Sentence examples for something awkward about from inspiring English sources

There is something awkward about the way Boyne manages to disguise, and then to disclose, the historical context.

"There is something awkward about contemporary dance anyway and I wanted to see what happens when you push through that," he added.

But the second time around there was something awkward about the pairing of models with similar ethnic origins dressed in zebra and leopard print or, in the case of a slinky evening dress, a tiger whose giant digitalized eyes gazed from the hip-line.

Fund-raising is at the heart of Chime for Change, but there is something awkward about weighing a $2,000 handbag against the Afghan Institute of Learning, which offers education and health care to women and children, or a Pakistani school sponsored by Madonna.

There is always something awkward about watching an actress of fierce intelligence play a more simple soul, and I was relieved, later in the film, to observe M-like dashes of Dench's natural imperiousness — "I did not abandon my child," Philomena declares.

Insofar as reading good stuff is erotic, there is something awkward about curling up simultaneously with two writers who were more fond of each other (Herman Melville admired Nathaniel Hawthorne's "spicy and slowly oozing heart") than they can conceivably have been of us.

There is something awkward, though, about the argument that something that works as a metaphor for a general audience becomes toxic because it's Danville — weren't Boehner and Ryan also addressing black Americans?

There was something awkward and experimental about his speech.

But there is something awkward and tentative about his approach to the subject that may leave the reader puzzled.

But Blippy also failed to gain traction outside its early adopter user base because, for some folks, there's something awkward and braggy about sharing lists of things you're buying.

Laughing together about something awkward and then moving on is a useful skill.