She sounds as if she learned to rap for a part in a Movie of the Week: she's studied and awkward, an able imitator but not yet capable of more than that.
With the publication of two collections of short stories, The Same Door (1959) and Pigeon Feathers (1962), Chekhovian studies of the awkward cadences and narrow horizons of eastern Pennsylvania, Updike's reputation for clever craftsmanship was confirmed.
The report also described examples of delays in releasing the results of what it called "politically awkward" studies.
Cross-cultural conversations can also be awkward, so studying the culture as much as possible will help you reduce opportunities for misunderstanding.
More than half of the 620 primary care doctors questioned for one study described obese patients as "awkward, unattractive, ugly, and unlikely to comply with treatment".
When his bride sheds her gown and comes back in a tutu and blue garter, the couple's duet is a model of awkward partnering, a study in incompatibility.
But the unstated and awkward inference of these studies will not.
What Cumberbatch delivers is an impressively rounded character study of someone variously kind, prickly, aggressive, awkward and supremely confident.
It can be awkward or even distressing to study yourself, but it's vital.
However, strenuous work tasks in this study include lifting of heavy burdens and awkward body positions, which may rather call for high muscular capacity than aerobic capacity.
