"I need to go out back," she said, the very act of having to ask for such help obviously a terrible embarrassment for her.

You must be a terrible embarrassment to him.

A woman who made his sexuality a glorious and terrible embarrassment, impossible to hide.

This last letter extricated me from a terrible embarrassment, and threw me into another of almost the same magnitude.

(Both my parents were a terrible embarrassment to me at the time, although they improved enormously with age.)

Several media executives yesterday called the breakdown a terrible embarrassment for both companies.

Although you must remember, it was not me who resulted in these terrible embarrassments of false intelligence and promises that have not come true.

"It was a terrible embarrassment to the city at the time," the inspector said.

But if Ray's brother-in-law is behind the killings, it will be a terrible embarrassment to Ray.

The first sensation was shock, and a terrible embarrassment.