Mr Portman seems unembarrassed about coming over as a sobersides with a head for numbers.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

The result is less a character study than a pre-Revolutionary style catalogue, unembarrassed in its rage for the superficial.

NEWYORKER: Marie Antoinette

Such is the old-fashioned, sentimental cliffhanger to which the screenwriter Simon Beaufoy and the director Danny Boyle have, with unembarrassed drive, committed themselves.

NEWYORKER: Slumdog Millionaire

He was unembarrassed to flex Germany's newly acquired muscles and to employ the sort of language heard from leaders of more nakedly nationalistic countries.

ECONOMIST: Germany's role in the world

In 2012 Barack Obama is no longer delivering thrilling speeches, but an unembarrassed press corps is still available, in full prosecutorial mode when it comes to coverage of the Republican challenger.

WSJ: Dorothy Rabinowitz: The Fourth Estate, Still Thrilling to the Spirit of '08

When Allen came out with that poem in a direct, colloquial, funny, vernacular, frank and unembarrassed powerful way, he spoke to the people's condition, and it touched on things that were in their hearts.

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