Sentence examples similar to formally awkward from inspiring English sources
Yet on the day, he was avuncular, polite and solicitous, if somewhat awkward, formally dressed in coat and tie.
In 1995, corralled into an airbase in Dayton, Ohio, their leaders agreed to a complex set of formulae that ended the conflict but left Bosnia with an awkward political legacy, formally splitting it into the Serb-dominated Republika Srpska (RS) and a federation of Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) and Croats.Immediately after the war Bosnia drifted.
European countries like Germany have in effect restructured their lending to Greece without having to admit this awkward fact to voters by formally forgiving some of it.Even more help will be necessary.
Formally, the parliament cannot veto the choice, but a parliamentary rejection would be awkward.
So instead, for the last two decades we have muddled through the awkward problem of having one of the country's founding nations bound by a constitution it has never formally recognized.
Though awkward in many respects, the Scarano affair has strengthened Pope Francis's hand as he sets about cleaning up the Vatican bank, formally known as the Institute for the Works of Religion IORReligion IOR
