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Example sentences for: embarrassing

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An LAT piece reefered on its front cites a rebellion of ambassadors from Third World countries "that helped bring the WTO summit to an abrupt and embarrassing halt."
Lacking the self-monitoring skill that's crucial to a really good writer, she projects ugly fixations onto Scarpetta, remarking constantly--and with embarrassing, naked approval--on her blond, "Teutonic" looks.
"It will be embarrassing enough if the current calcium hype is simply useless; it will be immeasurably worse if the recommendations are actually detrimental to health," he writes.
But "after Germany joined NATO in 1955, the Christian Democrat government in Rome didn't want to ruin its relationship with its new partner by holding embarrassing trials," the paper said.
Newspapers noted congressional Republicans' tepid reactions and carried obligatory references to the "surreal" juxtaposition of the widely acclaimed speech with Clinton's embarrassing Senate trial earlier in the day.