Sentence examples for awkward play from inspiring English sources

He never liked the word and, besides, Coach Carter would have sounded like an awkward play off a Hollywood film.

"I have to admit, with this experience with 'Lie of the Mind,' I've come to see it as a bit of an awkward play," Mr. Shepard said.

Reviewing her drama "Seeking the Genesis" in 1997 at the Manhattan Theater Club, Ben Brantley of The New York Times said the "overstuffed, often awkward play, crammed with medical and sociological data" takes on "larger social and moral issues than even George Bernard Shaw would have been comfortable with".

That said, Peggy did make a couple of tactical errors early on in the game, one of which became immediately irrelevant (an awkward play for Don) and one of which will likely haunt her for a long time to come: Peggy slept with Pete Campbell, a then-engaged, now-married account exec and found herself pregnant with his child.

Romania are unlikely to beat Holland to the top of their World Cup qualifying group but could finish above Hungary and Turkey and prove awkward play-off opponents for someone.

They are awkward plays, which is why they are so unsettling and interesting.

Reid, by contrast, looks poised to join Vince Clarke and Chris Lowe in pop's grand tradition of studio wizards who appear magnificently awkward playing live keyboards.

She can also permit herself frank comments about other people's lives: in a sonnet about a rich old man and his second wife, "he / does look awkward, playing young, playing lord.

Geraldine Chaplin, bladelike yet awkward, plays Emily, who shambles into a downbeat Los Angeles apartment, ingratiates herself with the landlord (Moses Gunn), finds a job at a store run by a benevolent geek (Jeff Goldblum), clashes with a co-worker (Alfre Woodard), and wreaks havoc on a construction worker (Anthony Perkins) and his new wife (Berry Berenson).

Years later, Moveon.org criticized conservative superhero David Petraeus with a full-page ad featuring the awkward play-on-words "General Betray Us".

We've had a bad indie film or two and some other awkward plays.