Sentences with phrase «embarrassment to many»

So rich a client having suffered such a messy death was an unsettling embarrassment to Captain Harald Biscay.

In the acclaimed «Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter», a widow, inadvertently eavesdropping, discovers that her cherished, old - fashioned ways are an embarrassment to her daughter - in - law.

Her murder has been an embarrassment to Rusty's boss, Raymond Horgan, who is facing a serious challenge in the upcoming election and who looks to Rusty for a fast solution to the case that will help save him politically.

Mattie, still tying her robe, ran down the steps thinking stupidly, as she later reflected, only of the embarrassment to this woman, whom to tell the truth she had respected more than loved, and picking up and pressing back upon her the heavy silver, as if this was not something Roscoe should be doing, nor her husband, John Jameson, neither.

With a little old - fashioned hot - rodding, perhaps the CTS - V could be transformed into something that's not a plodding embarrassment to all America.

I still think they are an embarrassment to the Porsche brand.

He is an embarrassment to professional educators and law abiding citizens everywhere.

I've stated this on numerous occasions: the existing system of administrative subjective evaluations is an embarrassment to the teaching profession.

That's a huge embarrassment to a mayor and his union allies who spend their time excusing public school failure rather than redressing it.

The revelation will be an embarrassment to Mr Gove, who scrapped Labour's Building Schools for the Future scheme in July 2010, saying it was beset by bureaucracy and delay.

Yet it is important to keep in mind that DCPS» alleged graduation fraud is more than simply an embarrassment to the district, to school leaders currently on the job who oversaw the violations, and Former Chancellor Kaya Henderson (under which most of the fraud occurred).

THE EXISTING SYSTEM OF SUBJECTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE EVALUATIONS IS AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THE TEACHING PROFESSION and needs to be terminated ASAP.

Association of Teachers and Lecturers general secretary Mary Bousted said Sir Michael's recognition that the London challenge was «highly effective» in transforming schools in the late - 1990s was «an embarrassment to the government».

This designation was viewed as a personal embarrassment to many in the community and to its distinguished alumni.

When Howard Harris talks about his salary, he alludes in exasperation and embarrassment to some of his students, who earn a higher hourly wage in part - time jobs at nearby Disney World.

The cramped non ergonomically compliant work spaces in new facilities are an embarrassment to good design rules.

They are, in essence, representatives of the lead character, Bobby Walker, struggling to rise above the frustration and embarrassment to find their way again.

What may have seemed to Egoyan and August as a therapeutic exercise for someone battling two forms of trauma at once, feels more like an embarrassment to those who have seriously dealt and still struggle with the loss of loved ones during the holocaust.

They look at it not only as a huge embarrassment to their first ever nationally televised competition, but a disgrace to the nature of the contest.

The Next Karate Kid is a mild embarrassment to all involved.

Not a bad trick, and it works much better these days than it did in the pioneering era of DVD remasters, when «multichannel» mixes of mono movies were often an embarrassment to all concerned.

From that downright daft opening sequence onwards, this sequel is an embarrassment to what was a lively, entertaining and funny original.

«Star Wars» was just added as a Best Movie player to the Critics Choice Awards (an embarrassment to their voting process), but that's about it.

The animation is an embarrassment to the Disney imprint, a half - step above the cut - and - paste style of Cartoon Network's «Space Ghost», and the writing is so lifeless, so feckless, it does nothing to forgive the paucity of attractive, liquid images.

To call a graphic late - game sex scene an embarrassment would be an embarrassment to the word «embarrassment.»

For a critic, it's almost a professional embarrassment to praise a Ron Howard movie.

The shameless playboy's almost 30, and his womanizing ways have become an embarrassment to his family and friends.

While the awards and the trailers themselves were pretty awesome the rest of show was pretty bad with some segments being an embarrassment to the entire gaming industry.

Boring, annoying a laughable in equal measure, The Quiet Ones is (should be) an embarrassment to Hammer and the genre in general.

This movie is gonna be an embarrassment to everyone involved and lay flat like Emmerich's other stinking turds.

Hughes's script captures the range of teenage emotions, from embarrassment to peer pressure to the pangs of puppy love, with humor and honesty.

The race is close, and B - Rad is an embarrassment to his father's image, a white hip hop aficionado who tries his very best to model his life after the hip hop stars he idolizes, spitting his own game and rolling with his own posse of posh Malibu kids like him.

The cheap - looking visuals are an embarrassment to the special effects profession.

Liv Tyler plays Lucy, a 19 - year - old virgin - yes, a source of embarrassment to her, too - who visits friends of her recently deceased mother to uncover the identity of her real father.

The sweetest moment in the film was her getting into bed with Jane Fonda... you felt that her mom might have been an embarrassment to her, but the bond between mother and daughter was solid.

There's a certain cogency to Apatow-esque stories of 30 - and 40 - somethings longing to retain their youth, but «Digging for Fire» hits so many wrong notes that, frankly, it's an embarrassment to the genre.

That this is the best that could be conceived to demonstrate the possibilities of such a power is an embarrassment to those responsible.

Paquet - Brenner vs. David Fincher is a showdown that'd be an embarrassment to witness.

An utter embarrassment to an relatively solid series, The Devil's Daughter falls into every cliché mistake of trying to cater to a massive audience.

Please Lindsey, stop being an earnest, humourless embarrassment to American woman.

Not content with his job as a bouncer at a local Beantown bar and a bit of an embarrassment to his accomplished family, Doug Glatt (Seann William Scott) dreams of the kind of success enjoyed by minor league hockey goon Ross Rhea (Liev Schreiber).

As you can guess Farley's character is a clumsy embarrassment to his brother (played by Tim Matheson) and inadvertently causes all manner of horrendous goofs whilst in the public eye.

It is important to remember that you need to break away without causing pain and embarrassment to others on the online dating site.

There is no embarrassment to get a rejection when meeting face to face.

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

Opinions on politics, religion, personal attacks, and controversial subjects that could cause embarrassment to others should not be put on the public Internet.

They can polish the site up and make it less of an embarrassment to the experience that should be «internet dating,» and then put it to bed.

One of the most appreciable aspects of using the Positive Singles app is that there is no embarrassment to join the community or interact with people out there.

It is an embarrassment to flirt with someone in the church.

I'm an embarrassment to my family.