She used a run-around forehand to cut the angles off the court, leaned on speed and lobs to stretch out the rallies and sliced her backhands low to force Williams into awkward bends for her strokes.
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But she was able to persuade subjects, especially women, to open up about their private lives — something that Masters, a socially awkward doctor bent on winning a Nobel Prize, had trouble doing.
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An angular, awkward, bespectacled man bending over and waving his arms, he exhorted the demonstrators to add democracy to their demands for a free press and an end to corruption.
One of the novel's conceits is that China's authoritarianism may have allowed it to force-march toward modernization and therefore the reduction of poverty, while India's awkward pluralism and bends-but-doesn't-break constitutional democracy have held its economy back and institutionalized its poverty, and now, its deepening inequality.
The tough at-bat went to three and two, with two more full-count fouls, and Jeter looked almost awkward as he bent and swung at an inside curveball and got all of it, driving the ball into the second tier of seats in the left center-field bleachers.
But the weight of the vest and the explosives, estimated at 15 to 20 pounds, made it awkward for him to bend over, reach the scissors and cut away the straps of the vest.
She was in a particularly awkward and taxing position, bent over and balanced on one foot and one inverted hand, when she had a profound moment.
If the stories of most lives were transformed into objects, they'd look ravaged: torqued, misbalanced, bent at awkward angles, fascinating.
