When I hear that I laugh and say «I win, you lose» which is always meet by embarrassed silence. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
Some had a particular and curious hatred for St John Paul, announcing that there would be a Divine intervention to prevent his canonisation, only to fall into embarrassed silence when that prediction failed along with others. (faith.org.uk)
Matters of theory rarely disturbed the 20th - century palaeontologists; they assigned species names to practically every fossil they found until biologist Ernst Mayr, wielding insights from genetics, stunned them into embarrassed silence. (newscientist.com)