(1) But she has struggled – quite awkwardly – to articulate her evolution on same-sex marriage, and has left environmental activists wondering what her exact energy policy is.
(2) Once installed, the alliance will become an awkward, obstructionist presence, committed, in the words of the Northern League's Matteo Salvini, to "a different Europe, based on work and peoples and not in the one based on servitude to the euro and banks, ready to let us die from immigration and unemployment".
(3) There is no getting around the awkward fact that in Bristol West Stephen Williams represents a constituency of 82,503 while his neighbouring Labour MP in Bristol East, Kerry McCarthy, speaks for 69,347 constituents.
(4) Our team of reporters have spent the last week on an intensive bikram yoga course in order to get themselves into the rather awkward position of having their ears to the ground, their eyes to the skies and their fingers on the pulse.
(5) Jesús Navas played a one-two with Touré down the right and from his awkward cross the England squad goalkeeper fumbled the ball inside his six-yard area from where Fernando scored with an overhead kick as dextrous as it was surprising.
(6) It's straight at Stockdale, though the keeper needs two attempts to get the ball under control in these awkward conditions.
(7) And then the ball is in Caballero's hands.At the other end, Courtois beats away an awkward, bouncing drive from long range.
(8) That is an awkward, indeed risky, time to be contemplating takeoff.
(9) Despite his insistence that comedy should be colour-blind, Amos admits black audiences prefer the black circuit, where "you know the material isn't going to be racist or make you feel awkward, where you feel like you belong".
(10) And yet for all his anti-establishment credentials, Mr Galloway is as practised as any of his New Labour enemies at squirming away from awkward questions.
(11) Our calculations show that the biological inactive O-methyl-delta 8-THC orients with its long axis parallel to the lipid acyl chains, whereas the psychoactive cannabinoids assume "awkward" orientations in which the hydroxyl groups are pointing towards the bilayer interface, presumably to maximize the amphipathic interaction with the membrane.
(12) Why have they not done away with their own bodies and hair and all their awkward woman-type things?
(13) And I said: 'Look, man, I just got here, if it's OK, I don't wanna just walk in and take a picture – it'd make me feel awkward.'
(14) The SBS, in association with fluoroscopy, permits simple surgical implementation with accurate localization and extraction of foreign bodies, with the elimination of awkward, unpredictable, and time consuming retrieval techniques.
(15) What some people saw in this mistake was again a cultural bias against black art, unconscious though it may be This is why this mix-up mattered more than a bit of onstage awkwardness.
(16) April 16, 2014 The hesitancy – or unwillingness – of Ukrainian troops to use their weapons has produced multiple awkward confrontations with civilian crowds Wednesday, including one in Pchyolkino south of Kratamorsk, which seems still to be unresolved after an hours-long standoff.
(17) Sitting opposite her as she eats croissants and fixes on espresso it is hard to equate the immaculate perfection of Guillem the performer, in bobbed wig and suspenders last night, with the awkwardly engaging and somewhat bed-headed Guillem in skinny jeans and T-shirt this morning.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump and Theresa May awkwardly hold hands at White House
(19) Even that took a finely weighted pass and an awkward stretching first touch from two very fine technicians.
(20) What's more, his genial stiffness and shy self-awareness give him a kind of awkward dignity compared to the preening smugness of Cruz.
Stilted
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Stilt
(a.) Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation.
Example Sentences:
(1) In sharp contrast, the coverage provided by the various mainstream news channels and newspapers not only seems – with some exceptions – unresponsive and stilted, but often non-existent.
(2) Tourists take the children out, to the zoo or downtown,” said the head of one orphanage of 16 children, a small wooden house built on stilts in flooded fields.
(3) Look, you can see it here," he says, pointing to a long, low, flat plateau that barely rises above the palms, banana plants and rubber trees that skirt the road and hug the traditional stilted timber houses dotting the lush emerald-green countryside.
(4) The houses were built on stilts and connected by thin wooden planks.
(5) Old plastic supermarket bags clog the ground under the platform stilts and the smell of sewage is overpowering.
(6) Meanwhile , the company's founder Guy Laliberté – the stilt walker who in 2009 became a billionaire space tourist – has said he is "heartbroken" by the traumatic accident.
(7) Updated at 1.33am GMT 1.23am GMT Lorde , a 17-year-old who achieved massive international success in about four months, steps on a small, round stage to perform a stilted version of her megahit Royals.
(8) It has been a stilted trajectory so far, when you consider the Guardian first wrote about her in 2008, describing her as "the female Frankmusik, the Fisher Price Fischerspooner" based on her debut single !Franchesckaar!
(9) My house is on stilts and there are 11 steps up to my front door so by Saturday morning, the water was already very high.
(10) The narration was awkward and stilted in a manner that suggested it had been translated into English and back again several times.
(11) Instead, the houses are built on stilts – meaning they can be much closer to trees.
(12) Initial clinical signs included stilted gait and simultaneous advancement of their pelvic limbs.
(13) Sample one of these stilted rorbu – timber-built and each boasting modern kitchens, lounges and nice bathrooms – in the cod-fishing town of Svolvær.
(14) Their version of Get Lucky and Freak Out, aided by Stevie Wonder and Nile Rogers, sounds just a little bit stilted, but it might have something to do with this particular recording.
(15) It has been claimed that those using social media in an abusive and vindictive way towards this woman are supporters of mine,” said Evans, who beyond a stilted video statement on his release had said nothing as the controversy swirled around him.
(16) (There is an ancillary attempt to make himself sound posh by using the stiltedly correct form of "ambassador to the UK".
(17) I saw it in Catherine Deneuve and Björk in Dancer in the Dark and in Nicole Kidman in Dogville: a Meg-Ryan-on-Parky glazed look, a hint that they don't quite know what they're doing, or what to make of the stilted script they've been handed.
(18) "I represent the people of Xinjiang," Aisikaier says in stilted Mandarin.
(19) If successful, it could see rich countries promise not only to cut their emissions but to stump up cash for poor nations to pay for the changes they'll need to protect their towns and villages from those effects of climate change already under way and too late to reverse (think houses on stilts on easily flooded sandbanks in Bangladesh).
(20) General clinical symptoms in these animals immediately postexposure were tremors, lethargy, stilted gait, and, in some animals, prostration.