Sentences with phrase «embarrassed silence»
"Embarrassed silence" refers to a situation where people feel awkward or ashamed and choose to remain quiet instead of speaking up. Full definition
When I hear that I laugh and say «I win, you lose» which is always meet by embarrassed silence.
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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.
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.
7 Simple Ways To Have An Endless Supply Of Great Conversation Topics - Do you ever get stuck for words or experience embarrassing silences when you meet people?
Correctly assuming most of us exist in embarrassed silence when it comes to what the Bible...
In this, as in so many things, people of conservative temperament look around for the person who will speak for them and find only an embarrassed silence.
Such reflections were met by both embarrassed silence and cries of outrage.
the moderate answer is, «Well, sort of...» followed by either a lot of confusing talk or an embarrassed silence.
Smothers takes the yo - yo on the golf course, he explains, in order to defuse the embarrassed silences that follow his poor shots in the many pro-ams in which he plays.
There's often an embarrassing silence from Labour MPs when Corbyn stands up in the Commons and the cheering comes from the Conservative benches opposite.
Ahead — it is plan well on a date to avoid, this embarrassing silence be prepared.
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.
For the family, it saves you the embarrassing silence over Thanksgiving Dinner when Grandma asks what you do, and you don't have the «family - oriented» elevator speech prepared.