Word: awkwardness
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...there were very distinguished guests in the audience,” Shanahan said. Though the crowd was full of VIPs, she said, they were “loosened up, really in a festive mood” when the Callbacks arrived at 9:30 p.m. “The only awkward thing,” she said, “was that...right behind where we were singing and people were giving speeches there was this enormous, 50-foot long dinosaur skeleton...
...meetings if anyone tried to discuss his country's problem with Muslim insurgents in Thailand's south. "If there is any attempt to raise the issue," he told reporters, "I will fly straight home." Burma's Soe Win may have been hoping that the prisoner release would prevent awkward discussions on the fate of Suu Kyi and her supporters. According to opposition groups, only a few dozen of the country's approximately 1,300 political prisoners were set free. (The rest were criminals.) Before flying to Vientiane, Soe Win gave no clue as to whether Suu Kyi, under house arrest...
...Chroino, right--if we didn't know any better, we'd think it was Playmobil's tribute to Marvin the Martian--also boasts a more graceful stride, thanks to new SHIN-Walk technology that allows the 14-in. robot to maintain an even center of gravity and avoid the awkward bent-knee technique common to other walking bots...
...decisively that the songs were simply not good enough. "When it comes to signing off on a project," says Clayton, "you ask questions like, 'Have we got a first single to open the campaign?' Frankly, we were missing more than just a first single." Says Mullen Jr.: "It was awkward, but it had to be said...
...have been a hundred little towns like it," writes Robinson, "set up in the heat of an old urgency that is all forgotten now, and their littleness and their shabbiness, which was the measure of the courage and passion that went into the making of them, now just look awkward and provincial and ridiculous...