Sentences with phrase «by embarrassed silence»

Not exact matches

the moderate answer is, «Well, sort of...» followed by either a lot of confusing talk or an embarrassed silence.

This produced silence in the room, for a moment, Luther's glands were working and his whole person was deeply embarrassed and upset, to judge by the frequency with which he returned to the event later in life.

Don't embarrass yourself by rushing to fill the silence with something silly.

Some sit in near total silence, push out their books without any notice, almost as if the writer was embarrassed by what they're doing or is so fearful of failure that they try everything they can not to draw attention.

The intertwining of the white and black Alston clan in a rural region of North Carolina and Georgia is investigated by filmmaker Macky Alston, who searches for possible family links buried in unspoken memories and embarrassed silences.