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Example sentences for: awkwardness

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Yet, many prefer chair to chairperson on the grounds of brevity and because it avoids the awkwardness of the longer alternative.
of Cruelty , for example, shows a number of women apparently encased in glass coffins; an exceedingly cryptic stew of geometric and biomorphic elements is called The Sexual Awkwardness
(At last year's Time magazine anniversary gala, I found myself positively tongue-tied, embarrassingly adolescent in my awkwardness, on being introduced to Lauren Bacall.)
Finn's awkwardness keeps him inoffensive, but it thoroughly obviates the dramatic arc that's the whole point of Dickens' novel: If success doesn't change Finn for the worse, then his rejection of the high life doesn't entail the same kind of sacrifices--or come as a consequence of some harrowing epiphany.
Fish & Wildlife Department as a refuge for the millions of Laysan Albatross (called gooney birds for their comical awkwardness at takeoff and landing) who nest there.