Sentence examples for awkward connection from inspiring English sources
The devices needed for such transactions are laughably awkward, connection times are maddeningly slow, and only a tiny fraction of retailers on the Internet are set up for shopping through wireless channels, which requires a whole additional set of software and links.
A dicey celebrity-product endorsement can be disastrous to your credibility, as forcing a user to stomach an awkward connection speaks down to his or her intelligence.
It was certainly an awkward connection for Spicer to field.
Why couldn't I have what this group had, rather than a semi-awkward connection with one person along with mostly benign disdain for some strangers I'd already (unfairly) written off?
Now he's just leery about making an awkward, unwanted "connection" with me.
Specifically, Flynn tells of an awkward encounter; a connection missed.
But this awkward collection of loose parts suggests more of a mismatch than a love connection.
That is why I spent so much time on my hands and knees during these two weeks: between constant interruptions in my high-speed Internet connection and the awkward location in most desktop computers of ports for attaching supplemental hardware, I was constantly crawling around behind my desktop to troubleshoot, update equipment and transfer songs onto a portable MP3 player.
"Right now, it's awkward because the suggested social connections lack relevance," she said.
Hunt and Hawkes are excellent as the teacher and pupil who find unexpected connections in apparently awkward circumstances, combining physical intimacy with professional "detachment" (the title refers to six strictly defined meetings) in a manner that bespeaks genuine affection.
His plays depend, as comedy does, on the vitality of the actors to make pleasurable what would otherwise be painfully awkward -- inappropriate speeches, missed connections, faux pas, stumbles, childishness -- but as part of a deeper pathos; the stumbles are not pratfalls but an energized, graceful dissolution of purpose".
