awkwardness

There’s a sense of awkwardness and frazzled energy surrounding the crowd.

Because if they are wrong, then this may not be a mere passing awkwardness, but a dispute threatening the most important diplomatic relationship any British prime minister has.

Carol Steinbeck would also help her husband by not only typing the drafts as he wrote them but with “writing the revision, that is, correcting errors and editing for contradictions and awkwardness.”

While Elias did not characterize this as Jewish self-hatred, it certainly bespoke an awkwardness that Cohn felt in his own skin as a Jew.

Any blended family that has found a way — through the awkwardness and frustration and unfamiliarity — to affection, even to love?