You could add: awkward, outspoken, demanding, restless, nonconformist, questing.
Alan's quest culminated in an awkward man-hug with his penitent father in a New Zealand driveway.
Its politics are a quest to narrow the awkward gap between the Brazil of closed condominiums and the other Brazil of untreated sewage.Income distribution in Brazil is more skewed than in any other big country.
It was certainly awkward viewing for interim coach Ashley Giles in his quest to be given the job on a permanent basis.
In a notably unfavourable review of the album, for Rolling Stone, Jim Miller quoted the chorus of the title track to illustrate his point that the singer's "quest for illumination populates his lyrics with sermons and awkward mea culpas".
But while this supports her never-ending quest for "what I longed for most — stability, closeness, belonging," it's an awkward plot stretch.
Kureishi's quest for meaning somehow had to make sense of many sad bits, some awkward bits, and the kinds of bits that are foreign to the pages of Wodehouse: politics, pop culture, sex, drugs and race.
She's been capturing images on film for longer than most of us have been alive and, in the quest for interesting subjects, has found herself in all kinds of weird and awkward situations.
The awkward introversion in the lyrics – which deal with relationship strife, creepy blokes, friendship, gender and the quest for eternal love – add a sense of emotional overload driven by late nights, blood pacts and wide-eyed wonder.
The awkward early prototype example of this (that will get much better in its multi-generational evolution) is Quest to Learn.
