Sentence examples for awkward struggles from inspiring English sources

MONSTER HIGH, the line of fashion dolls from Mattel that features the teenage children of legendary monsters facing the awkward struggles of high school, is getting a social conscience.

Loons are ungainly, barely able to walk, achieving flight only after a long awkward struggle.

The times caught up with Donahue as well in 1963 -- witness his awkward struggle with the Twist in "Palm Springs Weekend".

What you see in the easel-size pictures by all three is an awkward struggle to marry Cubism and Surrealism under the oppressive influence of Picasso.

Some have described him as aloof or awkward, struggling to remember names and poor at the backslapping and glad-handing skills that are useful for lubricating the legislative process in a state capitol.

In an awkward struggle that pits the White House against its usual allies in holding down government spending, the Bush administration is insisting that House Republicans reinstate hundreds of millions of dollars they had cut from politically sensitive disaster relief projects.

Neither one can throw a proper punch so you just see the awkward struggle, arms wavering about, kicking, biting, an elbow, a knee.

The inclusion of an American black bear-looking creature in the tale and its depiction in the illustrations only emphasize Potter's awkward struggle with subject matter she had not directly observed in nature or of which she had little knowledge.

In most cases they won't mind, and getting a few tips or taking it off together can be more fun than a silent, awkward struggle.

The hat must have fallen from my head in the course of my awkward, preoccupying struggles, and the desert breeze that springs up in the late afternoon had moved it twenty feet away.

Expect some awkward Whitehall struggles ahead.