She moves with an awkward, dream-logic elegance through the stages of grief, chain-smoking at Ouija boards, the phonecalls to prove he loved her in real life not only her imagination, the gorgeous, taunting mountain of roses delivered to his widow rather than her own lonely bungalow, that bury her in a nightmare, the creeping in of self-doubt, the descent into madness.
There's the vain, beautiful Jinny, trying to outfox age; the fastidious aesthete Neville, hopelessly and clumsily in love with another man; the maternal homebody Susan; Bernard, the literature-loving raconteur; Louis, the Australian outsider, forever poised in anxious defensiveness; and the socially awkward fantasist Rhoda, always dreaming of death and dissolution.
It'll have you feeling emotions — more awkward than you ever dreamed of.
On the defect side, there are touches of awkward mysticism: a stolidly foreshadowing dream and a character who is or is not real but is tedious either way.
But in Townshend's complex world there is much more too, perhaps enough to turn the rock dream sour: the awkward relationship with fans, the inability or unwillingness to recreate the hits of one's heyday with the Who (and the paranoid insecurity associated with that), the ordeal of sustaining a loving marriage, an unhinged childhood with an insatiable grandmother on the English coast.
The bright promise of the campaign closed down quickly on Palin and her entourage, leaving only the desert stars of the Arizona night to illuminate the final, awkward act of her failed dream and her uncertain political future.
I know that admitting that Barack Obama is already the candidate of centrists' dreams would be awkward, would make it hard to adopt the stance that both sides are equally at fault.
So the three of us dreamed up inevitable awkward situations, and together we thought of sentences he could say that would buy him time but not alienate him from his friends or make anyone feel like he was judging them.
For Clarke, proud leader of the Conservatives' awkward squad for four decades, that dream is in ruins.
The fantasy and dream sequences seem intrinsically awkward and do not work well here.
Any awkward moments in this "Midsummer Night's Dream" were quietly redeemed by the young singers of the Chicago Children's Choir.
