awkwardness

Kemi Badenoch sought to capitalise on the awkwardness of Lammy's previous criticism of Trump at her first appearance as Conservative leader at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, urging Sir Keir to apologise.

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.”

“I bet you were not the longest group that has sat,” the show’s co-creator, Jeff Crocker, later tells me when I describe those seven minutes of awkwardness.