Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Linden is not an exceptionally mobile quarterback, and when the pocket has broken down, Linden has looked awkward and more often than not, goes down with the ball...
Take, for example, Jennifer Jason Leigh's performance as Catherine Sloper, the shy and awkward young woman whose wealth Townsend is stalking. Does she really have to keep dropping objects and walking into walls to prove her social and physical ineptitude? And what about Albert Finney as her father, at once contemptuous and overprotective of her? He's a constantly rumbling volcano ever on the verge of eruption. One keeps recalling, much to Finney's disadvantage, the icier malevolence of Ralph Richardson in the earlier movie. On the other hand, Maggie Smith's Aunt Penny, more in love with Morris...
...Many of the family's tragedies can be blamed on this woman who manages to avoid all fault by merely saying that "one raises cattle, children just are and you let the be." Rounding out the cast is Freddie Prinze, Jr., who plays Anthony, Jackie O. and Marty's awkward, sexually frustrated little brother whose days are spent in aimless activity...
...readers. True, the novel's pages bleed together, but Bleeding London is a wounded creature. A writer once said of Ezra Pound, "he is a great poet who has never written a great poem." In the world of lyric prose, Nicholson neither leads nor follows. Rather, he occupies that awkward region in between--usually above reproach, seldom awe-inspiring--where many decent writers languish in anonymity. Bleeding London is, well, bloody awful...
...setting and to reflect on how your experiences have prepared you for work in that setting. It is also important to be able to articulate to a stranger what he or she is interested in knowing about you. If you are unaccustomed to talking about yourself, it may be awkward at first. If you are not shy about discussing your talents and accomplishments, it may take some practice to sound confident but not arrogant. If you tend to be humble, it may take practice to avoid sounding overly self-deprecating...