Awkward in sentence

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Teaching my kids about desegregation, the Little Rock Nine, the Civil Rights Movement, is a real awkward moment in my classroom, when I have to hear the voice of a child ask, "If schools were desegregated in 1954, how come there are no white kids here?"

You might only see people in those awkward elevator rides.

Civility talk, on the other hand, well, that's really easy, really easy, and it also is almost always complete bullshit, which makes things slightly awkward for me as I continue to talk to you about civility.

I'm guessing that's not what you expected, and it's not what I expected either, and thank goodness I realized that an Asian man was not my mom before I hugged him, because that would have been so awkward.

And even though I know hard work is what got him this achievement, I've seen him find his voice along the way, which as someone who's grown up a little bit shy and awkward, I know it takes time and support.

It can be awkward, right?

This is a picture of me from a very awkward stage in my life.

Being trans is awkward.

Being trans is awkward because everyone else gets awkward when they're around me.

Now, there is no topic that makes other people more awkward about trans people than public bathrooms.

We have three main goals: give all of us a language for talking about a subject that's quite awkward and uncomfortable to discuss; empower a whole front line, namely friends, to help; and, in the process, improve all of our ability to love better.

There was a long and awkward silence, and then finally, "OK, sweetie, never mind, thank you for coming in, bye!"

That was it, our conversation was rushed and awkward.

I realize sometimes there's no alternative, but mostly what happens is, we like to ask for help over email and text because it feels less awkward for us to do so.

You know what else feels less awkward over email and text?

Yeah, he feels awkward.

She feels a little awkward, doesn't know what to do, relying on Mom.

And I say that partly because if I say I'm a therapist, I always get some awkward response, like, "Oh, a therapist.

Nobody feels awkward, and no one accuses the sad person of ruining the holidays.

You may worry that you won't know what to say, and every attempt at conversation will be awkward, and the only time you'll feel comfortable is when you both just give up on talking and stare at your phones.

Now, if that felt a little bit awkward, I promise there was no joke being had at your expense.

We had lots of awkward silences.

It's so awkward to work up there that sometimes I even gave the injections right through their clothes.

The rice that you ate in the lunch, and you will eat today, is transplanted by women bending in a very awkward posture, millions of them, every season, in the paddy season, when they transplant paddy with their feet in the water.

CP: At first, very kind of pained, awkward conversations.

That's awkward and not OK, and so we end up having to build these new social norms around using these systems.

We know as a friend we can't fix it, we can't take away that pain, so we say things to fill that awkward silence, sometimes things we regret saying.

And third, so as people are doing this friends and family fundraising process, it's very awkward, people don't know exactly what to ask for, how to ask, what to promise in return, even though they have the best of intentions and want to thank those people that are supporting them.

You can see him walk barefoot on an awkward land, sometimes in a marshy land, and so on and so forth.

The film-makers apparently couldn't decide between quadruped and biped, tried to do both, and wound up with a creature that looks equally awkward either way.

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