A strained, unfamiliar look of embarrassment came over Gatsby's face.
Your natural human fears of failure and embarrassment will sometimes stop you from trying new things.
Most people love because they want to be loved. And most people don't dance, because they fear embarrassment.
When others are in an awkward situation, if you can reduce their embarrassment by making a fool of yourself, he will be very grateful to you.
A referee traduced, a nation conned, a morally demented coach, an unrepentant perpetrator, supine governing bodies, a contagion of embarrassment across France: all in all, a grand night in Paris.
Mary flushed crimson with embarrassment.
She pulled a face to hide her embarrassment.
On the way to the meeting, I asked a veteran campaigner how many people we needed to avoid embarrassment.
Too many in government who decry the "irresponsibility" of the press are prone to judge news less for accuracy than for personal embarrassment.
To the immense embarrassment of a party that aspires to govern, they include everyone from a former party treasurer to a son-in-law of the former prime minister, jose maria Aznar.
He coped with the embarrassment subtly.
She submitted that the petitioner should be entitled to damages for public embarrassment.
Notice, and acknowledge - to yourself - your feelings of hurt, anger, embarrassment, insufficiency, and anything else that arises.
Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Shame is a moral emotion, whereas embarrassment is not.
It is not only an embarrassment for sufferers but a test of endurance for family and friends.
I am a proud old man but no one can make me feel shame or embarrassment for using my cloth bags and thereby helping, in my oh-so-small way, to keep the environment cleaner.
Your man may feign embarrassment, but he’ll be warm and happy on the inside.
That they were allowed to get away with such adventures for so long should be the mutual sector’s real source of embarrassment.
There is no possible threat of any real danger, except maybe embarrassment or humiliation (public speaking, for example).
And most people don't dance, because they fear embarrassment.
unspeakable cruelty, behaviour, embarrassment
She fled back to Baghdad, her embarrassment saving her from probable death in the bombardment.
Twilight star Ashley Greene is facing embarrassment on the back of her win at the Teen Choice Awards on Sunday after nude photos of the actress leaked online.
The arrival of summer, the time wearing thin clothing increased demands to remove traces of psychological embarrassment many women choose to have a thong.
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