Sentence examples for occasion awkward from inspiring English sources

A stubborn individualist, she is also a generally unremarkable, even on occasion awkward stylist, though one sensitive to color.

But, if the occasion was awkward for Bush and Clinton, it marked a seeming triumph of federal and state coöperation.

Even coining a slogan for the occasion proved awkward, with the organisers switching from the bullish "Australian Achievement" to the more conciliatory "Living Together" and, eventually, to the entirely inane "Celebration of a Nation", a catchphrase accompanied by a jingle of stupefying banality ("the celebration of a nation/ give us a hand/ celebration of a nation/ let's make it grand!").

The trouble that makes this occasion so awkward to memorialize is the lack of imagination about it.

It can be an awkward occasion.

The première was therefore a somewhat awkward occasion, at which the composer won wild acclaim for a style of late-romantic music which he no longer practiced.

He even had a debut goal from the substitute Loïc Rémy, to celebrate before the end as this occasion, initially so awkward, degenerated into a thrashing.

Finally, you commune directly with the permanent conundrums of painting — ambiguities of light and substance, depth and flatness, the works — on the awkward occasion of the artist's psychosexual hangups.

There is no use pretending otherwise -- Bill Clinton's appearance before the nation tonight to deliver the State of the Union address cannot help but be an awkward occasion for the President and the American people.

Indeed, had their former Birmingham City midfielder Michel converted an early chance rather than clip his shot against the crossbar when it had seemed easier to score early on, then this could have been a distinctly more awkward occasion.

This was an awkward occasion, to experience and to judge.