Sentence examples for because of the awkward from inspiring English sources

Designers here have been in a New York state of mind, not least because of the awkward conjunction of fashion shows and the gut-wrenching 9/11 anniversary.

Nevertheless, the pascal has not gained universal acceptance among high-pressure researchers, perhaps because of the awkward necessity of using the gigapascal (1 GPa = 10,000 bars) and terapascal (1 TPa = 10,000,000 bars) in describing high-pressure results.

Music people who have spoken to the architect, James Stewart Polshek, say the project could end up costing as much as $50 million because of the awkward location and constraints of working around performance schedules.

Ms. Kumin also forced herself to read, sometimes only a paragraph at a time because of the awkward position of her head, and she drew upon her memory bank of poems.

Not because of the awkward, funny and downright messy sex between spacey porn star wannabe Daniel and a flirty fortysomething; but because of what Clark reveals about the pornification of the young men he auditions.

It was because of the awkward fit between his childhood fervors and the American literature that he set out to master -- the gap between his own experience and the literature of his elders.

Clearly, something needs to change when it comes to airport security, though, because all of the awkward full-body scanners and annoying liquid restrictions in the world can't prevent the most simple human error: matching the name on the ticket with the passenger's ID.

Although I like Agenda, I've found the interface for adding a new event to be a bit bothersome, because of the slightly awkward way it pops up menus to adjust settings like times and the on-screen keyboard for text.

This happened to me too, you suddenly can't talk to them because of those awkward silences that hang in the air.

Perhaps it is because of this awkward duality in our historical narratives that we often retreat to the broader themes and rituals of Hanukkah rather than the complexities of its underlying history.

It had sat empty for years because of its awkward shape — a rhomboid — and the proximity of the buildings on the adjoining lots.