Sentences with phrase «embarrassment to accept»

In fact, there is no shame and embarrassment to accept the fact you have herpes.

Not exact matches

In the words of Cobb: «The direction is to accept without hesitation or embarrassment the distinction between ultimate reality and God, and to recognize that the God of the Bible... is a manifestation of ultimate reality — not the name of that reality» (Quoted in BPM 120).

The revelatory image allows us to accept without embarrassment our imperfections and our failures to fulfill all the criteria of worth that our familial, academic, social, or religious environments expect of us.

On the other hand, the majority of Jews refused to accept the Christian kerygma, and in time their persistent refusal became an embarrassment to the church and an apparent refutation of the Christian claim that Jesus was the Messiah.

The government risks further embarrassment this year as Mr Brown has been uncompromising in his insistence public sector workers such as nurses, police officers and prison guards must accept a 1.9 per cent pay rise to maintain inflation.

Gay men, by contrast, not only need to deal with the potential embarrassment involved with approaching a straight man and assuming he's gay, they also need to worry for their physical safety, as even though we live in a more accepting environment than we ever have before, it's not like gay men aren't still assaulted for making an incorrect guess about a man's sexuality (or a man's comfort with his sexuality).

After analysis, the court determined that, under the circumstances, a reasonable person would have returned to work, because accepting the opportunity to return to continued employment would not have obliged Chevalier to work in an atmosphere of hostility, embarrassment or humiliation for the following reasons:

I accepted responsibility for my actions and plead guilty to common assault in an attempt to spare my family the embarrassment of testifying in open court.