In her short videos, essays, a feature film and now the hit TV series Girls, Dunham has taken on awkward sex, job failures, losing your virginity, abortion and weight issues in ways both brave and shamelessly autobiographical.
The measure of a performance sedan is taken on this awkward score.
"Spinnin'," his take on the Lee Morgan tune "Speedball," was a winsome, convincing romantic complaint; "Too Many Things," based on Thelonious Monk's "Think of One," was an awkward critique of consumerism.
Usually, to lessen the risk of people caving each other's heads in, derbies take place on awkward weeknights, Sundays, or so early on Saturday that most fans sleep through it.
As the magnitude of the Fed's plan, announced on Wednesday, sank in, a weekend gathering here of top Fed officials and economists took on the air of an awkward family reunion, with rivalries for the affections of an ancestor.
But Hawtin, who only recently stepped out from behind his Plastikman alter-ego, and is still often regarded as one of the more enigmatic figures in the biz, never hesistated to take on even the most awkward questions like why he really got kicked out of Berghain that one time.
A number of large law firms reportedly turned down the assignment because they were fearful of taking on an awkward new client and alienating existing ones.
An awkward new relationship takes on a different dimension in a week when Australia's disability community once again finds itself fighting preconceptions about relationships and childrearing.
These awkward, bug-eyed takes on the main characters crop up when the daydreaming hunk, Frank Bianco, scribbles on pizza boxes, and the cartoons provide a similar break from the film's tedium.
Indeed, it did not even do the party the courtesy of acknowledging the awkward but righteous stance it had taken on secret courts the day before.
