Sentence examples for awkward delay from inspiring English sources

Credit to Flowers, too, for pausing the show when a fight breaks out in the crowd – an awkward delay for which he chides both the antagonist and slow-acting security, with the band primed to play, as he puts it, "our two best songs".

Felt like an awkward delay.

There would be fewer awkward delays, it was promised, while fans and players waited for judges with television monitors to decide the legality of a scoring play.

The network virtually eliminates latency -- that awkward data delay between posing a question in one place and having a person in another place see and hear the question.

Egged on by uncompromising party members in the constituencies, ministers are delaying awkward decisions on airport capacity, the EU and energy until then, apparently convinced that coalition is a blip.

But by presenting it in such apocalyptic terms, they may be painting themselves into an awkward corner should a delay eventually be forced on them.

Perhaps the only activity we engage in more at the airport than flying is complaining -- about weather delays or awkward naps or bad food.

We could even communicate via  two-way audio, although a three-second delay made conversation awkward.

The quality isn't perfect -- the picture can be a bit fuzzy and the motions jerky -- but it is certainly better than in the days when delayed motion and awkward gaps in conversation made such calls more frustrating than useful.

The son (H2629) of the index case had normal initial milestones but was also noted to be delayed throughout childhood with awkward fine motor control and was unable to walk independently until 8 years of age.

A crowded calendar of regional summitry makes that awkward, and Mr Najib has other reasons for delay.