So that is the program, embarrassingly simple, but as we're going to see, extremely powerful.

As soon it was known that he had an intimate relationship with a former fashion model, he decided to marry her, avoiding any further embarrassment.

One view of difference between shame and embarrassment says that shame does not necessarily involve public humiliation while embarrassment does that is, one can feel shame for an act known only to oneself but in order to be embarrassed one's actions must be revealed to others.

Avoiding embarrassment may at times be in the national interest, but it can also protect the careers of politicians and bureaucrats.

If two friends have a reciprocal transaction, like selling a car, it's well known that this can be a source of tension or awkwardness.

(They are inhibited, of course, when women fear being stoned, mocked, shamed, raped or brutalized in response to their desire).

To be a lesbian, a dyke, a homosexual in most parts of the world, including right here in our country, India, is to occupy a place of immense discomfort and extreme prejudice.

Shame may carry the connotation of a response to something that is morally wrong whereas embarrassment is the response to something that is morally neutral but socially unacceptable.

Also Prodavinci, Qué Leer , Letralia, and the one that I feel slightly awkward about putting in my PhD bibliography Nalgas y Libros .

China s official behavior following the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo turned an embarrassment into a public diplomacy disaster, and China s neighbors have been disturbed by Chinese efforts to throw its weight around.

There's only one obvious conclusion to reach from this mountain of evidence our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit, and my poor parents were trying to protect us from the embarrassment, this humiliation of rejection by Santa, who was jolly but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.