Sentence examples for awkward world from inspiring English sources

Their MC-ing was widely acclaimed as a breath of fresh air in the stuffy, awkward world of awards-show hosting.

Throughout Peace's Red Riding Quartet working-class detectives, journalists and other professionals find themselves trapped in that awkward world of class unease, pushed and pulled, mocked and abused, from above and below.

Brontë depicts in detail the isolation inherent in a governess's life, as an educated – but by necessity not too educated – woman trapped in an awkward halfway world between the classes.

Indeed, most of these would rather the episode had consisted entirely of the special: IGN's Robert Canning regretted that "the good stuff" was bookended with "inconsequential and awkward real world stories", and Erica Futterman of Rolling Stone "would have preferred" the whole episode to be the show-within-a-show.

But its compellingly odd, slightly awkward sound-world, with chime-bars and vibraphone pressed into service as bearers of linear counterpoint, was entirely his own.

Both of Ms. Granik's films have won major awards, but when it comes to domestic financing and distribution, she still struggles in what she wryly terms "the awkward third-world conditions for independent film in the United States".

History is full of awkward greetings between world leaders.

To provide some levity after such a difficult year, WorldViews has collected some of the most awkward photographs of world leaders in the past twelve months.

He kept on working until the works became unfamiliar to him, as awkward in the world as he probably felt in his own skin.

Thes awkward originandy appeared on VICE US.

In this memoir-guide hybrid, Issa humorously illuminates what it's like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits and black as cool.