Sentence examples for awkward mix from inspiring English sources

It's an awkward mix, and perhaps meant to be: our time is short, nature's long.

He settles instead on an awkward mix of the three, as "Vicious Circle" lurches between tragedy and satire.

There's an awkward mix of signals that distracts you from the kitchen's efforts, which are noteworthy nonetheless.

Their audience is wider and smarter and probably expects more than this noxious, awkward mix of art, commerce and romance.

The process of growing up is, for almost everyone, an awkward mix of dependence, longing for independence and need.

The economy blossomed in the 1990s after reforms gave birth to Vietnam's awkward mix of a market economy closely chaperoned by the Communist Party.

On publication in 1950, Helena was received indifferently by the public and by critics, who disparaged the awkward mixing of 20th-century schoolgirl slang with otherwise reverential prose.

"I think that people are worried that since it is a time for mourning and grief, it's awkward to mix it up with the plain talking that's necessary to combat the aggressive foreign policy initiatives being taken by the administration right now.

Malaysians' spirit of give-and-take, he lamented, had been replaced by the idea that progress was a zero-sum game among the races.Apart from some deadly riots in 1969, the country has so far done remarkably well in handling the awkward racial mix it inherited when the Malaysian peninsula gained independence from Britain in 1957 (Britain's colonies on Borneo joined the union later).

It's an awkward, somewhat hokey mix that, unfortunately, is entirely in keeping with this awkward, somewhat hokey work.

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