The smell of new office supplies is so satisfying while being kicked out of Staples for inappropriate behavior with a file folder is so embarrassing.

That was embarrassing for a guy to take three back, then have four the whole year. It was like all his accolades came off us, so you want to go back there and pay him...

It’s always embarrassing to be 1-5, no matter where you’re at. Everybody wants to win here and we’re putting in a lot of effort out there. Things are just not falling our way right now....

Ragging at its most harmless is embarrassing and silly, but at its worst, it attempts to prevent individual students from independent thinking, attempts, in fact, to eradicate freewill

It was still embarrassing to watch, but you’ve got to learn from it and make it the exact opposite the next time around. A lot of it is effort. We came out lackadaisical. You could...

It is embarrassing, the things he’s said and the things he’s subsequently done, and it illustrates the wider point that for any political party, including ours, to be dependent on big private donors is not...

There are all sorts of books offering advice on how to deal with life-threatening situations, but where’s the advice on dealing with embarrassing ones?

You don’t have to lie to me to be nice, Jake. You can just say, ‘Wow, your nails look crappy.'” I did my best boy voice.”Well, I will tell you that’s a crappy imitation of...

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you’re maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is...

It is an embarrassing and sad time for all Ohioans.

I’m not leaving, Kitten. You’re going to do this.”My mouth opened as did the door behind us. Stomach dropping, I turned to see Mom standing there in all her fuzzy-bunny pajama glory. Oh, for the...

It had been an embarrassing moment, like the one you get when you realize for the first time that you have what it takes to become an accountant.

I want to say something so embarrassing about September that even the leaves start blushing and turning red.

Of course, in television’s presentation of the “news of the day,” we may see the Now…this” mode of discourse in it’s boldest and most embarrassing form. For there, we are presented not only with fragmented...

It’s embarrassing. A lot of guys need to take a look in the mirror and quit taking those foolish penalties, which has been a problem all season long. It’s going to have to stop in...

Things aren’t often what they appear to be at first blush. But embarrassment is.

Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn’t be done.

Mmm. Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing. How embarrassing.

Why is it that at the very moment I need to appear graceful I stumble and fall like a klutz, as though this scene had never played through my mind differently a million times?

Understood.

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don’t forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

My fear is that he’ll forget me,” she bemoaned with crystalline sadness. I took her hand, limp with loss and held it. “I’d rather not be remembered by any man as it saves me the...

I read the title from the cover. ‘ ‘The joy of… crap.’ ‘ I read the rest of the full title of the thick, nondescript volume to myself and felt myself redden.Noah turned over on...

True poetry is embarrassing.

I’m sorry,” he says.”What? Why?””You’re fixing everything I set down.” He nods at my hands, which are readjusting the elephant. “It wasn’t polite of me to come in and start touching your things.””Oh, it’s okay,”...

It’s embarrassing to me. I don’t know if it is embarrassing to the players. It gets to the point where you are sick to your stomach. We are having terrible at-bats. … We just stink...