Word: awkwardly
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...volition from a primordial soup of ProTools loops on some highly-paid producer’s laptop. Common’s flow once sounded smooth and natural over the wide variety of musical influences he sampled from; now he sounds stilted over even the simplest beats. On the awkward mix of light disco and club rap that is “What A World,” featuring ex-Harvard popsters Chester French, Common’s delivery is reduced to simple monosyllabic rhymes with the same monotonous meter: “I met a boy from Chicago, had dreams...
Complaints about female condoms are not so different from those about the male version: slippery, noisy, awkward, uncomfortable. "The yuck factor was a problem," Mitchell Warren, executive director of the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, told the New York Times last year about the device's failure to catch on. Then there's the stigma associated with buying condoms, a topic even The Golden Girls once addressed...
...find it satisfying to be able to act out exactly what he envisioned as a writer. “As a writer the frustrating thing about it is that you can have in your head the words exactly as they need to be, and there’s that awkward gulf between that and what the performer does,” he says.On the other hand, Simon H. Rich ’06-’07—a former president of the Lampoon who is in his second year of writing for SNL—says...
Then again, even Barack Obama does a lousy impression of himself. When he called Congresswoman Illeana Ros-Lehtinen on Dec. 3, the Florida Republican hung up on the President-elect not once, but twice, apparently believing herself to be the victim of a prank call. (See the top 10 awkward moments...
...book club, and it doesn't bother me. At 15, boys are supposed to be having sex - or at least trying to have it. And I don't see how it is necessarily more scarring to have it with an experienced older woman than it is to have awkward, fumbling encounters with someone just as innocent as you are. Yes, Fiennes' older Michael is an emotionally distant, even chilly figure. But it does not necessarily follow that that is a result of his adolescent sexual encounters...