Word: awkwardly
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...Mubarak, the latest hijacking came at an awkward time. Only seven weeks earlier, the President's response to the terrorist seizure of the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro had been criticized as indecisive, even duplicitous, and had strained Egypt's relations with the U.S. After the hijacking crisis in Malta, Mubarak is considered less likely than ever to risk the unpopular economic reforms that the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund have been urging upon him for the past year. The IMF wants Egypt to reduce its projected budget deficit of $1.3 billion for this year by drastically cutting subsidies...
Drinking carbonated beverages through the hose caused awkward burps and coughs, while spillage created embarrassing wet spots...
...Harvard a Cupid-skewered prefect will happily give his or her chosen freshperson will make it a bit more difficult for a proctorial unit's other residents to get the attention they deserve. Clearly, having a roommate who is having an affair with your prefect makes things a bit awkward...
...Paul Czinner is content to let Rudolf Hartmann's production speak for itself. The perspective is from the center orchestra seats, with a wide view of the stage; there is little of the distracting crosscutting or ogling close-ups that later video directors have found so irresistible. One surprisingly awkward visual moment, though, occurs in the middle of the most famous line in the opera, the Marschallin's worldly wise "Ja, ja" as she withdraws from Octavian's life. Here the film leaps in mid-utterance from a long shot of Schwarzkopf to a close-up, calling attention...
Instead of precise instruments and control dials guiding man's ordered observations, Mr. Palomar performs an awkward ritual, blinding himself with his flashlight and fumbling with charts of the heavens. This image is itself the only stable reference point for the Reader, the riveted audience of Calvino's quest. Unbeknownst to Mr. Palomar absorbed in his charts, a little crowd of onlookers gathers, whispering and observing "his movements like the convulsions of a madman." Unbeknownst to the Reader absorbed in the book, Calvino has manipulated him out into the open, where he can observe his Reader, placed among Mr. Palomar...