Word: embarrassingã
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...clearer, and most importantly, you could hear every pseudoliterate word leader Hutch Harris had to wail about. Lyrics painted a vague portrait of self-righteous rage and apocalyptic rebellion; Harris’s was the language of inarticulate teen angst projected on a romantically nihilistic worldview. They could be embarrassing??and, to be sure, sometimes downright stupid—but the only lyrics that could belong to music this catchy were inanely simple.Harris’s distinctive yelps, razor-sharp guitars and a minor hit single, “How We Know,” paved...
This feeling—this pervasive sense that a final club member’s date is expected to be blonde and white, and that a date who does not fit these criteria is potentially “embarrassing??—is what deserves conversation. As a shared understanding, it undermines the similarly popular idea that sexism, racism, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination are too backwards for Harvard. Students and professors who complain of them, so this thinking goes, must be overly sensitive, crying “injustice” where none exists...
...took a second to realize just exactly what was going on. As much as I tried to rationalize my enjoyment of such spectacles by reasoning that there’s no way that they could be real—people can’t be that dumb or embarrassing??when it came down to it, I was deriving enjoyment from the misery (or in the case of guys who were not the father, the immense joy) of others...
...left HRG&SP with a seriously depleted base, as well as diminished patron support,” leading to subsequent productions of “The Mikado” and “The Pirates of Penzance” that were respectively, as he puts it, “embarrassing?? and “weak.”“At that point, the group was nearly broke and at an artistic nadir,” Marshall writes. “The word was that the Board would cut back to only one show a year...
...obstacles on its way to acceptance into the EU. The country, which has shifted from an autocratic, semi-presidential political system to a parliamentary democracy, is combatting age-old xenophobia and isolationism. Mesic said that his government is conducting war trials and continues to battle an “embarrassing?? past. But there is reason to be hopeful, said the event’s moderator, Joesph McCarthy, senior associate dean of the Kennedy School of Government. “The capitals of Serbia and Croatia are connected by a new highway—a symbolic highway...