Example sentences for: embarrassingly

How can you use “embarrassingly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It's "what happens when too many mystics attend a Hollywood pitch meeting" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics also dislike the hackneyed plot twists and "embarrassingly silly dialogue" (Emanuel Levy, Variety ). They find Washington his usual charming self, but some reviewers wonder why his characters never have romantic relations with white women.

  • But as far as American journalism is concerned, that pronouncement is not quite correct, because more often than not American journalists began and for an embarrassingly long time continued not with Vladimir or Ilich (as the founding Bolshevik is sometime affectionately called, peasant-fashion by his patronymic) but with Nikolai Lenin.

  • The willowy Thurman looks great in her outfits, but it's ever more apparent that she isn't much of an actress--at least, not a trained one--and her attempts at insouciance are embarrassingly arch.

  • His early days in office were marked by embarrassingly thorough diktats aimed at purging French of Anglicisms and frothy tirades against the Deauville festival of American film.

  • Moreover, chimps are the civilized ones, while humans--slow, clumsy, embarrassingly hairless--are a primitive joke.


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