The writers were asked to write down their most intimate, embarrassing, and meaningful high-school experiences, a list was were circulated among them for inspiration. Judd Apatow’s Guidebook for Comedy Geeks 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

One slip of the finger, and that embarrassing selfie has gone to someone random instead of your friends. Selfies, Snapchat and sassy ladies: a teen's guide to social media 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

Songs like "Die Die Die," "January Wedding," and "Ill With Want" were almost embarrassing in their guilelessness. Avett Brothers disarm audience at Paramount 2010-07-19T19:02:00Z

The story might be embarrassing, she argued, but at least she’d handle it sensitively. How Liz Smith invented Donald Trump 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

This is writing that is attuned to the tug of unspoken desire that threatens to drag us all under, but also to the embarrassing misunderstandings of everyday life. The Lady from the Sea ? review 2010-10-19T20:30:00Z

It was the most embarrassing moment of my life, and I really cared about that show. "I'm actually not freezing my eggs": Nikki Glaser opens up about comedy, fertility and oversharing 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

It was a little sad and a little embarrassing to me, but I wasn’t the one trying to keep the lights on. Paper Magazine, the Oral History: ‘They Were Wide Open’ 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z

He gave embarrassing performances, said insulting things from the stage and sometimes forgot the lyrics to songs. Joe Cocker, singer known for his raspy voice and unbridled performances, dies at 70 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Jamie, whose brand of awkward includes perpetually flushed cheeks and blurting embarrassing portmanteaus, is nervous about his upcoming canvassing gig for Jordan Rossum, a local candidate running for State Senate in a special election. Working for Social Change, High School Students Find a Social Life 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

I learned this when delivering dialogue: pull your energy back a few steps, halve it—a slightly embarrassing but valuable lesson in restraint. My Cancelled Detectives 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

“Pretty embarrassing, but you do what you have to do,” he says. The pandemic was hard on office suck-ups. Now they’re back and ready to schmooze. 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

Comically, Harry again manages to get her to recount her fantasy, even though she thinks it's embarrassing, by telling her not to tell him. The best scene in "When Harry Met Sally..." – the fake orgasm – was a group effort 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

“I did a disgraceful thing to get Judi to do the movie, which was heinously embarrassing, that I’ve never told her,” Mr. Parker said. The Carpetbagger: Writers Rethink Words for the Big Screen 2013-01-02T23:34:49Z

His comic shtick, like Doctor Brown's, involves the audience in a clever and subversive series of sometimes embarrassing visual jokes. Clown takes Foster's Edinburgh Comedy award for best show 2012-08-25T17:55:38Z

"It's a scandal and it's embarrassing," he said. Berlin wall removal project stalls amid protests 2013-03-01T13:58:17Z

How embarrassing for the museum — a mortification repeated time and again during the past year, as story after story of Cosby's accusers rolled through the press. National Museum of African Art hurts itself with show from Bill Cosby art collection 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

Something is being swept under the rug, in this case an embarrassing secret involving Russian prisoners of war who fought on the side of the Germans. | 'Foyle?s War': ?Foyle?s War? Returns, Starring Michael Kitchen 2010-04-29T22:05:00Z

No Oxbridge irony here: this is a direct expression of needfulness and vulnerability, deeply embarrassing and pretty wonderful because of it. DVD: Will Hay and Norman Wisdom Comedies on DVD 2013-01-19T15:00:00Z

I was having this dream, that was actually one of those embarrassing dreams, where you’re mortified in the dream, you’re like humiliated. Taylor Swift Talks Business 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

My workplace problem is extremely insignificant and frankly embarrassing in the scheme of things. Perspective | Ask Amy: Sandwich issue brings Costanza to mind 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z

For a television show as crazy-successful as “Idol,” the program’s direct imprint on popular music is embarrassing. ‘American Idol’ ruined how we listen to singers. Did Auto-Tune fix it? 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

It's just, sometimes the conversation about women at the awards shows becomes so reductive and small, it's embarrassing. Three women in 'Hot Pursuit' of laughs -- and audience and respect 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

It was one of the most embarrassing moments of my entire life. The problem with being 'badass' 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

But had the Afghans treated the impostor's moderate proposals with even a smidge of the skepticism Spence and Kate show toward even such a paragon as Poitier, surely this embarrassing situation might have been avoided. How to catch a Taliban impostor 2010-11-24T01:01:00Z

What I thought was romantic was just embarrassing. Robin Thicke on ‘Blurred Lines’ and Learning From His Mistakes 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

More embarrassing, though, and much more painful, was the nude photos leak in August 2014. Jennifer Lawrence: whip-smart and witty star who likes a good fight | Observer profile 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z

He also was asked about his most embarrassing moment, Nickelodeon said. Nickelodeon TV says Romney skipped kids' questions 2012-10-08T22:04:08Z

Neither the Kennedy Center nor the White House wants an embarrassing scene that would make international headlines. Trump’s absence at Washington’s premier social event is a relief for some. But the prestige of the presidency is missed. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

It’s embarrassing how you’re not even trying to make sense here. Is the Catholic church even trying to make sense on marriage equality? 2013-05-09T14:49:00Z

As recently as the Trayvon Martin murder, the denomination has struggled with embarrassing racist taint. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z

Bow Wow was recently the subject of an embarrassing internet craze after being caught ‘lying’ about flying on a private jet – when in fact he was riding on a commercial airliner. Bow Wow Denies Claims That He Paid Fans to Chase Him Down the Street 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

It was feared that if White failed on the show, which already was a huge hit, it would be embarrassing for all four. Betty White, TV’s Golden Girl, dies at 99 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

The legend certainly still seems relevant in light of the endless stream of high-profile men whose embarrassing escapades make headline news. Music Review: Young Singers Take on an Old Story of Love 2011-07-15T21:38:51Z

Here, there’s a lingering sense that being a dad who wears a baby carrier—without the excuse of, say, being a widower, as on TV shows past—is embarrassing and unmanning. Dead Tree Alert: Daddy Issues; Plus, What Shows Do Right By Dads? 2012-06-07T13:50:34Z

But it’s not always easy for C.K. to relate to those little angels, as witnessed in his famous The Who singalong — Dad, you’re embarrassing me!  Last night’s “Louie” reveals the engine behind Louis CK’s hate-parenting 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

Every little breakthrough of friendliness is quickly followed by another argument, a spat of defiance, an embarrassing display of rudeness. Review | Emma Donoghue’s ‘Akin’ sends an odd couple to France 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

One of the most embarrassing moments was when I was on holiday in Athens and they sent me all these references for the performance art. Jemaine Clement 2010-08-28T23:05:00Z

A few weeks ago, during another unseasonably warm fall day, my husband, in a pensive tone, posed a question: “Will it be embarrassing for you, to put your coat on again this year?” The Amazon Coat, One Year Later 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

Has anything embarrassing happened to you on stage? 'Album saved us' 2010-04-05T06:19:00Z

Oh how I will delight in embarrassing them, though. You've Come a Long Way Daddy 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

A detail that he found a little embarrassing but I read as thoughtful and charming. Date Lab: Talking politics on a first date is usually a no-no. But it couldn’t be avoided after a year like this one. 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

Argentina's 11,000 Falklands veterans were not greeted as heroes, but shunned by the dictatorship as the reminder of an embarrassing defeat. Falklands war TV drama tells forgotten story of Argentina's soldiers 2013-04-14T12:23:43Z

He’s a regular guy perpetually threatening to turn into that guy, embarrassing the rest of us by association. Review: Ben Stiller Is a Dad With a Bruised Ego in ‘Brad’s Status’ 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

If he loses ground now, it will surely be because of his embarrassing defensiveness, which has not, up until now, received the uninterrupted airtime that it got last night. Hillary Clinton’s Miss Universe Moment 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

Now on his fifth album, and following the acclaimed Smoke Ring for My Halo, the songs seem to be flowing with embarrassing ease. Kurt Vile: Wakin' on a Pretty Daze – review 2013-04-04T21:03:01Z

Each episode is simply a candid, funny, often affecting conversation between Nanjiani and Gordon on all sorts of topics, whether pop culture favorites, embarrassing childhood memories or the psychological toll of the pandemic. 7 Podcasts From Familiar Faces 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

It is a little embarrassing that even the Golden Globes, which used to be famous for their puzzling nominations, now recognize great new series and breakout performances before the Emmys.  Emmys 2015: Our take on bad habits, bright newcomers, 'Modern Family' 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

My first job, in business journalism, was in a fairly high-pressure environment and involved a good deal of social drinking, and I drank to embarrassing excess more than once. 'I quit my job. Drink gushed into the space I left for it': confessions of an alcoholic 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

God knows what a hundred employees writing endless emails might say that is embarrassing, stupid or subject to misinterpretation. WikiLeaks publishes security think tank emails 2012-02-27T07:19:00Z

The same font delivers the poetic majesty of “Visions of Johanna” and the embarrassing plonk of “Wiggle Wiggle,” a song that, you’ve hopefully forgotten, includes the line: “Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup.” One way to enjoy Bob Dylan’s songs without hearing his voice 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

Toward the end of their senior year, they “won so many diversity and leadership awards that it was kind of embarrassing.” Review | In lipstick and five o’clock shadow, this activist is reshaping how we define gender 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

But to offer an album of rehashed standards as your latest opus is the embarrassing sound of a 66-year-old man with nothing new to say who insists on speaking up anyway. Tom Petty and Steve Miller: boomers with something to prove 2010-06-10T20:55:00Z

It’s embarrassing that one of New York’s major museums was not involved with this endeavor from the start, especially given their avowals to diversify on all fronts after the murder of George Floyd. Robert Colescott Throws Down the Gauntlet 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

You go through a lot of really embarrassing stories. “Archer” and “Bob’s Burgers” star H. Jon Benjamin is more than just a pretty voice 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

And there's always that sort of fantastically embarrassing thing when somebody suddenly says they've made a record, and would you give it a listen. Nick Hornby's favourite music – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-07-10T10:11:50Z

When he called me the next day and asked me to dinner, I knew I was saying yes to more than enchiladas, beer and an embarrassing mariachi band. Modern Love: Did Mother, Maybe, Not Know Best? 2014-02-06T23:27:15Z

Personal emails between them, many embarrassing and confrontational, about a potential Steve Jobs movie were released as part of the massive hack of Sony's computer system in November. Sony faces creative uncertainty as Pascal prepares to exit 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z

The gun battles are incoherently filmed, and the flag-waving is embarrassing. Review: In ‘London Has Fallen,’ the President Must Be Saved From Terrorists 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

And it highlighted an age-old rift, bringing some potentially embarrassing behavior out of the shadows. Internet Cat Video Film Festival, at Walker Art Center 2012-08-31T19:55:50Z

On one occasion she failed to keep an embarrassing secret of his. A Writer Gets Candid About Marriage and Humiliation in ‘The Trouble With Men’ 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

Well, perhaps, but the reason Hamlet and his unfortunate mother should leave that goblet well alone is that it is full of poison, not that it might get them into an embarrassing argument about transubstantiation. Shakespeare's Restless World by Neil MacGregor - review 2012-11-23T22:55:02Z

Instead, it's a genuine pop epic embarrassing everything Vampire Weekend have put their skinny indie bongos to. This week's new singles 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z

The Enquirer has a long history of collecting embarrassing information on celebrities and using it to manipulate them to advance its interests. Oddly enough, the National Enquirer looks like it acted honorably with Sarah Jessica Parker. 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

It was a bit embarrassing to begin with, but has proved a solid investment. Breaking bad: how to give up drinking, smoking, nail-biting and other unwanted habits 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

I thought there was a lot of opportunity there to really explore something we find taboo, in some ways, and a bit embarrassing. Sheen sex drama heads to Channel 4 2013-07-22T11:53:28Z

I snore and then it's embarrassing, but I really can't control it. Envelope, please: Oscar leaders deemed nap-worthy 2013-02-12T16:19:08Z

It was almost embarrassing to be with them. Modern Love: When a Former Life Beckons 2011-01-14T00:17:13Z

What’s embarrassing is that it took me so long to think of it as a film.” An Explorer of Black History?s Uncharted Terrain 2011-05-14T04:00:03Z

The relatively calm and affluent years of Bill Clinton’s second term—with its tech bubble, budget surplus, easy credit, and Pottery Barn—may feel vaguely embarrassing twenty years in hindsight. Under the Crushing Weight of the Tuscan Sun 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

Some, like the women’s various breakdowns, are played with an embarrassing expressionist bent. ‘Complicity’ Review: A Muddled #MeToo Drama 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Though some adults consider reading YA embarrassing,both Shoemaker and Benton believe the content of YA literature lends itself to wider audiences. The Rise Of Young Adult Authors On The Celebrity 100 List 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

What was your most embarrassing moment?Having a loud and lengthy rant about my mother-in-law, hearing a toilet flush, and beholding her exiting the bathroom glaring at me. Q&A: Paul Theroux 2013-05-25T07:00:09Z

And Livingston, in his memo, didn’t mention stories such as the discredited theory that a Democratic National Committee staffer named Seth Rich was murdered as payback for leaking politically embarrassing DNC emails to WikiLeaks. As Sinclair’s sound-alike anchors draw criticism for ‘fake news’ promos, Trump praises broadcaster 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

"By far the most embarrassing moment of my life!" Woman recalls awkward moment with waiter in viral TikTok: 'Most embarrassing moment of my life!' 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

Tate’s blog posts spanned the entirety of her children’s life, including embarrassing experiences with potty training, temper tantrums, experiences with “mean girls” and more. Mommy blogger takes heat for posting about daughter despite girl's protests 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z

The pride I take in my recipe, and how I came to develop it, is frankly a little embarrassing. Be the most popular person at a Super Bowl party: make my 'ceviche method' guacamole 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

Their advocacy results in big, embarrassing airline fines. You’ve never heard of these people, but they’ve changed the way you fly 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

In sitcoms, it’s been the season of the embarrassing dad. Television Review: MTV’s ‘Faking It’ Stars Katie Stevens and Rita Volk 2014-04-21T21:55:24Z

“The press treated our warnings about Russia like it was spin we’d cooked up to distract from embarrassing revelations — a view actively encouraged by the Trump campaign,” she writes. Seven talking points about Hillary Clinton's new book, 'What Happened' 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

So, it was cathartic for me to play that embarrassing role. "The Death of Dick Long" dares you to love the men who love Nickelback 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

In “Unwanted Advances,” Laura Kipnis singles out her agent, “who helped shape the book after some embarrassing early struggles with tone.” With a Little Help From Their Friends (and Agents and Librarians and Fact-Checkers ...) 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

“For every match. Every one. And it was just too embarrassing to go.” Tim Roth: ‘If you neglect the working class for so long they will rebel against you’ 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

Or in the consulting class, which is nothing short of embarrassing. ‘They never saw this coming’: A Q&A with Kellyanne Conway 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Some of them are frankly pretty embarrassing, but I’m hardest of the two songs that I put on. You Must Hear This! The New Tweedy Brothers 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

I’m afraid to bring up conversations with her to avoid the embarrassing skepticism. Ask Amy: Seriously ill mother also copes with tough teen 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

We talked for a long time about geodesic domes, until it was almost embarrassing. 'Meeting new women became an addiction': one woman, 30 dates 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

In our long, sometimes painful interviews, they never tried to cover up the embarrassing bits. U Be Dead's inconvenient truths 2010-09-01T20:59:00Z

Everything is embarrassing, the boys determine; everything in middle school, everyone changing at different rates, is so embarrassing. "Stranger Things" and the heartbreak of growing up 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z

Heather M. Nicholson recently shared a post to Facebook detailing the embarrassing incident, which involved her young son, Hunter, and a thong. Kid found mom's thong stuck to his pant leg at school, mortified mom reveals in viral post 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

It’s not particularly embarrassing to admit that you’re an amateur gardener or an amateur baker; outing yourself as an amateur actor invites mild ridicule. Put Down Your Book. It’s Time to Act Out. 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

Once merely embarrassing and ridiculous, the annual White House correspondents’ dinner is poised to tip over into journalistic self-abasement. Cancel dinner plans. Send ‘nerd prom’ to the history books. 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

Charlie’s Angels may have been an embarrassing 1970s artefact, but its flaws were converted into knowing fun by the 1999 movie version. Rise of the reboots gives new life to Rocky and Ghostbusters 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z

Then, of course, there’s a more embarrassing reason these courts don’t go after foreign responsibility: judges and prosecutors don’t want to get into trouble with permanent members of the U.N. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Fulfilling as it would be to change your friend’s behavior, confronting her about it is unlikely to accomplish more than embarrassing both of you. Perspective | Miss Manners: My co-worker thinks I don’t like her 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

“It’s kind of embarrassing now that we’ve become friends, but I really don’t know that much about him,” Mr. Owens said. Hedi Slimane, Designer Turned Photographer, at the Top of His Game, Again 2011-11-09T23:26:41Z

I never had a person who could talk candidly with me about embarrassing or scary changes in my body and make them no longer seem so mysterious and foreign. Defending that "Oppenheimer" sex scene as a Hindu woman who delved into my religion's sacred truths 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

“There was nothing I felt was too embarrassing or too gross.” Jenny McCarthy’s absurd Playboy hypocrisy: “They weren’t the girls that had just got off Monday nights on the poles” 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

For the most part, dramatized lives of the artists -- on film as well as on stage - are flat-out embarrassing when our hero is shown in the Act of Creation. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Lives of the Artists 2012-09-20T16:23:38Z

The potential for embarrassing misunderstandings here seemed almost too fraught to bear. The Year in Stupidity 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

London’s tabloid papers, which once dined out on every morsel of Charles’s messy personal life, now have little appetite for embarrassing the sitting monarch. ‘The Crown’ Could Have Damaged Charles. Becoming King Has Helped. 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

They take no interest in the process of arousal or the way exquisite, elaborate and even embarrassing language can be part of it. At Under the Radar, Stories Unfold via Sexts, Tweets and Puppeteers 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

A particularly embarrassing casualty was David Crosby, who was so confused he seemed barely present during his chaotic duet with Ms. Baez on the Beatles’ “Blackbird.” Review: Joan Baez and Friends in a 75th-Birthday Celebration of Duets 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

In a now-deleted tweet, Hollywood Unlocked had issued an apology for the story and described the entire situation as "embarrassing." Inside the rumors about Queen Elizabeth II, who is not dead yet nor using ivermectin (probably) 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

“New generations come along all the time who don’t know who you are. It gets very embarrassing. Go to the man behind the desk at the hotel. You go, ‘Mr. Mathis.’ Johnny Mathis, the voice of the ’50s, was always ahead of his time. Now he’s ready to talk about it. 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

With their sound effects and dance moves, they’re goofy and a little embarrassing in that parental way, but they’re also two adorable peas in a pod. The many types of romantic-comedy best friends 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Aside from that, Hour 2 of Thursday’s show was just embarrassing. ArtsBeat Blog: 'X Factor' Watch: A Bit of Magic Amid the Clunkers 2011-09-23T15:24:47Z

Pevsner, one of his guides, found it "embarrassing to see his embarrassment". A stage of her own: Elisabeth Scott and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre 2011-01-29T00:06:16Z

Rather than hold a trial on these issues, the US shipped him back to Britain; rather than risk further embarrassing disclosures, the UK government settled Binyam's civil claim for damages. Cruel Britannia by Ian Cobain - review 2012-11-23T08:00:01Z

In lesser hands, it could be an embarrassing exercise in cod-Elizabethanism, but Loudon Wainwright III brings the future Henry V to life with wit and feeling. Readers recommend: songs about Shakespeare – results 2013-02-14T14:00:01Z

This fondness for someone who egged on the mob that threatened to kill him is an especially degrading form of self-abasement that’s embarrassing to watch. Loyal to God and Trump, Mike Pence Defends His Record 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z

The woman refused to speak to the paper for the story, saying only, “It’s a very personal, humiliating and embarrassing thing I went through.” Journalism fails a sex assault investigation: St. Louis newspaper publishes woman’s name, photo, personal details and “night of partying” 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Federal prosecutors are also investigating whether the email hack, which has featured embarrassing exchanges from such figures as Sony Pictures chief Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin, was in fact mounted by North Korea. Sony wrestles with how to market 'Interview' amid geopolitics, scandal 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

Seth Meyers’s opening monologue: Background required to understand jokes: Like other celebrities, professional athletes are occasionally fatuous and commit embarrassing acts in their personal lives. Sports Comedy for Sports Non-Fans: Recapping the 2010 ESPYs 2010-07-15T12:53:00Z

A formerly homeless man met with the woman who changed his life by sharing an embarrassing photo of him on Facebook. Woman apologizes for viral photo of homeless McDonald's worker: 'I didn't want to hurt him' 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

Of the concert itself, I recall almost nothing besides the screaming, a hive hysteria as hard to explain as it is embarrassing to relate. The Beatles Awaken a New Sensation 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

“They wanted something that wouldn’t be so embarrassing to wear to school,” Ms. Posner said. The Girl Scout Uniform, Updated for Gen Z 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Some theme-reinforcing passages go on too long, and plays that show artists at work are almost always embarrassing, even when it involves Balanchine choreography. Theater Review: ‘Nikolai and the Others,’ by Richard Nelson, at the Newhouse 2013-05-07T02:00:01Z

“Hitch-22” has its share of words like “embarrassing” and “shame” and “misgiving.” Books of The Times: ?Hitch-22: A Memoir? by Christopher Hitchens 2010-06-01T22:25:00Z

"It's embarrassing that I ever said those types of things," she reflected. Lori Loughlin’s daughter Olivia Jade on college admissions scandal: "I don’t deserve pity" 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

“Brooks got the better of two officers, and I know it was embarrassing because it’s on video,” Taylor says. The duty and burden of the black police officer 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z

They all too eagerly fall for a plot cooked up by their supposed friend, Dr. Falke, who is taking revenge on them for an embarrassing episode a few years earlier. Opera Review: Die Fledermaus at the Met, via Douglas Carter Beane 2014-01-01T16:04:50Z

A contender for the most embarrassing must surely be Sally Field's "You really like me!" Academy Awards A to Z 2011-01-24T16:19:17Z

Scheinert: It's the human experience that kind of fascinates us, like just whose quote is it, "How embarrassing to be human"? We're all just like, "Oh, what are these weird things?" Directors on the ADHD theory of "Everything Everywhere All at Once" 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z

“It was just embarrassing and hurtful and sad,” said Mrs. Wallace, who hasn’t read the book. What Change Could Look Like 2010-10-22T22:30:00Z

No competent proofreader would have allowed such an embarrassing farrago to go to press. Review | The story behind some of the world’s most awe-inspiring magic tricks 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Opioids are perceived as an embarrassing blight in already depressed areas of the country, and addiction is largely seen as a metaphor for weakness, a failure of the will. Nan Goldin Survived an Overdose to Fight the Opioid Epidemic 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

Think-ter: The muscle in one’s brain that contracts to prevent crude or embarrassing thoughts from emerging. Style Invitational Week 1078: Hyphen the Terrible — neologisms plus winning parodies

It’s embarrassing, and I don’t get why this happens over and over. These parents like to entertain, but they are embarrassed when the kids seek attention 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

Publishers are invited to get in touch with Lost in Showbiz regarding a proposed coffee-table book, which would celebrate the most embarrassing direct actions of the modern era. The Anti-Beyoncé Protest Rally – who's racist now? 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

I promise not to be too embarrassing, either about nudes or about my love of the gallery. Putting the sex back into nudes 2010-10-27T15:03:00Z

It's embarrassing to say now, but I thought I hated tuna. “Little bit of this, whole lot of that”: A curry tuna salad sandwich inspired by my dad 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z

"Since before she was born, we have looked forward to the teenage years when we could have a little fun embarrassing her with all our parental love," Whitney Scott of Arkansas, told Fox News. Parents' hilarious college dorm room gift for daughter is embarrassment goals 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

Like any courtier, you fall out of favour from time to time, and looking back at my diary it is embarrassing to see how often I was on the verge of resigning. 'Tony Blair called back to see if I had blown myself up' 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

She has influenced me with her drive and passion, but she can be embarrassing, too. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

"People in the arts community are still shaking their heads and wondering what that was about. The performance was one of the most embarrassing I've ever seen." Music Center's next boss, Rachel Moore, gets bravos from L.A. arts leaders 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

As “The Comedians” opens, this semifake Billy is hoping to sell FX a one-man series, which we see just enough of to realize that it would be embarrassing. Review: ‘The Comedians,’ Starring Billy Crystal and Josh Gad 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

The opening weeks of his administration were marked by personnel clashes, embarrassing leaks, and a controversial travel ban that caused major protests at airports. How Melania Trump blocked Ivanka Trump from encroaching on her domain 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

She receives a standing ovation, prompting her to joke that “you’re all only standing because I fell and that was embarrassing.” Happy 90th birthday, Oscar. You must remember this? 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z