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As if “Boogie Nights” wasn’t audacious enough, Anderson boldly followed it up with a film of naked vulnerability: an emotional weather report unafraid to risk embarrassment in examining a perpetual dark night of the soul.

In such an era, the fact that the American president decided to blather and bluster instead of attempting to offer workable proposals is nothing short of an embarrassment.

The Duchess of York has so far been the great survivor of the royal world, bouncing back from embarrassments that would have sunk many others.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said the genocide report was based on "Hamas lies" and poor research, calling it an "embarrassment to the legal profession".

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called the protests a source of "pride", but opposition politicians said government actions had caused international embarrassment.