She reached down and clutched him to her, heedless of the physical or social awkwardness.

The sentence enacts the physical awkwardness it describes.

The kindness, the sharp intelligence in his eyes-these things distinguished him, giving the lie to his physical awkwardness.

The desire, therefore, was to take that physical awkwardness and find a way to make it dance.

Remember that adolescence contains periods of both social and physical awkwardness.

That also suggests that 280 million masters are now armed with the means of escaping the social and physical awkwardness of mass transit.

For a while I have been in pursuit of these very crowded kinetic photographs that have a physical awkwardness to them.

But there are obvious Wilde-Fry parallels, including the intensity of the media's interest in a private life made public - and a degree of physical awkwardness.

It was awkward to have to back into the suit . . . but thinking of the physical awkwardness took his mind off the real questions.

Nubia notices that his normal physical awkwardness disappears when he is behind the reins of a chariot: "he drives like Apollo."