Word: embarrassment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This is nonsense -- rationalization of the most obvious sort. What we need to do, each of us as individuals, is let those who are polluting the culture know that we are going to embarrass them and shame them until they stop, until they use their vast talents and resources to put us in touch with our best selves -- instead of with the worst parts of our nature...
...response from the already heavily armed Bosnian Serbs, resulting in what a U.N. official indelicately calls a "Dolocaust." The Pentagon opposes Dole's plan, and he has postponed bringing it to the Senate floor until June at the earliest. If Congress passes it, which is likely if only to embarrass Clinton, who castigated George Bush in 1992 for being weak on Bosnia, Clinton will certainly veto...
...Aristide asked the FBI to investigate the assassination of ultranationalist Mireille Durocher Bertin. A Haitian government source today told TIME contributor Bernard Diederich that Aristide had advance warning of the killing, and offered Bertin protection. Haitian officials insist that the opposition killed one of its own in order to embarrass Aristide and Clinton...
...that his decision in the late 1980s to let a young Filipino move to the U.S. with Carns' family may have violated labor and immigration laws. Worse, said the general, his family had had a falling out with the young man, who is making unspecified accusations that might embarrass Carns and the Administration if they come to light. President Clinton immediately turned to Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch--who has previously turned down the CIA directorship--to become the reluctant new nominee...
...says Siff, "we're a reminder of what opera used to be. You don't see the grand manner onstage anymore -- no one will embarrass themselves. Which is too bad, because if opera isn't over the top, what...