Word: awkward
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heaviest new man is Percy M. Jaffray, who has been playing since Wednesday. He weighs 220 pounds and is six feet five inches tall. The coaches have been working hard with him and although he is somewhat awkward, yet he promises to make a good...
...there are still several bad individual faults to be overcome. There is a break in the time at 6, Watriss being unable to get the necessary forward reach, and another break at 4, where Shepard shows an inclination to rush his recover. Hollister just now is naturally a trifle awkward in his new position, but will find little trouble in getting used...
Colonel Winslow said that the players might find this method of batting somewhat awkward at first, but that after a few days practice they would become accustomed to it and then the good results would become evident...
...first seen in this country only two years ago, is not less remarkable, in her own most modern way, than the two players already named. The completeness with which she lives her character in the Cavalliera Rusticana; her quick, vehement, peasant-like gestures; her clumping across the stage in awkward peasant shoes; her subsidence toward the end of the play into a hooded statue of grief, are exhibitions of her talent which will be remembered even longer than the untheatric pathos of her "Camille," or the bewitching gaiety and extraordinarily mobile skill of the coquettish Locandiera...
...result is an awkward hesitancy on both sides which is apt soon to be turned into a careless disregard. It is not right that such men as President Eliot, Professors Norton, Child, Goodwin, Lane and Whitney, and the distinguished preachers to the University should pass about among Harvard men with only an occasional recognition. Such men deserve to receive every mark of respect...