Sentence examples for awkward to turn from inspiring English sources

While it might seem respectful to have to ask in person for permission to contact someone in the future, many will feel too awkward to turn someone down.

You would expect the emphasis on awkward amateurs to turn the project parodic, except that Kutiman finds in every performance brilliantly human turns of phrase or physicality.

I felt kind of awkward trying to turn my buddy's bachelor party into a blog post.

Still, changing the angle of the seatback requires an awkward reach back to turn a knob.

His allies suspect a plot to silence an awkward figure and to turn COSATU into a lapdog of the ruling party.

But with the Tory awkward squad expected to turn out in force to spin out the debate until time runs out ("does the Pope have a balcony?" one awkward squaddie responded, when asked if he would be there) a hundred MPs will be needed to close the debate and ensure the Bill receives a Second Reading.

He said it would be extremely awkward to try to turn off the car with your left hand from outside the window, and that he has trouble understanding why the gun would be positioned where it was, in the vehicle or pointed at the window of the vehicle.

We thought, how can we take the landscape of Lancashire and Yorkshire and give that the mythic setting of the westerns we grew up watching?" But isn't it kind of awkward to be turning the topic of honor killing, among a population to which the directors themselves don't belong, into something "mythic"?

We thought, how can we take the landscape of Lancashire and Yorkshire and give that the mythic setting of the westerns we grew up watching?" But isn't it kind of awkward to be turning the topic of honour killing, among a population to which the directors themselves don't belong, into something "mythic"?

Previously, one had to reach back in an awkward chicken-wing maneuver to turn a knob.

This puts Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Deputy Mayor Patricia A. Harris, who have prided themselves in their commitment to public art, in the potentially awkward position of appearing to turn deaf ears to a request relayed on behalf of an internationally celebrated, 88-year-old artist.