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Embarrassment in sentence

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Despite some good production values and the performance of Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Kellogg, I thought that "The Road to Wellville" was a major embarrassment.
I can still remember my wife and I discussing the movie for weeks after first viewing it - with a little bit of embarrassment but over-all just plain laughter!!
The concept of life after the big one is an interesting premise, but perhaps there has never been a show about a serious subject on the laughable scale as this embarrassment.
After its initial embarrassment by Twitter in 2009, the Iranian government was able to suppress the country’s “green” movement in 2010.
Indeed, Hiroshima and Nagasaki seem an eternity ago; new nuclear-weapons states have emerged without the world ending; no terrorist nuclear device has threatened a major city; and possession of nuclear weapons, for the states that have them, seems to be a source of comfort and pride rather than concern or embarrassment.
That view was embraced by the Obama administration, leading to some embarrassment this summer for new Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
What should have been a mere extension of the millennia-old art of building pedestrian bridges, proved to be a modern engineering embarrassment.
Too big and cumbersome to be ignored, they are a constant source of embarrassment for the parties that have been in government since the global financial crisis of 2008, especially for former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who hopes to rekindle his political career in March.
So, when it comes to explanations for the dollar’s decline over the past year, we are confronted by an embarrassment of riches.
Europe's leading economies, like Germany, are a fiscal embarrassment.
Many Europeans feel all three candidates are superb, and that, contrast to previous elections, America is suffering from an embarrassment of riches.
The move seems also to be motivated by Bakr’s support for a teacher’s strike in the West Bank – an embarrassment to the Abbas government.
It is an embarrassment bordering on defeat.
Republicans’ disaffection could be enhanced if – as now appears likely – Trump’s private interests are not sufficiently disentangled from his public responsibilities, making him something of an embarrassment.
Parliament’s functioning has become, to most Indians, an embarrassment and, to many, an abomination.
Until his assassination, Fortuyn's rise was conspicuous because he flaunted his wealth in the land of "the embarrassment of riches."
Europe's embarrassment is not likely to worsen, nor last very long.
During his stint as foreign secretary, Johnson was a near-constant cause of embarrassment for the UK, with gaffe after gaffe leaving Britain’s friends abroad with their heads in their hands.
The trickiest cases are in a third category: private conversations whose disclosure is bound to cause offense, embarrassment, or tension, but has no obvious redeeming public-policy justification.
Asia's Growth Model Still Holds TrueWith the proverbial benefit (and embarrassment!) of hindsight, it is clear that the patterns of growth that occurred over the last half-century were little understood and rarely (if ever) forecast by economists.
Political embarrassment mounts.
The “virus” of depression and schizophrenia, including their milder forms, is cultural in origin: the embarrassment of choices that these societies offer in terms of self-definition and personal identity leaves many of their members disoriented and adrift.
The modern history of female sexuality has been plagued with misinformation, embarrassment, and sexual frustration.
These more than 100,000 deaths are a tragic indictment of India’s economic “miracle,” and an embarrassment for a government eager to promote India’s image as an up-and-coming global economic and military power.
Could the rollout last fall of the inferior Apple Maps, which sent people to the wrong destination – causing severe public embarrassment and leading to a managerial shakeup – foreshadow a time when Apple’s best days are behind it?
(Nor do many elderly white men in California, because even they are capable of embarrassment.)
Bush's position is more than wrong; it is an embarrassment.
And yet, despite our obvious ability to produce much more than we need, we do not seem to be blessed with an embarrassment of riches.
Eight years after its bankruptcy, the Greek state’s persistent insolvency remains an embarrassment for Europe’s officialdom.
China’s official behavior following the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo turned an embarrassment into a public-diplomacy disaster, and China’s neighbors have been disturbed by Chinese efforts to throw its weight around.
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