Her sound outstripped her dramatic presence though: Carmen's sexuality should be incendiary in the first two acts, but Ms. Goeldner's moves tended more toward awkwardness.
You stand, breathing hard, the sweat cold on your forehead, the makeup caking dry, leaning forward to see their faces, recognizing from the rhythm of their walk and their little irrelevant jokes that they are moving sideways toward an awkwardness.
Then there is the portrait's gestural precision ("moving sideways toward an awkwardness") and also the poignance ("breathing hard, the sweat cold on your forehead"), which, if this had been a dance, she would have felt the need to undercut with comedy.
This also helps explain the awkwardness that many journalists express toward Greenwald.
Edward's awkwardness with his son is explained toward the middle of the play, after he has finally left Alice, for the mother of one of his students.
But awkwardness of usage has never trumped English's march toward inclusivity.
A husband and wife who behaved so courteously toward the world must have ways of dealing with awkwardness like this — a subtle reference to someone similar they'd encountered, or perhaps just a benign dismissal of the man's opinions.
A husband and wife who behaved so courteously toward the world must have ways of dealing with awkwardness like this a subtle reference to someone similar they'd encountered, or perhaps just a benign dismissal of the man's opinions.
Some of the evening's awkwardness could be chalked up to a mild controversy about Godard's attitudes toward Jews: he is a longtime supporter of the cause of the Palestinians and has also over the years unburdened himself of a few ill-considered remarks, many of them about Hollywood producers, which have been criticized as anti-Semitic.
Her striking, emotional rendering of both figure and ground wavers between her premise's representational imperatives and a gravitational pull toward abstraction that fittingly has more in common with Pre-Raphaelite awkwardness than contemporary gestural expression.
