The long embarrassed silence plays out subtly through a painful dinner party and a week of increasing strangeness.
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Everyone thought they were real and there was an embarrassed silence.
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The audience, many of whom were still learning to read in the 1980s, reacts with embarrassed silence.
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And from you who led them, a period of embarrassed silence would be appreciated.
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Striking up conversations with strangers that swung wildly between boastfulness and embarrassed silence.
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