Richler also apologized for the incident and called it an " embarrassing gaffe ".

Rather than radio for help and risk an embarrassing international incident, the captain sends a nine-man landing party headed by his second-in-command Lieutenant Yuri Rozanov ( Alan Arkin ) to find a motor launch to help free the sub from the bar.

During a radio interview in Birmingham to promote a British tour of Tom Stoppard's play Dirty Linen in the early 1980s, Cleveland confided an embarrassing incident in dress rehearsal.

The embarrassing incident gave Trevor-Roper's enemies at Peterhouse and elsewhere the opportunity to criticise him openly.

The incident brought much embarrassing attention to Ross and his associates.

Nerval wrote to his close childhood friend Laura LeBeau, recounting an embarrassing incident that occurred while on holiday in La Rochelle:

Jim Levenstein ( Jason Biggs ) asks girlfriend Michelle Flaherty ( Alyson Hannigan ) to marry him, following an embarrassing incident in a restaurant involving fellatio under the table.

The incident, while embarrassing, instantly made her one of the most talked-about women in Washington and invitations to the Gotliebs ' parties became highly coveted.

Craig Nichols, general manager of Channel 4 called the incident " embarrassing " for both the broadcasters and the viewers.

This led to a slightly embarrassing incident in February 2002 in which US Customs intercepted a rather innocuous package containing a serial cable.

Sutt and Manlio, believing that they can weaken the Traders by staging an embarrassing diplomatic incident, plant an agent aboard Mallow's ship.

Several months after becoming leader Downer's support base was quickly eroded, however, by a series of embarrassing public blunders, one such incident was the sacking of John Hewson from the shadow ministry in August 1994.

BBC explained the sentiment in Germany by observing that " any criticism of Jewish people is still a taboo in Germany, which makes this incident extremely embarrassing for Mr Hohmann's party ".

This embarrassing incident might have damaged his reputation except for two factors: the part of the battle he was supposed to march to join had ended, so he wasn't really needed ; and, because of a dispute between army commander Maj. Gen. George G. Meade and Slocum over the filing of their official reports, little public notice ensued.

The latest of a series of ratings disappointments for the channel ; this was a particularly embarrassing incident for ITV as presenter Phillip Schofield had only just signed a two year exclusive contract ( a so called golden handcuffs deal ) with the network.

The performance was so bad and embarrassing that Huston and Bogart remembered it years later and based a scene in Key Largo on the incident.

The incident received the dubious distinction of being named " The most embarrassing moment ever shown on Australian television " by Australia's Nine Network.

After this embarrassing incident, known as the Seguro Obrero massacre, Ibáñez decided to abandon the presidential campaign.

After an embarrassing incident involving the French tanker Artois, the rules of engagement were further modified, allowing the use of disabling fire.

It was an embarrassing incident which Pelham Warner, as editor of The Cricketer, did his best to explain away.

It was at this stage that he took to using his first initial in his name, after an embarrassing incident at Newcastle Airport when he was confused with another Dan Smith.

One particularly embarrassing story concerns Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe and prawns, though we never learn many details of the incident, other than that it took place at Ascot, " the year Martingale won the Gold Cup ".

Many of Hank's adventures are initiated by an embarrassing incident where he has been tricked by Pete.

The incident was the first of what Parker and Stone called the " South Park Curse ", in which something tragic or embarrassing supposedly happens to a celebrity shortly before or after they were featured in South Park.

During an embarrassing home loss to Atlanta in 1987, Bright told the media that he was " horrified " at coach Tom Landry's play calling.

At the reception, Charles finds himself seated at a table with several ex-girlfriends who relate embarrassing stories about his inability to be discreet, and afterwards bumps into Henrietta ( known among Charles ' friends as " Duckface "), with whom he had a difficult relationship.

Despite Bacon's advice to him, James and the Commons found themselves at odds over royal prerogatives and the king's embarrassing extravagance.

* " It may, perhaps, be embarrassing for a solitary man to walk across a wide quadrangle under a fire of glances from a collection of collegiate females ; but it is child's play compared, for example, with the long trek from the pavilion at Lord's to the far end of the pitch, with five wickets down and ninety needed to save the follow-on.

His empire collapsed after an embarrassing defeat for France at the hands of Prussia in which he was captured.

After Lee's army had withdrawn back to Virginia, Stuart performed another of his audacious circumnavigations of the Army of the Potomac — 120 miles in under 60 hours, from Leesburg, Virginia, to as far north as Chambersburg and Mercersburg, Pennsylvania — once again embarrassing his Union opponents and seizing horses and supplies, but at the expense of exhausted men and animals, without gaining much military advantage.

Bibas writes that some criminal defense attorneys prefer to err on the side of pessimism: " Optimistic forecasts risk being proven disastrously wrong at trial, an embarrassing result that makes clients angry.

Although the report was embarrassing to the Reagan administration, who was heavily aiding the right-wing junta at the time, skeletons unearthed a decade later confirmed the original story's veracity.

Although the Union troops put up a furious defense, Pope's army was forced to retreat in a manner similar to the embarrassing Union defeat at First Bull Run, fought on roughly the same battleground.

Anne had been brought up a Lutheran, but she may have discreetly converted to Catholicism at some point, a politically embarrassing scenario which alarmed ministers of the Scottish Kirk and caused suspicion in Anglican England.

An embarrassing encounter at the pub follows, with all three of them keeping up appearances and being polite and reserved.

UPA was forced to churn out cartoons at a far greater quantity than the studio had done for theatrical releases or even the CBS television series ; quality, particularly of the Mr. Magoo series, sank to an embarrassing level.

One peculiar characteristic of Condorito is that the character that goes through the embarrassing moment and / or serves as the butt of the joke in a given strip almost always falls backwards to the floor ( legs visible or out of frame ) in the final panel, although new comic strips have now put the victim of the joke looking at the reader instead.

His mental condition had prompted Moretti to reveal some embarrassing details at the Kefauver hearings.

The mildest case, not quite a cover-up, is simply to release news which could be embarrassing but is not important enough to guarantee attention at a time when other news is dominating the headlines, or immediately before a holiday or weekend.

This led to an embarrassing moment when Queen Victoria, receiving Felix at Buckingham Palace, expressed her intention of singing the composer her favourite of his songs: Mendelssohn confessed it was by Fanny.

Clamence thus proceeds to " destroy that flattering reputation " ( Camus 326 ) primarily by making public comments that he knows will be received as objectionable: telling beggars that they are " embarrassing people ," declaring his regret at not being able to hold serfs and beat them at his whim, and announcing the publication of a " manifesto exposing the oppression that the oppressed inflict on decent people.

After more than five years, Czechowicz returned to Poland in 1971 and participated in programs aimed at embarrassing Radio Free Europe and the United States government.

Bright, who usually stayed behind the scenes, publicly criticized Landry after an embarrassing home loss to the Atlanta Falcons in 1987, saying that he was " horrified " at the play-calling and complaining " It doesn't seem like we've got anybody in charge who knows what he's doing, other than Tex ".

Upon Martin's landslide victory at the leadership convention on November 14, 2003, political commentators wondered whether someone so closely linked to Chrétien would avoid a potentially embarrassing demotion in Martin's new cabinet.

' Sid's one attempt at using the method in the book and a vile-smelling pheromone spray supplied with it results only in a very rude and embarrassing rejection.

At New Zealand and Australian 21st birthdays, it is customary for family members to assemble embarrassing photos, videos or other childhood memorabilia to display at a celebration and for a good friend to give an equally embarrassing speech.