Sentence examples for behaving awkwardly from inspiring English sources
In my own laboratory, my colleagues and I have found that when people feel their negative expectations for a cross-race interaction have been confirmed when they think the other person is avoiding or behaving awkwardly toward them they often react with strong feelings of anger and anxiety.
He has salvaged a shred or two of national pride by continuing to behave awkwardly abroad.
Not only did Camus not know what he was supposed to think (he disparaged progress and sympathized with the Algerian French) but, graver yet, he behaved awkwardly in the drawing room (in the actual or figurative sense): he was vulgar.
They had to be taught the club rules; till they learnt them, they were liable to behave awkwardly.Mr Schröder, though almost as preoccupied with the EU budget as Margaret Thatcher once was, can count on a much more sympathetic reception for several reasons.
Among the four categories of vicariously embarrassing situations, only in AA situations did the emotional reaction as attributed to the awkwardly behaving person exceed the vicarious embarrassment experiences in observers.
Such couples tend to behave a bit awkwardly at first: stifling giggles and carefully avoiding eye contact with others as they wait in the lobby or the Bar and Cafe — a six-stool niche the size of a master bathroom.
As they danced together, Pyotr told Kate that it hadn't been easy for him having been brought up as an orphan and coming to America not knowing anyone, and that if he had behaved a bit awkwardly at times it was because he was a bit shy and didn't understand American customs.
To me, the surest sign that this army of quadrangles has failed is seeing how awkwardly tourists behave around it.
