Sentence examples for deliberately awkward from inspiring English sources

On Kane's catwalk, ultra-sophisticated ideas are tangled up with deliberately awkward, off-key ones.

I agree that the performances are (deliberately) awkward or stilted compared to the dominant, ie trained, style.

THELONIOUS MONK, no stranger to paradox, once wrote a splintery, deliberately awkward jazz waltz to which he gave the title "Ugly Beauty".

He is deliberately awkward in his woundedness, with a voice coated in protective irony and eyes that widen with stabs of repressed pain reasserting itself.

What's fascinating about "Absolute Friends , in fact, is how deliberately awkward its narrative technique is, how adamantly le Carré refuses to be glib or ingratiating.

Throughout the book, Kempowski quotes poems and cheery popular songs, often in deliberately awkward juxtaposition to the gravity of the narrative.

In her solo, "Black Crow," Akiko Furukawa hopped and flapped her arms in a deliberately awkward-looking manner.

*** Carter was deliberately messy, awkward, even paradoxical in her behaviour: she never allowed herself to settle into any predictable guise or attitude for long.

If you suspect your grandchild is deliberately asking an awkward question of you or someone in your company, raise that arched eyebrow of yours without laughing or making a big deal about it.

But it's agonising to watch Oliver deliberately create such an awkward moment – and thus reassuring, somehow, to learn that he finds the process pretty agonising himself.

Her verbal choices can also sound deliberately unidiomatic, stiff or simply awkward: "No how round plushly, the words won't pillow, no, / only that breast will do".