Word: awkwardness
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...terrorist methods are either legal under the rules and customs of war, or they aren’t. No amount of pedantic hairsplitting over “civil rights” and “due process” is going to work if it ignores those awkward, obvious questions...
...Merritt has at least put his misery to excellent use. He is the great tragicomic songwriter of his age--equal parts Cole Porter and Charlie Brown--and love is his unkickable football. "Maybe it's being gay," says Merritt, "but for me, everything related to love is so awkward, it's automatically funny. Just the idea of love is embarrassing to me. It's the equivalent of singing in the street." In 1999 Merritt and his band the Magnetic Fields released 69 Love Songs, a spectacular three-CD, genre-spanning survey that included titles like Absolutely Cuckoo and (Crazy...
While the admirable intellectual intentions of the author were clear throughout the production, the actual execution of the work fell short of its potential. Actors often stumbled through lines, tripping over even simple words. Entrances and exits often seemed awkward and ill-timed, and transitions between the scenes were noisy and detracted attention from the actual play. Furthermore, the unfortunate use of the space to the left of the main stage area resulted in poor viewing and an unnecessarily claustrophobic effect...
...awkward thing about discussing the value of office hours while visiting a professor during office hours is that it puts some pressure on the conversation. If this is what we should strive for, face time, then what has to happen during that time for a transformative transfer of wisdom...
...religious, Oedipal or congenital? No doubt the President gets a kick out of these sorts of mind games. He probably enjoys the secular left's discomfort with his religious references as much as he "enjoyed" going up against the stony Gen eral Assembly (and despite a few awkward moments, he probably had a ball frustrating the reporters who asked him to admit mistakes or make apologies in his recent press conference...