He spreads the pages of his book out on the floor of his living room and crawls back and forth in anguish among them, hovering over the composite parts with the awkward concern of his brood elephant.
But they are still enormously influential, and they still serve as a way of avoiding awkward questions concerning simplifications, idealizations, and abstraction in economics rather than responding to them.
Two years after an exiled opposition group began revealing the scope of Iran's undeclared programme, the Iranians have continued to try to hide awkward truths, notably those concerning their experiments with the fuel technologies that involve enriching uranium and making plutonium.The country is inching towards being able to master the nuclear-fuel cycle.
It might be true that if merely one country out of 25 Britain, say were to vote no, the situation would be awkward for all concerned.
The debacle was Cameron's first serious setback since he was re-elected a month ago and was all the more awkward because it concerned his flagship policy of renegotiating Britain's EU ties before holding an in-out EU membership referendum.
Nor is it really about journalism, despite the petty scrums it created with Woodward and a group of Bradlee devotees earlier this year, when published excerpts from the book revealed a few awkward statements made by Bradlee concerning The Post's Watergate reporting.
Keep in mind that you falling to the ground is a concerning moment for your friends and an awkward and uncomfortable moment for everyone else.
Shopping, as far as the Haggler is concerned, is awkward enough.
Mother would occasionally come in and stand at the foot of the bed, clearly concerned but awkward, as if she were intruding on a private moment.
Despite being supported by the White House and leadership in both parties, the legislation represented an awkward compromise by all concerned to keep the government funded and avoid a potential shutdown.
"Whatever the price to pay, I will not be the silent accomplice in this blindness," he declared.In this section Dreams from their fathers All things to Althingi Left behind Rocky horror show Constitutional concerns The awkward squad Battle of the big beasts Reprints Related items The French Socialist Party: War of the rosesNov 27th 2008Other figures on the left joined in.
