Sentences with phrase «of embarrassed about»

During my introspection this summer, I realized something kind of embarrassing about the way I am in romantic relationships.

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«This is something I have not previously talked about, really, because it's kind of shameful and embarrassing and weird.»

Some haven't been happy about it, while others are gleefully trying to take full advantage of the media attention generated by the biggest (and most embarrassing) story to hit Toronto in decades.

Case in point: Birch Coffee's «ignition initiative» in which customers can take a sign from the wall of the store (samples include: «Ask Me What I Ate for Lunch Today» and «Ask Me About the Most Embarrassing Thing in My iTunes Library»), and place it in front of their table if they'd like to encourage random conversations with strangers.

«Why would we as Canadians be embarrassed about adopting a policy that says these assets are important to our sense of nationhood, and we want there to be significant ownership by Canadians?»

My buddy Jim Kane with Retailer Web Services recently made an interesting observation about public companies: He noted founders waste an embarrassing amount of shareholder cash trying to save or slowly wind down companies instead of shuttering operations when it's clear the odds have turned against them.

The decision by Justice Jennifer Schecter of the New York state court in Manhattan in favor of California restaurateur Summer Zervos, a former contestant on NBC's «The Apprentice,» raises the prospect that Trump might have to answer embarrassing questions in court about his behavior toward women.

Given the rush, it's easy to imagine it'd turn out a shambling mess — an angry, unfocused, and embarrassing tweetstorm of a movie about government secrecy.

We're all hesitant to share our screw - ups and embarrassing moments, but if we can bring ourselves to be honest about what we failed to understand, we can help others avoid those pitfalls (though only, of course, to encounter a few unique ones of their own).

In the post about the report, the company described the type of requests they get as pertaining to «serious criminal records, embarrassing photos, instances of online bullying and name - calling, decades - old allegations, negative press stories, and more.»

During a panel discussion as part of the South by Southwest Festival's interactive program, Denton admitted that the Hogan story — which was about a sex tape that the wrestler made with a friend's ex-wife, and included a short clip from the tape — didn't have an obvious point to it, apart from embarrassing Hogan.

The exciting opportunity for startups is to skate to where the puck is going — by thinking beyond exploitative legacy business models that amount to embarrassing blackboxes whose CEOs dare not publicly admit what the systems really do — and come up with new ways of operating and monetizing services that don't rely on selling the lie that people don't care about privacy.

In fact, researchers have referred to this sort of data gathering as resulting in «databases of ruin,» where harmful and embarrassing details exist about even the most innocent individuals.

As a former Third Point employee told journalist Nicholas Stein in 2007, Loeb «believes that if you embarrass a CEO in front of his friends at the club, make him feel like people are talking about him, you can exert change on his company.»

One of Mr. Jean's first acts as leader was to dismiss Calgary - South East candidate Bill Jarvis, whose comments about «brown people» embarrassed the party on the night of its leadership announcement.

Some of the pre-release speculation about the memo's contents, like the notion that it would have embarrassing information about Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, clearly didn't pan out.

Embarrassed by the fallout from the resignation of the former chair of the B.C. Arts Council, the B.C. Liberal arts minister went on the radio to spread misinformation about why she resigned.

To hear Republicans babbling on about «Exceptionalism» in the face of a America & a world which is quite different than it was 50 or 100 years ago is embarrassing.

It proves there is less of the religious whack jobs (thankfully) and the religious people are embarrassed about the nonsense they spout.

But the concept of ensoulment is not «magical» or something to be embarrassed about.

Some have had their Xmas parties and parades and other events saying merry Xmas to everyone and still have two or more weeks to go before Xmas even arrives, it is just stupid and silly, and of course not one word about God or Jesus, they are embarrassed to even mention his name.

How about some acknowledgement of the tens of millions of Christians and Jews brutally slaughtered by the Vatican over the centuries, or would that be too embarrassing for CNN?

And you should be embarrassed of your sins and not writing an article about them on cnn.

While I expect $ s, and perhaps the possibility of getting sued, are big factors, I suspect the biggest reason RL backed off is that he has embarrassed the GOP, keeping social issues front and center, making it very difficult for them to get back to talking about the economy.

«I'm embarrassed as I'm getting older about how much of my energy and vitality as a younger man was driven by ego and a win - lose mentality.»

I share the belief that this is all about pleasing her boyfriend, or may have been some kind of ruse from the very beginning... she was ALWAYS Catholic and planned this from the very beginning to try to embarrass atheists.

They show me first why they embarrass me: because I am committed to a pretense of detached scholarship and existential ambiguity that excuses me from the vigorous demands of wisdom, which is all about deciding what is right and what is wrong.

I suspect we are embarrassed about hell because the idea of eternal torment for every sin from rape to pilfering is self - evidently unfair.

What concerns me the most about the mindset of these people is that they think sports are important enough to warrant a prayer — if they're that certain prayer works, shouldn't they be embarrassed about not using their religious fervour to pray for more important matters?

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.

Are we embarrassed to talk about our faith to others, even members of our own families?

They usually answered questions about the nature of God and redemption in an embarrassed, defensive, or ingratiating way.

Part of me wants to take that red pen and mark out all the embarrassing stuff, circle all the good stuff, and add lengthy annotations in the margins about how I've thought more about this or changed my mind about that.

As embarrassing as it might be to stand up in front of rational, scientifically minded folk and talk about it, Jesus» resurrected body is at the heart of the Easter proclamation.

I bet many young ministers preparing sermons on these texts are more embarrassed by the word about the kingdom of heaven than they are by those promising possession of the land.

In May, before the end of «don't ask, don't tell,» the Navy was forced into an embarrassing about - face when if first OK'd and then changed its mind on marriages on military bases.

Just about every day we hear — «oh they are not really a Christian» when just enough other Christians feel embarrassed by one of their kind.

Jonathan Clarke from Premier's Mind and Soul said some people are weary of sharing mental health problems, especially in church: «People feel embarrassed, people are scared about what response they'll get within a church.

Similarly, if we say that the material explanations of science may be separated from metaphysics, we are likely to be embarrassed when the physical sciences discover key truths about the form of material things.

Because the notion of revelation seems to suggest a particularity that overrides the contemporary trend toward ecumenism and universalism, some recent theology has become altogether embarrassed about the idea.

I find it embarrassing that instead of coming together and supporting each other everyone just has to voice their opinions and feelings and make everything about them.

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Many years ago, like about thirty, some of my «Commonweal Catholic» friends were much embarrassed by the popularity of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.

Initially, RCDA had support from some of the oldline churches, but that dried up when leaders decided that embarrassing news about Communist behavior got in the way of a «peace and justice» agenda that required cordial relations with the oppressive regimes of the East.

Some of you miserable freaks are just whining about how this article is by «stupid ignorant religious people» who «embarrass» this country.

(Studies indicate that that is also the case with many married couples, although some of them are a bit embarrassed about it.)

«180» opens with a rather embarrassing glimpse of the ignorance of the «average» American college student about the history of Nazi Germany.

It's something to be embarrassed about, not proud of.

What shall we do about this embarrassing challenge of Jesus of Nazareth?

I was embarrassed that I had not been baptized as an infant, and yet there was something powerful about making a profession of faith on my own.