awkwardness

She sat down next to him, trying not to show her awkwardness.

Always there had been awkwardness at such times for him.

There was an awkwardness now between the three of them.

There are times when this awkwardness works to great effect.

One other thing they had in common was the awkwardness of movement.

There had been an awkwardness, too, last night outside her room.

If people like that could see their awkwardness, they were indeed in a bad way.

Later groups learned, or tried to, from the awkwardness of the earlier ones.

This does not mean the event is free of awkwardness.

But millions of people do so every day, with some awkwardness.

The awkwardness of it, however, was no doubt working against them.

Then, yet again, he caught up to the awkwardness too late.

She had lost the awkwardness he remembered her having the summer before.

When they were finished, there was a moment of awkwardness between them.

You can join others or keep to yourself without awkwardness.

"I took the novel to the wrong side of awkwardness."

There was silence from the group, a feel of awkwardness.

There was a little awkwardness in the group, for none of them knew what would be best to do next.

There was a terrible awkwardness between them the next day.

But for the moment at least she forgot her awkwardness.

But despite their awkwardness nothing about them appeared to be male.

There was no awkwardness when they let go and moved apart.

Curtis was sure she could sense the awkwardness between them.

But there are strategies for getting past the awkwardness to have a good time.

The only real awkwardness came now, when they did not want to say goodbye.