Sentence examples for public awkwardness from inspiring English sources

And the president's public awkwardness masks something more human.

Her general air of ineffable public awkwardness matched with a profile she seems at once doomed and strangely, darkly drawn to retaining.

Then it's easy to imagine her embarrassment when the diversity wars of the 1990s made that whimsical choice something from which she couldn't dissociate herself without intense public awkwardness.

Represents: Physical prowess, political flexibility, tolerance for public awkwardness.

Ignatius, noting the added back-up the mission got, has concluded that for all of Obama's public awkwardness, he is privately a "very, decisive and tough man," and "somehow he is going to tell the country that".

And while both have been successful in politics and in business, they seem to share an awkwardness in public that you wouldn't expect from glad-handing politicians.

And his awkwardness in public and his reluctance to claim credit for the successes he did achieve made it hard for voters to connect with him, and contributed to his loss on Tuesday to Christopher J. Christie, a Republican and a former federal prosecutor.

Saudis are accustomed to judging a covered woman's approximate age, profession, and social background from the cut of her abaya and the way she wears her head and face coverings, but for foreigners the niqab can lend a blind-date awkwardness to public meetings, even with women well known to them.

This is accentuated by Rahul's awkwardness as a public speaker, his inability to connect with crowds and lack of communication with party workers.

"Privately he tells his advisers I know I will never be a man of the people, so rather than making a fool of myself in the attempt, why not focus on what I am good at?" And all of those I've spoken to openly wonder if that awkwardness on the public stage could stand in the way of him ever becoming prime minister.

The even more excruciatingly awkward Peep Show has capped off a decade that found the viewing public eager to expose themselves to awkwardness as a form of entertainment.