Word: awkwardly
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...middle of the Currier House Fishbowl and places the audience at other tables in a U-shape around them. As a result, the audience sees half the actors from behind for the first act. Once, the actors switch seats so everyone can see their faces. Appreciated, but awkward...
...wrongdoing occurred in this youth hockey game. Just a lot of awkward Seven-year-old kids, sprawling all over the place and not seeming to miss their Saturday-morning cartoons...
...Gorman case provides the Assemblies of God with an awkward precedent as it ponders what to do about Swaggart. After Swaggart demanded that leaders of the denomination's Louisiana district act, he summoned Gorman to his home in Baton Rouge for a confrontation. Swaggart insisted that Gorman be given no special treatment just because he ran a big church. Gorman was immediately defrocked...
...exercise field, the group looked like an awkward, overage boot- camp platoon, learning how to bow, count off rapidly and report in a loud voice. "Shouting," says Fujimori, "makes every person know his own force or weakness." Spare time was spent in pairs or small groups shouting recitations and learning the lessons, including the salesman's ten commandments. Among them: "No shilly-shallying. Always be punctual"; "Completing an action without reporting it is worse than not doing it"; and "Promise yourself you will achieve the best results in the shortest time...
Dunster House diners seemed favorably amused by his exhibition. "It was cool," commented Jay Reingold '89. "Chickwiches are my favorite meal anyway, and the harpsichord music was pleasant. There were none of the usual awkward pauses in lunchtime conversation; Igor was always there. And we loved his hair...