Word: awkward
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...They have an awkward button fly that doesn't quite do the job, so people are always telling me that my fly is down," offers Haysom, describing the quirks of her recent purchase...
...Aren't things between him and Brad even a little bit awkward? He laughs, and says he's even comfortable enough to crack jokes with Wilford about his demotion...
Such unions are awkward, certainly, but most survive through the messy art of compromise. The first line of negotiation is the local bishop, who has the power to interpret the directives. For example, bishops disagree about whether Ovral, an emergency contraceptive drug for rape victims, induces abortion. At St. Louise, staff members will not give Ovral directly to rape victims, but they will allow a separate emergency-response unit to administer the drug on the premises. A similar kind of wiggle room is offered under mergers done according to the "community model." In that case, a Catholic hospital will join...
...shaved that cheesy mustache off your face." Out of ideas about how to deal with us, well-meaning adults herded us into "rap sessions" on the off-chance that we might console ourselves. I spent a good part of my teenage years hoping only to outlive the awkward indignities of adolescence. I prayed for the day when I'd be older--and, please God, taller--so I might assume the full status of a human being endowed by my Creator with certain unalienable rights, not least among these was staying out past 11 and entering bars at will. I endured...
...worshipped instead. Now that I am fully grown, I sense two prevailing cultural obsessions that ignore me once again. In American culture, there is potential and nostalgia; we are fascinated by prodigies first and has-beens second. Stuck in the middle are millions like me, living in those awkward years between promising potential and ironic demise. And the parameters of the present keep pushing in. To the tune of discarded disco anthems, our eyes pan slowly from one Gap-clad teen to another, and for 30 seconds we cannot bring ourselves to blink. The teens stare back at us brimming...