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Example sentences for: awkward

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To Robert Koehler in Daily Variety, the animation "is a curious hodgepodge of awkward human movement, tired nature effects and fine painterly backgrounds and detail work."
The self-styled "awkward old maid," immune to the blandishments of Beltway power, is supposedly the beefy substance of this superficial government.
These are situations in which reading is ordinarily either awkward or impossible.
His long awkward silences are punctuated only by unsettling smiles and chilling anecdotes.
The second is a version printed in a 1940 History of the USSR , looking less like a photograph than like an awkward charcoal tracing; the comrade on the left has been excised, having in fact been imprisoned prior to being shot.