Word: awkwardly
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Suddenly, we were the focus of much of the community's anger--an awkward position for many of us at The Crimson. We were the "privileged classes," the "public plunderers," the comfortable. We thought of ourselves as a community watchdog; instead, our readers cast us as a villain...
...approved the plan by a comfortable margin. Under the plan, drafted in Geneva earlier this month, the country would be divided into 10 provinces largely drawn up on ethnic lines. Bosnia would continue to exist as a whole, with representatives from the three ethnic groups forming a weak and awkward federal government...
...forget sometimes that they can also drive it forward. In 1992 Los Angeles exploded over the meaning of pictures of a black man being beaten by white police. And it was pictures -- of spectral women and withered children -- that launched the rescue mission in Somalia. It may have been awkward to have cameras meet the troops when they landed, but wasn't it also appropriate? In a sense it was cameras that had sent them there...
...requires that the Green Lights Program be applied as a university-wide program. According to Vautin, Harvard's decentralized structure made it "awkward to organize a University-wide contract...
...downside are the two mothers (Leslie Yahia and Jill Weitzner) who charm us during musical numbers but appear awkward when not dancing. Though the play originally calls for middle-aged fathers in the roles of the conniving parents, the choice of actresses may have been less disturbing in this instance if the women acted as either men or as more feminine mothers. With gardening clothes, powdered hair, and hunched posture, the characters seem unusually old and androgynous: our curiosity about their gender serves to confuse, not entertain...