Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...undulating * plates that suggest the forest in Siegfried, but too often the choices seem arbitrary. In addition, Kirchner's stage maneuvers are inept. Time and again the cast is left singing directly to the audience -- just like the bad old days when operas were turned into stiff pageants. Some awkward direction will be corrected next year. Bayreuth stages no new productions of Wagner's other operas during the second year of any Ring cycle, wisely using time and money to make improvements, which can be extensive...
...tabloid covers also serve as a sort of keystone to the audience for what is happening in the film. My advice would have been to include the tabloid covers with their emblazoned announcements such as "Cop Gives Waitress $2M Tip" throughout more of the film and ditch the awkward narration by Angel...
Dimbleby captured Charles talking to residents of a decrepit public-housing project in Birmingham and mixing with unemployed young people attending a training program in Norfolk funded by one of his charitable trusts. He was also shown as an intrepid foreign traveler. On camera he projected an awkward charm, both endearing and genuine. In a Bedouin tent on the edge of the Arabian desert, he sipped camel's milk from a plastic cup. In Mexico he picked at a gooey plate of lamb. "I always dread having something like that," he said, "in case it is laced with chilies, which...
...that is one of the highlights of "The Shadow"--the wit. Most action-adventure movies have problems with transitions, muffing their scene switches and storyline changes. "The Shadow" covers up the potentially awkward moments with witty lines, allowing for a smoothly flowing movie--and a fair amount of laughs...
...suspicion about families and how trustworthy they are," says James Nelson, a medical ethicist at the Hastings Center in New York. Someone from the Pittsburgh team decided to call the child-abuse hot line in Florida to try to force Benny to renew treatment, and the result was the awkward standoff. "That's the most distressing part to us," says Tzakis. "We all have the feeling that Benny has slipped out from under...