Word: awkwardness
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...such nuance can easily get lost in the sound bites. So for McCain, his ability to explain these complex relationships with lobbyists and monied interests is about to be tested. The appearance of impropriety may well be just that - appearance instead of reality. Nonetheless, McCain is now in the awkward position of hoping voters will give him the benefit of the doubt that he has denied to others...
...great political effort will we be able to convince the German public that we are engaged in Afghanistan in order to protect our security in Germany," says Ruprecht Polenz, Christian Democrat chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Bundestag. And even if that effort succeeded, there is the awkward question of whether more German troops would help out in the south. "What's the use, given that the German army is a conscript army, and they only have a few professionals?" says the ISAF source in Afghanistan. "What use is that kind of army to us down south...
...science fiction paints a portrait of human society that is starker and truer than any other genre of fiction. This, of course, is undoubtedly an unpopular idea among more literary types. After all, isn’t the wonderful world of science fiction the territory of pimply, socially awkward teenagers? This would be true if our world was still a world where life was a simple morality play that was played out on the great supernatural ladder of being and was guided by one part fate and one part justice. However, our world is not that world. Instead we live...
...nearly 20 years. He had brought Obama into the church, helped him find his faith in God, officiated at Obama's wedding and baptized both his children. But Wright had also said a lot of incendiary things from his pulpit about America over the years, things that would be awkward to explain away for a politician hoping to unite the country and become the first African-American President of the United States...
...There's no such thing as a bad style phase because when you adopt a certain look, you truly believe it's stylish. In hindsight, the '80s had some awkward moments, but then again, there were some real statements made.' ?Viktor Horsting, on style statements...