For all its progress since those ugly days when only whites could vote, Mississippi now faces an embarrassing reminder of its worst old instincts.

Instead of becoming an embarrassing reminder of our misspent youth, Springsteen has actually made growing up seem cool.

The slayings are also an embarrassing reminder that the Communist Party's security apparatus is losing ground against major crime and criminal organizations.

There was now no room for me in the showbiz side of the operation, and I was an embarrassing reminder of bad luck.

To the scientist, it is an embarrassing reminder of our ignorance about the origin of physical law.

The group had escaped arrest and prosecution for decades, an embarrassing reminder of Greece's political inefficacy.

But he had become an embarrassing reminder of a past most Americans would just as soon forget.

But in the end he was an unwanted guest, an embarrassing reminder of a great adventure that turned rapidly into a bloody conquest.

This crisis management is an embarrassing reminder of our reactions to Iraq and Saddam Hussein.

They also avoid potentially embarrassing reminders of the intimate early debt to and even blood mingling with Korea.