Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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True love is supposed to be blind. On blind dates, it tends to be pretty awkward...
...three times. In his meetings he has said a total of zero words to me. Honestly, he’s grunted. He’s looked uncomfortable and walked away. They were awkward meetings. Other than that, he never granted me an interview. I met him at Harvard in London in spring 2003, I met him before a talk he gave at the Harvard Club in New York—he and I happened to be wandering down the same corridor—and at Commencement in 2004. Also, I only call him Larry for shorthand, not because we?...
...frown, as if to say, 'What the hell are you doing here?'" She angrily demanded the infantrymen give her female soldiers breathing space so they could prove their worth. Usually in such circumstances, the men oblige, says Collins, but that doesn't spare women some awkward moments. "Even when I take off my helmet, the Iraqi women don't believe I'm a female," says Sergeant Elizabeth Ricci, 20. "They'll come up and tug my hair." And Iraqi men? "One man saw a ring on my finger and asked who I was married to," she recalls. Joking around, Ricci...
...What's made this awkward reporting not merely annoying but socially and politically divisive is that it insults the intelligence of some people who already feel insulted in other ways by the very same class of urban journalists. Outside of D.C., L.A. and NYC, the only time folks get to meet a correspondent from a major television network or a writer from a leading newspaper is when a storm has just destroyed their neighborhood. And when the big shots do vist the outland, they always dress wrong, covered in either condescending denim or some haughty blend of wool and silk...
...Council members, including Weary Professor of German and of Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, said that conducting a dean search in the current contentious climate of the University “would be awkward and counterproductive...