But it turned out that when somebody is hauling in $200 million, he's not embarrassable."

God almighty, why did one have to be young and green and embarrassable?

Dr. Silver, who described himself as "one of the more embarrassable people on earth," resolved to try it at least once.

The set included the best songs from the new album, along with the band's current single, "Stolen," which revolves around a refrain that might embarrass a more embarrassable heartthrob: "You have stolen my heart."

He had not wished to embarrass the Governor, who seemed to him an easily embarrassable man, and it could in fact have been unwise to give him knowledge of a felony which might easily be the subject of a question in the Legislative Council.

What learning process - a sort of out-of-school education in life itself - is above all a study in embarrassment; and the embarrassable hero is abundant in comedy and alive outside it, even in the final awesome scene of Golding's Lord of the Flies.

There were films that divided, in 2010, like Luca Guadagnino's "I Am Love," whose peach-like ripeness of sensation made some recoil, but which to others, a mite less embarrassable, showed with fine, Italianate panache how uncontrollable feelings can be held and sustained by an organizing eye.