Word: awkwardly
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...freshman class bond very quickly, and everyone becomes like a sister or a brother to you," she says. "So that means that dating is out the window. The Black community is so small that anybody who dated anybody was probably your friend, and you would probably feel very awkward, going behind the person that they dated...
...creamy, dashed-off realism of a Manet oil sketch. But this requires a mastery over the detail and frequency of brushstrokes, and a certainty about the drawing embedded in them, that he has not yet attained. He will slide from a passage of near virtuoso colloquialism to one of awkward smearing and prodding, and not fix -- maybe not see -- the difference...
...like General Ulysses Grant, a warrior Meese greatly admires, he seems determined, as Grant said down in Virginia, "to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." On that he is backed up so far by the President, who is being placed yet again in the awkward position of choosing between what is best for his presidency and protecting a loyal spear carrier...
...most of this book is neither exciting nor novel. Scheim's chief accomplishment is having assembled, in a somewhat awkward manner, all the evidence supporting his hypothesis, tired though it is. If it cannot be said that Scheim has proved conclusively that it was the Mafia that murdered Kennedy, at least it now seems that the burden of proof lies with those who say otherwise...
Carrie had made a successful 1976 film, and the musical adapters had helped create the film and TV series Fame. Nevertheless, from the moment the project went into rehearsal with a mixed British and American cast, it seemed as ill- fated as its characters: an awkward teenage girl, her religiously obsessed mother and a high school full of taunting girls and boys who come to grief when the target of their mockery demonstrates supernatural powers of destruction in a crowded gym on prom night. Carrie was blasted by London critics when it opened a four-week run in February...