Sentences with phrase «awkward choice of»

We don't know who wrote this, and some commenters have noted that «just make up» could be an awkward choice of words by a non-native speaker of English who intended to instruct his student to make up a sample and then conduct the elemental analysis.

But it was an awkward choice of words, and in the following days the Conservatives realised a standoff over the English question risked the pledge to Scottish voters sliding.

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and its provocative choice of an awkward extended breastfeeding pose, sought to fuel «The Mommy Wars.»

I am grateful for this because it helps me avoid awkward working situations, but there is an important theme developing here that spans both men and women: The excitement of having a lot of choices stops you from ever making singular decisions.

The modern setting is a bit awkward and some design choices made by MercurySteam can be frustrating, but Lords of Shadow 2 is a true and great Castlevania game in its own right.

This zesty, defiantly awkward shambles of a film might be called a domestic drama, as it plucks its penniless main character from her beer - soaked California stage and sends her to the Midwest to deal with her wealthy ex-husband (Kevin Kline, playing off Streep as tenderly as in Sophie's Choice) and their suicidal adult daughter (Mamie Gummer, Streep's real - life progeny), a victim of Ricki's long - ago abandonment.

In 2010 he snagged the role of Matty Mckibben on MTV's Awkward; he won a Teen Choice Award in 2012 for this portrayal.

The awkward stylistic choices begin right after the film opens as we watch General Zod attempt an unsuccessful insurrection on Krypton, a distant dying planet with only a few years of existence left.

To make matters even more awkward, his wife Delta is already cast in the upcoming play and Izzy's remarkable skill leaves him no choice but to take her on to avoid suspicion from the rest of the impressed cast.

Secret comes with the material to turn into a tight, involving thriller, but its awkward storytelling choices and essential lack of depth handicap it.

The contemporary pop soundtrack feels like an awkward choice for the film, but it is an active part of the audio which is sufficiently presented.

Couple that with the choice of writer / director Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air) to use Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot speech as an awkward framing device — combined with shots of the Voyager spacecraft leaving our galaxy — and you get much hysterical ado about not much at all.

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain has a lot of questionable choices concerning its scantily clad sniper, Quiet, from awkward shower scenes to voyeuristic camera shots and truly ridiculous...

That the movie is narratively inconsistent doesn't help matters, and the result is a lot of awkward shifts and just plain bad choices in terms of tone.

When they insist that ideas like school choice, performance pay, and teacher evaluations based on value - added measures will themselves boost student achievement, would - be reformers stifle creativity, encourage their allies to lock elbows and march forward rather than engage in useful debate and reflection, turn every reform proposal into an us - against - them steel - cage match, and push researchers into the awkward position of studying whether reforms «work» rather than when, why, and how they make it easier to improve schooling.

Whether or not a «below grade level» student can «pass» an exit exam is a choice made by adults, most of whom are disinclined to subject children to unnecessary — or politically awkward — failure.

At last week's gathering of school - choice supporters, there was an awkward fact in their midst: A wave of new studies had shown that students receiving a voucher did worse, sometimes much worse, on standardized tests.

It seemed as if every test car I got from the Japanese automaker had some kind of flaw that showed up at precisely the wrong time, leaving me no choice but to report about what went wrong.Then last year I tested the awkward - looking X-90 sport - utility vehicle, which worked fine, was built well and offered a good value.

Unfortunately the art style, which has already had my roommate and I in giggles over some of the super awkward panel choices and character designs, has me questioning the purchase.

Indeed, the only thing we're not crazy about is the colour combination of gold and bronze on our review sample — it feels like a slightly awkward arrangement to our eyes, so we'd go for the white and gold version given the choice.

It's going to be an awkward reunion... «The Reunion», the sparkling opener of the Brides of Beadwell series from author Sara Portman, is the winner of the Golden Heart ® Award from Romance Writers of America ® and the 2017 RT Reviewers Choice Award.

Even though it's not mandatory, you are strongly encouraged to donate to a charity of your choice and some traders may find this awkward.

Occupying something of an awkward middle ground between Chase's most basic and most comprehensive checking choices, the account is suitable only in the few situations where you can waive the monthly fee.

However, Eden has made a few awkward choices in some of the co-op modes added to TDU2.

You assign the magic to the left bumper and a face button of your choice which makes for a very awkward and unnatural finger combination to pull off in the heat of a 20 - skeleton battle.

The large amount of bugs and awkward control - scheme were considered to be the most obvious shortcomings of the game, but players also took issue with numerous other smaller, yet flawed, design choices.

It is all about the weight of choices that the player has to make in the game, even though the presentation feels awkward at times and the gameplay is not the most ideal way to present such a story.

Inadvertently, this awkward but realistic design choice enables English - speaking players to fathom part of the story, providing meaningful clues to puzzles otherwise impossible to be cracked.

Moving between rooms there was a clear progression in his handling of paint, the sometimes awkward and challenging color choices, and the development of images and their relationship to one another.

Coming from Motorola and OnePlus phones with an experience closer to stock Android, the choices Samsung made with its software didn't feel like improvements to the experience.The further I got into using the phone, the more the redundancies and awkward design of the phone stood out and worsened the experience.

This choice raises awkward questions about the overall quality of Intellectual Ventures» portfolio.