Sentence examples for awkward intensity from inspiring English sources

Here's the interesting paradox: he did believe in this Enlightenment vision, but with an awkward intensity that made him see its other advocates as complacent, worldly, merely pragmatic.

She had once been pointed out to me on the street: thin and pretty, with an atmosphere of awkward intensity and passion about her, gesticulating, surrounded by interesting-looking boys.

He is a unique mixture of coolness and intensity, superb formal ability and awkward daring.

Most popular books wear their artlessness on their sleeve: Stephenie Meyer, the author of the "Twilight" series, is an awkward writer with little feeling for construction, but the intensity of emotion with which she imbues her characters is enviable.

You might remember them from uni – the kids who wanted more than anything to join the political class, who acted it out through all those po-faced student union elections, awkward at parties but full of a terrifying, otherworldly intensity.

"Tess," the novel that made him rich, remains by Tomalin's measure an awkward production in spots, and yet it "glows with the intensity" of Hardy's imagination.

More often than not, the priest's encounters with them are played for awkward laughs — a real lurch of tone, after the opening scene, the intensity of which soon ebbs away.

Simultaneously awkward and self-possessed, he has the sleepy delivery and needling cynicism of Bill Murray and the haunted intensity of Daniel Craig.

And if her French diction for the Duparc songs was awkward and unidiomatic, Rachmaninov's Russian set her free to soar gloriously, calling on all her native reserves of expressive intensity.

Intensity, intensity, intensity.

Awkward phrasing.