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Building on the huge success of his series paintings of the 1890s--the cathedrals and haystacks (now awkwardly renamed "grainstacks") and rows of poplars--Monet could afford to paint for himself alone.
Yes, it's "awkwardly executed and tedious," but Williams "does some of his best and most honest work here"(Jack Mathews, the New York Daily News ) as a man who brings hope to his Jewish ghetto by pretending to have good news from a hidden radio.
It conjures up the picture of someone boning up on his “word for the day’ just before attending a cocktail party and then awkwardly trying to steer the conversation in such a way that he can insert a word like paradigm, paragon , or parameter .
The J30 was a car desperately trying to make a pretentious fashion statement, but it galumphed awkwardly in the real world of tires and asphalt.
Critics slam her voice as "false and ungainly" (Jonathan Levi, the Los Angeles Times ) and complain that her diary is tainted by ideas and language that sound awkwardly mature.