Sentence examples for awkwardness which from inspiring English sources

Its awkwardness, which is almost a thing of beauty, survives in mine.

The deliberate awkwardness which defines the brand was evident as soon as guests arrived at the show on Sunday night.

Kynan Johns, the university's director of orchestras, was very impressed by Clementi's playing, and also noted his social awkwardness, which he regarded as typical freshman reserve.

Now happily married to TV producer Philippa Braithwaite for 13 years, Clunes seems to have grown into himself, bearing no trace of the awkwardness which characterised his early TV appearances.

On Mr. Barenboim's Schumann recording with the Staatskapelle, you can hear what he means, in part because the orchestra has its own awkwardness, which becomes a strength in this music.

During the Games, the need for thousands of temporary additional seats – which was always a basic part of the brief – was accommodated with extreme awkwardness, which meant that whatever might be good about Zaha Hadid's design could not be fully appreciated until after the Olympic crowds had left.

And the awkwardness of which he speaks?

There was some awkwardness about which bathroom he'd use: initially, he was given access to toilets in the principal's office and the nurse's office.

But then autumn came – and there I still was, thinking, 'Shucks!'" Another potential source of awkwardness, to which he seems finely attuned, is the curse of sentimentality.

When she is duly married off to a man she barely knows, the wedding night is a horror of shame and awkwardness from which she never really recovers.

These portraits of love as an exercise in awkwardness, in which the odds of success are slim, feel of a piece with the sun-starved London I arrived to this month.