Sentences with phrase «of embarrassing when»

All I know is that I took the risk of embarrassing myself when I posted last year, and nobody has so far suggested that Amazon gave the Patent Office (or, ultimately, the curious public) any of the information I've referred to.

Of embarrassing myself when writing book reviews.

It's kind of embarrassing when they've got two days in which to cast the part and you're the one --

It is kind of embarrassing when people are around.

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In fact, if you see someone taking a big whiff of a newly popped cork, you might feel a little embarrassed for them - as was the case recently when a waiter at a fancy restaurant made a big show of sniffing my cork for me like it was a newly found truffle!

An especially embarrassing breach came in September 2014 when an Army veteran with mental health issues scaled a fence on the Pennsylvania Avenue side of the White House and made it as far into the building as the East Room before the Secret Service could apprehend him.

«When I talked to the Credit Counselling Services of Atlantic Canada, what they said to me was people are embarrassed,» Regan says.

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.

For Cadillac, embarrassing false starts named V8 -6-4, Cimarron and Allante finally gave to the real thing in 1992, when they relaunched the trusty Seville with sharp new creases in the bodywork, a shot of «Northstar» steroids in its V - 8, and a Euro - import - style moniker: STS.

But when a local school principal recently introduced him as a war hero to a gathering of students, Scardino felt embarrassed.

«I'm a bit of a perfectionist, so when it came to submitting some ideas, I felt embarrassed — they weren't up to my standards.»

That ignorance led to some embarrassing missed opportunities, such as when Senator Bill Nelson of Florida used the example of chocolate — as opposed to, say, a more personal product like underwear — to discuss the company's rampant use of ad retargeting, in which a user searches for a product online, only to see ads for that product follow them from platform to platform and site to site.

His party has shown ample losses of public support in recent weeks, after his embarrassing trip to India; trying to staunch the bleeding tends not be enough for victory when you're the second - ranked party.

When have we embarrassed Berkshire by some sort of side position?

Entrepreneur - turned - angel - investor Jason Calacanis doesn't mince words, and this week's Too Embarrassed to Ask podcast is no exception: Asked by one of our listeners if he regretted selling his shares of Facebook when they were going for only $ 110 - 120 (versus $ 174 at the time of this writing), he had a one - sentence answer ready.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

A measure of WFN's success came when a Jerusalem correspondent contacted it because she was embarrassed that U.S. - based editors had picked up stories from it before she was even aware of them.

When I started reading The Lord of the Rings as an undergraduate, I was half - embarrassed to be doing so.

When we are honest with ourselves, it's hard not to notice how a part of us rejoices whenever a representative of an opposing ideology does something so horrendous or embarrassing or extreme that we can stand up, and with a rush of righteous indignation say, «See!

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.

Nevertheless, (as far as I know), all commentators have interpreted the situation as a simple but embarrassing running out of that element which (in the words of the Psalmist) can so gladden the heart, precisely when the celebrations were still in full swing.

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.

It must produce churches that are not embarrassed to tell us that when we say the «Our Father,» we are patriarchs of the oldest kind.»

Although there are various articles and books showing what I have called systematic theological concerns, philosophical criteria are used, usually exclusively, when dealing with questions of meaning and truth, criteria which are respectable in the academy.3 Process Christology, for example, usually follows Schleiermacher, and tends as a result to be embarrassed by strong exclusivist claims.

When you are involved with it you are not aware of it, when you get out of it and see what it is for the first time you feel embarrassed that you wasted so much time in a very demeaning existeWhen you are involved with it you are not aware of it, when you get out of it and see what it is for the first time you feel embarrassed that you wasted so much time in a very demeaning existewhen you get out of it and see what it is for the first time you feel embarrassed that you wasted so much time in a very demeaning existence.

It's embarrassing when people do not know the history of their own faith.

I'm embarrassed to call myself an Atheist when there are those of us who do things like this.

This whole article is an embarrassing judgment of Tim Tebows motives, when he could just be a simple passionate dude... yeah like the prophets of old and some of us today.

Almost every night, when it rolls in again, I lay awake thinking, I have no idea, this is a terrible calling, I'm so far out of my comfort zone, I am not brave enough for this, and I have no right to speak out in my own voice, and I hope I don't embarrass you, Jesus, I love you, please let me stay with you, I love you, stay with me.

By now I was getting embarrassed and really annoyed and told her I was not aware of anything, I decided that I would try and sneak out when their eyes were closed.

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.

Responsible theological teachers did not take at their face value the pictures of heaven which were found in hymnody, nor did they regard the somewhat extraordinary set of images in Revelation as being an exact representation — indeed, these images, laden with Jewish eschatological conceptions of the nature of the Kingdom of God when there should be «a new heaven and a new earth» were sometimes felt to be slightly embarrassing.

It embarrasses our missionaries when the so - called heathen nations ask about the behavior of the so - called Christian nations.

The picture includes the family's attempt to adjust to a person who lies and is least responsible when he most needs to be, who is unbearably irritable and egocentric, who embarrasses them in front of friends and spoils their holidays by being on a binge, who spends money they need for necessities on whiskey, and who seems completely oblivious to their welfare or their pleadings.

As for candidates, any of them who lack the skill to avoid embarrassing themselves when journalists ask them gotcha questions about «what the Pope said» deserve their inevitable failure, and would have failed anyway.

So of course I was all up in arms when I found out that a bunch of publishers and politicians tried to «civilize» these documents by taking out the parts they didn't like — the n - word from a new edition of Huck Finn and those embarrassing sections about slaves counting as three - fifths of a person in Congress» reading of the Constitution.

It always irks me to no end when I see what politicians have been doing in the name of God, Christianity, and family values that does nothing more than alienate others and cause them to embarrass themselves and other believers.

Incredibly embarrassing when you're in the middle of the milk aisle!!

You know, one of the more embarrassing things that can happen in life (or, at the store, in this case) is when your credit card refuses to work.

I'm kind of embarrassed to admit I don't leave the house that much, especially when It's nasty out.

I've been a vegetarian for four years now (another five previously as well) and I have an embarrassing habit of tearing up at stupid vegetarian things like when people talk about fois gras or veal meatballs.

It's that somewhat embarrassed feeling you get when you see one of your (really, really) old posts show up somewhere in internet - land and while the recipe and post is something you are still proud to have your name attached to, the photo's, well, um suck.

When it comes to eating, I'm embarrassed to admit the number of different diets I have adhered to over the years.

I was getting all flabbergasted and sweaty because gosh it's so embarrassing when you don't know what they're saying and it brought back horrific memories of when I was still in college and interviewing an international student and when she asked me a question I could not for the life of me understand, even after being repeated six times, to which I eventually just blurted out, «That's a really weird question,» just so we could move on.

We all have one or two of what Bull calls «those dirty tea towels you're embarrassed to hang up when company is coming over.»

Did he ever deliver in the big games when we needed a goal from someone?For a player of his size and build he was embarrassing at times the way he rolled around on the floor in «agony» at the slightest touch.I never felt he held up the ball particularly well (Alan Smith anyone?)

It was also a measure of redemption for her embarrassing Olympic moment at the 2006 Games, when she fell while prematurely celebrating an apparent gold medal win and had to settle for the snowboardcross silver.

When Julia Hartley - Brewer branded the England squad a «bunch of overpaid nonces» in the wake of their embarrassing Euros exit at the hands of Iceland, those on social media expressed mixed reactions of ridicule and ridiculousness.

Which name should name should we have the Commissioner butcher for the sake of hilarity of embarrassing him and Dallas when he announces Super Bowl champions?»