Sentence examples for awkward occasion from inspiring English sources

It can be an awkward occasion.

The première was therefore a somewhat awkward occasion, at which the composer won wild acclaim for a style of late-romantic music which he no longer practiced.

Finally, you commune directly with the permanent conundrums of painting — ambiguities of light and substance, depth and flatness, the works — on the awkward occasion of the artist's psychosexual hangups.

Indeed, had their former Birmingham City midfielder Michel converted an early chance rather than clip his shot against the crossbar when it had seemed easier to score early on, then this could have been a distinctly more awkward occasion.

This was an awkward occasion, to experience and to judge.

As Britain's Margaret Thatcher showed on such awkward occasions, one country can cause an awful lot of problems if it chooses.Save for the Austrian uncertainty, the summit conclusions should be reached quite easily, starting with the economic ones.

An apparent malicious presence taunts a dog into biting a little girl's face during a fantastically awkward social occasion.

A stubborn individualist, she is also a generally unremarkable, even on occasion awkward stylist, though one sensitive to color.

Chelsea's pursuit of their own more glittering prize simply seems more relentless in the aftermath of a victory chiselled from an awkward and fractious occasion.

But Piazza has appeared awkward on numerous occasions, and in perhaps a predictable twist, has now been hurt twice in collisions at first.

But no actress could make the authors' other convention seem anything except awkward: on several occasions Bessie has premonitions of her death that interrupt her train of thought and prompt her to silently contemplate her demons while the audience waits, feeling Ms. Braden's pain if not Bessie's.