Sentence examples for previously awkward from inspiring English sources

Previously, awkward, uncompromising directors such as Luis Bunuel had found themselves exiled from their homeland.

Airbus, previously an awkward French-German-British consortium, was gradually turned into a company wholly owned by EADS and EADSDS itself was created by the merger of Aérospatiale of France and Dasa of Germany.

With the right knowledge base, you can transform what was previously an excruciatingly awkward talk into a conversation with only a little bit of awkwardness ("a little awkwardness" is much more likely to be effective).

The free apps, previously created under the awkward Bing label, were originally built for Windows 8 and Windows Phone devices.

I found a new sense of stand up cool in a world previously spent floating in awkward tween boredom.

Mr. Kennedy has previously walked the line between awkward comedy and audience provocation in a hidden-camera television series, "The Jamie Kennedy Experiment," and a documentary, "Heckler".

So much of the collection looked heavy and awkward, although the designer previously has seemed to have such a light hand.

Often times, a proper diagnosis will bring a sense of comfort to the individual, who might have previously thought of themselves as weird, or awkward.

Previously, one had to reach back in an awkward chicken-wing maneuver to turn a knob.

The real-life father and son were reunited in a scene that Mr. Ware described as more awkward than the scene he had previously created for Jimmy Corrigan.

Meeting in real life someone whom you've previously known only through the Internet is a tricky and awkward affair, even under the best of circumstances.