Sentence examples for awkward intervals from inspiring English sources

Paint evenly, with the door laid flat so the stain won't drip down the wood grain and stain at awkward intervals.

"We are living in an awkward interval where our ability to capture the information often exceeds our ability to know what to do with it".

It was awkward, and in the interval I assumed they would all leave.

They had lost Samuel Eto'o to "a muscular injury" after an awkward fall just before the interval, the striker to be scanned back at Cobham with Mourinho braced for more bad news.

For the most part, only one hand is seen, as it attempts to grasp the orchid at the video's center; at unpredictable intervals, a second joins the first with awkward, ungainly, and unfruitful movements.

With near-deadly intervals between laughs the norm here, this awkward attempt at humor becomes a strained substitute for genuinely funny dialogue, a sure sign of a playwright struggling to find her comic voice.

Instead of any kind of traditional joke-telling, Andre will stammer beyond-awkward questions or fire up his band at exquisitely random intervals.

The prose is distractingly awkward at times, but the scenes are vivid and the plot revelations parcelled out at expert intervals.

As Ross [18] has noted these can be awkward to explain and the situation is further complicated by differing methods of dealing with confidence intervals in the social science and the mathematical sciences.

The odd interval triggered a fusillade of analysis: was it creepy, cute, staged, spontaneous, rude, awkward or downright weird?

Awkward phrasing.