But another aspect of it, I believe, which Adam Gopnik here comes the closest to putting his finger on of any commentator I've read so far, is the sheer strangeness of Trump's remarks, their disgusting, creepy, awkward, skin-crawling, quality.
He moved closer, and then he saw it: part of a bare arm protruding from the grass, elbow bent at an awkward angle, skin grayish, slack, lifeless.
When my girlfriend and I would strip down to our awkward, juvenile skin, I'd always make the sure the room was dark, the blankets were plentiful, and the sex positions were minimal.
There I was, fresh from Ghana, extra awkward with the skin tight jeans before they were cool, shuffling my dress shoes on the concrete.
I was sixteen with the works; braces, oily skin, awkward lanky build and a bunch of pimples and acne scars that covered my face.
Her reluctance was because Kim, an oversharing socialite with verve, runs counter to Ms. Rue's typical "uncomfortable-in-my-own-skin awkward girl" roles.
I felt awkward in my own skin and most of the time I wished I was invisible -- especially at school.
A while back we wrote about just why we're so grateful we're way past the days of popularity contests, being broke, and feeling a little awkward in our own skin.
There's a ukelele, a maraca, a beefy 21st century stylophone, a bit of autotune, and a man, awkward in his own skin, selling his soul for a few more subscribers on YouTube.
20 min: Quincy does that thing Steve Nicol used to do back in the 80s - an awkward shimmy - and skins Taiwo, nipping in from the right and attempting a curler into the top left corner.
