Word: awkwardly
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...read it over the summer and annotate it,” he says. “It was kind of awkward...
...with two aides whose firm once lobbied for the Burmese military junta, a regime he condemns. Now the lobbyist issue is roiling McCainLand, prompting more departures--including top fund raiser and former Representative Thomas Loeffler--and a strict conflict-of-interest policy. The sudden house-cleaning has raised an awkward question: Why is McCain seemingly drawn to people from the world's second-oldest profession? (Campaign manager Rick Davis and top strategist Charlie Black are both former lobbyists.) Some suggest the flap represents the latest example of McCain's famous inattention to detail--a potential vulnerability in the campaign...
Both of them, comedians and candidates, are thrown off their game in these encounters. Ironists like Stewart and Colbert have to do an awkward dance between sobriety and sarcasm when the real goods walk into the studio. Interviewing Obama just before the Pennsylvania primary, Stewart played it straight, before a closing zinger - demanding to know, on behalf of the American people, "Will you pull a bait and switch, sir, and enslave the white race?" Obama's ear-to-ear grin was maybe his least sincere moment of the campaign...
...propose that there is no grammatical problem and the new verse’s object is in fact “throng” rather than “jubilee.” If this is true, these critics only have succeeded in crafting a grammatically correct, but awkward sentence as they change “throng” from a verb to a noun. I am not exactly sure what a “jubilee throng” is, jubilee being the adjective apparently, but I am sure they can convolute some meaning into the phrase if they needed...
...blood lasted for several years. Now both of them want McCain to win, and McCain wants Bush to do everything he can to help - which sometimes will include keeping a low profile. Democratic ads include footage of McCain hugging Bush. It is a notably awkward embrace...