Sentence examples for intensely awkward from inspiring English sources

That legacy, perhaps inevitably, has ushered them into an intensely awkward phase of their relationship.

Giving way is at the center of the book's last best revelation, as Groom visits her aunt and uncle and, although the situation is intensely awkward ("They are uneasy, our conversation triple-­spaced"), she finally asks about Tommy.

The 60-year-old lawyer, professor or homemaker may not care to be addressed as "John" or "Susan," especially by a much younger caregiver, and it is intensely awkward for the patient to suggest a more respectful form of address.

Horgan's mordant wit, willingness to experiment with tone and knack for pushing social situations beyond the funny into the intensely awkward drives Divorce's action and it's a delight to see her apply Catastrophe's caustic take on marriage to the Westchester suburbs and the American picket fence dream.

People treated him like an alien, a stranger or a problem to solve: He had an intensely awkward encounter with Ken and Joan, and treated Dawn like she worked for him, which she clearly does not (the primary job requirement for anyone working for Don is to have the patience of a saint).

The diagnosis may be folded back into autism in the coming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, but there is no doubt that Asperger's description of these socially awkward, intensely focused young men resonated with parents who recognized their own children in it.

Students and faculty have described him as socially awkward and intensely isolated, and one classmate has said Mr. Holmes once implied that he suffered from a psychiatric condition called dysphoric mania.

Yet these early works are thrilling thinly painted, intensely observed, sometimes surrealist and often awkward.

I've never felt that sense of unease more intensely than when I became the awkward, lumbering guest of a teenage mom in Manila, in the small room where she lived with her baby, boyfriend, and several other family members.

While you'll want to be sincere about your thoughts and feelings, you probably won't want to make things awkward by bringing up intensely personal information before you truly get to know someone.

Awkward and partly deaf, she is intensely lonely in her personal life and mocked by her male superiors at work.