Sentence examples for awkward exercise from inspiring English sources

American foreign aid has always been an awkward exercise in high-minded self-interest — humanitarian goals balanced uneasily with strategic calculations.

But 21 months later, fielding questions from family and friends back home about his life with the team has become an awkward exercise.

By George Packer American foreign aid has always been an awkward exercise in high-minded self-interest — humanitarian goals balanced uneasily with strategic calculations.

American foreign aid has always been an awkward exercise in high-minded self-interest humanitarian goalself-interest humanitariantrategoalsalculations.

For Samuel Beckett's 1953 play "Waiting for Godot," Mathias has chosen, to make the play into a "Hogan's Heroes -ish, Heroes -ish-well-met spectacle that feels like an awkward exercise in male bonding.

Mathias has chosen, instead, to make the play into a "Hogan's Heroes -ish, Heroes -ish-well-met spectacle that feels like an awkward exercise in male bonding — a painful slap on the back, followed by booming laughter.

The boot camp was a press trip, so what was originally—I'm sure meant to be a test of my steely determination and wiles in the great outdoors turned into a slightly awkward team building exercise with people I'd never seen before and will never see again.

This series of awkward, Lamaze-like exercises was all supposed to help them loosen up and impress clients.

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Once more exercising his "awkward tact," Lincoln replied that "I do not feel authorized to furnish you with copies of letters in my possession without the consent of the writers".

"She sought an audience with me and tasked me so violently with so many things, that I had to exercise all the awkward tact I have to avoid quarreling with her," he told his secretary John Hay. "She more than once intimated that if Gen. Fremont should conclude to try conclusions with me he could set up for himself".