Not to buy would be a vulgar mistake, an embarrassing failure of taste.

His years before and after the war, including his two terms as president, were filled with embarrassing failures.

"But I hope people would consider the many exciting experiments that have worked, rather than focusing on one very embarrassing failure."

You're doomed to repeat those embarrassing failures until death, and maybe they continue in Hell.

Detractors say he has had some embarrassing failures as well.

Suddenly, after years of embarrassing failure, the Panthers had a formidable defensive front.

In the end, however, the trip was an embarrassing failure.

Both newspapers reported that the navy was trying to cover up an embarrassing failure.

Yet the school system has lately suffered a number of embarrassing public failures.

And no company would talk about the possibility of an embarrassing failure.