One symptom of awkwardness was, that he addressed Toussaint by no sort of title.
It was an opportunity he was too thankful to embrace--a most favourable means of surmounting the awkwardness of renewed intercourse with one, by whom their last conversation could not be supposed to be forgotten.
I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings and in spacious halls.
When our higher faculties are in activity, we are domesticated, and awkwardness and discomfort give place to natural and agreeable movements.
The very awkwardness with which such occurrences of difficulty are met by the earlier builder, marks his dislike of the system, and unwillingness to attract the eye to such arrangements.
Her previous coldness and awkwardness told against her at that moment.
Often there is a certain awkwardness in the presenting of credentials.
As the disease develops, the patient gradually begins to exhibit an awkwardness of movement in the extremities, and objects frequently fall from the grasp.
The slightest awkwardness is liable to cause an unnoticeable injury, which may result in a false passage, or an effusion of plastic lymph around the canal, which, organizing, forms the most troublesome kind of organic structure.
The slightest awkwardness is liable to cause an unnoticeable injury, which results in false passage or an effusion of plastic lymph around the canal, and as it organizes, the formation of the most troublesome organic stricture.
I have been seeing Mrs. Byng off," he replies, with that slight shade of awkwardness in his tone which has accompanied his every mention of the mother or son since his explanation with his betrothed.
The Wilson family will certainly be there, and it has struck him that the dreaded meeting will be robbed of half its painful awkwardness if it takes place in public.
He however soon got over his awkwardness and gaily declared that the worthy Taus' little daughter was one of the prettiest girls in Memphis, and had had quite as many admirers as her excellent mother's puff-pastry.
All his vexation against her and against himself suddenly returned to him; all the absurdity, all the awkwardness of this tryst, of these explanations between utter strangers, on a public boulevard, suddenly presented itself to him.
She stands well back from Geoffrey, and then, without any of the foolish, unlovely bashfulness that degenerates so often into awkwardness in the young, begins her dance.
Still she hesitates, though betraying no vulgar awkwardness or silly mauvaise honte.
He hardly realizes the extent of his subjection,--is blind to the extreme awkwardness of the situation.
Willis did not seem in the least anxious to renew their acquaintance; and it was at the expense of some awkwardnessthat Edwin managed to drag him into conversation.
He seemed made for rough usage, and his undoubted strength was qualified by a degree of awkwardness that showed itself in his clumsy hands.
At this moment all his awkwardness seemed to have vanished.
There was no awkwardness in their conversation, as Edwin had feared there might be, for Griffin apparently took his expulsion as a matter of course, and, on the whole, as rather a good joke.
Although her weakness increased, and she suffered from constant insomnia, she still tried, in her magnanimity and her shame, to hide from me the awkwardness of her situation.
I fully appreciate the awkwardness of the situation," he said with understanding, "but these are really times that try men's souls.
Nancy felt quite wretched over the whole situation, not only at Tini's persistent disregard of the regulations, but at the awkwardness of her own position in discovering her at it, time and again.
He could scarcely have been over thirty-five years of age, but he moved with a languid awkwardness that made him seem older.
His excuse for the awkwardness of this piece of architecture was the impossibility of otherwise getting the all-desirable northern light for the illumination of his rough studio.
These medical men watch us in the agonies of hysteria; they hear our sighs, they see our tears, and in their awkwardness and ignorance they prescribe commonplace remedies out of the pharmacopoeia.
She was very much amused at the awkwardness of the situation.
I left the telephone booth at the hotel perspiring freely, aware for the first time of the awkwardness and delicacy of my undertaking.
She had not the slightest pity for them; she had never suffered from any such awkwardness herself.
She filled her place, and did the honours of her house with a calm grace which had nothing of the hesitation or the awkwardness of youth.
His very existence was not recognized save by those churlish souls with whom his awkwardness brought him into physical contact.
Grossness is not vulgarity, ignorance is not vulgarity, awkwardness is not vulgarity; but all these become vulgar when they are affected, and shown off on the authority of others, or to fall in with the fashion or the company we keep.
Awkwardness can proceed but from two causes; either from not having kept good company, or from not having attended to it.
This episode caused Louise's awkwardness to be forgotten, although the tall lady continued to grumble about her dress; but nobody seemed to listen to her.
For a clever man it was certainly a stupid beginning; and the idea that his awkwardness was due to the fear of her attaching a personal significance to his visit, chilled her pleasure in seeing him.
Any defect of pronunciation, any native awkwardness of utterance?
Such play of the imaginative and speculative faculties accounts for the common awkwardness of intelligent young men in society that is strange to them.
Marcella and three of her cousins had disappeared, so that the awkwardness of departure was reduced.
