Word: awkward
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...hyphenated identities are awkward, particularly 'Native American,'" Heston said. "I am a Native American, for God's sake. I also happen to be a blood-initiated brother of the Miniconjou Sioux...
Gibson added that she is looking forward to her new responsibilities, but she knows her management skills will be put to the test "because the potential for people to work poorly is pretty strong over the summer." For this reason, she said it could be awkward if she had to oversee her personal friends...
...culture of fantasy than to clothing. I search for Peterman moments in real life. For example: A foreign correspondent, old Asia hand, Brit I've known for years, has us up to his tiny, steamy Manhattan apartment for dinner. He makes Peking duck, and when he notices an awkward pause in the conversation, pops his head out of the kitchen and begins an anecdote in that fluting voice of his: "You know, once when I was playing fan-tan in Macau...
There are those (this critic included) who never really got Chet Baker as a singer. Instead of sounding soulful and vulnerably awkward, his voice struck some as sounding soulful but off-key, like Mel Torme's crossed with, say, yours. So here's a Chet Baker album for those who don't like Chet Baker, recorded at a 1983 live date in Norway. It's Getz's gig, but Baker shines, singing with an unaccustomed force and levity; on Just Friends he scats nimbly too. His trumpet and Getz's tenor sax are also in top form; these relaxed, lyrical...
...their earnest comments and starchy bearing, Republican Senators have tried to make it clear how seriously they take their oath to sit in impartial judgment of a President. But in private last week, that wasn't their immediate concern. The talk in the G.O.P. cloakroom was about a more awkward judgment: What to do about Bill Clinton's State of the Union speech Tuesday night? Almost a year to the day after the Monica Lewinsky story first broke, a disgraced President is on trial in one chamber of Congress, being called a liar, a cheat and a threat...