Word: awkward
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...while the town's upper -middle class population seems to be completely white, a black woman and her child are the only individuals seen shopping in an urban thrift store. The racial make-up might be geographically and socio-economically correct, but the proportions in the film are noticeably awkward...
...past, if you wanted to operate a business as a Harvard student, it was a little awkward to work around the restrictions," said Johann M. Schleier-Smith '01, who is a co-founder of the online textbook purchasing website limespot.com...
...this point, Zoe realized that she had chatted herself into an awkward spot, so she roused me from the sandwich I was deconstructing in the kitchen. "YOU WHAT?" I shouted, not unreasonably. I don't believe I exactly yanked the cord from the computer, but recollections differ...
...Rage Against the Machine, who were playing a New York arena, come on the show to promote their gig. They look a little awkward, they pace around for a while, and it's pretty obvious that this isn't really their thing. We cheer some more - since that's our only voice and we figure it might earn us an autograph or an interview. MTV offers a duel between a person on the street and a caller for tickets to the night's show. Apparently, a bunch of girls in the studio know the caller from school. "That's Matt...
...life over-the-top intensity and f__-it-all attitude are nearly as unsettling as her screen performances, like the self-destructive fashion model in HBO's 1998 movie Gia and the dangerously seductive mental patient paired with Winona Ryder in Girl, Interrupted. At 24, she behaves like an awkward teenager trapped in a centerfold's body...