In an embarrassing incident at the 1943 Tehran Conference, during a ceremony to receive the " Sword of Stalingrad " from Winston Churchill, he took the sword from Stalin but then allowed the sword to fall from its scabbard onto his toes in the presence of the Big Three wartime leaders.

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 ".

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.

The panegyrist who refers to the loss suggests that its cause was a storm, but this might simply be the panegyrist's attempt to conceal an embarrassing military defeat.

But while the circumstances of divorce might be shameful or embarrassing, and remaining married to the same person for life was ideal, there was no general disapproval of remarriage ; on the contrary, marriage was considered the right and desirable condition of adult life for both men and women.

His dispute with the Catholic Church led to another embarrassing electoral defeat, and the government in Ottawa now viewed him as a " governmental impossibility " in Ontario, and decided it might be more prudent to put Meredith in a position which enabled him to put his real talents to work.

This might show a progression of the Evangelists attempting to explain, and then suppress, a story that was seen as embarrassing to the early church.

" This point was very influential in Islamic theology: " In relation to God, objective values appeared as a limiting factor to His power to do as He wills ... Ash ' ari got rid of the whole embarrassing problem by denying the existence of objective values which might act as a standard for God ’ s action.

After little success in acquiring manuscripts due to inexperience, to avoid an embarrassing return empty-handed to France and wasting what might be his only trip to Egypt, he visited temples and befriended a Bedouin tribe, who led him to Saqqara.

In an interview he gave to Spin magazine in 2002, Plant stated that the song " might be a bit embarrassing at times lyrically, but it did sum up a period of my life when I was 22.

Morgenthau and his supporters claimed that replacing him would disrupt his work on vital cases and that Nixon might be seeking to prevent Morgenthau from pursuing investigations that would prove embarrassing to the President or his friends.

Someone with either form of hyperacusis may develop avoidant behavior in order to try to avoid a stressful sound situation or to avoid embarrassing themselves in a social situation that might involve noise.

This is quickly followed by political pressure from the state capital, where politicians are anxious to end a story that might prove embarrassing to the administration.

Commentators have suggested that the state secrets privilege might be used as often to prevent disclosure of embarrassing facts as to protect legitimate secrets.

I hate embarrassing silences and have been known to make a fool out of myself just to prevent one.

Fortunately, the embarrassing questions raised by objects do not need to be answered, or we would all have to go sleep in the open fields.

It would be embarrassing to have our Father of the Chinese Republic shown in a subordinate position ".

To quote Howard Zinn, " if I found that the FBI did not have any dossier on me, it would have been tremendously embarrassing and I wouldn't have been able to face my friends.

She was considered to have an ill-favoured appearance, and she formed a number of embarrassing, unreciprocated emotional attachments, including that to her employer, the married Chapman, and Herbert Spencer.

O ' Leary later regretted her stance against the drag queens attending in 1973: " Looking back, I find this so embarrassing because my views have changed so much since then.

The deal — alleged by onetime Senators broadcaster Shelby Whitfield to have been made in order to secure the Tigers ' vote in favor of the Senators ' eventual move to Texas — turned Detroit back into contenders, while McLain was a monumental bust, losing an embarrassing league-worst of 22 games.

The project was largely reported by the press to have been a flop: badly thought-out, badly executed, and leaving the government with the embarrassing question of what to do with it afterwards.

The correct way to say " I'm embarrassed " in Spanish is using the phrase tengo vergüenza ( meaning " I have shame ") or the more formal phrases me da vergüenza or estoy avergonzado .< sup > 2 </ sup > Yet, in Spanish, there also exists the adjective embarazoso, meaning the same as " embarrassing " in its denotation of something that causes a sensation of unease, but not of shame .< sup > 3 </ sup > Complicating the issue further, embarazada can sometimes also mean " hampered ", or " hindered ".< sup > 4 </ sup > This more closely mirrors the original meaning of the English word embarrass .< sup > 5 </ sup >

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.

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.

While opponents have argued that reactionary nationalism is evidence of Chinese insecurity or immaturity and that it is both unnecessary and embarrassing to a powerful nation, Chinese nationalists assert that Chinese nationalism was in many ways a result of Western imperialism and is fundamental to the founding of a modern Chinese state that is free from foreign domination.

This threesome, along with Hyacinth's senile father, are forever turning up inconveniently ( usually in their clapped out Ford Cortina Mk IV-which always makes a characteristic backfire when it pulls up ) and embarrassing Hyacinth, who goes to great lengths to avoid them (" Richard, you know I love my family, but that's no reason why I should have to acknowledge them in broad daylight!

The subsequent release of the Alabama proved to be publicly embarrassing, and Palmerston and Russell were later forced to admit that the ship should not have been allowed to depart, despite the opinion of the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales that her release did not violate neutrality.

Fuhrman also claimed that Roberts could have corroborated many of his other observations, but Marcia Clark didn't call him to avoid embarrassing Vannatter on the stand.

In order to prevent an embarrassing and potentially dangerous situation, should Tiberius have reacted angrily to Caligula's hasty ascension to power, Macro " ordered the old Emperor to be smothered under a huge heap of clothes.

This would have forced them into the embarrassing position of having to acknowledge that modern psychiatry is operating in a theoretical vacuum.

From 2008-2010, Six Flags ' TV ads have a " Fun-O-Meter " in which the beginning of the ad may show something boring or embarrassing and a man's face judges it " One Flag!

Awkward and shy 16-year-old high-schooler Ted Stroehmann ( Ben Stiller ) lands a prom date with his dream girl Mary Jensen ( Cameron Diaz ), only to have it cut short by a painful and embarrassing zipper accident.

These policies have also resulted in embarrassing publicity for schools and have been struck down by the courts and by Departments of Education, and they have been weakened by legislatures.

The famous old chestnut of show business " Never work with children or animals " demonstrates two other causes of out-takes: Children, especially those who have no acting experience, often miss cues, deliver the wrong lines or make comments which are particularly embarrassing.