Sentence examples for an awkward mixture of from inspiring English sources

( Midgette) 'MANIC FLIGHT REACTION' Sarah Schulman's intermittently zingy play is an awkward mixture of cultural satire and earnest psychodrama about love and responsibility.

(Jefferson) 'MANIC FLIGHT REACTION' Sarah Schulman's intermittently zingy play is an awkward mixture of cultural satire and earnest psychodrama about love and responsibility.

It appears in Robb's book as part of a chapter on Marville and Haussmann, in which we are privy to the latter's thoughts – an awkward mixture of anecdote, biography and straight history.

He said: 'Pinochet got rid of the commies, and that's our argument.'" In the end, the campaigners settled for an awkward mixture of both approaches, apolitically playing up Pinochet's frail health while also producing and distributing crude rightwing propaganda pamphlets and articles about the elected leftwing leader he had overthrown, Salvador Allende.

Even with its thoughts of apprehension and death, the song is a cozy refuge from the album's ups and downs, its sometimes awkward mixture of Jay-Z's reflexes and his determination to sidestep them.

Wise succeeded in controlling this awkward mixture of realism, social comment, opera, ballet and showbiz.

His physical language is awkward but refined: a mixture of Mick Jagger, disco, various dance crazes of the '60s (the frug, the watusi) and the karate-years Elvis Presley.

It was an awkward reversal of roles.

It is an awkward amalgam of three books in one.

"It's an awkward set of circumstances," he said.

It's an awkward state of affairs.