Sentence examples for awkward process for from inspiring English sources

Settling into a story -- choosing a setting and characters, working out the particulars -- is an awkward process for the novelist, part whim, part a matter of waiting for the authentic detail to suggest itself; in dramatizing that process Sontag has hit on a neat metafictional truth.

By integrating the database for known SNPs (using gene ID or rs number), this tool facilitates the awkward process of getting flanking sequences and other related information from public SNP databases.

"It's a very awkward process, at best," Corker said.

For every vote that becomes an effective campaign talking point, there is another that threatens to lead a candidate into explanations requiring awkward, process-laden Senate-speak.

Fano Factor is at best awkward for non-stationary processes and the main message of the paper is that spiking is non-stationary, e.g. extremely variable over large time scales and extremely precise when whiskers kinematics dictate so.

Four to six hours of this work is very hard but, according to management, the workers are much happier with the current process than they were when working with methylene chloride – a process that involved forceful manual scraping in awkward postures for days at a time.

The process became awkward, for both me and my interrogators – I lied, I told a half truth, I lied again and hoped no two people would compare notes.

It was awkward for them, it was awkward for me.

"It was an awkward game for us.

Awkward word for such an elegant ­composer.

Walter Wolfgang is an awkward customer – so awkward he should get an awkwardly shaped gold watch from the Awkward Squad for half a century's loyal service.