Embarrassments

I have lived long enough to know what embarrassments levelled at us can do, moments that could have destroyed an educational career.

In the list of European embarrassments for Scottish clubs, that result in Cyprus easily rockets into the top five.

It is the latest in a string of car-related embarrassments to hit senior SNP figures.

Modern examples are either no-budget embarrassments or needlessly self-serious.

Meanwhile, then-Vice President Joe Biden was put in charge of a laudably transparent attempt to “create or save” 3.7 million jobs, and major embarrassments ensued.

For every Bullseye and Kingpin, Daredevil has to face five walking embarrassments.

Giuliani, among other embarrassments, is Trump's personal attorney.

This is supposed to distract us from 45’s own daily embarrassments.

There were no missteps or embarrassments, and very few surprises.

Clausewitz's broader thinking came to the fore following Britain's military embarrassments in the Boer War (1899–1902).

He had a large family, and his latter days were embittered by pecuniary embarrassments, which form the subject of a chapter in Isaac D'Israeli 's Calamities of Authors.

These mounting embarrassments further deepen Lex's hate for Superboy for supposedly further humiliating him, and he unsuccessfully attempts to murder the superhero.

To head off future embarrassments, in 1909 the two sides signed the International Boundary Waters Treaty and the International Joint Commission was established to manage the Great Lakes and keep them disarmed.