(1) "The only thing missing for true greatness however has been that comical touch that comes each time England figure out a new way to completely discombobulate themselves as they crash out.
(2) Mary Poppins doesn't arrive from the sky, at least not in the first book (there are six in total) and, most discombobulating of all, there are not two Banks children but four: Jane, Michael and baby twins John and Barbara.
(3) Daniel Radcliffe says he has just been called a national treasure, and it has left him discombobulated.
(4) He was aiming high, to build his music around saccharine snippets dropped from Taylor Swift records , or the Bieber hooks that had remained unsung, and then filter it through echoing synthesizers and discombobulating rhythms.
(5) You would think that acting opposite a man who spends virtually the entire film with his face obscured by a giant papier-mache head might constitute a challenge (co-star Maggie Gyllenhaal was apparently a little discombobulated by the experience) but Gleeson insists he didn't find it a problem.
(6) A trip to Italy finds Dario Argento's joyously discombobulating Suspiria ("a cinematic fever-dream!")
(7) August 27, 2013 2.21pm BST I've opened a can of worms … Mike Murphy emails: Far be it from me to offer you support, Marcus, but I’d suggest that anybody who calls United ManYoo, probably also call Chelsea ‘Chelski’ and find themselves discombobulated by a big four that doesn’t include Liverpool and soon enough Arsenal (or The Scarlet Might and the Gooners, as Colin probably refers to them).
(8) "Seeing myself in relation to femmes helps clarify that sense of masculinity," she says, which made the changes her body went through in pregnancy even more discombobulating, the differences between her and her femme friends shifting and fading.
(9) It's understandable that they're a bit discombobulated.
(10) He described PMQs as "the most nerve-racking, discombobulating, nail-biting, bowel-moving, terror-inspiring, courage-draining experience" of his career.
(11) The books world, too, is a discombobulating mix of the familiar and the odd.
(12) If you've come this far, a discombobulated son or daughter may think, and he's always been a grumpy old sod, why not stick it out to the end?
(13) I think this was all a plan to discombobulate Rough Copy with such a freakishly high level of cognitive dissonance that they forget to wear those silly plastic trousers.
(14) Brexit is disconcerting on so many levels that it is easy to miss one particularly discombobulating shift.
(15) That isn't to dismiss the fact that some feel discombobulated watching familiar neighbourhoods change.
(16) Judy Davis sounds vaguely discombobulated when she picks up the phone.
(17) People understand that they won an election that they didn’t really expect to win outright, but they are still a little bit discombobulated by the Corbyn phenomenon.
(18) It begins in an abyss of double-bass sonority, and builds to a screaming, discombobulating climax of mind-bending power; then there's a quieter, otherworldly section, before the terror of the first section returns.
(19) The challenges ahead are certainly great, even discombobulating.
(20) I have a feeling of discombobulation at the events down south,” said Pearson.
Embarrassing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embarrass
Example Sentences:
(1) If Lagarde had been placed under formal investigation in the Tapie case, it would have risked weakening her position and further embarrassing both the IMF and France by heaping more judicial worries on a key figure on the international stage.
(2) This has been infrequently reported to occur during general anesthesia and to cause respiratory embarrassment, representing a significant hazard.
(3) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
(4) Updated at 1.57am GMT 1.55am GMT Andrew Quinn (@AndrewEQuinn) @ busfield @ lengeldavid @ gdnussports Why's it embarrassing?
(5) In the wake of the horrors of the second world war it was the proudest gift to a land fit for heroes, delivered at a time when the national debt made our current crisis look like an embarrassing bar tab.
(6) MPs have voted to abandon the controversial badger cull in England entirely, inflicting an embarrassing defeat on ministers who had already been forced to postpone the start of the killing until next summer.
(7) "I'm not at all embarrassed about being gay, it's just that I don't particularly want the first or only thing that people associate me with to be that I'm gay."
(8) Many have degrees or work in professional fields, and feel embarrassed by the fact they have become a victim of fraud.
(9) Earlier this fall the skier Bode Miller was one of the few American athletes to speak out against the Russian law, calling it "absolutely embarrassing".
(10) Plenty of people felt embarrassed, upset, outraged or betrayed by the Goncourts' record of things they had said or had said about them.
(11) He will insist "government should stop feeling embarrassed about the need for more patriotism in our economic policy.
(12) Asked whether the loss of control of the streets was embarrassing, Sir Paul replied: "Well the one thing I would say is that it must have been an awful time for the people trying to go about their daily business in those buildings.
(13) During interviews, married couples experiencing infertility reported emotional reactions such as sadness, depression, anger, confusion, desperation, hurt, embarrassment, and humiliation.
(14) Satisfaction with agency performance remained at a high level and feelings of embarrassment generally declined.
(15) Fail, and the nation’s rulers face embarrassment in front of a television audience of more than a billion.
(16) Plibersek’s spokesman said on Friday: “Who is Mr Brandis to dictate the language on the Middle East peace negotiations?” The spokesman said the intervention this week amounted to “another foreign policy embarrassment for the Abbott government, which is why [Brandis] was forced by the foreign minister and the Foreign Affairs Department to rush out a statement about his inept pronouncements.” Labor ran into its own controversy earlier this year when Bill Shorten appeared to telegraph a shift in policy around the description of settlements in a major speech to the Zionist Federation of Australia.
(17) He looks embarrassed – whether it's at the albums themselves or his intolerance of them, I'm not sure.
(18) Perhaps Silver and company would have been a bit more methodical if this embarrassing story had sprung up during the offseason or in early fall, when casual fans are wrapped up in football.
(19) Britain's most senior police officer was tonight forced to admit he was "embarrassed" that his officers had lost control of the capital's streets in scenes reminiscent of last year's G20 demonstration.
(20) Thomas Mazetti and Hannah Frey, the two Swedes behind the stunt, said they wanted to show support for Belarussian human rights activists and to embarrass the country's military, a pillar of Lukashenko's power.