Sentences with phrase «embarrassment about»

It seems like these peddlers are preying on people's embarrassment about going to a clinic, like you mentioned — maybe it also has to do with a lot of people's suspicion toward the «medical establishment» as well.

Debt: If there's debt, couples can be avoiding talking about it due to embarrassment about that debt, guilt about the debt, or even fears.

Unfortunately, only 50 percent of ex-servicemembers who need mental health services receive treatment because of barriers that include: embarrassment about service - related mental disabilities; long wait times to receive treatment; the perceived stigma associated with mental health issues; and a lack of understanding or awareness about mental health problems and treatment options.

«Shelly, After following you on Facebook for almost a year, I decided I needed to put aside my embarrassment about our credit situation and give you a call.

, peer grading teaches them that some assignments don't matter; that they don't have to work too hard on those assignments because the teacher will never see them anyway; and that they can ease their embarrassment about their own errors by teasing those whose scores are a little lower — or significantly higher — than their own.

«More needs to be done to teach young girls about the benefits of exercise and to help them overcome the embarrassment about this perfectly natural time of the month.

Over the next few days, Becca and Tyler witness incredibly strange behavior from their Nana and Pop Pop — Nana shuffles through the house at night, and Pop Pop is extremely secretive about a shed on the property — but each explains away the behavior with excuses of elderly sundowning and embarrassment about getting older.

There was no embarrassment about the convention at the time, and why should there be?

«Other issues include poor quality matches (and thus time - consuming «weeding» needed) and embarrassment about being seen on a dating site.

But divorce is mentally and emotionally exhausting, and the next four years of my life were consumed with shame and embarrassment about who I had been and who I had become.

I had great muscle definition and minimal body fat, no embarrassment about my body or any pudge, and I had no fear of ever losing that body.

It deplores «liberal conservatives» embarrassment about traditional Tory positions on immigration».

Spare your child any embarrassment about his or her habit.

A friend of mine who teaches music, once mentioned how surprised she was when at a music class for < 5 yrs: the children were already exhibiting embarrassment about their abilities — embarrassment that they had learnt from the adults around them.

Even overweight boys may be inspired to exercise more, but obese boys may avoid physical activity due to embarrassment about their size.

End the anger, resentment and embarrassment about your child's attitude and behavioral outbursts

(And, of course, the man who was totally confused over my embarrassment about my unflattering uniform.

Anything that heightens their embarrassment about their stupid bigoted beliefs is a good thing!

As a Frenchman, I experienced a vicarious embarrassment about my country's role in the post-World War I creation of Czechoslovakia and, even worse, Yugoslavia.

Hopewell is aware, for example, that «embarrassment about the body is not some remote Victorian quirk; it happens every day in most seminaries.

For the moment, though, it is sufficient to observe how deeply it has influenced contemporary theology, leading at times to utter embarrassment about the idea of revelation.

Even in the study of the human, there is some embarrassment about a full acknowledgment of the complexity of human purposes.

The Bible reflects no embarrassment about this variety of usage.

Maybe you don't have any embarrassment about claiming that Noah fed and cleaned up for many kinds of dinosaurs on his voyage.

In other words, there's much less embarrassment about asking to be paid for services provided, and there's more openness to those who can bring something new to the table.

Not exact matches

But over the past year, the company has endured a series of embarrassments: soft sales, see - through pants and insensitive comments about plus - sized woman by founder Chip Wilson.

«Embarrassment all over campus from the rank and file about the Kin announcement,» wrote one Microsoftie in an e-mail to Silicon Alley Insider, a popular tech blog.

The biggest embarrassment came when we discovered that sections of the extended intervention into the French debate about gay marriage and adoption by Grand Rabbi of France Giles Bernheim, «Homosexual Marriage, Parenting, and Adoption,» were plagiarized.

So to not be able to talk about such embarrassment had been a hindrance for me at the time rather than the time of prayer ministry being a help.

But the problem with the criterion of embarrassment is that, though it certainly collects a set of traditions about which one can have little doubt, it also misses an enormous amount of material that must also have been true.

It was a risk to share about that and it is not without recollection of the feeling of embarrassment that I had.

Among the criteria that scholars use, one of the most problematic is, paradoxically, also one of the best» the principle of embarrassment, which claims that those traditions about Jesus that would have been most embarrassing to the early Church have the greatest possibility of being true.

But for those who think that claims about religion, ethics, or history should have some grounding in reality, Armstrong is considered an embarrassment.

And if my suspicion that the move to immaterialism originated in the embarrassment of elite theologians over the scandal of the incarnation is even partly correct, then nothing could be more important for how Christians experience God than to think again about the metaphysics of matter.

We are very different also, but have always kept our sense of humor ~ much to the embarrassment of our now - grown daughters LOL I love to read about your journey, wish the 4 of us could hang out for a cup of coffee!

Obama is the first president in my lifetime who has been about the American people and not about wasting 8 years accomplishing nothing (or accomplishing the wrong thing: letting the economy tank, starting a war in the wrong country, making America an international embarrassment).

Overcoming embarrassment derived from left - over childhood feelings about sex helps free a couple to talk about and explore their mutual pleasure.

It's time to give people the space and freedom to talk openly about depression without stigma, without shame, and without embarrassment.

Odder still, after saying he had to support the position of the U.S. government, he went on to deplore that position, observing that Dr. Louis Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services, shared his embarrassment over official queasiness about the scientific uses of the unborn dead.

David, that precisely was my point about MLK with direct action and turning the other cheek that Jesus talked of with bringing embarrassment to powers.

Why are we always the stupid country with clowns like this in government for the world to laugh at — talk about an embarrassment...!

Just have to echo Janet Mefferd, who talked about this sad article, and say I want to be an embarrassment like Graham if by doing so it means that I'm speaking the truth to non-Christians.

In embarrassment the churches have lapsed into silence about the Protestant work ethic.

The embarrassment, particularly, was occasioned by the incessant correspondence about a prayer I had composed years before, which the old Federal Council of Churches had used and which later was printed on small cards to give to soldiers.

Furthermore, there is a kind of embarrassment in talking about sacrifice in catechesis, not only because it is seen as something negative in itself but also because it can conjure up what is often seen as the Protestant view of the angry God who seeks blood to be appeased and is only fully appeased when Jesus dies on the cross, shedding His blood in our stead.

It's an embarrassment, and comments like «I learned all I needed to know about Muslims on 9/11» make me ashamed of the country I was born in.

Or is he, in fact, an embarrassment to his kind, too dimwitted to understand about being born again?

That's a bit of a scary idea, God visiting me... just thinking of all the «stuff» in my house sitting about that I don't need... and I can't shove it all in the closet to hide my embarrassment.

Coming from someone who is passionate about avoiding GMO's, I think you can understand my embarrassment.

«I said it about Arsenal last week but look at them Chelsea players walking now — it's an embarrassment,» Sky Sports pundit Neville is quoted by the Metro.