The long embarrassed silence plays out subtly through a painful dinner party and a week of increasing strangeness.

Everyone thought they were real and there was an embarrassed silence.

The audience, many of whom were still learning to read in the 1980s, reacts with embarrassed silence.

And from you who led them, a period of embarrassed silence would be appreciated.

Striking up conversations with strangers that swung wildly between boastfulness and embarrassed silence.

The prospect of becoming scoring bedfellows with one of football's alltime greats brings an embarrassed smile to the face of the 29-year-old blond forward.

The embarrassed smile looks much like the appeasement displays that other mammals resort to in order to make peace during conflict.

With our brief, embarrassed smiles, we are convincing potential suitors with virtue and good character.

I wave back in a slightly embarrassed fashion.

Writing 'just seemed to happen', she says, sounding slightly embarrassed.

The police are apologetic and, it seems, slightly embarrassed.

He also claimed to be slightly embarrassed when cast as an action hero, because he felt he was not big enough.

And that locals were slightly embarrassed to watch him moonwalking.