Sentence examples for awkward passage from inspiring English sources

The twisted history of copyright law has insured an awkward passage into the digital age.

He fixes an awkward passage in the chorus by swapping two chords, and then lays down a basic piano track.

A distaste for the dictionary is what fills pages with dialogue like this awkward passage, from mega-best seller Chetan Bhagat's forthcoming book "Revolution 2020": "Yeah, of course.

Yet they still merited the success and, sometimes, the odd awkward passage is useful to ensure expectations do not become too inflated.

AS the legions of teenagers who have read the novel on which the forthcoming film "Twilight" is based know, the awkward passage from youth to maturity isn't the very worst problem an adolescent can have.

Offstage, Gasparo's conversation consists mainly of dry dissections of his music, delivered in a speaking voice that is "no more eloquent than a block of wood": "After bar 24 you get an awkward passage with very rapid quintuplets rising higher and higher, from F sharp, to G sharp, to A," he explains to Carlotta as they lie in bed.

Pianists will tell you that some awkward passages in the Brahms Second are nearly unplayable.

The bar has 50 varieties of vodka to help smooth any awkward passages.

Instead the concerto movement, labeled Molto Allegro, contains a multitude of notes and technically demanding, sometimes awkward, passages.

Be lanced by lice! … Still, awkward passages are rare in "Graveyard Clay"; the translation, on the whole, is remarkably elegant.

There were awkward passages of play for the visitors, with two moments of slackness in defence leading to two East Stirlingshire goals.