Word: awkward
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...turned a situation which could have been awkward [into something] really exciting," Augustine says...
Certainly, there are a few awkward moments. The writing feels somewhat uncertain at times, as if the author is searching for a few lines for the right words to express an emotion and then gives up and moves on, having stated but not shown the emotions involved...
Williams has hired an important black activist, Phillip Pannell, as an adviser, and Pannell opened a campaign office in Ward 8, Barry's home turf. Williams also sought and won the endorsements of two key Barry confidants. Williams is on a roll now. Two years ago, he was awkward at community meetings, but he has learned a common touch. At the basketball-court forum, he patted shoulders and grabbed forearms--physical gestures once uncomfortable to him. And he's telling a more personal story. He is the adopted son of postal workers who raised eight children, he says over...
...gulps, awkward in his ponderous regalia, But his eye stays rapt, Elephantine, Arctic-- A god, on earth for the first time, With the clock of love and death in his body...
Like big cities, Bartlett has an appealingly awkward mix of influences. His clothes still have the homoerotic scent that marked his earlier collections, but the aroma is now more a celebration of the male form. Woven into this body-love is a hint of bookish geekiness, as if G.I. Joe had been given Gomer Pyle's soul. Or as Bartlett describes it: "Think the U.P.S. man meets Paul Bowles, Hello Sailor meets Hello Kitty, the Army Corps meets Lilly Pulitzer...