Sentence examples for awkward pairing from inspiring English sources

When it comes to narrative style, however, author and subject make an awkward pairing.

Art and politics are an awkward pairing at the best of times.

But a wild garden of five is much better than an awkward pairing of two.

Europe may need a broad cure to its debt crisis, but the increasingly awkward pairing of the European Union and the International Monetary Fund makes such action unlikely.

Or Mr Rüttgers could make history by forming the first coalition between the CDU and the Greens in a big state.This would be an awkward pairing.

The awkward pairing symbolized the split in American journalism between those who embodied a political point of view and those who said they did not.

They're an awkward pair, part "A Beautiful Mind," part borscht belt.

After Al and Bill, the awkward pair, appeared together at Mel Carnahan's funeral, Mr. Gore finished the week by sending out his spokesman, Mark Fabiani, to say that the president and vice president would not be appearing at any campaign rallies.

The two seem to travel together, a sinister, awkward pair like Cinderella's step sisters.

Watch as the "Vanna White" of the Australian game show "Numbers and Letters" slowly picks consonant and vowel cards at random, based on the contestants choice, until a really awkward pair of words is formed in this clip from 2011.

Some state officials are already wondering whether Mr. Brown might try to rein in Mr. Newsom — some of Mr. Newsom's supporters joke privately that the two men could resemble the sometimes-awkward pairing of President Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.