Sentences with phrase «awkwardness at»

Earlier this month, British Columbia residents witnessed political awkwardness at a level unusual even by West Coast standards when a special prosecutor cleared B.C. Solicitor General Kash Heed of wrongdoing in a criminal investigation.

I'm definitely going to start checking out classes around Boston (a bunch of you recommended SASY), but before I embarrass myself in front of a class of people, I figured I'd work out some of the newbie awkwardness at home.

Cohen offers practical tools to incorporate play in your parenting style: follow their lead, help them try out new roles, empower girls and connect with boys, channel games that children love and parents «hate,» and how to overcome parental awkwardness at play.

Ava loved having you here as did we, there was no awkwardness at all you just fitted right into our little family.

As I wrote team previews this summer, it was hard to ignore that basically only one potential elite (Michigan State) had minimal awkwardness at the position.

Not exact matches

Your Skype call goes over by five minutes, the next group is chomping at the bit trying to get into the room for their meeting, awkwardness ensues.

After a get - to - meet - you dinner at a local (of course) Chinese restaurant — featuring linguistic awkwardness and mediocre American suburbian faux - Szechuan cuisine — Mr. Lo and his family moved in.

At the end of the tour, there was a moment of awkwardness as parents — many of whom had just spent considerable energy shushing their tiny curators — tried to signal appreciation and respect with elaborate body language.

Even so, the translators go out of their way to avoid masculine designations of the deity, sometimes at a cost of awkwardness.

These verses can best be read as the work of a Christian scribe seeking to overcome the awkwardness of ending at verse 8.

Donohue said Wilde liked to play on an audiences» awkwardness and dig at social mores.

However, as the recipient of «the talk» at the ripe old age if 19 (no, you didn't misread that), the awkwardness was compounded by the need to gently inform my mother that, no, she does not need to explain the particulars to me.

When a young man brought out two cups of broth (the first course of the tasting menu), he did so with a mixture of pride and awkwardness that could only come from having made the dish himself; the cooks at Elske serve their own dishes.

So David Mawhinney, the chef at NYC - based catering company and event space Haven's Kitchen, combats potential awkwardness with a pre-ceremony welcome drink.

Imagine the awkwardness in the dressing room, we don't need that at this moment

Kurt Angle is out here letting Ronda know that Triple H and Stephanie McMahon are trying to set her up, and he successfully gets Rousey to stop smiling and feel murder - y towards Stephanie, so at least this awkwardness is all going somewhere.

Embedded below is the interview via The Big Lead's Michael Shamburger (awkwardness starts around 4:00 when Cowherd takes a shot at the Big Ten conference):

He has an odd mistake in him, but they all do, it's just with his lanky awkwardness, it can look embarrassing at times.

Believe me, the primal revulsion one feels at seeing a boy's hands reaching for her has nothing to do with awkwardness.

This might make for some awkwardness around the office water cooler, since D'Amato is notably close to Senator Gillibrand [rather unforgetable optics of him center - stage at her victory celebration] and this post notes his firm is working on her opponent's campaign...

«In general, using a prosthesis is an unnatural act that requires training, extra effort and can have a certain amount of awkwardness to it,» explains Douglas P. Murphy, MD; from Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center who is also an associate professor of PM&R at Virginia Commonwealth University and lead investigator (along with Ou Bai PhD from Florida International University) in a recent study that sought to establish the feasibility of manipulating a prosthetic knee with BCI.

It might feel uncomfortable at first, and, sure, you might even giggle from the awkwardness, but the benefits far outweigh that initial uncomfortable feeling.

I needed to turn LEFT at the light, but just to avoid the awkwardness, I turned right to prove a point.

I ended the night with G — cooking the most scrumptious paleo kale, chicken, walnut and butternut squash salad before relaxing and laughing so hard at the awkwardness that is The Bachelor.

I thought I should give Tim the heads up that this girl might also be at the party, to avoid any awkwardness.

And at least online, looking for sex, my awkwardness doesn't seem to be much of an issue!

Forget about any awkwardness, Saint Paul dating sites make singles feel at ease and comfortable.

Thread, a site that opened in September, takes a jab at the awkwardness of navigating the Internet to meet strangers by helping Facebook users connect with the friends of their friends.

The consequences of meeting your date for the first time at one of these places range from awkwardness and making your date feel uncomfortable... or in some cases, much worse.

From riding jet skis, to hiking, to eating at a restaurant, to touring a museum, people will be able to avoid the awkwardness of a blind date.

Online dating gives you the fun and excitement of exchanging e-mails everyday with the person whom you are interested in and get to know them at a gradual pace and this helps to erase or eliminate away some of the awkwardness and insecurity that is often shown on first dates that comes from traditional dating.

After all, nothing sets the mood like Skrillex and OMG YOU SHARED A FALAFEL Call dibs on your favorite spots early in the relationship to avoid awkwardness, or a few breakups later, the only place you can drink safely is at the worst Dirty Sixth has to offer.

This study looks at the ways in which online social networks provide new avenues for meeting «friends of friends» or for researching potential partners before meeting them in person, as well as some of the ways in which awkwardness or «drama» can develop in these highly public venues.

You will also be able to eliminate all the inconveniences and awkwardness that you usually experienced in your favorite bars at the weekend.

Everyone knows that growing up is hard, and life is no easier for high school junior Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld), who is already at peak awkwardness when her all - star older brother Darian (Blake Jenner) starts dating her best friend Krista (Haley Lu Richardson).

Pitting awkwardness and self - doubt against physical and economic perfection, their polar - opposite dynamic is at once universal and specifically female in nature, which is also true of the other bridesmaids, a rag - tag bunch of types composed of cheerfully naïve conservative Becca (The Office's Ellie Kemper), disillusioned mother - of - three Rita (Wendi McLendon - Covey), and overweight horndog Megan (Melissa McCarthy).

Campos, working with a script by Craig Shilowich, makes each of those events blatantly exemplary of Christine's personal problems, which he lines up like dominoes — her frustration at work, her frustration in love, her unspecified mental illness, her ovarian cyst, her conflicts with her mother, her work - imposed preoccupation with violence, and her seemingly incurable social and physical awkwardness.

Some of them were even shot at the angle just to get the awkwardness into them.

Because of the way the plot is structured, a blow - out is unavoidable, and it occurs at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas (weirdly graduated into a film's pivot point), where Jon's eagerness to sell out in front of cute, slack - mouthed publicists and Frank's paralysing awkwardness both lead to disaster.

The artificial - looking framings have a certain tension to them and a sense of the absurd that perfectly echoes the slight awkwardness of everyday life, in which several things of different kinds are always going on at the same time.

Director James Ponsoldt gives us all of the teen awkwardness and curiosity with none (or at least very little) of the melodrama, and Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley are spectacular leads; though the film is primarily about Sutter, Woodley steals the show with her quiet love and concern that manifest themselves so plainly in her every expression.

A unique approach to love, and perfectly framed, Amour Fou should be getting distribution if it hasn't already so hopefully people on this side of the pond will get a chance to laugh with and at all its awkwardness.

A scene at a dance where Yelchin appears in an orange knit hoochie suit (that he bought from the joke store) captures some of the awkwardness of dances for a 13 - year - old, though I suspect the sequence only seems good in comparison to the rest of the film.

On top of that are easy jokes like Renzo's nerdy awkwardness (his mother's overbearing, haha), Walter's British twee and lizard - like face (look at those glasses and that smile, lolz), and Jo's granny demeanor (look at that pink dress and wig, LAUGH DAMMIT).

Awkwardness can be infinitely easy to relate to because we have all felt out of place at one time or another.

What is unusual about the man, making his love life the focus of James Marsh's «The Theory of Everything,» is that Hawking became the love interest of a Ms. Jane Wilde when they were in attendance at the university in Cambridge, England despite Stephen's dorky appearance and awkwardness, but that's not all.

Her performance is simply stripped of self - awareness, capturing that joy and confusion and awkwardness of being young and impressionable with what appears to be no effort at all.

It's a perfectly pitched central performance that at times is asked to drag the entire show along behind it — especially since her costars seem to have wandered in from different shows, and there's a little awkwardness involved in watching everyone try to find the same gear.

There's a lot of charm to that awkwardness, though and it was very enjoyable to see a previously unknown actress (to me at least) blossom into a soon - to - be star with this role.

Sex isn't just a narrative necessity - something to try and get past with as little awkwardness as possible, in The Handmaiden, it is celebrated and at its core.