| 单词 | awkwardness |
| 例句 | He was so completely, so thoroughly accustomed to courtesy within the community that the thought of asking another citizen an intimate question, of calling someone’s attention to an area of awkwardness, was unnerving. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z She was willing to risk the awkwardness of arriving to school her senior year with a brand-new facial feature. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Like, I knew I was being honest and just being myself, but without all the awkwardness I usually have around girls. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z When I think of that afternoon, what I remember first is the awkwardness of it: Mother said she could feel the hot energy moving through our bodies, but I felt nothing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z My mom, however, can talk small for hours, and so she extended the awkwardness by asking them about their rehearsal schedule, and how the show had gone, and whether it was a success. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z There was no awkwardness or hesitation in the lie. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Flouting the rule against the ingestion of anything while inside a house, I take it, leaving an inch undrunk to avoid the awkwardness of a possible refill offer. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if Grandpop opened the door and a cloud of awkwardness came out. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z There was definitely more awkwardness around any talk of possibles than there was around, say, sex. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I just wanted to get out of there, even though I dreaded the awkwardness of the long drive to the airport and sitting in the same car with Annie and Megan. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z And as my family continues to focus on their own things, smoothly forgetting about the awkwardness over the elevator, I feel more and more like a lonely storm cloud. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Then, as usual, the sheep broke into “Four legs good, two legs bad!” and the momentary awkwardness was smoothed over. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z She winced at her own awkwardness and pointed to the screen. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I cringed inwardly at the awkwardness of the words as soon as I’d said them, but couldn’t think of a less awkward way to take them back. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It’s a lot like when we play in real life, a combination of rhythm, chemistry, and skill, but the awkwardness in the room is so thick it’s hard to ignore. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Smith’s revelation regarding strata heightened the moral awkwardness concerning extinctions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Watching John and Sherrie work toward each other in my presence is more difficult, not for their awkwardness but for how lonely they seem. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Ifemelu and Ginika arrived together, the party still at its dawn, the dance floor bare, boys running around with cassette tapes, shyness and awkwardness still undissolved. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I struggle to figure out something to say, but nothing that comes to mind seems appropriate, so I just end up staying quiet, prolonging the awkwardness. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Unspoken things have arisen between Helene and me, things that have to do with how I feel when I see her bare skin and her awkwardness when I tell her I worry for her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He had none of the vagueness or the apologetic awkwardness that one usually associates with untidy, absentminded men. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They could all just forget about the stupid comment they’d made and move on, no awkwardness necessary. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I felt a momentary awkwardness as I tried to watch myself, always a futile thing to attempt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I say with a ton of enthusiasm as the awkwardness melts away. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Out on the floor, the awkwardness fades some. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I grab my dress uniform off a hook and button it on quickly, edgy at her awkwardness. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z And then came a curious little mental dance of sympathy and awkwardness, which took place in a second or less. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I cursed myself for my awkwardness in front of him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was quiet for a beat before Mr. Jacobs continued, pushing past the awkwardness. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z There is the same shame, the sick feeling in my body, the same knowledge of my own wrongness, awkwardness, weakness; the same wish to be loved; the same loneliness; the same fear. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The only awkwardness the moment lacked was the omnipotent presence of Mr. Stonecrop, who soon remedied the absence. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He seems young for his age, but in a year or two he'll grow out of his awkwardness and have willing girlfriends lining up around the corner. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Rosaleen made a little humming sound, I think out of awkwardness, but eventually she stopped. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The conversation could have loomed, a mountain range of awkwardnesses. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z That was the day he first noticed his awkwardness in her presence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He was highly conscious of his hands, and it wasn’t from the awkwardness of not knowing what to do with them, but from knowing, rather, what he wished to do with them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z At first he senses an awkwardness he hadn’t felt on the train. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Once inside their home, the awkwardness gradually lessened. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The awkwardness after his “sometimes” grew, and grew, and grew. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I figure that Branwell got his awkwardness from his father, and I guess I got my acceptance from my mother. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I want to cut through the awkwardness, have Rhiannon treat me like her boyfriend or girlfriend again. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z There was an awkwardness now that there hadn’t been before. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She went quiet, and the awkwardness he had hoped to keep at bay rushed in. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Franny suddenly put out her cigarette in the tiny ashtray—with some awkwardness, not having her second hand free to brace the ashtray. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z The sister admittedly sought to cover up the awkwardness of everything as much as possible, and, as time went by, she naturally got more successful at it. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z Reggie was a polite boy, and the son who’d already survived a few challenges— the concussions in football; that goofy, lovable awkwardness; the odd birth. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I pictured Kiowa’s face, the way he used to smile, but all I felt was the awkwardness of remembering. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It's an adorable laugh—a perfect blend of awkwardness and optimism. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They’ve liked each other since sixth grade, and if your feelings can survive the awkwardness of middle school you should stop playing around and go out. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Like I wasn’t dying of curiosity and also awkwardness because we hadn’t talked at all about the stuff I said to her when I yelled that night after the party. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z At times I felt the awkwardness of an intruder, but Elroy accepted me into his quiet routine without fuss or ceremony. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They had gone but halfway around the floor when Francie discovered that his gangling awkwardness was extremely deceptive. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In the space of thirty seconds the atmosphere in the tiny room had changed completely and now it was vibrating with awkwardness and secrets. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z The room was dense with awkwardness, and Ifemelu, as though to dilute it, once again examined her hair in the mirror, patting it lightly as she turned this way and that. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Only gut feeling tells me it’s the right answer, and we stand there now, among awkwardness and the rubbish. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Crack a joke or something to break up this awkwardness. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “No,” she said, keeping her face neutral, even though she wanted to scream from the awkwardness. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The space between us is worse than our awkwardness, worse than not knowing what she's thinking during our long stretches of silence. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z My willingness to do so was hampered by an abounding ignorance of how it should be done and a fumbling awkwardness with small objects. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Janis was so easy to talk to, having so much to say herself; any awkwardness she smoothed over with accounts of all kinds of Chinese-student affairs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was terrified; he had visions of his own awkwardness, of how clumsy he would sound, of how startled and ashamed the women would be. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The awkwardness of both parents asking if everything is all right, over and over and over and over and over and over again. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Chip followed me the first mile, laughing about the awkwardness of saying good-bye and then not actually parting ways, until he turned right at the Safeway and I kept going straight. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z There was an awkwardness between us that could not be ignored. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But as he began the Adagio from Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, the awkwardness fell away. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But she was accustomed to the awkwardness and the ache. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an ordinary gesture of frustration, but its awkwardness made Ruth know that there was something truly askew in this girl. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z An awkwardness had sprung up after those few months, where before there would have been playful laughter and in-depth conversation and harmless bickering between us. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Milkman reached up for her as she came timidly down the bank, slipping, stumbling, laughing at her own awkwardness, then squealing as the cold river water danced up her legs, her hips, her waist. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z With unusual awkwardness he grabbed a juice pitcher, lost his grip, and ended up sloshing an entire quart of juice all over Kate’s feet. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z We each take one, and there’s barely time for the awkwardness to settle in, because Sabrina takes the mic and makes a short speech. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He himself did not appear to find any difficulty in managing without, except that once or twice he had to use both hands, and there was a certain awkwardness in his handling of the food. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z With such confidence and no awkwardness at all, Lucas had mentioned my brother as if he were merely inside the house listening to music or watching TV or writing down song lyrics. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Then, without awkwardness or pause, she invites him to dinner at her place. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I wish he wasn’t drawing attention to me—I wish he could ignore my awkwardness the way Emery used to. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The prospect of parting—probably forever—from his aunt, uncle, and cousin was one that he was able to contemplate quite cheerfully, but there was nevertheless a certain awkwardness in the air. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z We worked quietly, and I stopped worrying about awkwardness and focused on my cocoa. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z It’s a giant holy box of awkwardness, and I won’t pretend I’m looking forward to it. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z “Why do I need ... ,” I began as I turned around to see Ada Taylor standing before me, a green wooden counter and a thick awkwardness between us. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z There had been some argument about it probably, Rebecca defending him, and ever after this perhaps a slight awkwardness whenever his name was mentioned. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He brought his hand out and with some awkwardness slipped another button into place. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The awkwardness of the moment took over, and Annie started walking to her car as quickly as she could. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z We walk to the elevator in this silence that I want to fill with words that would erase the awkwardness. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “I do feel the awkwardness of helping Isaac buy a car, when I’m not helping them buy a car,” Cate Woolner said of the daughters. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He could think of nothing better, and feared the silence that might come down, and the awkwardness that would be a prelude to her telling him that it had been nice to meet up again. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I tried to cover my awkwardness by telling him about Quiet Oaks and how I finally made my peace with Jesse. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Both saw it through without any seeming impatience or awkwardness. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Her nervousness was melting away; they had raced past the requisite moments of awkwardness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The smirk starts to form on her face—the one she usually blames on awkwardness—but she tries not to let it take over. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z There’s an awkwardness that comes with just about any formally arranged meeting, but in my experience it’s something you need to consciously work your way past. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “You okay, Darius?” he asked, which broke the silence, but not the awkwardness. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “Hi, Mama,” he said, and he beamed up at her, hoping it would overpower the awkwardness that hung over everything. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Just as he had throughout the trial, Nels Gudmundsson rose with a geriatric awkwardness that was painful for the citizens in the gallery to observe. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z And what had become of all that social awkwardness? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Girls don’t want to see a lot of neediness. They want to know you’re confident, secure in yourself. Celia will come around when she sees that. All of this awkwardness will be gone.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The awkwardness of it all makes me even more antsy to listen to music, to hide away with something that has always been very solitary for me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I moved with the awkwardness of a tourist, aware that we were outsiders, even with our black skin. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The awkwardness hangs heavily in the air between us. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The terror in Jam’s chest paused at the sheer...awkwardness of the thing. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z As soon as the elevator doors close, awkwardness descends again, this time with Dementor-like strength. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Hermione was staring at Ron, who refused to look at her, but said with an odd mixture of bravado and awkwardness, “Hi, Harry! Wondered where you’d got to!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I’m actually glad for that—at least at this particular moment—because there are no expectations, and not the slightest hint of awkwardness. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z And when he finally let us go for the day, I spent as long as possible packing up my books, trying to delay the awkwardness of having to talk to him. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Beyond the social awkwardness are everyday issues that are not as obvious. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I think he’d like to be able to express himself as easily as I do; little does he know it’s his awkwardness that I find so touching. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z There was a moment of slight awkwardness as Mr Lewis glanced around the table. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “Thank you for inviting me,” she finally said, and Kaisa, who smiled at her, seemed to understand the reason for her awkwardness. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the Wright Brothers’ 1915 Flyer, airplanes had evolved from pelican-like awkwardness to sleek machines with the silhouette of a falcon; why wouldn’t a spaceship continue along that same path? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She went silent as Moss moved on to the next dish, and it was the first burst of awkwardness. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I hope this awkwardness between us doesn’t last long. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I could think of nothing worse than making some unwelcome advance toward Denna and having her laugh at the awkwardness of my attempt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z How had she gone her entire life without noticing the awkwardness of arms, the way they just hang there from your shoulders like links of meat in a shop window? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It may have been nervousness, awkwardness, but the pan tilted under Pecola’s fingers and fell to the floor, splattering blackish blueberries everywhere. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z When he ran, he forgot about his acne and his awkwardness and the shyness that paralyzed him when a girl looked his way. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His awkwardness makes him very endearing, although it’s clear my daughter prefers more refined dancers. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And there’s the morning announcements over the loud speaker about all the activities the good kids do like drama and jazz band, but that still leaves us eight and a half minutes of awkwardness. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z She highlighted my awkwardness, my lack of knowledge about the right things to say and do. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t even imagine trolleys on 125th Street,” he said, instantly recognizing the heavy awkwardness of what he was saying. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z So the sound of helium-pitched cartoon characters had to be the life raft for this sinking ship of awkwardness. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I moved over to the concession area, studying the candy, and both of us were very careful to avoid the awkwardness of eye contact. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z My own thoughts now turn to the last few months, the sight of my grandfather’s diminishment, the awkwardness between us as I grew taller than him and he seemed to shrink into himself, into age. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Just when you think you’ve discovered every kind of awkwardness there is. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z His voice held a little of the old doubt and awkwardness—the voice of her Frank, who always worried about being a klutz and messing up. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Without looking over at me, Augustus said, “You’re killing my vibe here, Hazel Grace. I’m trying to observe young love in its many-splendored awkwardness.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z I think I’m radiating awkwardness—like it’s some sort of gaseous substance, rolling off me in waves. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Every movement and word on my part felt uncomfortable, shrill, or sharp, and I was beginning to worry that the feelings of hesitancy and awkwardness were never going to lift. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z After a little while, what little awkwardness as existed during the initial minutes of our meeting had dissipated completely, and our conversation took a more personal turn. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, he’s a nice guy. He deserves to know he doesn’t have a shot with you at all. And then maybe you guys can move past the awkwardness.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Moss kissed him back for just a little bit longer, pushing back against the awkwardness that tried to conquer him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Operation Greenfield,” directed by Alexander Scott, charts teen enthusiasm, teen awkwardness, teen longing. Direct from Edinburgh: Theaters Are Closed, but a ‘Zoo’ Is Open 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Doing what we did for a year removes all the embarrassment and awkwardness from the whole thing. Sex: 'Whatever you're doing, double it' 2012-11-10T00:05:13Z Then Jordan swooped in to save her from the awkwardness and got a proper kiss for his trouble. The Bachelorette Watch: Santa Claus Came to Town to Meet Jo Jo 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Taking the high road may save you some awkwardness at next year’s dinner. A Ride to the Polls? Not With That Vote 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z You state in the opening moments of your documentary that you want to take away the shame and awkwardness about talking about sex. There's no shame in "A Sexplanation," a fun, honest documentary that steps in where sex ed left off 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z There are childhood reminiscences and lifelong regrets, short-term schemes and sudden plunges of near-catastrophic awkwardness that, in various sequences of carefully stage-managed lunacy, highlight absurd comedic crises of indecision in petty but embarrassing disasters. “Only God Sees Me”: Revisiting a Brilliant French Comedy Released Twenty Years Ago 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z But such awkwardness suited everything about the band, and their legacy. Severed Heads - review 2013-03-14T08:11:25Z Still, like her blurry quality, this awkwardness may be useful. | 'Monte Carlo': Cinderella Goes to Europe, and Cute Meets Culture 2011-06-30T22:00:10Z Mr. Adams, a smart and inventive director, can’t camouflage the script’s lapses into awkwardness. Review: In ‘Nylon,’ Unfinished Business After the Breakup 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Some of this awkwardness no doubt does spring from actors and directors not having grown up within the social ethos that shapes British speech and society. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Speaking the Same Language 2010-12-01T21:17:00Z The trailers promised some of the same, unapologetic meditations on social awkwardness that Nathan Fielder's Comedy Central series "Nathan for You" — of which I'm a devoted fan — provided. The delight of HBO's bizarre docuseries "How to With John Wilson" is found in the detours 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z After that initial awkwardness, the party was on. New York’s Brief Hot Restaurant Summer: Bread Binges and Dance Parties 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z However, some annoying awkwardness is not grounds to “force” anything, especially not something as big as remapping one’s leisure time. Carolyn Hax: Couple in long-distance relationship struggle to meet in the middle 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z The Oscars are always full of awkwardness and contradiction, and the show is always better when some of the discomfort is allowed to fester, rather than being papered over. Let’s Talk About the Oscars: An Evening of Squirming 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Social psychologists and others have documented how these new technologies and other social forces are creating a deep sense of disconnect and awkwardness about substantive human intimacy and meaningful relationships among this generation. "Bodies Bodies Bodies" director: "When the Wi-Fi goes out, the demons come in" 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z They had gone through hormone replacement therapy, surgeries, and name changes in their younger years, when puberty was a convenient mask for the general awkwardness of transitioning. Hitting my stack: How yoga helped me understand my trans identity 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Stephen’s wardrobe of hard-core nerd sweaters, on the other hand, is nicely in keeping with his endearingly unreconstructed dorkdom — a shell of awkwardness that Mr. Trumbull cracks to reveal pain, self-awareness and strong-willed dignity. Review: In ‘Neurology of the Soul,’ Looking for a Brain in Love 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z And the man himself looked so ill at ease in the whole unfortunate kit that his awkwardness loomed over him like Pig-Pen’s dust cloud. Perspective | Trump’s catastrophic fashion choices in England were not just a sign of bad taste 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z "The Social Network" has already found controversy for its portrayal of Zuckerberg as an arrogant, back-stabbing hacker with, of all things, social awkwardness. A Generation Seen Through 'The Social Network' 2010-09-24T14:42:00Z That awkwardness may explain, in part, the alarm bells some viewers keep hearing in the movie, despite the filmmakers' insistence that the story itself is entirely true. Untangling the "Catfish" hoax rumors 2010-10-14T11:01:00Z They're both single parents aching to ease the social awkwardness and psychic pain their children are going through, but unable to entirely comprehend the extent of it. "Let the Right One In" files down its fangs for it TV adaptation, preferring to stake the heart 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z I meant it to refers to women of all ages – not in a patronizing way, but as an acknowledgment that a part of us never lets go of our adolescent awkwardness. "Never Have I Ever" returns smarter, funnier and at the mercy of its hormones more than ever 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z He’s willing to see them occasionally to avoid awkwardness, which seems rather sensitive. My Daughter Is Dating a Polyamorous Woman. But That’s Not the Problem 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z In the last two episodes released in 2020, characters suffused with adolescent awkwardness found, on the stage, an aching, bittersweet grace. Best Theater of 2020 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z She is quirky and fun-loving, but between pressure by her mother to keep in touch with her culture and the awkwardness of being the only Filipina American at her school, her life is complicated. Two children's books about middle schoolers between cultures 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Noah mostly handled himself with aplomb last night, but the slight awkwardness around the neckties revealed for a brief moment the enormous amount of pressure he’s feeling. Trevor Noah’s terror: The new “Daily Show” host is off to a shaky, if charming, start 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z With opulence and a sunny glamour, she grew beyond her positions, stretching into arabesques, and tilting and bending until she was thrillingly off-balance; she flowed through its tricky changes of direction without hesitation or awkwardness. Rising Out of the Pandemic, City Ballet Ushers in a New Era 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z She uses her deafness to explain her awkwardness and alienation, but I don't buy this at all. Girl Least Likely To: 30 Years of Fashion, Fasting and Fleet Street by Liz Jones – review 2013-07-10T14:00:01Z All her strength is in her awkwardness—she doesn’t need precision. Review: There's Lots of Suffering in The Revenant, But Bear With It 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z The film wears the awkwardness of inexperience, but charms with earnestness. Disney Creates a ‘Launchpad’ for Underrepresented Filmmakers 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Hitchcock lets the awkwardness of the dead-body-in-the-room setup be the film’s real star. 6 Movies That Take Place in a Single Location (Mostly) 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Hall is luminous, with Snow White coloring, but she's also one of those very special oddball types for whom freckles, a gummy smile and a coltish physical awkwardness are assets. Review: Ben Affleck Goes to Town 2010-09-16T22:10:00Z Now, I get the awkwardness of dueling lawn signs among next-door strangers. Can We Talk to Our ‘Blue Lives Matter’ Neighbors About Black Lives Matter? 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z The two actors are an attractive but unpersuasive fit, though their shared awkwardness dissipates after Nina and Rafe get stoned in his picture-perfect pad. Review: ‘All About Nina,’ a Funny Lady (With Issues) 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z She has advocated for a spirit of authenticity in this incarnation of the show, even if it creates on-air moments of awkwardness. Jimmy Fallon Is Sorry. But What Does That Mean? 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z A child performer who’s hit maximum adolescent awkwardness, Gary is 15 and aging out of his professional niche. ‘Licorice Pizza’ Review: California Dreaming and Scheming 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z But that very awkwardness and idiosyncrasy, given its own space, is also a robust way of depicting an intense and mysterious world. Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z At best, it was a stilted gathering punctuated by starch-based courses and interludes of excruciating awkwardness. Playing Cupid for a Gay Friend on a (Mostly) Straight Cruise 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z His awkwardness and hypocrisy sets her off, and she delivers a smart, extended and painful soliloquy on the plight of overweight women in New York City. The TV Watch: Louis C.K. Returns With His Brand of Dark Comedy 2014-05-04T21:45:12Z In that instant, in what passes between them in that terrible awkwardness, the trauma of black life in America is writ large. Review: The Giant Leap Forward of Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Here was another show about a white male underdog trying to overcome his awkwardness. For ‘Crashing,’ the Third Season Was the Charm. Also the End. 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z One also got wafts of the blaring bombast of professional football broadcasts, and, yes, the stage-managed awkwardness of the lesser styles of reality TV. Perspective | Can we get past the idea that politics is a reality show? Not if CNN has anything to do with it. 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z There was an awkwardness building; we were struggling to find common ground. I’m 35 and I love gardening. Deal with it 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Lewis says the role required a different walk and and awkwardness around people very unlike her personality. Juliette Lewis on acting: "I'm able to tap into very primal or dark ranges of emotion" 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z A few months later, the two got together in West Palm Beach, Fla. Both feared first-date awkwardness, but it was clear their long friendship was leading somewhere entirely new. At the Final Curtain Call, a Proposal 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z While no one judged me too harshly for my actions, I couldn’t shake the sense throughout this incident that the resulting awkwardness was as much a result of my actions as of theirs. Why America needs a little more rudeness 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z "She appears precision-made, machine-made: so different from Diana, whose human awkwardness and emotional incontinence showed in her every gesture." Kate, the 'plastic princess': Hilary Mantel's damning take on duchess 2013-02-19T08:48:03Z The Bavarian State Opera’s music director and the next chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, Mr. Petrenko embraces the awkwardness, and blazes through it. Review: Opera Lovers, Make a Pilgrimage to Munich for ‘Tannhäuser’ 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z The conversation was as good as it gets, not just showbiz stories, but serious ramblings about books and theater and psychology, and the inherent awkwardness of journalism. Joe Klein on Working With Mike Nichols 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z The camera reveals all the awkwardness in the script that good stage actors might overcome in a theater. Movie Review | 'Just Say Love': Gay Love and Marriage 2010-03-26T01:25:00Z Either way, the best awkwardness prevention tactic is to help. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How to get over your awkwardness with your mother-in-law 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z This season takes all that pubescent awkwardness and rage and sends it to summer camp. What's new on Netflix in December from "Big Mouth" & Chadwick Boseman to a bearded George Clooney 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z He, Ms. Campbell and Mr. Harbour convincingly convey the awkwardness of people out of their element. Review: In ‘Cal in Camo,’ a Raw Welcome to Motherhood 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Maybe those conversations seldom veer into awkwardness or tedium. Calling out of the blue: Why would you do this to someone you love? 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z I decided that any resultant social awkwardness would fall on Greg rather than on me, which didn’t seem fair. If Shonda Rhimes Can Say Yes, So Can I 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Rather than force his characters into moments of acute discomfort, Mr. Hong lets them amble toward awkwardness, talking in circles and commonplaces until their rage, need, embarrassment and loneliness bubble to the surface. Review: ‘The Day After’ and the Awkwardness of Lunch With the Boss 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z There is a palpable awkwardness when he shows up at Issa’s job unannounced to apologize for the botched connection we witnessed at the end of the premiere episode. ‘Insecure,’ Season 1, Episode 4: Career Day 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Arcadian Painters turns out to be a study in twinned forms of vivid awkwardness. Cy Twombly and Nicolas Poussin: the odd couple 2011-07-06T15:00:01Z However, both shows have also been described as cringe comedies: they may be touchy-feely, but squirming awkwardness is among the things they touch and feel. From the King of Comedy to People Just Do Nothing: why the 'cringe com' reigns 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Your pal created some awkwardness, but this should not affect your memory of the generosity, or your gratitude for it. Perspective | Ask Amy: Ghosted friend struggles to cope at church 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z So we've sorted some of that s**t out, as it were, and awkwardness of presenting an idea, or the awkwardness of saying you don't like somebody's idea. From Fleetwood Mac back to Crowded House, Neil Finn weighs in on the band's open-hearted new album 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Which was such a gorgeous thing to say because it stopped all the awkwardness and allowed me to pull myself together. Patti Smith: how she rocks our world 2012-05-26T23:15:26Z Charlotte, too, evinces a weird awkwardness as she cultivates a new friendship with the glamorous Lisa Todd Wexley, a wealthy, stylish Black woman she meets through her daughters’ private school. Middle Age Doesn’t Happen ‘Just Like That’ 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z In the end, the joke was on anyone who couldn’t see beyond the disco shirts, bad hair and occasional public awkwardness to the talents that underpinned decades of success as performers and songwriters. Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dies at 62 2012-05-20T23:31:02Z The inherent awkwardness of an arranged first date around the family dinner table is highlighted. ‘The Big Sick,’ South Asian Identity, and Marriage 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z But by staging a romance whose details must remain unknown, the film also reminds viewers that even the greatest writers are human, prone to awkwardness, vulnerability and jealousy. Perspective | ‘Dickinson’ is another example of pop culture trying to liberate Emily Dickinson 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z It’s a loopy little number, set to Scott Joplin, that finds the grace in slapstick awkwardness. Review: A Family Gropes for Words in ‘Incidental Moments’ 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Maybe it's because she finds the lightness in her anxiousness and awkwardness. Why is Ayo Edibiri everywhere these days? Because we need her awkward sincerity more than ever 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z Focusing on this fleeting awkwardness was trivial, of course, a distraction. Modern Love: Broken, Not Bound, by an Intimate Tie 2014-03-27T21:54:34Z The more contemporary duet in underwear that closes the first act with its floor-bound entwining and emotive, acrobatic partnering and clichéd choice of Arvo Pärt music, contains the most awkwardness. Dance Review: Ballet Arizona in Ib Andersen?s ?Play? at Joyce Theater 2012-02-23T23:51:31Z But once past the awkwardness Grammar shows some sharp instincts in his characterization. ‘The Space Between’ Review: Kelsey Grammer Rocks 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z She puts the spin of hilarity and awkwardness on everything she does in the movie. ‘Legally Blonde’ Oral History: From Raunchy Script to Feminist Classic 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z His half-hour, single-camera sitcoms, with their deep ensemble casts and tonal blend of cringey awkwardness and heart, offered viewers the easy reliability of the best multicamera comedies but without the one-liners and studio audiences. With ‘Upload,’ Greg Daniels Takes a Leap Into the Great Unknown 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z What happens in their hatchback over the next three days is a brilliantly realised bit of scripting and playing: a moving and often extremely funny union that doesn't shy away from awkwardness or tragedy. SXSW: Natural Selection ? review 2011-03-21T11:19:28Z And there is no awkwardness, she said, in working through sentiments about her old relationship while in a new one. Shania Twain Walked Out on Top. Now She Wants Back In. 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z When Ms. Black, 44, first attended the function a few years ago, she said, “I definitely could feel a little bit of the awkwardness from some old-school dads.” Father-Daughter Dance Gets a Makeover in ‘Modern Family’ Era 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z Jazz is an appealing guide to her own life, confident but with a kid’s awkwardness and dorky sense of humor. Review: An Extraordinary, Ordinary Girlhood in TLC's I Am Jazz 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z “I always felt this awkwardness and shyness, and so I kind of retreated into my own little world,” Mr. Docter said. ‘Inside Out,’ Pixar’s New Movie From Pete Docter, Goes Inside the Mind 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z A French Baroque opera that puts an aesthetic gloss on colonial encounters, refitted with street choreography: a recipe for awkwardness, at best. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z If you haven’t experienced it yourself, you can probably imagine the awkwardness of watching a sex scene with your parents. Josh Thomas of 'Please Like Me' Breaks Down The Bold New Season 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z “He lets scenes play until they take the all-too-real awkwardness of normal conversation to crazy, exponential levels.” Film: Adam McKay Directs Cops Under Arrested Adolescence 2010-08-01T01:53:00Z Quite aside from the music, prog's enduring appeal may lie in its very awkwardness. Go back to go forward: the resurgence of prog rock 2010-07-22T22:00:00Z He took the Billy Crystal part in a 2004 London stage adaptation of When Harry Met Sally, though most critics agreed his looks worked against the character’s supposed awkwardness. Luke Perry obituary 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Assume that your brother-in-law simply doesn’t understand the awkwardness and hurtfulness of this sort of exclusion for your family. Ask Amy: Work friends clash over privacy of pregnancy 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z In the final episode, narrative awkwardness takes the wheel. The Mystery of the Inconclusive Podcast 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z “I had to get over my awkwardness,” she said, in making a trailer this year for her seventh book, “Devotion.” Cultural Studies: Missed the Author?s Tour? See the Video 2010-07-09T18:01:00Z In other progressive shows, such as Josh Thomas’ lauded Please Like Me, it’s presented with the kind of fumbling awkwardness so known to gay millennials. How American Gods changed the game for gay sex on TV 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z We’re in familiar territory for the author: a North London setting, amiable comedy and nebbishy internal monologues about the awkwardness of social interactions. The Brexit Romance: Finding Love in Irreconcilable Times 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z But even some awkwardness couldn’t spoil the annual thrill of seeing a troupe so effortlessly diverse, international and adept — which goes for the four-legged members, too. Review: The Big Apple Circus Still Delivers 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z “The friction resides, innovatively, in the agony of interpersonal misunderstandings, the awkwardness of old friends — now strangers — trapped together for a period of days.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z But inviting them both seems tone deaf, especially given husband's visible awkwardness around her. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: No little bundle of joy, but a big bundle of woes 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z It’s difficult to portray teen awkwardness when the show itself is this clumsily conceived and executed. Review | It’s nice to see the ’90s instead of the ’80s, but ‘Everything Sucks!’ is as clunky as dial-up 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Hunter writes with lively humor and grace, depicting the awkwardness and grief that hover in the air among Zoe’s friends. Review: Friends Reunite for a Funeral, and Brutal Honesty, in ‘The Healing’ 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Much of Kelley's awkwardness and recalcitrance – let alone his intelligence and humour – was about resisting the packaging and easy assimilation of the market. Mike Kelley: the nonconformist's whole life is here 2012-12-18T18:00:31Z Then there is a funeral, some family awkwardness and a drunken evening that leads to morning-after sex in the wake of a one-night stand that did not happen. | 'No Strings Attached': Firmly Committed to Casual 2011-01-20T14:18:23Z Rothman does not probe or engage with this awkwardness, nor does he include his own interview questions in the movie. ‘Future People’ Review: Connected by Biology, Bonded by Love 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z The mixture of fluidity and awkwardness was compelling. Dance Review: ‘Dance Taipei,’ at New York Live Arts 2013-05-06T20:20:17Z We were both on the same page, so there wasn’t much awkwardness. Blind date: ‘She probably saw me as open, honest and bubbly’ 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z It is the boyish awkwardness of such gestures from the normally graceful Imlah that arrests the poet's attention. The Seacunny by Gerard Woodward – review 2013-01-18T21:00:04Z The silly jokes and the awkwardness between the characters are bonuses. 'Spoiler alert: Ross and Rachel date!' – teens on why they love Friends 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z But now there’s no aggression, not even a whiff of awkwardness. Forget New York. For writer Saeed Jones, Columbus, Ohio, is the place to be a literary star. 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z In another, an old man and woman pose with the awkwardness of an earlier generation that never learned how to look at ease before any camera. ‘The Super 8 Years’ Review: Annie Ernaux’s Celluloid Souvenirs 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z So few of these metaphors satisfy — they’re heightened, meager, inappropriate — but there is something stirring in their awkwardness, in seeing a new phenomenon slip the net of ready-made language. In Search of Time Lost and Newly Found 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z The two hit it off right away — no awkwardness, no nerves, no reservations. On Love: Candace Butler and Anthony Williams 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Please remember, as you worry about this, that it is up to him to manage introducing his new partner to other people, and that includes managing the awkwardness. Perspective | Ask Amy: Friend wants to weigh in on troubled teen 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z This is their wedding and your two sons are responsible for their choices, as well as whatever awkwardness arises from them. Perspective | Ask Amy: In-laws tag along to wedding weekend as babysitters 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z With her caved-in posture and translucent emotions, Ware perfectly embodies Laney's physical awkwardness — and how it is often at odds with her quick mind and vivid imagination. Review: Teen deals with friendship, mom and other challenges in Schmeater's insightful 'Crooked' 2011-01-19T17:19:04Z It is basically a locker room full of a bunch of single dudes commiserating over their social awkwardness. How Pepe the Frog and Nasty Woman Are Shaping the Election 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z There’s a certain awkwardness in going home to a quiet apartment after a night of laughing out loud at a comedy show. Comedy in NYC This Week 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The friction resides, innovatively, in the agony of interpersonal misunderstandings, the awkwardness of old friends — now strangers — trapped together for a period of days. During a Weekend in the Country, Secrets Simmer Between Old Friends 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Their shared commitment to acro-yoga helped them push past the initial awkwardness and focus on their friendship. Perspective | An accidental ‘like’ on Facebook photo led to this couple’s first date 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z The film's title, "homecoming," indicates a return to the original comic-book conceit that Parker is plagued by teenage awkwardness and thus all the more charming. Tom Holland Was Born to Be Spider-Man. Playing Peter Parker Was Another Story. 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z An Australian coming-of-age comedy that revels in awkwardness, Please Like Me began airing its fourth season on Nov. 9. What to Watch Over Thanksgiving 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Knowing the awkwardness this induces in others, the women are fine with, and even encourage, treating them as one interchangeable unit. ‘Human Glitter.’ The Beckerman Twins Are Fashion Week Stars 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Things like the way that I spoke, my very predentic speech, kind of social awkwardness, not really speaking the way that other people did. LISTEN: Black, female and autistic — hiding in plain sight 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Yet "realness" – identified by a combination of fun, vulgarity and awkwardness – is these characters' currency. Has the Girls revolution come to an end? 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z When we were making The Office, around the same time this film came out, we also played a lot on discomfort and awkwardness, and I think they did that really well in this film. The 50 funniest films… chosen by comedians 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z It’s a heady time for this playwright, who in both “Speech & Debate” and “Columbinus,” his 2006 New York debut, written with P J Paparelli, mined the awkwardness of the teenage years for surprisingly trenchant insights. Stephen Karam?s ?Sons of the Prophet? and ?Dark Sisters? 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z She managed to picture Kirana awkwardness, hesitation and then appreciation of Japanese culture, without discarding her identity as an Indonesian Muslim. World literature tour: Indonesia 2011-07-18T11:22:40Z Wilson suggests that a nuclear strike is problematic because the anomaly is on foreign soil, though such diplomatic awkwardness probably wouldn’t matter if we’re all dead. Review | Michael Crichton’s classic thriller ‘The Andromeda Strain’ gets a deadly sequel 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z She told me, “I’m here for that kind of awkwardness.” The Tricky Etiquette of Co-Working Spaces 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z I suggest that you become well-acquainted, and accepting, of the awkwardness that emerges when you are all together. Perspective | Ask Amy: Newlywed wonders if there are weekends on the ranch 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z It’s so great to see an ad that is both hilarious and insightful, and totally nails the awkwardness surrounding the first period. This Hilarious Ad Perfectly Captures the Awkwardness of Puberty 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Megha reported that she was happy that Sam eventually asked for her number, though he told me later that he made the request to extinguish end-of-date awkwardness and almost immediately regretted it. Date Lab: She had no expectations and was delighted that he didn’t either 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z In Austen’s novel, Darcy’s social awkwardness, so entwined with his integrity and his intelligence, is key to his appeal. Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies—Jane Austen, with Teeth 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Later episodes are able to shed some of this awkwardness in favor of forward momentum. Review | What if more TV shows were anthologies? Viewers might be less overwhelmed. 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z His awkwardness in English would be less of a problem if Jaden Smith were not such a stiff, recessive actor. | 'The Karate Kid': Jacket On, Jacket Off in a Remake With Jackie Chan 2010-06-10T23:25:00Z “I like the quiet, the awkwardness,” she said. Amy Schumer’s Comedy Central Show, From the Inside 2013-04-18T12:00:01Z The writing is unshowy at best, but can veer into awkwardness, especially in the scenes with the clichéd, underwritten Laura — there is a thin line between classic and passé. Review: ‘Bernie and Mikey’s Trip to the Moon’ Is Old-School Drama 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z “I think originally there was an awkwardness there, a shuffling and a looking at shoes a bit, which was always endearing,” he said. Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton of Sydney Theater and ‘Vanya’ 2012-07-19T22:29:10Z Her song “Tilted” is a celebration of being off-balance — of finding a patch of solid ground in a turbulent world, but also of embracing your awkwardness. 12 Surprising Reasons to Be Grateful for the Arts in 2017 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Adding to his anxiety, the bride had been married when she fell in love with Ben, and Mr. Ruggiero didn’t know how to dance around that awkwardness. Turning To a Ghostwriter for a Personal Toast 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z I understand the impulse to dodge this awkwardness. Perspective | Ask Amy: Impoverished parents now ask for more 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z The actor oozes an innocent awkwardness designed to maximize every wince-worthy stumble while selling us on the virtues of plugging along. HBO Max's "The Sex Lives of College Girls" is less erotic and more awkward than its alluring title 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z En route to Britain, Logan attempts an apology to Roman for “accidentally” striking him, which descends into a morass of awkwardness and denial by both. Succession recap: season two, episode seven – deliciously twisted as ever 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z He also exhibits none of the awkwardness commonly associated with Silicon Valley types. Matt Jacobson, Facebook’s Gatekeeper for Hollywood 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z “But there was definitely a sense of tension and awkwardness in the air.” It Could Be Game Over for a Onetime King of Donkey Kong 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z She reminds us that “his every step” has been “inspected and analyzed: his promise, his awkwardness, his happiness, his suffering, his betrayals and embarrassments and mistakes, his loneliness, his success.” Royal Reads: 6 Books About British Monarchs and Coronations 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z The idea is to assume no prior knowledge of the subject, but in practice there's some awkwardness. Noise by David Hendy and The Story of Music by Howard Goodall – review 2013-03-08T10:01:01Z Instead of truly manifesting awkwardness, they are poseurs of inelegance. Ivy Baldwin Unveils 'Oxbow' at BAM Fisher 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z During a recent episode of “Salon Talks,” Tashiro revealed the linguistic roots of the concept of awkwardness: an old Norse word for “facing a different direction.” WATCH: Here’s why it’s cool to be awkward 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z From her angry phone calls to her awkwardness around children, Faye always presented the upsides and downsides of the authentic life. "Mad Men" finale: Hello darkness, my old friend 2010-10-18T12:38:00Z You can mitigate the awkwardness by using a sectional sofa pit and making sure that the ottoman or ottomans are on wheels, or lightweight enough to be moved around easily. Advice for Renovating Your Home 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z She danced with fans and celebrity guests, reveling in the awkwardness — just be yourself, she said. Ellen DeGeneres, a Signature Star of the Obama Era, Says Goodbye 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z An aspiring comedian who dreams of being on “Saturday Night Live,” Hudi tends to laugh off the indignities he suffers because of his size and awkwardness. Body Language in Middle Grade Lit 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z The humiliation, the shame, the sheer awkwardness — and the bookstore manager is like, Oh, no, maybe it's time to pack up. "My editors were just egging me on": "Yellowface" author on depicting the cutthroat publishing world 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z There had been such a buildup of sexual energy, and we really liked each other, so there was a lot of trust and no awkwardness. 'One of us knew roughly what to do' – six celebrities on losing their virginity 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z What surprised me about Darling Companion was the awkwardness and even amateurism of the filmmaking, despite its veteran director. Lawrence Kasdan's Darling Companion: The Big Chill for the AARP Set 2012-04-19T10:45:39Z I like awkwardness in situations like dinner parties. Watch television with Jordan Jarrett-Bryan 2012-08-24T23:05:00Z Despite some initial awkwardness, our visit with Monsieur Pinon went well; giggling, we attempted to both understand his French descriptions and convince him that our palates were more refined than they are. A quick offseason visit to the Loire Valley, birthplace of the French Renaissance 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z It wasn’t that the playing became awkward, but the piece’s awkwardness, its sprawling weirdness, came through more strongly. Review: The Berlin Philharmonic Gives a Master Class at Carnegie 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z To most, the awkwardness of introducing a faux spouse is well worth the reward. Unmarried Spouses Have a Way With Words 2013-01-04T21:50:17Z Between Bernstein’s self-confidence and Mr. Spielberg’s awkwardness, this material seems ripe for satire. Review: Ballet Hispánico, Piercing Stereotypes 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z While today many people commonly accept anxiety and depression as legitimate states of being, the condition of awkwardness is a slipperier thing to define. WATCH: Here’s why it’s cool to be awkward 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z The tender awkwardness between the two lovers is both hilarious and heartwarming, and a necessary refreshment in the face of the disease and death that surrounds them. ArtsWest stages NW premiere of ‘33 Variations’ 2013-05-06T19:15:26Z Post has also noticed potential for awkwardness between cannabis users celebrating their newfound social acceptance and those who, regardless of their views on legalization, aren’t comfortable around cannabis or even discussing it. The new rules of cannabis: how to pass the joint and more 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z I’m still not buying his hairpin characterization turns this season — and adding Tiffany to the mix does not help — but there’s a flicker of last season’s sharpness in watching his awkwardness with Madison. ‘UnREAL’ Season 2, Episode 8: ‘That’s Not This Story’ 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z The truth is, I just didn't get it: I couldn't complete the sexual equation that was staring me in the face – and my awkwardness came from the fact that other people could. The awkward years 2011-08-12T22:01:37Z It was a show about four friends, none with particularly active goals, bantering in between moments of recognisable awkwardness. 'No hugging, no learning': 20 years on Seinfeld's mantra still looms large 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z There was no hesitation or awkwardness at all. Date Lab: He noticed her tattoo right away I had envisaged some awkwardness on my part if the subject of wine, with which I presumed he was familiar, came up. My night with Gérard Depardieu: pipes, poems and a skinful ... of haggis 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z This awkwardness stems from the two diametrically opposed aesthetic and philosophical attitudes that coexist in it. Taxi Driver: the awkward teen of US cinema 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z So maybe there's a lesson in there, but hopefully you're going to enjoy yourself and laugh through the pain and awkwardness. Nick Kroll Turned His Embarrassing Puberty Stories into a New Series 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z The Zurita protest may be found on YouTube, and the footage offers its share of pleasures, if only because of the sheer awkwardness involved. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z There hasn’t really been anything that’s been a surprise, so there wasn’t really awkwardness. Mayim Bialik’s ‘Jeopardy!’ goal: maintaining its integrity 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z The complete awkwardness of the transitions screamed “It looks cool!” rather than “It flows.” Watch Movies in 4DX and You’ll Get an Education in Filmmaking 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z What do you think I should do to reduce this awkwardness? Perspective | Ask Amy: Friend wants to weigh in on troubled teen 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z That awkwardness shows through in one scene when Ballard, played by Texan actor Steve Haze, struggles to push a woman's body up a ladder into an attic. Director Franco finds comedy in tale of murderous backwoodsman 2013-08-31T18:08:41Z But it is often at times of awkwardness, anger, fear and even outright despair that people are at their most funny. No joke, being a psychiatric patient has its funny side 2010-08-04T09:53:00Z Chandler has the perfect, natural Southern drawl to imbue Eric with believable Texan warmth, and the actor brings so much charisma mixed with bumbling awkwardness to this role that he steals every scene he's in. Everything you need to know about "Friday Night Lights" 2010-05-01T23:01:00Z At the very least we can be confident that there won't be any deer-in-the-headlights awkwardness like we saw last year, when the kooky ingénue team of James Franco and Anne Hathaway hosted. Eddie Murphy to host 2012 Oscar telecast 2011-09-06T20:07:00Z Turing's social awkwardness is surpassed only by his confidence in his own ideas, and Cumberbatch brings a brittle charm to his performance. 'Imitation Game's' outsiders plot lured Morten Tyldum 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z His social awkwardness is written right into the flat tunelessness of his voice, yet he’s the one who best understands the fragile relationship between his vessel and the threatening seas. Review: Chris Pine Rescues The Finest Hours 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z I envisaged re-entering the world in his slipstream after a long period of social awkwardness. Stella Grey and Edward walk off together into the sunset 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z As someone who wheedled his grandmother into taking him to see Hitchcock’s “Frenzy” at age 13, I can both relate, and think I have him beat in the awkwardness department. ‘The After Party’ and ‘Baahubali’: Hip-hop Dreams and Indian Fantasy From Netflix 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Whatever awkwardness followed, King says, was outweighed by the friendship itself. Gayle King, Oprah's sidekick no more 2011-03-22T04:13:37Z She writes convincingly and compassionately of Willa’s particular struggles, in an insecure yet ebullient voice that also captures the universal awkwardness of being 11. Books to Ease the Transition to Middle School 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z She acknowledged the awkwardness of being subject to a patron’s whims. News Analysis: The Value of Valuable Violins 2012-01-29T04:17:15Z But the gag is incomprehensible, none of the onlookers laugh, and Albert sneaks back a few seconds later to explain himself, which only heightens the awkwardness. “A Million Ways to Die in the West”: How Seth MacFarlane became the new Adam Sandler 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Healing requires that you land in reality, though: Your father, again, is who he is — relationship and secrets and awkwardness and babies and all. Carolyn Hax: Grandpa-to-be’s decision to start a new family upsets daughter She seems to me very English in her awkwardness. Untamed 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z While some of his recent panels are clearly about life under quarantine, others fit into his usual themes of ennui and social awkwardness. A Pandemic Gives the Funny Pages a Jolt of Reality 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z Their awkwardness is of a piece with Adès's own – and this performance was a revelation. Thomas Ad?s 2010-04-29T20:45:00Z She managed to picture Kirana awkwardness, hesitation and then appreciation of Japanese culture, without discarding her identity as an Indonesian Muslim. World literature tour: Indonesia 2011-07-18T11:22:40Z Hank Green’s debut novel, “An Absolutely Remarkable Thing,” was a best seller inspired by having achieved internet fame and experiencing the anxiety and awkwardness it can bring. Hank Green, Novelist and YouTube Star, Announces He Has Cancer 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z That strain of awkwardness runs throughout Stand Up Guys, a buddy movie that limps along, pausing for breath and pulse checks like a geriatric dutifully fulfilling doctor’s orders to get some exercise. Scent of Doomed Men: Al Pacino and Christopher Walken Team Up for Stand Up Guys 2013-01-31T12:59:25Z I find it hard to wish away those years of awkwardness, though. The awkward years 2011-08-12T22:01:37Z In both “A Room with a View” and “Maurice,” the awkwardness of human intimacy is heightened by the constraints of upper-middle-class manners in Edwardian England. James Ivory and the Making of a Historic Gay Love Story 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z His aversion to and awkwardness around intimacy — he’s only ever said “I love you” twice to his parents, “and once at a Mariah Carey concert” — keep things from getting too sappy. ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Brings Love, Canadian Style 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Any mention of mortality in casual conversation is greeted with awkwardness and a subject change. We need to talk about death: Why ignoring our darkest fears only makes them worse 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z Such a direct approach ultimately may be effective, but it still engenders the same pain and awkwardness as an actual breakup, said Erika Johnson, a blogger who lives outside Boston. It?s Not Me, It?s You: How to End a Friendship 2012-01-28T11:00:06Z There is a common misperception that awkwardness, because it is uncomfortable, is also intolerable. Perspective | Miss Manners: Do’s and don’ts for hotel soaps 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z Some of that history is recounted on Disc 1, which, in focusing on early material, most strongly conveys both the excitement and the awkwardness of the enterprise. Sets Featuring Fonteyn, the Cunningham Company and Others 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z But the show never depicts awkwardness in the right way. Review | Send your regrets to Hulu’s ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ (and a sympathy card) 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z The whole work is an evocation of young womanhood, compelling in its blend of awkwardness, ennui and burgeoning forces within. ‘Rosas Danst Rosas’ Revisits a Choreographer’s Early Work 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Yet, saving the occasional drop of a cane, there was little sign of awkwardness or mutual unfamiliarity. Company with Stephen Colbert ? review 2011-04-08T17:15:11Z There’s an awkwardness in the title — “Emotion Pictures: International Melodrama” — given to the sprawling, 62-film festival that’s running at the Film Society of Lincoln Center through Jan. 7. He Knows Melodrama When He Sees It 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Such exchanges trouble you because they’re about much more than navigating social awkwardness. How Should I Respond to Overzealous Gestures of Sympathy? 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z The film has the Italian-countryside pleasures of “A Room with a View,” and mirrors that and “Maurice” ’s journeys from awkwardness to connection and joy. James Ivory and the Making of a Historic Gay Love Story 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Two decades ago, Maureen Gallace emerged making small landscape paintings whose implicit awkwardness avoided the bucolic, replacing it with an unsettling ambiguity. Maureen Gallace, Small Landscapes Big on Ambiguity 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z His social awkwardness, punctiliousness and obsessiveness notwithstanding — he has a day job inspecting restaurants for the health department — his motivations don’t fit the usual mold. Are You Strapped In for ‘The Patient’? The Therapist Is. 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Whatever awkwardness followed, Ms. King says, was outweighed by the friendship itself. The Sidekick No More 2011-03-18T21:29:03Z The sense is that Ms. Patek is willing to put her body — the real thing, not the dressed-up dancer’s version — on the line, living out the awkwardness she creates for everyone in the room. Dance Review: Rebecca Patek’s ‘Real Eyes’ at Chocolate Factory 2012-06-03T21:19:26Z “It’s tackling different sexual topics with an honesty I don’t think I’ve seen elsewhere, embracing the awkwardness of teenagers’ first exploring themselves as sexual beings,” said Ita O’Brien, the show’s intimacy coordinator. Pondering ‘Sex Education’ When Touching Is Off-Limits 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Is it any wonder that people are drawn to awkwardness, that strange social bond that takes place outside the realm of normal social constraints? The bond of the awkward 2010-12-31T17:30:00Z “I truly believe in awkwardness as a new naturalism,” Mr. Gold said. Awkwardness as the Avenue to Success 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z Perhaps this trailer’s upbeat vibe will finally efface the memory of that awkwardness. 'The bromance of the century': President Trump's bizarre trailer for his summit with Kim | Peter Bradshaw 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z And the program’s three youth-ensemble pieces were cute enough, the two choreographed by Michelle Dorrance more successful in giving the children characters to play and a floppy style to disguise any awkwardness. Dance Review: JUBA! Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance at the Kennedy Center in Washington 2012-12-10T23:05:05Z It was so fun sitting there, marinating in the awkwardness. In ‘Stranger Things,’ He Delivers Pizza and Stoned Comic Relief 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z But the warm, pitted marble, the contrasts of pink and white, and the organic awkwardness and asymmetry of the forms themselves give them a deep human expressiveness. Perspective | Sculpture parks are a great way to see art during a pandemic. Here’s why some are better than others. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z It tells important stories and it makes people who watch it feel seen in their grief, in their mess, in all their awkwardness and weirdness. From "New Girl" to "Not Dead Yet," Hannah Simone loves being the bestie – on TV and in real life 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z A little bit hunched, hobbled by cardigan socks and shoes, Guillem wonderfully embodies her character's awkwardness without being remotely mawkish or patronising. Sylvie Guillem - review 2011-07-06T23:44:38Z From both the warmth and the awkwardness of their darting embrace — their bodies no longer intuitively fit together — it’s clear they’re not done working things through. Movie Review: ‘The Past,’ With Bérénice Bejo, Directed by Asghar Farhadi 2013-12-19T22:50:17Z Draw the line at physical danger, not social awkwardness. New Writer, Same Goal: Exploring the World on a Budget 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z For them, and most of us, 13 is mainly synonymous with awkwardness, insecurity and yearning. As "PEN15" draws to a close, we're left in the hell of seventh grade, exactly as it should be 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z The opening-night awkwardness is over, but the drama may yet linger. Cannes 2014: 'Grace of Monaco' opening more awkward than regal 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Like Girls, Freaks and Geeks devoted a vast percentage of its brief life to concentrating on the vulnerabilities, awkwardness, delusions and failures of its characters. ‘Life is messy’: Judd Apatow on Freaks and Geeks, Lena Dunham and his return to standup 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z In some of your essays in the book you write about, I don't want to say awkward, but awkwardness, like the Twitter-famous essay is coming to mind. "Black women are from the future": Author says Black girls aren't magic, but are ahead of their time 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z “It was more like our vendors were members of our family or a friend. There was no awkwardness to it.” Women-Powered Weddings on Rise 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z For anyone in that position, anticipating and preempting awkwardness is perfectly defensible. Carolyn Hax: Her partner is a happy househusband. Let the mass judging begin. 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Braun also felt like he related to the awkwardness of the role. ‘Cat Person’ goes from viral story to Sundance talker — with an extra chapter 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z "It's going to be a fun - hopefully - summer movie, but we're not shying away from the truth and the awkwardness and the growing pains of being a teenager." Live-action Archie comics movie planned 2013-06-07T15:28:15Z As soon as he got it, the call ended — saving him from further awkwardness. Date Lab: When politics came up, the conversation ‘pivoted’ 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z For most of its run "Big Mouth" treats Missy like every other middle schooler, highlighting her extreme awkwardness as opposed to the fact that she's a biracial eighth grader in predominantly white school. Even beyond the voice recast, "Big Mouth" nails the adventures of an awkward Black girl 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z It is his responsibility to both narrate the story and be part of it, which leads to awkwardness when scenes are half-baked. Review: 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' is ill-conceived 2013-03-20T23:46:16Z It is this awkwardness that probably pushed away the men you were dating. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: You gotta live in the moment, baby! 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z But semi-ambulatory awkwardness aside, I finally got to see my entire body when I got home. The Internet bought my vagina 2014-05-05T21:30:00Z If there is a feud between Harry and Meghan and Will and Kate, the Duchess of Sussex feeds that rumor with the smallest crumb in these hours, and mainly to illustrate her awkwardness. Meeting "Harry & Meghan": the Sussexes launch the next stage of their strategic charm offensive 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z The way we got around that awkwardness was for Ryan to interview me. Q&A: Joanna Newsom on her New Album, 'Have One on Me' 2010-03-01T08:15:00Z "I felt at times he struggled to say what he was trying to say … In certain instances that awkwardness gives the record a real sense of fragile beauty." Readers' reviews 2011-02-10T22:10:00Z A lot of the dialogue in “Losing It” rehashes Julia’s conversational awkwardness, which often doesn’t extend beyond “oh, okay,” “great” and “cool.” ‘Losing It’: A 26-year-old virgin plots her own deflowering 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z A connoisseur of awkwardness, Currin makes you feel it in his sitters, in your gut and in your head, where it sticks like a pop song that won’t stop. John Currin has a way with awkwardness 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z But Eliza breathes actual life into the problem, and the pain and awkwardness of overcoming it. It's complicated: Selfie and A to Z reflect TV's uncomfortable relationship with social media 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z This tends to work well in the interrogation and interview scenes, which are the heart of the show; there’s an awkwardness and tentativeness that feel right. Review: ‘Suspects,’ Britain’s Unscripted Relative of ‘Law & Order’ 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Bradley played Pat much more extreme when we started shooting, in terms of his awkwardness, his intensity, his darkness, his edginess. Q&A: Silver Linings Playbook’s Bradley Cooper and David O. Russell 2012-11-15T16:00:55Z Under her direction, Dakota Johnson played the role of Anastasia Steele for laughs, lending the character an antic awkwardness that merged with her tremulous, gradual erotic curiosity. “Fifty Shades Darker”: Not Even the Sex Has Personality 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z There was no “Ann Curry moment”—the sort of incident, like Curry openly weeping during her final episode of Today, whose glorious awkwardness revealed a broken dynamic. Strahan's Final 'Kelly and Michael' Episode Emphasized Fun and Continuity 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z In the first chapter of a planned sequel to 'Long Walk to Freedom' written in 1998, Mandela described his awkwardness at being put on a pedestal by his countrymen and millions more around the globe. South Africans warm to Mandela movie, critics unimpressed 2013-11-29T11:55:56Z D ear Amy: “Feeling Torn” described the terrible awkwardness in the family after parents and godparents dissolved their business relationship. Perspective | Ask Amy: Mother’s cancer gets in the way of a wedding 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z The Providence dinner party features tense moments that illuminate both the Bloom marriage and Evelyn and Roberta’s relationship, but the scene also comically conjures personal foibles and social awkwardness. Review | The drama of saving refugee children in 1939, and a journey that’s just as moving and meaningful today 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z There’s a lot of humiliation and embarrassment involved, and not the cutesy kind of awkwardness that we went on to celebrate in other mockumentary-style comedies like “Modern Family,” “The Office” and “Parks and Recreation.” ‘The Comeback’: Valerie Cherish still makes it hurt so good He used both dice and computers to help him prepare his dances; awkwardness interested him as much as precision. Dada Was Born 100 Years Ago. So What? 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z The production values are slightly higher this season, but not disruptively so — awkwardness is embedded in the show’s aesthetic. Critic’s Notebook: Issa Rae and ‘Awkward Black Girl’ Are Breaking Ground 2012-07-13T22:54:29Z Adults and older kids will recognize Mei’s transformation as the awkwardness of adolescence: a time when our bodies betray us and we just don’t feel like ourselves. Five Children’s Movies to Stream Now 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z As Percy, Andrew Barth Feldman frames the character’s awkwardness in a quiet register for the most part, but in more expansive nerd moments recalls a young Martin Short. ‘No Hard Feelings’ Review: How Lucky Can a Nerdy Kid Get? 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z “Hosts right now are asserting more control over guest lists to avoid awkwardness,” Mr. Hay added, noting that unnamed plus-ones and summer houseguests in tow can be problematic. It Was Nice Not Running Into You 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z My awkwardness went away, and I stretched out, flexed, showed my biceps. When Neither Male Nor Female Seems to Fit 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The new gig, which wraps up this week, features the cheeky duo playing two guys playing their everyday selves, as Ms. Barnes continues her love affair with awkwardness, failure and physical comedy. Dance Listings for Dec. 11-17 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z His painstaking transformations are funny and thoughtful, preserving both the awkwardness of the photo booth and the techniques of old-master portraitists. Artist of the week 116: Tim Gardner 2010-12-02T17:32:00Z The One Show routinely wrongfoots its celebrity guests – that tends to happen when you insist on quizzing A-listers about financial ombudsmen – but Bruce Willis managed to scale new peaks of awkwardness earlier this year. The six most excruciating interviews of all time 2013-05-15T13:31:58Z Even the picture's evidently modest budget and low-rent effects, its casual weirdness and occasional awkwardness work in its favor. 'A Very Larry Christmas,' Bernie Madoff, 'Christmas Light Fight' 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Unlike the Ford incident, Buttigieg hasn’t actually been filmed doing the routine, which involves arm-rolling and some gentle swaying of the hips; this is more of an awkwardness by proxy. Why Mayor Pete shouldn’t pin his “High Hopes” on that cringey campaign dance 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z As the fortune teller in Before Sunrise told them, "You need to resign yourself to the awkwardness of life." Before Midnight: 'what grown-up romantics have instead of lightsabers' 2013-06-17T05:00:00Z Instead, he corralled members of his staff for a photograph that, in its nightmarish awkwardness, revealed all the ineptitude, cowardliness and pettiness for which the whole charade was a grotesque cover. Perspective | Trump’s photo with his loyalists was a vulgar mess. And Ivanka brought a handbag. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z I became a passive victim, guzzling a bully-me cocktail: mix together equal parts low self-esteem and social awkwardness with a dash of desperation and stir. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z The skit veers from the comedy of awkwardness into something much weirder. Strap in for ‘The Shipment’ as it delivers weird, entertaining ride 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z But in the evenings and on weekends, with Alexandra as my guide — I shed my awkwardness. “You are not just an affair”: I fell for the world’s oldest romantic cliché — being human 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z There was a bit of awkwardness in this, as there is in so much of life in this spring season of burnout and tentative re-emergence. 400 Days Later, the New York Philharmonic Returns 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z But acting her way through the awkwardness while also experiencing it “made me accept it a little bit more,” she said. ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’: Beloved, Banned and Finally Adapted 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z "It's a big change in your life when you start making the journey inward," he said, the hint of a smile covering his awkwardness at explaining an Eastern concept to a Western journalist. Review of Martin Scorsese's George Harrison documentary 2011-10-05T14:20:00Z We can sense the interior states of the individuals portrayed, and their awkwardness, pride, or even indifference at being captured in paint, on film, via sculpture. At Tacoma Art Museum, portraits that reach out and touch you 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z That and her adorable awkwardness kept her from being Katy Perry. Taylor Swift Proves She's the Musical Equivalent of a Pumpkin Spice Latte 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z The awkwardness of our financial arrangement would reveal itself from time to time. I was a kept man 2013-04-08T01:00:00Z It saves them the embarrassment of asking your name again or, worse, the awkwardness of talking to you for 20 minutes without the faintest clue what you’re called. 5 Tips for Meeting New People While Traveling 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Is it possible for you to form an independent friendship with this other family, disregarding the awkwardness you perceive? Ask Amy: Young couple encounters Christmas circus 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Still, the youthful energy and glow of his singing were appealing, and he looked endearing with his eyeglasses and awkwardness. Review: An Absent Baritone Looms Over the Met Opera’s ‘Onegin’ 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z A new video from YouTube video collective Vsauce explains how awkwardness–a phenomenon we would all probably be much happier without–actually functions in social situations. This is your brain on awkwardness: The scientific reason why you feel super-duper uncomfortable 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z With his splendidly expressive, delightfully scrunchable face, he makes Jim a human spectacle of awkwardness and alarm yet also imbues the character with intelligence and warmth. Theater Review: ‘A Respectable Widow,’ About an Unusual Friendship 2014-04-13T21:06:55Z But she relents, and before long he’s weeping in her lap, and the two are, in a signature Hong image, fumbling at each other’s bodies with exquisitely painful awkwardness. Movie Review: ?The Day He Arrives? Directed by Hong Sang-soo 2012-04-19T22:47:36Z Only the awkwardness of admitting otherwise maintains the assumption of a necessary Book Review. The New York Times Book Review's retirement plan 2013-04-29T15:03:00Z Shielding yourself against awkwardness starts even before you leave the house. It’s not just you. We’re all socially awkward now. 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z The video documents the awkwardness embodied by so many of Armisen’s wacky characters. Fred Armisen: “Saturday Night Life” was smart to increase the diversity of its cast 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z They recently had a second wedding, presumably to make up for the awkwardness of the first — the special about it will be shown on FYI on Tuesday. Exploring ‘Married at First Sight,’ ‘Surviving Marriage’ and ‘Neighbors With Benefits’ 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z What follows — as an amicable split becomes a shattering rupture, lurching from awkwardness to rage in search of a new equilibrium — is a reversal of Tolstoy’s sturdy observation about happy and unhappy families. ‘Marriage Story’ Review: Dance Me to the End of Love 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z This season, however, Seacrest has increased his hostility past the point of awkwardness and into the realm of "please stop." When wild Seacrests attack 2010-04-04T22:31:00Z She seems oblivious to the awkwardness of taking a bath in the presence of a nun and a servant. Camelot: episode nine 2011-07-30T21:01:00Z This trend is odd, because awkwardness is normally thought to be something to avoid. The bond of the awkward 2010-12-31T17:30:00Z Two decades ago, Maureen Gallace started making small landscape paintings whose implicit awkwardness avoided the bucolic, replacing it with an unsettling ambiguity. Review: Maureen Gallace, Lynda Barry, and Louis M. Eilshemius and Bob Thompson 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z I wiggle, examining his wrinkle-free forehead and bushy eyebrows bound to grow bushier in old age, until my awkwardness turns to calm. Jewish Summer Camp With Campfires, Crafts and No Lights Out 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z While Braun’s exact brand of awkwardness doesn’t quite match the stumbling, yet unearned air of superiority that Robert possessed in the original story, he does manage to be imposing while also looking a little lost. ‘Cat Person’ Review: A Viral Short Story Padded for the Big Screen 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Even jokes about their awkwardness being around him fell flat. Trump’s sorry night on SNL: An overhyped bummer for us all 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Pianists complain of the awkwardness of Brahms' craggy piano writing, but under Andsnes' coolly commanding fingers it all flowed beautifully. Andsnes' commanding Brahms lifts Muti-less CSO concert out of the ordinary 2011-02-18T16:33:00Z But in Episode 2, at least, some of the awkwardness is shed and the show delivers a rewarding story about report cards and parental expectations, with Ms. Wu getting most of the laughs. ‘Fresh Off the Boat,’ ABC Show Based on Eddie Huang’s Memoir 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The real problem is that “The Affair” itself has never exactly seen her as more than a victim and a bundle of guilt, neurosis and small-town, working-class awkwardness. ‘The Affair’ Season 2 Episode 5: Never Read the Book 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z But the awkwardness of Mimi-Rose having Adam fry up some sausages for the occasion gave me a sick thrill. 'Girls' Recap: Hannah Tries to Enter the Land of Grown-Ups 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Lirola has also endured the awkwardness of finding himself among fellow party guests who come to realize he does not share their disdain for the Republican nominee. The Uninvited Guest: The 2016 Campaign Crashes the Dinner Party 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z But the story grew out of something very real Mr. Green has wrestled with in his own life: internet fame, and the anxiety and awkwardness it can bring. YouTube Star Hank Green Will Publish His First Novel Next Year 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Bedding down with strangers could lead to some awkwardness. The bizarre social history of beds 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Few match his skills at capturing and conveying onscreen the idiosyncrasies, awkwardness and absurdities of everyday conversation and life. And the Oscar Winners Will Be ... 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z I never considered the awkwardness of this combination until it was too late. Your Dog Has Seen Me Naked 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z But the chance to hear these Krenek rarities was more than adequate compensation for any programming awkwardness. Music Review: Delving Into Ernst Krenek’s Intimate Compositions 2014-04-01T23:02:28Z When, after years of separation, Gatsby and Daisy meet, their awkwardness is turned into knockabout farce. Gatz; The Witness; You Once Said Yes – review 2012-06-16T23:06:06Z Boldness was off the menu for the night, but awkwardness was very much the catch of the day. The 2020 Emmys give us stars, just like us! At home, waiting for something good to happen 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z “Silence is often something we experience as uncomfortable, as a rupture in the social fabric, an awkwardness we want to cover over with our voices.” Ssshhh! How the cult of quiet can change your life 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z The manuscript shows, for example that after describing a character named Lord Osborne as exhibiting “carelessness” and “awkwardness” she went back and added “coldness.” ArtsBeat: Jane Austen Manuscript Sold for $1.6 Million 2011-07-14T17:06:59Z Elsewhere, facts fall inert, with some of the randomness of war, and the show takes on the clumsy awkwardness of “historical re-enactments” in TV documentaries. ‘Healing Wars,’ by Liz Lerman, Portrays Soldiers’ Trauma 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Depicting the "aerial balloon, a clumsy/ creation cobbled together from rope and rags," the translation catches the contraption's awkwardness in its alliteration: clumsy/ creation/ cobbled/ropes/rags. Poem of the week: The snow whirls over the courtyard's roses by Tua Forsström 2013-03-04T10:39:48Z There was no awkwardness at all during the “amazing and unexpected” evening. How we met: ‘I wasn’t ready to start anything new – and he was 20 years younger’ 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z This one enters the all-time awkwardness rankings before a single morsel is served. ‘Empire’ Season 3, Episode 7: Queen Cookie 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z I agree with you — act first and deal with awkwardness later. Ask Amy: Elderly caregiving seems like neglect 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z “Oh, I understand,” said the teacher, who clearly took my awkwardness to mean that Chris and I had recently separated. Kasey Edwards: I love being married, but am I the exception? 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z And for all the awkwardness, the film is also a sincere tribute to its fallen lead actor—with a four-hankie coda unimaginable in any other action-movie context. Every 'Fast & Furious' Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z It’s a childish move, but in keeping with the infantilism that still shapes the brothers’ uneasy relationship and their awkwardness with outsiders, particularly women. ‘The Power of the Dog’ Review: Wild Hearts on a Closed Frontier 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z He’s been sent to earth to exterminate us; there’s a delay, and in the meantime he has to impersonate a small-town Colorado doctor and learn, with exceeding awkwardness, how to act like a human being. 11 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2021 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Evan, played with endearing awkwardness by Ben Platt, star of the “Pitch Perfect” movies, faces a new school year with agonized trepidation. Review: In ‘Dear Evan Hansen,’ Teenage Angst Grows Complicated 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z To that end, it may be useful that this one, staged with uncharacteristic awkwardness by the terrific director Lila Neugebauer, only exacerbates the difficulties. Review: Will Death Never Come in ‘Peace for Mary Frances’? 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z The script does much better by Chris, though, and “Landscapers” is a showcase for Thewlis, with his angular frame and his distinctive style of commanding awkwardness. Review: ‘Landscapers’ Is Not Your Typical True-Crime Love Story 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z In “Masters of Sex,” he said, “this is what the show’s about” — awkwardness and all. ‘Masters of Sex’ Recalls the Work of Masters and Johnson 2013-07-27T05:49:04Z It’s famous for its purposeful awkwardness, juxtaposing a naked woman, gazing frankly out at the viewer, with two fully clothed 19th century men. Judith Linhares paints the joys of life, on her own terms 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z Lately, it seems like some hosts fear the possibility of disconnect so much that they turn to antics and games to supplant the potential for awkwardness. A last ‘Late Late Show’ from fearlessly funny Craig Ferguson 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z The occasional awkwardness of Brahms' piano writing held no terrors for him. Dohnanyi, Ax and the CSO produce Brahmsian splendor at Ravinia concerts 2011-07-17T05:00:00Z Awed into awkwardness by the event, he’s a stand-in for us. Review: Art for the Soul in ‘Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth’ 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z He unspools his recollections with humor, self-deprecation and evident affection, but there is an awkwardness to his performance, a sense that he is still feeling his way through an unfamiliar medium. Three Journeys Under the Radar: Trippy, Unsettling and Affectionate 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z His prescience about the awkwardness of holiday gatherings proved true, though less for the two of us than for the dates we brought home. Modern Love: I Am My Own In-Law 2012-02-02T18:33:07Z Because you understand on some level, it's a deliberate performance and not just us exploiting the real awkwardness of a teen actor, it's easier to look at sometimes. Nasim Pedrad finds her inner boy as "Chad": "It’s such a universal notion to just want to belong" 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z The story delights in the awkwardness of being away from home, of being out on your own for the first time. Three Y.A. Novels About the Challenges and Charms of Growing Up 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z And the president’s public awkwardness masks something more human. Books of The Times: ?Watergate,? a Novel by Thomas Mallon 2012-02-15T20:34:23Z Still, for all of the writers' and cast's earnest attempts to find a way into the show's 10-episode farewell, there's simply no way for the show to avoid the awkwardness surrounding what it signifies. "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" returns with an appropriate awkward hello to its farewell season 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z “I just can’t stop thinking about it. The performance of it. The awkwardness of it. The drama of it.” Review: Phoebe Waller-Bridge Gives New York a Fabulous ‘Fleabag’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z So I wanted to inject that kind of awkwardness in reality into the private-eye story. Shane Black Narrates a Scene From ‘The Nice Guys’ 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z I am considering a sofa pit but worry about the ease of getting in and out, the awkwardness of asking guests to jump in, and the possibility that it will overwhelm the room. Advice for Renovating Your Home 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z A little clock-ticking social awkwardness later, it transpired that no, he was not lying. Have You Been Watching ? Dinner Date? 2011-07-28T13:36:00Z There’s an awkwardness, a cringe factor, a harrowing naivete that rears up through the text. Perspective | A Black Jesus is at the center of a ‘Passion’ that transfigures the listener 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Warm and quick to laugh, he suffers from none of Christopher's obvious social awkwardness, but he shares with the character an outsider's sensibility. Actor Alexander Sharp's curious beginning to a promising career 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z “Everything is changing,” she said, “and there is going to be a lot of social awkwardness right now that will happen as a result.” The Handshake Is on Hold 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z “Chris comes off as arrogant at first, but eventually you realize it’s his awkwardness,” an editor told me, speaking, as others did, on the condition of anonymity because they still worked for Kimball. Cook’s Illustrated’s Christopher Kimball Believes Cooking Is Ultraserious Business 2012-10-14T16:30:31Z Yet the awkwardness just ramped up the impact of her wrenching, self-penned Devil in Me. London jazz festival: Jazz Voice – review 2012-11-12T13:40:28Z The court said ABC said the scene was included to portray the awkwardness between a child and his parent's new romantic partner and their difficulties in adjusting to life together. Court: TV can't be fined for 'NYPD Blue' nude shot 2011-01-04T22:11:10Z The awkwardness can be especially difficult for those facing social ostracism. It Was Nice Not Running Into You 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z Fittingly, social awkwardness and its consequences are the themes of Ms. Lynch’s new memoir, “Happy Accidents,” which she wrote with Lara Embry, a psychotherapist and her wife for one year. Jane Lynch Finds Herself 2011-09-16T22:44:26Z The varied movement vocabulary that has resulted delights Pam Tanowitz, whose works can resemble dialogues between classical and modern forms, between beauty and seeming awkwardness, and between dance and music. | Dance: Translations That Move 2014-01-31T18:32:35Z Jo Bonney’s staging, which though sleek is unafraid to linger over anger and awkwardness, helps keep the tension aloft. Review: In ‘Cost of Living,’ a Familiar Alienation 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z “Dear Movement Teacher” is another letter revisiting embarrassment and awkwardness. Review: In ‘Dear Mr. You,’ Mary-Louise Parker Writes to Men, With Lust and Rue 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z But Ms. Radice chalked up that aloofness to her own awkwardness. United in Love, But Living on Separate Coasts 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z In Christy Wampole’s debut essay collection, “The Other Serious: Essays for the New American Generation,” the Princeton University professor addresses many topics, including attention spans and awkwardness. “Comment sections are brilliant and extremely relevant”: Christy Wampole on the awfulness of Facebook, the utility of “think pieces” and why you might be reading the Internet all wrong 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z The premise was that a woman at her sixth college reunion starts up a relationship with a virginal 18-year-old freshman, and awkwardness ensues. Sex and the theater: An actress bares all about onstage nudity This gangly dancer can morph from a giraffe into a grasshopper with the graceful fold of the limbs; he shows the awkwardness and then the spindly side of his body’s strange beauty. ‘Tap and Song’ at Symphony Space 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z “Instead what I got was this look of awkwardness and the sound of silence,” she said. A 2-Minute Gap and Then a Return ‘I Love You’ 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z There was too much wincing, too much awkwardness, and too many tears. The Internet bought my vagina 2014-05-05T21:30:00Z I find Jen’s point about the lack of awkwardness very intriguing; I actually liked that their first encounter was so easy and unforced. Bringing ‘Normal People’ to Sexy, Soundtracked Life 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z In Guest’s films, a common joke is their physical disparity – O’Hara’s blond prettiness against Levy’s Jewish awkwardness. Catherine O'Hara on the joy of Schitt's Creek: 'Eugene Levy is the sweetest man!' 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z The awkwardness was compounded by having to sit between them. Illness Walks the Runway 2013-01-30T23:31:57Z I have regularly felt awkwardness at critiquing the premiere of a TV series without knowing what might lie ahead in future episodes. Viewer addiction to new Kevin Spacey drama series 2013-02-05T18:02:44Z The most secret part of a woman’s body is so often shrouded in conditioned shame and awkwardness from when we are very young. Vulva masks and labia serums: the marketing of women’s genital shame 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z But the awkwardness persisted, prompting Carey to say: "I want a holiday, too. Can I not have one? I'm trying to be a good sport here." After New Year's Eve debacle, Mariah Carey wishes for 'more headlines' 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z In this repository of failed attempts, different inks speak of widely-spaced times and places, the diverse scrawls of varying levels of calligraphic awkwardness, lack of firm writing-surfaces, different modes of transportation. Writers need 'a junkyard of the mind' 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z Yet there was no hint of awkwardness in their stage relationship here. Opera Review: Anna Netrebko in Bel Canto Mode, for ‘L’Elisir d’Amore’ 2014-01-19T22:04:19Z “The traces of self-consciousness, of awkwardness on the stage, had disappeared; and at the same time she sang more freely, more powerfully, more intensely — and also more bewitchingly — than ever before.” Joan Sutherland, Opera Soprano, Dies 2010-10-11T16:29:00Z But the most convincing thing about his portrayal is the way that he channels Charles’s awkwardness. Can “The Crown” Make Us Crush on Prince Charles? 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Washington is so good with this comic awkwardness. Review | Bryan Washington’s ‘Memorial’ is a tender look at modern family life 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Michael J Fox and Lea Thompson, for example, look frequently and understandably baffled by Glover in Back to the Future, while he’s laughing like a cricket or contorting his body into physical expressions of awkwardness. Crispin Glover: ‘When you raise questions people say, ‘You’re crazy’’ 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z I giggled inside at the awkwardness of Tyson complementing his enemy's home, and nodded at his offer. Your stories: Dragons are not what you expect them to be by Ellathebookworm 2013-01-11T09:00:00Z Eventually, in the novel’s most masterful scene, Annabel’s willfulness and her father’s awkwardness bring down an avalanche of suspicion that shakes this family to its core. Review | Simon Han’s ‘Nights When Nothing Happened’ is a poignant study of the immigrant experience 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z “It’s one big room of awkwardness, but it’s always fun,” he said of the Met Gala. Jennifer Lopez, Michael B. Jordan and Emma Stone Keep Partying After Met Gala 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Nerd love probably wasn’t the theme that this year’s Emmys were going for, but, throughout the night, awkwardness provided some of the show’s best moments. The 2018 Emmys: Nerd Love and Hannah Gadsby Won the Night 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Butz, who can usually be relied on to perk up any show, loses a distinctive hold on Skilling once the character sheds his initial awkwardness. | 'Enron': At the Broadhurst Theater, Revisiting a Scandal 2010-04-28T02:26:00Z In the interview, Franco discussed his inspirations for the character and “marinating in the awkwardness” that comes with life as the show’s designated burnout. In ‘Stranger Things,’ He Delivers Pizza and Stoned Comic Relief 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z But part of the problem is that it’s taken America so long to close the deal that we’re in a 250-Year-Old Virgin situation: awkwardness compounded by ineptitude wrapped in bizarre expectations. Perspective | Brace yourself: America is about to act really awkward about Biden’s female VP pick 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Three episodes into this seven-part season, it remains unclear what all this horrible awkwardness and explosions of bowels add up to—how much art can be found in the squicky craft of an evil clown. “Sally4Ever” and “The Bisexual,” Reviewed: Women in Crisis, In and Out of the Bedroom 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z And if it does, then you push through the awkwardness to the other side. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How to handle awkward feelings for a co-parent 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z The awkwardness of that last line echoes the vulnerable openness of its sentiment. A Canadian Poet Channels a 7th-Century Scottish Hermit 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z The earnest awkwardness of the art in this exhibition, and on the “Work of Art” show in general, isn’t that surprising, but it’s nevertheless disappointing. Art: Abdi Farah?s Bravo TV Prize Is a Brooklyn Museum Show 2010-08-18T22:18:00Z Something about their exchange seemed to unwittingly summon a lingering awkwardness, a dynamic of superiority. Perspective | Ellen DeGeneres is sorry. ‘Ellen’ the talk show is still forcing a smile. 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Few would deny the awkwardness of bumping into someone you’d rather not. I love bumping into an old friend | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Assuming the apology was sincere, I’d suggest that from here you proceed to sympathy for his awkwardness, not just your own, and cut the guy a break. Carolyn Hax: How can I deal with my overstepping mother-in-law? 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Ms. Buchloh-Kollerbohm, who is also the museum’s head of education, told me that she was mindful of the potential awkwardness of combining nudism with the exhibition’s serious subject matter. I Went Naked to a Museum, and It Was … Revealing 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Of all the directors, she's the only one who makes incredibly erotic sex scenes out of awkwardness. Kim Gordon's fresh start 2013-09-19T16:18:45Z To have a difficult talk, Ms. de Cadenet starts by acknowledging the awkwardness. How to Tell if Someone Is Lying and 8 More Conversation Tips 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Still, the awkwardness of orchestra and jazz ensemble can never be overcome. Vijay Iyer jazzes up the Ojai Music Festival 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Commonalities between the pieces appeared coincidental, except perhaps for purposeful awkwardness and a compulsion to repeat. Solos by DD Dorvillier’s Colleagues at St. Mark’s Church 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z “More recently, Marvel, in print, movies and television adaptations, has tried to make inclusiveness a central aspect of fan culture and corporate practice. ‘Spider-Verse’ accomplishes this without awkwardness, preening or preaching.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Gotham’ and ‘Shrek Forever After’ 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Then Rick showed up and, after a little – ahem! – awkwardness, Shane stepped aside and Lori and Rick renewed their nuptial arrangements. The Walking Dead: season seven, episode four – Service 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Living through middle school means surviving what feels like eons of awkwardness and confusion imprinting themselves on your body and soul. "PEN15" returns for another swim into the messiness of seventh grade 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z I’m sorry for your embarrassment and the occasional awkwardness for camp counselors and schoolteachers. Can’t You Be a Little Nicer, for the Kids? 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z But it was only when they went to a talk about the Underground Railroad, at Independence National Historical Park, that they found in the speaker’s awkwardness something they could latch onto. Playing a ‘Game’ to Reveal Uncomfortable Truths About Race 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Pile all that on top of a general cultural awkwardness around the mechanics of sex, and it’s clear why sex scenes have been, in general, talked about very little before they’re filmed. How HBO is changing sex scenes forever 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z This endearing awkwardness has been present in all the international repertory the company has brought to the Joyce. Two Ways of Looking at Cuba’s Modern Dance Problem 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Fortunately I didn’t have the chronic disease of social awkwardness or obnoxiousness that a lot of super religious kids suffer from, so my peers weren’t particularly bothered by my lifestyle choices. Why Amber Rose’s Slutwalk Was For Everyone — Even Prudes 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Some filmmakers bring family members or colleagues to the suite with them, which provides an opportunity for both awkwardness and generosity. The Hottest Puffer in Sundance 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z And Clark is heavily favored for her mind-bending star turn in “Kimberly Akimbo,” in which the 63-year-old actress plays an ailing adolescent with all the awkwardness, resilience and premature wisdom that such a role requires. Tony Predictions: Expect Wins for ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ and ‘Leopoldstadt’ 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Can the awkwardness of modern dating be escaped by moving one step further into the virtual? From teledildonics to interactive porn: the future of sex in a digital age 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z He says whatever he thinks will smooth over the awkwardness he’s feeling. What Can I Do About My Lying Twin? 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z When Mr. Feig was 12, she took him to see Robert Altman’s “Nashville,” which resulted in some awkwardness when a nude scene came up. ‘The After Party’ and ‘Baahubali’: Hip-hop Dreams and Indian Fantasy From Netflix 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Her comedy reassures us that awkwardness, humiliation, bad judgment and saying dumb things you didn’t really mean to are qualities that unite us all. Issa Rae: from Awkward Black Girl to HBO star 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Think of poor Mr Bingley trying to overcome the insane awkwardness of proposing to Jane Bennet while her sisters and mother wait pressed to the door in the next room. Sense and social distancing: 'Lockdown has given me a newfound affinity with Jane Austen's heroines' | Josephine Tovey 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Identifies with, too – not just the music, but the malaise and the awkwardness. TV review: The City with Too Many People and Chopin: The Women Behind the Music 2010-10-15T21:15:00Z The images in the artist’s film are bold; his drawings crabbed and recessive, retreating into their frames as if trying to hide a formal tentativeness or awkwardness. Art Review: ‘Subliming Vessel,’ Drawings of Matthew Barney, at Morgan 2013-05-09T21:05:25Z In essence, it placed a teenager named Liz Lee at the center of a dramedy about her life, starring her friends and enemies, capturing real-world awkwardness and tenderness with a satisfying Hollywood sheen. Television in Review: ?Women, War & Peace? on PBS - Review?Chelsea Settles,? an MTV Reality Show - Review?Reed Between the Lines? on BET - Review 2011-10-10T23:24:44Z This only heightens the awkwardness of how tepid the series is. “Case Closed,” Reviewed: Do We Really Want a True-Crime Podcast With Answers? 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z I wandered the campus cafeteria solo and sat down steeped in the awkwardness of a sort of self-imposed, public solitary confinement. Can "stanning” be a form of recovery? Healing and trauma in fandom communities 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z The poem itself is a cracker, with none of the awkwardness of phrasing or overenthusiastic mysticism that can sometimes mar his work. Poster poems: July 2012-07-13T15:49:08Z At the Grammys, the British pop singer and songwriter gave us a glimpse of the other side — glitter, flashing lights, throbbing bass lines, people dusting off ’70s dance moves, slight awkwardness. The Best and Worst of the 2021 Grammy Awards 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z With a daily pill people could now banish social awkwardness or the unhappiness of relationship break-ups, forge brassily assertive personae from their once shy selves. Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z His prose is uninteresting on a micro level, and is frequently acute in its awkwardness. Books of The Times: ‘Complete Short Stories of James Purdy,’ Literary Outsider 2013-07-18T19:56:21Z The discovery that he had Asperger’s syndrome brought some relief; it meant that many of these traits — the rigidity, the need for sameness, the social awkwardness — had a physiological cause. Dear David’s Wife, Can You Diagnose My Husband, Too? 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z There was surprisingly little awkwardness about who was supposed to move to which location; the flow of the performance, both musically and dramatically, was remarkably smooth. All the stars align for a stirring St. Matthew Passion at SSO 2014-02-22T20:45:27Z The show debuted last year to positive reviews but still displayed some freshman awkwardness. Review: The Euphoria of ‘One Day at a Time’ 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Ineptitude abounds, both in concept and in practice, as “Intelligence” aims for an “Office”-like atmosphere of bumbling awkwardness and bad manners. Review | Peacock arrives with a big archive and a few new shows (‘Brave New World’) that aren’t much to strut about 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z We were talking before we went live about the naked lady spa, maybe the awkwardness of taking my daughter with her friends. Andrea Savage on "I'm Sorry" season 2: "Your whole life turns to s**t when your kid learns to read" 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z After a decade of awkwardness, right or wrong seems beside the point, no? 2010-02-06T05:20:00Z “It was perfect for creating that social awkwardness.” Arts & Leisure: Emma Watson?s Personal Journey to the Suburbs From Hogwarts 2011-10-05T12:00:00Z Last year the tourist board launched “Iceland Academy”, which consisted of a series of videos advising on issues such as “how to avoid hot-tub awkwardness”. The hardest karaoke song in the world: Iceland launches new tourism campaign 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z While the show occasionally drifts into forced awkwardness, those moments barely dim the show’s bright ease. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z It was incredible the amount of awkwardness that went into it – I'm kind of into that because it's such a unique social state to watch someone be publicly terrible. Kooky queen of comedy 2011-07-16T23:06:31Z The show mimics dating’s emotional roller coaster, careening from the excruciating awkwardness of a real first date to the quiet heartache of Ms. Silenzi’s latest breakup. The Best New Podcasts of 2016 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z There’s still more awkwardness in being pregnant, and you really didn’t get to see the baby bump at all. Elisha Cuthbert Loves the Lesbian Jokes in 'One Big Happy' 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Balancing the mechanicals’ scenes are the ones focusing on the foursome of mismatched young lovers, whose antics have a youthful mix of eagerness and awkwardness. Review: A ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ That’s More Speedy Than Dreamy 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Both Darwins have a nice awkwardness and a weirdness about them. Canoe Man and Who Needs Fathers? | TV review 2010-04-01T05:45:00Z “Sweet and Sad,” which is richer and deeper than “Hopey Changey,” is suffused with the awkwardness of people tiptoeing around dangerous subjects, both personal and political. | 'Sweet and Sad': ?Sweet and Sad,? by Richard Nelson at Public Theater - Review 2011-09-12T22:30:35Z "It takes awkwardness to another level," he laughs. New Girl: move over Jess, Schmidt is the real star 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z But here, she's handed a limiting palette mainly consisting of frustration, anxiety and awkwardness, with few opportunities for humanizing introspection. "Inventing Anna" takes a good story, imprisons it in unnecessary excess and robs of us our time 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z Despite the initial awkwardness, she felt at ease with Thomas as the evening progressed. Naomi Eskin & Thomas Heckroth: An ‘unsubtle’ happy hour set-up leads to love 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z His opening shows that he isn’t one of the rare choreographers who can authoritatively handle the awkwardness of dancing in silence before the music starts. Dance Review: Underworld Notes, in the Homeric Sense 2014-02-02T22:31:20Z In the much smaller line to pick up preordered tickets, I can still picture them laughing at nothing to mitigate the awkwardness. Now we are three: me, my daughter and my new fiancee 2013-07-20T08:00:00Z A collage of found and original video, it mapped the psychology of Black-white relations in America today — the brutality, awkwardness and sometimes care. At His Moment of Triumph, Arthur Jafa Is Looking for Trouble 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z What rang strangest was its awkwardness, the sense that only Mr. Stanko knew what he was going for, and how to get there. Music Review: The Tomasz Stanko Quintet Performs at Birdland 2010-04-14T21:27:00Z Around 9, Ingrid started getting tired and was thankful to avoid the awkwardness of saying goodbye in person. Date Lab: He was looking for a ‘thin’ and ‘mildly submissive’ woman 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Race, I suggest, adds an extra layer of awkwardness to that Larry David social minefield. Issa Rae: from Awkward Black Girl to HBO star 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Yet while the reunion works on an expository level, its awkwardness extends to the filmmaking. | 'Roadie': ?Roadie,? Directed by Michael Cuesta - Review 2012-01-05T23:25:13Z Small and stagy and claustrophobic, “Shining Moon” is visually rough yet oddly enticing in its experimental awkwardness. Review: In ‘Shining Moon,’ Two Gay Chilean Actors Confront the Past 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z “It’s a big change in your life when you start making the journey inward,” he said, the hint of a smile covering his awkwardness at explaining an Eastern concept to a Western journalist. Review of Martin Scorsese's George Harrison documentary 2011-10-17T18:00:00Z My doctor was explaining, with some awkwardness, the procedure I was soon to undergo. 'I had to adjust to life with a different penis' – the pain and positives of an elective circumcision 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z To commemorate Phoenix’s awkwardness, here are some other wonderfully derailed press tours from days gone by. Next question: rewatching the most awkward movie press tours 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z This adds up to awkwardness, sure, but how you cope is up to you. Carolyn Hax: Grandpa-to-be’s decision to start a new family upsets daughter A bit too methodically, Hunter introduces three of Will’s new co-workers, and here the play, though slightly revised since 2010, begins to betray some early-career awkwardness. Review: Rude T-Shirts and Rude Awakenings in ‘A Bright New Boise’ 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z To add to the awkwardness, Rae is half an hour late and the room turns out to be locked. Issa Rae: from Awkward Black Girl to HBO star 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z And for sheer social awkwardness, it’s hard to beat finally seeing those people you never liked in high school but for some reason are friends with online. Social Media Reduce Allure of High School Reunions 2011-12-16T23:08:52Z My appreciation for Lady Gaga’s act is simple: I like her insistent awkwardness. Lady Gaga Doesn't Preach, Exactly 2010-06-10T17:36:00Z Sure enough, it’s about someone who works in the Industry, another in a string of inward-focused TV shows about awkwardness and professional pitfalls as experienced in a particular swath of L.A. Pamela Adlon goes on to ‘Better Things,’ while Tig Notaro revisits the same old thing 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z For them, as for everybody, comedy is a celebration, a protest, an escape from awkwardness and loneliness. Judd Apatow’s Guidebook for Comedy Geeks 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z We're made to experience the awkwardness our central couple feels as they witness another marriage rupturing in their presence. HBO's anguished "Scenes From a Marriage" is so potent, your own relationship better be rock solid 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z So for all its nuanced awkwardness, I am a proud fan of Girls, something all the harsh criticism of the show cannot change in me. Girls season two premiere review: 'These people are not meant to be loved' 2013-01-14T16:19:00Z How can we maintain a scrupulous fidelity to an intentionally haphazard text, when it’s so hard to distinguish the author’s deliberate awkwardness from awkwardness introduced by our own honest mistakes? The lost art of memorizing poetry 2014-04-27T00:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement The greatest risk anyone seems to face, and the most reliable source of laughter for about an hour, is the awkwardness that arises when unspoken boundaries are transgressed. Review: In ‘Nasty Baby,’ Friends Decide to Start a Family. What Could Go Wrong? 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Pete has the arrogance as well as the awkwardness of his youth, and Mr. Steggert finds exact emotional shades in both his character’s painful self-consciousness and fatuous confidence. | 'The Grand Manner': Kate Burton in A. E. Gurney?s Comedy at Lincoln Center 2010-06-28T02:12:00Z "It was a wise choice that Helen and I didn't pal up and have dinner and get to know each other, so that awkwardness, unfamiliarity, nervousness, is all real." Actor John Hawkes: A familiar face to reluctant fame 2012-10-18T21:02:38Z I just think that if he knew the real me, he would like me because we got along last year — before all the awkwardness happened. Perspective | Ask Amy: Woman must reset her dorkometer for dating success 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z To me, the smell of high school, the smell of nervousness, awkwardness, acne, hormones, the smell of being a teenager is all wrapped up in the smell of eucalyptus. Personal Journeys: Revisiting Mexican Flavors in a California Surf Town 2012-09-28T18:17:38Z I will never regret interviewing family, regardless of the awkwardness of the ask, which is less awkward if you ask everyone! Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Octogenarian mom resists recording her voice for posterity 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z His asks are gentle but direct, with only a shadow of the awkwardness that comes with pushing a famous and famously private person in an uncomfortable direction. In a New Documentary, Janet Jackson Is Hiding in Plain Sight 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z His scenes of social awkwardness aren't original, but his depth of feeling, alongside his curious brand of spacey, slacker angst, renews the comedy. Daniel Simonsen – review 2013-01-30T18:52:00Z Philips – wheezing, squeaking Philips, with the hair of a court jester and the physical awkwardness of an embarrassed child – is still going, and strongly. Emo Philips 2010-08-12T15:48:00Z And that, in a nutshell, describes the excruciating awkwardness of their romantic lives. ‘Silicon Valley’ Season 3 Episode 6: Spaces vs. Tabs 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z The narrator speaks of her existential depression and her awkwardness as a teacher, “my uncertainty, my unimpressive exterior, my lack of training, my lack of confidence and command.” Books of The Times: Lydia Davis’s ‘Can’t and Won’t’ 2014-04-01T19:40:25Z Beyond some lightly comic meet-the-parents awkwardness seen in a Thanksgiving Day flashback, the members of the extended Hines clan welcome their new in-law to the family — some politely if uncomfortably, some with relaxed warmth. | 'In the Family': ?In the Family,? From Patrick Wang - Review 2011-11-04T00:09:36Z Skeletal, almost pigeon-toed in its awkwardness, it looks unassuming, but in 2006 its introduction was a design achievement. Furniture Design’s Brave New Present 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z In several moments, a quiet awkwardness fell over the room, as when he noted that the Globes didn’t “have a single Black member until George Floyd died.” Tarnished Golden Globes Return to TV, and Hollywood Plays Along 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z His return was subdued in every sense — he didn’t tease the concerts with any new material, and there was an endearing awkwardness to his stage presence — but the audience respected that. The Enduring Appeal of Magical Mystery Musicians 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Just be ready for rejection, and brave enough to withstand awkwardness while the friendship absorbs the truth. Carolyn Hax: Getting a relationship on his calendar But it is also true for neurological traits like introversion or personality traits like social awkwardness or “nerdiness.” Teach girls to embrace their inner nerd: Making Silicon Valley look less dorky won’t solve its gender problem 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Both characters were embarrassed, and ABC said the scene was intended to show the awkwardness between a child and his father's new romantic partner. Court drops ABC fine over nudity in NYPD Blue 2011-01-04T20:54:05Z He's not a bad actor, comparatively speaking, but the occasional awkwardness of his delivery and the sound of his soft Brooklyn lisp are certainly exploited for comic effect. Animated and quirky 'Mike Tyson Mysteries' on Adult Swim 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z Both wound up approaching the maitre d’ at the same moment, then laughed about all the awkwardness. Date Lab: She held up her end of the conversation. And his. 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z These younger companies embrace awkwardness and even amateurishness to emphasize the separation between performers and performance. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Defying Expectations Off Broadway 2013-01-24T17:37:58Z This charming, surreal story, translated by Ted Goossen, reads smoothly and is without the scattered awkwardness of Philip Gabriel’s translation of “Colorless Tsukuru.” Book review: ‘The Strange Library,’ by Haruki Murakami 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z My friend and I were careful to acknowledge and thank the hotels for these flourishes, and each time our awkwardness was reflected back on us tenfold by our hosts. How I Lost the Fiancé but Won the Honeymoon 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Akashi takes candles seriously as an art form, capturing in microcosm something of the goofy awkwardness and excess of bodies, which are, like candles, always burning down. In L.A. galleries now: A celebration of black women, a cheeky take on living with disability 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Alas, the awkwardness averted there crops up just about everywhere else. Illstyle and Peace’s ‘IMpossible IZZpossible’ at BAM Fisher 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z He’s been the subject of several needling memes, the internet’s tool of casual disrespect, making him an avatar of befuddlement or physical awkwardness. Hip-Hop Is Evolving. Just Ask Its Superstars. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z It deliberately reveals awkwardness along with righteousness; it’s also, very self-consciously, the next step in a career. The Playlist: Drake Preps for a Return, and 12 More New Songs 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Her awkwardness is at least partly attributable to her troubled childhood, which Shyamalan dramatizes in flashback with reasonable effectiveness. Split Review: Shyamalan's New Thriller Is Insanely Watchable 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Is there a gracious response that would avoid awkwardness? My Ex Risked Our Daughter’s Health for … a Photo Op? 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z And in his posture resides an entire history of national racial awkwardness: He has to mind his composure even as she’s losing her mind. Why Do the Oscars Keep Falling for Racial Reconciliation Fantasies? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Tom: There was no awkwardness like when you meet someone you haven’t met before. A new one on Date Lab: He didn’t sign up — his co-workers applied for him 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Further, Louis CK himself has been relatively open about his awkwardness and personal issues. Louis C.K. Is Accused by 5 Women of Sexual Misconduct 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The outing is awkward, but nuanced and complex in its awkwardness. The Music and the Mirror 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z A decade on, its mark remains in sitcoms that major on the humour of awkwardness. The Office ? still doing the business 2011-07-08T10:12:30Z But many of the negative reactions stem from ignorance or awkwardness around disability – or simply unfamiliarity with even speaking to a disabled person. Disabled dating on Tinder: ‘People ask if I can have sex’ 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z He lets you hear the innate sound of his instrument, using classic jazz-guitar tone with dynamics and a searching quality to his improvising that risks awkwardness. New Music From the Rotem Sivan Trio and Anna Webber 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z And that she was the source of the awkwardness. Holiday office parties: So very merry. And awkward. 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The enjoyment of awkwardness allows the possibility of actually identifying with those that social orders seek to exclude. The bond of the awkward 2010-12-31T17:30:00Z Just as often, the novel captures the awkwardness and alienation of being in a new country—particularly of being a German in a new country. A New Translation of an Anti-Heroic German Doorstopper of 1968 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z But Carson saw Trump’s pause as a deliberate gesture to ease his awkwardness. Is Ben Carson the worst or the best surrogate of all time? Yes. 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z His attempts to consummate their marriage are excruciatingly inept; it is slapstick, of a sort, shot through with painful awkwardness. Hunderby: why this Julia Davis comedy is worth watching 2013-01-14T10:00:00Z A specific kind of awkwardness ensues: these are men who make million-dollar decisions without hesitation, but who struggle mightily with pleasantries. How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z And then there’s the awkwardness of dealing with the lingerie fitter, no matter how well-intentioned. Bra-shopping has become bra-shaming 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z “It gave me hope,” said Fran Lebowitz, the acerbic Manhattan literary gadfly, on the terrace about three hours after that historic showbiz catastrophe, as the A-list drank away the searing awkwardness. Tell us what happened, Faye Dunaway! At the most elite Oscars party, A-listers had one question. 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Your mom knows about Stella’s groove, and so I would imagine that this acceptance would override any extreme family awkwardness. Perspective | Ask Amy: ‘Stella’s’ groove brings out the family creep 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z Or at least, someone who heightens existing awkwardness with really good cutting. Awkward Jeb vines are the best: How the clumsy #JebNoFilter pandering of “I’m black and I’m proud” becomes comedy gold 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z But then the evening lengthened, and the band played on, the steaks were served with another round of red, and gradually the awkwardness diminished. An Entrance to High Society Courtesy of a Doppelgänger 2014-02-14T20:38:53Z No, I think we managed to avoid too much awkwardness given the strange situation. Blind date: 'I hoped the video wouldn’t freeze while I shoved in pizza' 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z A measure of its awkwardness: “And what kind of name is that?” Theater Review: ‘Don’t Go Gentle,’ by Stephen Belber, at Lucille Lortel 2012-10-15T02:00:00Z Not to mention the awkwardness of asking black models to display their facial profiles, name their spirit animals and dance on command. Gucci’s Diversity Drag 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Social awkwardness also pervades Submarine as Oliver Tate and his girlfriend Jordana explore their feeling for each other. Ayoade takes helm in Submarine 2011-03-15T08:38:48Z Strahan says goodbye to his daytime talk show with Kelly Ripa on Friday, May 13, 2016, an exit accelerated by awkwardness surrounding the announcement of his new job at "Good Morning America." Michael Strahan co-hosts his final daytime talk show with Kelly Ripa on Friday 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z The process for making the Vain German portraits allowed for a sense of ugliness or awkwardness as well. In Her Last Works, Kaari Upson Explores Vanity and Decay 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z If he senses that there’s a “small amount of awkwardness” in the exchange, he uses “hehehe” to dissolve it or to inoculate both parties against it. Hahaha vs. Hehehe 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z It was the night’s sole moment of awkwardness. She was just glad that he showed up for their date 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Instead, it’s growing cult audience revels in its occasionally stifling atmosphere of sour awkwardness and perplexity. Nathan For You: finding the comedy in awkward commercialism 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z He relates the familiar story of the awkwardness of watching sex scenes in movies with your parents, but from the parents’ perspective, which, turns out, isn’t any more fun. ‘Trainwreck Comedy Tour’ Is Amy Schumer’s Thing 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Like Robyn's song, the record seems driven by the awkwardness of not growing up totally. Tom Ewing 2010-08-05T21:29:00Z No more “you have the top scores,” just individuals stepping forward to plead their cases, leading to awkwardness but not dramatic tension. ‘Making the Cut’ Is New, but the Pattern Is Familiar 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z What Carlile describes as awkwardness was also an inability of other people to see her for who she is. Brandi Carlile Has Always Seen Herself Clearly. Now It’s Our Turn. 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Her interlacing, overlapping forms, for the most part organized in grids and other quadrilateral arrangements, balance with distinctive awkwardness between organic and geometric, their boisterous scale held in check by taut layering. Art in Review: MARGRIT LEWCZUK: ?Art Work? 2010-12-02T22:13:00Z In Paul Thomas Anderson’s coming-of-age romance, a child performer who has hit maximum adolescent awkwardness is aging out of his professional niche. At the Oscar Nominees Luncheon: Glamour, Griping and Gluten-Free Meals 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z She’s lucid without any attempt at polish: awkwardness — rawness — plays its part. Review: The Humanity of Yvonne Rainer’s Natural and Peculiar Dances 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z But I could see that was mostly from my awkwardness at being hired for a job I didn’t fully understand, and my worries about letting people down. 'I was definitely a bit of a tool': Louis Theroux on 25 years of documentary-making 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z They all sing pleasantly, recite their lines clearly and move with graceful awkwardness when the show requires it. ‘Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice’ Review: Four on a Mattress, With Songs 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z But in his youth he was given to politically combative music-theater of a kind so brutal that it caused nights of grinding awkwardness in concert halls and opera houses. Peter Maxwell Davies?s New Opera, ?Kommilitonen!? 2011-11-12T22:15:07Z If you had one person in the room and then a few months later another person in the room, and you were cutting the different audio together you would never get that sort of awkwardness. Q&A with Rango Director Gore Verbinski 2011-03-04T16:50:00Z He was at his worst when faced with the awkwardness of another's disappointment or dissatisfaction. My father, the smoker: John Jeremiah Sullivan book extract 2013-03-02T09:00:00Z Instead of capitulating to the awkwardness of the situation, Mr. Arrowsmith explained that he also graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology and that they knew some of the same people from their time there. A Very Hoya Engagement 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Despite the awkwardness, the pair eventually professes their love for each other at a multi-school Christmas pageant. 22 facts you actually didn’t know about “Love Actually” 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z She is good at capturing the stiffness, the awkwardness. Cassatt portrait of ‘Grandpa’ gets a new home at National Gallery of Art 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z Now Mr. Perrotta is 55, and his children have left home, and “Mrs. Fletcher” reflects his fixation on empty-nest syndrome and the awkwardness of late middle age, which can almost seem like a second adolescence. Tom Perrotta Returns to Familiar Turf: Sex, Schools and Suburbia 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z He’s speaking about how she catches the “physical awkwardness, social infantilism and self-regard” of certain men. Review: David Salle’s ‘How to See,’ a Painter’s Guide to Looking at and Discussing Art 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z The awkwardness is still there, she admits, once we’re inside: “That will never go anywhere. It’s just a matter of finessing that within myself, trying to mask it.” Issa Rae: from Awkward Black Girl to HBO star 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z More importantly, the experience of awkwardness itself is intrinsically social. The bond of the awkward 2010-12-31T17:30:00Z Don’t apologize for your husband, but do acknowledge the awkwardness. Ask Amy: Son turns 21 and throws a party for the ages 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Anonymous: There’s an approach that would save you aggravation, shame, awkwardness, misunderstandings and the toting around of weird-heavy feelings in general, not just for this one issue: saying what you mean. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: We need to talk about money, honey bunny 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z It takes at least four beers afterward to shake off the awkwardness. Hell is my own book tour 2013-01-17T01:00:00Z The Canadian-born computer animation innovator Steve Williams was and remains so overtly brash that he inverts the latter characteristic into the kind of awkwardness that, well, can often get you fired. ‘Jurassic Punk’ Review: Making Digital Dinosaurs Walk 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Attendees were advised — with mixed results — to bravely confront the awkwardness of face-to-face breakups. You Are Here: Teaching Kids How to Break Up Nicely 2011-08-03T18:07:03Z When you went back and watched some of this footage, were you surprised – - at how bad I was? - at the awkwardness of some of these scenes? That's Mr. Danza to You: Tony Danza Goes Back to School for His Reality Show 2010-10-01T13:48:00Z Discomfort, actually, is the chief subject and substance of her work: Her characters slump and stare at their nails, obsess over their social awkwardness, fret over what to do about mysterious smells. New Graphic Novels Detail Personal Journeys and Twists of Fate 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Overwrought effects include Ivania Stack’s aggressively threadbare peasant costumes, and the show’s awkwardness hits its peak when actors strip down to faux-nude leotards with arteries and veins stitched to the fabric. Fable of grief has clipped wings at Theater J 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Over the years Bausch has shown us the world through a set of eyes that twinkled knowingly, all the while exploring elements that make up the human experience: beauty, awkwardness, cruelty, lunacy, humor and despair. Dance Review: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch Performs at BAM 2012-10-20T02:40:07Z Robinson's awkwardness, however, wasn't entirely out of character, and he endowed Arthur with an approachable everyman quality that, while not especially regal, kept the audience on his side. 'Spamalot' a summer treat at Hollywood Bowl 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z An awkwardness falls over the cab until you are gone, and later you will probably say you are sorry. Modern Love: A Life That Can Fracture a Relationship 2013-07-11T22:48:44Z “Carry the Zero” by Christopher Sullivan gets the awkwardness of teenage hookup culture squeamishly right. Theater Review: Laughter and Discomfort in Ensemble Studio’s One-Act Marathon 2013-06-12T20:52:35Z With adulthood, awkwardness has settled between us instead of comfort: a fear of the wrong move, a sense that a false step will shatter the peace. My father, the woman 2012-06-15T23:30:00Z What was the particular profile of my adolescent awkwardness? The awkward years 2011-08-12T22:01:37Z The husband’s “visible awkwardness” is liable to change over time — possibly even soon — but the slap of being excluded by one’s friends from a social event tends to sting for a very long time. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: No little bundle of joy, but a big bundle of woes 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z But Ms. Knight also shows some glaring awkwardness as a writer. Review: In ‘Disclaimer,’ by Renée Knight, Secrets Wind Up in Print 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Believing the absolute best-case-scenario reaction to my being there would be supreme awkwardness, I kept the whole thing to myself. I secretly lived in my office for 500 days 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Its goodwill is so apparent that you could almost forgive its awkwardness. Review: Jesse Owens Biopic 'Race' Fails Before the Finish Line 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z For all its awkwardness, Mr. Daugherty’s book ultimately rekindles great interest in Heller’s work, especially in “Something Happened,” by far his most unflinching novel and perhaps his most influential too. Books of The Times: The Catching of Two Joseph Hellers 2011-07-27T22:06:58Z Here, Mr. Pasek and Mr. Paul have written a winning low-key date song for the couple, finding melodic grace in romantic awkwardness. Theater Review: ‘Dogfight’ at Second Stage Theater 2012-07-17T02:00:00Z Instead, Bug and Frankie’s relationship is laden with mistakes, hurt feelings and awkwardness. A Different Kind of California Dreaming 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z To see older female characters portrayed with depth, authenticity, humor and shades of awkwardness in the ways we are now accustomed to seeing female characters in their teens, 20s and 30s. "And Just Like That": How "Sex and the City" sequel broadens the representation of 50+ women on TV 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z The relationship with Marriott, which vetted every detail from its headquarters in Washington DC, causes awkwardness, as the corporate world seems to have lost its taste for fantasy since the days of the Midland Railway. St Pancras Renaissance Hotel: The rebirth of a gothic masterpiece 2011-02-13T00:05:22Z Before that, though, there is, naturally, initial tension and awkwardness, followed by bonding. | 'With Glee': John Gregor?s Homage to the Musical at Kirk Theater 2010-07-15T22:47:00Z Baratte is also a provincial and a naïf; probably a virgin, to judge from his awkwardness with women; and a bit of a fool. Books of The Times: ‘Pure,’ a New Novel by Andrew Miller 2012-07-03T21:48:27Z That disagreement goes to the heart of the awkwardness that baby boomers are now feeling as they enter the last years of their working lives. Baby boomers are taking on ageism — and losing 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z The original story understands the sad awkwardness between child and father and pities the father’s helplessness, but it is overwritten and overwrought. Lore Segal on Memory as the Artist’s Notebook 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z There’s a lot of awkwardness and cringing, and also a lot of astute observation about what it’s like to be in the middle of what you hope is the worst time of your life. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Yet while they're one way of solving the problem of narration, especially in a one-act ballet, they introduce an element of awkwardness. Royal Ballet mixed bill - review 2010-10-17T20:31:00Z Neel’s embrace of awkwardness was a rebuke to those who would elevate style and coherence over the messiness of human content. Perspective | Alice Neel was the greatest American portraitist of the 20th century. Her work continues to astonish. 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Both sides were eager, but the experience was challenged by awkwardness and inexperience. Adventures in unspoiled Vanuatu, the islands of highs and lows Here, however, Barnes and Clark shaded their strutting with such earnest desperation that the scene became a metaphor for the vulnerability and social awkwardness in all of us. Review | Cheap wine and cheese puffs are only the beginning of this ‘Happy Hour’ 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z And sure enough, Zuckerberg showed up last night and awkwardness followed. Will the real Mark Zuckerberg please stand up? 2011-01-30T22:01:04Z His nosing around leads to an awkwardness with management and his being locked into a pressure chamber. ‘Pioneer,’ a Norwegian Oil Thriller 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Still, despite the growing acceptance of sex before marriage, the data suggests that there might still be a different kind of awkwardness in the cross-generational sex talks. Your Parents Probably Had More Sex Than You're Having 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Yet the awkwardness of it all was good camp. Deontay Wilder’s Costume Was Heavyweight Camp 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z It is tempting to view awkwardness as the fault of particularly graceless individuals, but it is a fundamentally social phenomenon. The bond of the awkward 2010-12-31T17:30:00Z I learned to dodge it, and when I couldn’t, to spin artful answers to cover up the awkwardness it might provoke. That awkward conversation about my stripping 2014-03-04T00:00:00Z “It’s theater of awkwardness,” Mr. Gold said in an interview between preview performances of “Tigers Be Still,” which opens Wednesday as part of the Roundabout Underground series devoted to emerging writers. Awkwardness as the Avenue to Success 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z But they powered through the awkwardness, and Ebony says the experience opened up “another lane for our relationship.” How legal weed turned Thanksgiving into a high holiday 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Or we’d learn at the very least that this is the awkwardness that passes for seduction in the dorkiest Zip codes of the land. Perspective | Talking honestly about Peter Strzok’s affair would have saved that whole bonkers hearing 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Erivo pointed to the “odd combination of things in her character” as what made Holly most alluring — her perceptiveness but also her persuasiveness, even her awkwardness. ‘The Outsider’ Brings a Faceless Terror, and Stephen King, to HBO 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Despite the awkwardness in our relationship, we kept seeing each other. “Sun Dogs” 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Monica also acts as the show’s relatable, well-functioning straight woman; in a comedy whose currency is social awkwardness, she gets no laughs. 'Silicon Valley' Season 2 Premiere Recap: Datageddon 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Independent cinema — American and foreign, mumblecore and neo-neo-realist — has been refreshed by the awkwardness and honesty that often characterize unschooled performances. Film: Midwinter Ritual: When Good Actor Meets Bad Movie 2011-02-19T03:43:01Z Although Walker is intelligent and physically tough, he's also a bit of a bumbler, with a dash of Larry David awkwardness. 'Assumption': a trio of gripping crime stories 2011-12-28T21:48:07Z The frequent awkwardness between host and contestants or co-host is unaffected and unintentional, for which Armstrong blames himself. Pointless: Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman on TV's favourite quiz 2013-06-04T16:32:22Z She feels an awkwardness that, she thinks, comes from years of sitting in edit suites scrutinising take after take of television programmes she has created, co-written and starred in. Sharon Horgan: ‘I want adventures. I want to do stuff that's challenging’ 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Chang’s image as a reluctant celebrity is so well established as to feel disingenuous, but there’s no denying the awkwardness and occasional discomfort radiating off the screen in “The Mind of a Chef.” Television: ‘The Mind of a Chef,’ With David Chang on PBS 2012-11-04T16:54:16Z But after a moment of awkwardness when the doors swung open at 7:30 and people staked out seats, the evening grew increasingly festive. At Mozza?s Dinners, a Family Is Born 2010-12-22T08:00:27Z It’s a book that transports any reader to that time and place and deposits you in teen Chuck’s world in all its wonders, awkwardness and glory. Roger Bennett spent his British boyhood fixated on ‘Miami Vice’ and the Chicago Bears — then lived his own American Dream 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z For all of Ms. Dorrance’s growing choreographic skill, it is that expressive awkwardness that remains most compelling. ‘ETM: The Initial Approach,’ Debuts at Jacob’s Pillow 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z In winter they go up to Derby for a funeral, a superbly orchestrated episode, full of awkwardness, anger and uncomfortable silences. Cannes: tales of misery, money markets and Maid Marian 2010-05-15T23:08:00Z Yet whereas awkwardness is often made bearable by comedy, there is nothing funny about the scene. Sex has as much meaning as words: how Normal People handles intimacy 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z It's a lightly sketched portrait of awkwardness and repression at a time when yes, it was the 60s, "but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country". The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes ? review 2011-07-26T16:15:00Z Musically speaking it yielded the occasional awkwardness, usually as a matter of location or materials. Music Review: 30 Bands Perform in Jazz & Colors at Central Park 2012-11-11T22:52:39Z I don't believe they write much by hand normally, though the awkwardness may be down to left-handedness. Beyoncé, Obama, Lady Gaga – what does their handwriting say about them? 2012-10-14T16:59:02Z But there were hurdles to clear, especially in the early minutes of their first date, when their conversation nearly drowned in a pool of awkwardness. A Digital Message in a Bottle Was Waiting For Him 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z The awkwardness of a former president roaming the West Wing without a clear portfolio. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z In which case, we should be prepared to deflate or sidestep any awkwardness that ensues when our ministrations are deemed overeager. Cultural Studies: Social Kissing, Welcome or Not 2012-07-20T20:12:21Z I try to be generous around other people's awkwardness, but as crucial dates approach, I actually need the people in my life to not pretend nothing is happening. Perspective | Child’s illness leaves parent’s friends at a loss 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z In March, Grammy producers avoided the Zoom awkwardness of other awards shows and staged performances by some of the industry’s biggest stars — to no avail. Will the Oscars be a `who cares’ moment as ratings dive? 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Much more awkwardness will follow, along with some real emotional peril. | 'The Kids Are All Right': Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and the Sperm Donor 2010-07-08T22:10:00Z Although the pandemic has introduced a new level of awkwardness to first dates, for Erin and Ellis, it also offered an icebreaker. Date Lab: They enjoyed a spirited conversation about conspiracy theories 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Last week, members of the cast of “Fantastic Four” dropped by the studio for an interview that rivals Cara Delevingne’s tense tussle with “Good Day Sacramento” on the awkwardness scale. Kate Mara fends off sexist comments in “Fantastic Four” interview: A reminder that being creepy to a woman is not a “compliment” 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z He is commanding in his awkwardness; he presides over the family and the portrait from a place slightly outside it. Fatherhood Apart 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Comedies of awkwardness – from Rushmore to The Office to Curb Your Enthusiasm – couldn't exist without Hoffman's performance. Was Stephen King right to hate Stanley Kubrick's Shining? 2013-04-06T07:03:01Z He fears his father’s awkwardness means he doesn’t love him anymore. An Homage to Black Boyhood From the Creator of Tristan Strong 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z That awkwardness has grown out of a long history of English gender segregation. How England Made the English by Harry Mount - review 2012-05-18T21:55:01Z But Villanelle is not going to care, even to notice her awkwardness, which Comer plays to perfection. Manic pixie death girl: “Killing Eve” and the adorable assassin 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Both characters were embarrassed and ABC said the scene was intended to show the awkwardness between a child and his father's new romantic partner. Court tosses ABC indecency fine over NYPD Blue 2011-01-04T17:20:14Z In her new book Cringeworthy: How to Make the Most of Uncomfortable Situations, Melissa Dahl explores our experience of awkwardness, drawing on cringe comedy to do so. From the King of Comedy to People Just Do Nothing: why the 'cringe com' reigns 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Or another where I spent my 10th birthday at a party surrounded by all my friends and family without any tension or awkwardness. My Two-House, Duffel-Bag Life 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z My daughter, Lizzie, recently started seventh grade and I see my old social awkwardness reflected in her. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z Boyle, who at her best possesses a poised reserve when she sings, just as often conveys the awkwardness and flat-out discomfort of someone for whom all this attention is a difficult thing to bear. Susan Boyle's awkward, cringe-inducing stardom 2010-12-01T16:02:00Z There was an awkwardness to him, these people said. The Price of Privilege 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z The comedy of miserableness, awkwardness and meandering conversation is pretty familiar, but there are lines that pop in each episode of “Single Long.” Watch List: ‘Brody Stevens: Enjoy It!’ and Others on HBO Go 2012-09-30T21:36:54Z Like Lane, I have to constantly navigate the awkwardness at gatherings with my extended family, where I stick out like a sore thumb as the most westernised member of the tribe. Token ethnic friends: how pop culture taught me I was support, not the lead | Zoya Patel 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z These gestures seem to be creating a lot of awkwardness, and so you should quietly stop. Ask Amy: Awkward family business leads to passive aggression 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Because I'm not an actual teenager, every aspect of the performance is quite deliberate and intentional rather than us just capturing the actual awkwardness of a teen actor. Nasim Pedrad finds her inner boy as "Chad": "It’s such a universal notion to just want to belong" 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z It required a lot less of me, an introvert, than the first-date-like awkwardness. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Toddler’s mom is having trouble setting her own play dates 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z If the bond of awkwardness is more intense than a social encounter mediated by social norms, it also holds the potential to be more meaningful and enjoyable. The bond of the awkward 2010-12-31T17:30:00Z This has caused significant awkwardness in my friendship with my former lover. Social Q’s: On the Amend 2014-01-23T20:48:57Z It takes a few agonizing moments for Reyeb to die, perhaps because of Malik’s awkwardness, or maybe it just takes a while to bleed to death. Movie Review | 'A Prophet': Learning to Read, Murder, Survive 2010-02-25T23:22:00Z But the chemistry is just right between Allen and Turturro, who immediately register as best friends for life, and between Stone and Turturro, whose mutual awkwardness gives way to a goofy form of passion. ‘Fading Gigolo’: Charmer borrows Woody Allen formula 2014-05-08T19:40:00Z Despite the awkwardness of the sex scene, it did feel like an active choice from Arya. Arya Stark is how old now? Why her "Game of Thrones" scene with Gendry is so controversial 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z He added: “The setup of the chamber was constructed to maximize the discomfort and awkwardness of strong disagreements. The building reminded leaders of democratic ideals and fostered tough debate.” Clock Ticks for Paul Rudolph’s Orange County Government Center 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z There's something to appreciate in what King and the writers are trying to accomplish in these introductions and Miranda and Charlotte's anxious awkwardness in the presence of people who aren't them. Like Samantha, divorce yourself from the "Sex in the City" sequel, which has aged but hasn't matured 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z There were weak glimpses of this on Friday in endearing awkwardness and odd-couple rapport. Review: In ‘Ballet (New York),’ Nondancers Try Their Jetés 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Epithemiou's trademark social awkwardness and tendency to lose interest in what his guests are talking about make him the perfect host, while sidekick Gupta adds to the chaos. TV highlights 13/07/2012 2012-07-12T18:59:01Z The night I saw it, there was zero awkwardness — just a mass of people moving joyfully in their bodies, under that giant leaf. ‘Cannabis!’ Review: Preaching to the Partaking Choir 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z At 20, she wore her hair in a mullet and dressed "in neon that hugs in all the wrong places," turning her awkwardness and misery into self-display, and then that self-display into art. Lena Dunham and Laurie Penny rewrite womanhood for the 21st century 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z No longer will Emily be the nerdy schoolgirl plagued by nervous perspiration, exclusion from the cool crowd and awkwardness with boys! Mamie Gummer finds stardom as 'Emily Owens, M.D.' 2012-10-15T13:01:10Z It’s not the smoothest cross-pollination, but the awkwardness itself is interesting. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Bones’ and ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Cross-Pollinate 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z And, because they were already friends, they were able to skip all the awkwardness and tension typical of a budding relationship and “get straight to the good stuff,” she adds. Perspective | Till death do us part: A voodoo-themed wedding celebration at Congressional Cemetery 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Yet the performance also highlights the limits of her physical comedy—she plays an awkward character with an awkwardness that seems forced. Life as an Infomercial 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z In the best of times, many people don’t seem to understand how to respond to loss; this awkwardness has been amplified by the daily heartbreaking reminders of the pandemic’s toll. Perspective | Ask Amy: Adopted sister keeps birth family a secret 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z The twelve new episodes are slightly snappier than earlier ones, which sometimes allowed silences to speak of easy companionship or productive awkwardness. “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” and Jerry Seinfeld’s Identical Layers 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z It sometimes produces — how do I say this? — weirdness and awkwardness. Anne Hathaway Dares You Not to Look Away 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Intuition, rather than technique, was their guiding compositional process; melody was king, and awkwardness a sign of authenticity. The Story of ‘the Most Underrated Composer in History’ 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z These stories of pragmatism, awkwardness and foiled plans were more enchanting than any viral YouTube proposal — at least according to my warped sensibility. Will you marry me — once you’re done peeing? 2013-05-19T01:00:00Z An intern from a nearby radio station wanders over on in his cigarette break, watches the awkwardness unfold. Love, Belle and Sebastian-style: Laura Barton interviews the indie heroes 2010-09-30T21:45:00Z She argues that whatever awkwardness that creates is outweighed by the protections it would afford both men and women — protections that could ultimately be used in court. A Post-Cosby-Trial Question: Is the System Stacked Against Women? 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z “It’s taking away the awkwardness of that clunky exchange,” Ms. Benz said. A Curator of the Montauk Summer Scene 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z The realistic awkwardness of the situation is equally apparent: Empathizing, you long for a tension defuser. Review | GALA’s ‘Exquisita Agonia’ pours its heart out 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z But I can’t think of a way to bring it up without extreme awkwardness. Social Q?s: Social Q?s: What?s in a Baby?s Name? Lots, if You Talk About It Ahead of Time 2010-06-03T21:43:00Z Mr. Kerwin captures with fine precision the awkwardness of male middle age today, and its surprising correspondences with the antsy teenage years. | 'Graceland': Grieving as an Odd Family Affair, From LCT3 2010-05-18T04:59:00Z There is no agreed-upon convention, but even if there were, the awkwardness of such exchanges almost guarantees some period of fumbling. Perspective | Miss Manners: Signaling ‘you’ve got something on your face’ 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Greer is brilliantly funny about the awkwardness that awaits a traveling writer of less repute. Do we really need another novel about a novelist? Yes — this one is delightful. 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Bryan Cranston dropped by for some chitchat last weekend, but Moore’s awkwardness prevented the conversation from going anywhere. Lost on Broadway: Michael Moore's 'The Terms of My Surrender' is a well-meaning misfire 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z I love bodily functions, I love awkwardness, I love yearning, and body language and bodies. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Eat Only When You’re Hungry’ 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Shaking off any residual British awkwardness is the key to pulling off a mask in any style. ‘Remember to smile with your eyes’: how to stay safe and look great in a face mask 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z To bring these worlds together may not be entirely natural for Ms. Velez-Jackson, and admirably, she doesn’t hide the awkwardness of this endeavor. Review: The Footwear Follies of ‘Zapatografía/Shoegraphy’ 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z On Sunday afternoon at Alice Tully Hall, the soprano Christine Brewer addressed the awkwardness head-on when she turned to the audience members at “Prayer” and, in a genial tone, encouraged them to relax. Review: Christine Brewer in ‘Prayer,’ at Alice Tully Hall 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z They coexist in intervals of varying awkwardness until the last line, when they sing strikingly in unison, “as one.” ‘As One’ Has Its Premiere in Brooklyn 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z “I think the operative thing here is awkwardness,” Dean said to the actors. Donald Barthelme’s “Snow White” Finally Comes to the Stage 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z While the majority of Sony’s campaign, both in the UK and the US, hasn’t been focused on denying the film’s queerness, the tweet served as a reminder of an awkwardness that lingers in mainstream spaces. Call me by the wrong name: how studios are still trying to straight-wash gay films 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Cara’s second album, “The Pains of Growing,” doubles down on both the sincerity — she wrote all the lyrics — and the awkwardness. Alessia Cara: Young, Gifted and Bummed Out 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Rather than tragic romance, Mr. Clug emphasizes the awkwardness of adolescent attraction. Dance Review: ?Radio and Juliet? at Skirball Center - Review 2011-10-24T22:02:11Z Cringe comedy is all about the painful laughs derived from the awkwardness of social interaction and around people’s lack of self-awareness. Discomfort Zone: 10 Great Cringe Comedies 2013-05-13T09:45:13Z Lighten up to defuse some of the awkwardness. Ask Amy: Boyfriend is insecure about girlfriend’s past 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Again and again, they found, senders assumed their words would trigger less happiness and more awkwardness than they really did – and that recipients would judge their letter-writing competence harshly, too. Why it’s OK to send restaurant food back 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z After winning the award, “his awkwardness lessened and he was less shy,” Evan Kleiman, the chef and radio host, and one of Gold’s close friends, said when I spoke to her shortly after his death. What Jonathan Gold Meant for Food Writing 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z It’s not any other Friday night for him, but an adventure he’s determined to take, pressing beyond his home in Jackson Heights and beyond the sexual inexperience and social awkwardness that stifles him. ‘The Night Of’ Series Premiere: Fate at the Wheel 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z Over the years, Sheldon’s social awkwardness and off-putting superiority was woven into his friendships and eventual marriage as a matter of mirth, rather than being singled out for maudlin tonal shifts away from comedy. Perspective | So long to ‘The Big Bang Theory,’ which was smart about being dumb about being smart 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z There was no real awkwardness, it was just a nice, casual date. Date Lab: He brought up scandals. She poked him in the face. Then what? 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z That sex is chaotic, mad, perverse, risible, enlivening and inspiring, and that in its awkwardness and self-consciousness there might be more real contact than in the simple following of positions, doesn't occur to the author. Kama Sutra: A Guide to the Art of Pleasure, translated by AND Haskar ? review 2011-03-25T13:00:01Z But as a bulletin from the front lines of social inclusion, “Hi, Are You Single?” is compelling and fresh despite its awkwardness. Review: Seeking a Date but Finding Hypocrisy in ‘Hi, Are You Single?’ 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z Picasso’s blocky nudes of around 1906 respond, clearly enough, to the physical awkwardness and perverse sensuality of Degas’s crouched bathers. Art Review: Who?s the Voyeur Now, Picasso? 2010-08-26T22:37:00Z It's a little reminiscent of the awkwardness of William Blake's visionary figures. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-11T00:15:00Z But the new job falls through, so he’s stuck in the old job, and awkwardness ensues. Review: In ‘Kevin From Work,’ Caricatures Are the Rule 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z She interprets her gestures of self-consciousness and awkwardness as a kind of strategic resistance to the objectification of women. At Bard, Amy Sillman’s Work Comments on the Art World 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z “You’ve been drinking club soda,” an effortlessly hip young woman says, busting him, but all she suspects Hao of is awkwardness. ‘Good Enemy’ Review: Finding Second Chances 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Ms. Portman gracefully conveys the awkwardness that an adult who is at once rival, usurper and substitute parent would bring to encounters with such a child. | 'The Other Woman': A Home Wrecker Faces Many Challenges, Too 2011-02-03T23:33:40Z Tinchy chuckled graciously throughout, but there were moments of genuine awkwardness, most clear in the strained smiles of the other panellists. Tinchy Stryder 2010-07-31T23:02:00Z He acquitted himself pretty well with his impish grin and speedy line in social observation, telling a long story about the awkwardness of eating pork in front of his Indian Muslim parents. Aziz Ansari: ‘Being funny is like having a superpower’ 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z After the initial awkwardness, the pair hit it off and soon discovered they had attended rival high schools in Southern Maryland. On Love: Kathy Grannis and Casey Allen 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z And in its own way, it welcomes us into the awkwardness of moving into new social and psychological frontiers through Abby’s experience, in way that makes a viewer want to get to know her better. "The L Word: Generation Q" wants us back, but we'd rather hang with "Work in Progress" 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Just to compound the awkwardness of the scene, Roman later proposes to Gerri. Succession's 10 best moments: from Boar on the Floor to excruciating phone sex 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z Her unpredictable works, unafraid of kitsch, are costume pageants with room for prayer, feats of endurance and bravery that don’t disguise awkwardness and vulnerability. Live Performance in New York: Here’s What to See This Spring 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Presumably Parker learned how to handle child actors here: thanks to Rosenthal's deft and moving script, their awkwardness in a new environment is all too apparent. Your next box set: Jack Rosenthal at the BBC 2011-03-25T08:00:05Z I feel I walk a line between awkwardness and arrogance. 'I am not naturally magnetic': can you learn how to be charismatic? 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z In later productions, like the one at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago last year, Ms. Driscoll adapted the choreography to suit the skill sets of new actors and maintain the right balance of awkwardness. When Straight White Men Dance 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The 38-year veteran of stand-up has always relied on observational humor and the absurdity of social awkwardness to get laughs. Jerry Seinfeld slays them in Seattle with bits on this and that 2014-02-09T00:03:15Z All around the room, people were opening themselves, at the expense of privacy and awkwardness and vulnerability. ‘I’m not just one thing’: At the Human Library, labels and tears are shed as people open up about their life stories 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Turner allows that she watches the show apart from her parents, because the awkwardness of being in the same room with them during her castmates’ sex scenes is too much to bear. Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams Have Grown Up on ‘Game of Thrones’ 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z If there is one thing above all that defines Mr. Munch’s work, it is a disarming sincerity, a willingness to risk awkwardness and even absurdity by taking seriously an outlandish premise. ?Letters From the Big Man,? Starring Lily Rabe 2011-11-04T22:01:54Z Mr. Buress has become a slicker, more mature performer with less of his old awkwardness. Hannibal Buress Evolves From Cult Star to Showman 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z “The Little Mermaid” is a meditation on awkwardness and the outsider experience. Hamburg Ballet’s ‘Little Mermaid’ — adrift in a sea of despair 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z In the play’s final act they attend a party at Harry’s old soccer club, awkward presences at a celebration, and aware of their awkwardness. | 'The Silver Tassie': War Changes a Man, and a Play 2011-07-27T22:15:20Z Both commented on their lack of awkwardness and ease of conversation. Date Lab: He says she’s a catch. But is the feeling mutual? 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z The one time that the movie puts on its deeply serious face is when it addresses race, which it navigates with self-conscious awkwardness culminating in a clunkily handled showdown between Sally and Jennifer. ‘Misbehaviour’ Review: Pretty Women, Some Pretty Angry 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Seesawing with uncanny adeptness between facetiousness and earnestness, she keeps readers slightly off balance as she works her way through moving portraits of vulnerability, awkwardness, resignation and melancholic fortitude. ‘Bark:’ Lorrie Moore casts her eye on modern relationships 2014-04-10T21:14:38Z His Warren moves with a gangly, post-pubescent awkwardness, as though he's still acclimating to his adult body. Three bright performances on Broadway: Nathan Lane, Michael Cera and Alex Sharp 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z But the bad news, for spectators inclined to find entertainment value in that awkwardness, is that “The Bold Type” has nonetheless developed into a thoughtful show. Wearing Its Topicality Lightly, “The Bold Type” Is a Show to Warm a Jaded Heart 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z “Humor is a very common strategy to deal with social awkwardness,” she said. Unmarried Spouses Have a Way With Words 2013-01-04T21:50:17Z At the other extreme are the au-naturels who would just as soon go braless if it wasn’t for this little thing called the office and the awkwardness of erect nipples in cold conference rooms. For the A-Cup Crowd, Minimal Assets Are a Plus 2010-09-01T22:30:00Z The lack of showbiz polish was fully in character for Ms. Nash, a songwriter whose prime subject is the awkwardness of a young woman’s life. Music Review: Counseling Women on Self-Respect Amid Tunes of Punky Rage 2010-11-21T23:04:00Z The awkwardness is the key to the success of the paintings. Fay Jones’ awkwardly magical, mysterious paintings 2013-11-29T15:01:24Z Watch 11 minutes of sheer awkwardness in the comedic bit above. Watch Tom Cruise and Conan O'Brien Awkwardly Drive Around London 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z These portraits of love as an exercise in awkwardness, in which the odds of success are slim, feel of a piece with the sun-starved London I arrived to this month. All Over London, Love Hurts 2011-02-23T10:27:47Z Face the occasional awkwardness with the knowledge that you are not alone. Perspective | Ask Amy: Wife is jealous of husband’s ‘other mother’ 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z So many of us see awkwardness as a static, permanent thing, but people are built to become accustomed to virtually everything, given time. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How to handle awkward feelings for a co-parent 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Anna’s relatively tall stature embellishes the awkwardness of a gawky girl looming over a compactly oafish boy at a school dance. The Giddy Surreality and Emotional Honesty of “PEN15” 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z My recollection is that there are mishearings and misunderstandings, slips and falls into the cracks of disconnection, and general awkwardness. Lorrie Moore has some instructions on how to read her new book 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Betts said she hates awkwardness, and both did their best to avoid it, though Ray admitted that it cropped up during their food selection. Date Lab: ‘He’s the least jaded person I’ve ever met’ 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Q. How did Adam remember his early awkwardness with Eve? Style Invitational Week 1387: Movie clips 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z For me, at least, this gives her scenes with Mr. Radnor — whose rumpled, nonthreatening amiability served him well as a high-school drama coach in the recently canceled television show “Rise” — a distracting awkwardness. Review: In ‘Social Animals,’ Stalled Lives and Sexual Frustrations 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The show was packed with visitors who avoided catching your eye and occasionally made the kind of gentle throat-clearing noise signaling public awkwardness among the polite British middle classes. X-rated Japanese erotica sets throats clearing at UK shows 2013-10-21T14:55:13Z Puberty is something that people associate with awkwardness. Nick Kroll Turned His Embarrassing Puberty Stories into a New Series 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z And, to its great credit, “Black Watch” also hints at the awkwardness of artistic persons around those who serve. 'Black Watch' review: Battles blaze anew 2011-03-31T05:54:14Z Then the camera stays on him for an additional beat, adding a pointed awkwardness and poking fun at this entire enterprise. The Best Half-Hour of Comedy in 2020 Is About … Scaffolding? 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z |
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