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Word: awkwardly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scientists bumble around Huml's home, Huml must juggle three women and a multitude of conflicting emotions. To avoid awkward confrontations, Huml frequently pushes a character into the kitchen or another room, so that the cast is constantly streaming in and out of doors on the futuristic set, buzzing around Huml until he can no longer retain his composure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Concentration' Lacks Clear Focus | 12/12/1996 | See Source »

...current student, says he sometimes finds himself an awkward situation when he to calls at Harvard...

Author: By Paul K. Nitze, | Title: Students Ride With Ambulances, Give Medical Care | 12/10/1996 | See Source »

...they can manage is a wistful croak or an awkward shuffle. This is very funny, and it is often very poignant. For which of us has not dreamed these sweet little dreams of transcendence--sung a love song under our breath, done a silly little two-step on the way home from a musical when we guessed no one was looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THEY SORTA GOT RHYTHM | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...house, painting himself alternately as a self-sacrificing hero, a man of genius, and the loving patriarch of his household. This pose that might seem a trifle overdone without the perspective offered in the first act of a much-diminished Hjalmer in Werle's house: timid, awkward, and ill at ease, he's out of his element when not within his own walls. And when those walls come crashing down after Gregers' intrusion, we see Hjalmer's lordly complacency degenerate into frazzled nerves and shrill paranoia, all deftly portrayed by LeBow. Gregers himself is another such object, on one level...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: Brustein and Rochaix 'Duck' the Pathos In New Production | 12/6/1996 | See Source »

...least something that rocks?'" Not missing a beat, Kozelek responded, "Who the Hell did you think you were coming to see?" But this misunderstanding, or missed expectation, epitomizes the contradiction that existed between the venue and the band on Sunday night, and also the reason why it became more awkward and discomfiting to experience Red House Painters live, in spite of their bravura performances, than in the cold comforts of a twin (a TWIN!? for God's sake) bed with a shamefully broad amount of space...

Author: By Scott W. Slavin, | Title: The Red House Painters Bring Moody Absolution to Mama Kin | 12/6/1996 | See Source »

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