Misaki Kawai's cartoon-like paintings and installations are influenced by the Japanese manga style known as heta-uma, which employs awkward, "bad" technique to achieve "good", unpretentious results.
In that way, he reminds some of Bode Miller, who often sends just his feet around the gates while the rest of his body plunges straight downhill, rocking back and forth with an awkward, rubbery technique that the former Olympic and World Cup champion Phil Mahre says reminds him of Gumby.
Combined with their domineering dance floor moves, and simultaneously overly forward and uncomfortably awkward chirpse technique, Durham lads make for uncomfortable club company.
There's a lot of comedic mileage in Castiel's adjustment to humanity, from his dead body sniffing to his awkward interrogation techniques (obviously picked up from watching one too many episodes of "CSI") and his insane questioning of a talking cat (who I hope we see again someday), and I would love to see him continuing to be Sam and Dean's hunting "third wheel".
What's fascinating about "Absolute Friends , in fact, is how deliberately awkward its narrative technique is, how adamantly le Carré refuses to be glib or ingratiating.
At first, I was awkward and ignorant of technique: Push the heavy snow aside rather than lift it.
In 1995, when Mr. Angelich, in his mid-20s and fresh from a triumph in the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, played his New York debut recital at Alice Tully Hall, he was a tall, awkward young man bursting with technique and temperament.
This was achieved by pre-testing the instrument that was used to identify and change any ambiguous, awkward, or offensive questions and technique as emphasized by Cooper and Schindler (2008).
ANDERSON HOI POLLOI Sara Sweet Rabidoux, the company choreographer, describes her work as deliberately awkward and creepily dear, borrowing techniques from film and fiction writing that include internal dialogues and dream sequences.
What might be most awkward is the impact that such techniques may have on other deserving songs.
