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The body occupies a territory where language itself becomes problematic, awkwardly polarised between the medical-clinical and the vulgar-demotic.
Coordination in the motionverb example in (i) allows for a single-event interpretation, whereas in (ii) and functions (awkwardly) as a conjunction.
The irreconcilable duality of his being is restated every time he traipses awkwardly across the stage.
Feeling-based ministry is often awkwardly delivered, occasionally emotional, and tends more towards the poetic than the prosaic.
Such a list of characters however, far from giving structure and direction to this study, seems to stand awkwardly in the way of a smooth reading of a complicated story.
The chair's, perhaps, making you sit awkwardly.
The author is all the same right to conclude, however awkwardly, that 'this same finitude of elements [is essential] for the discriminability, learnability, memorability and reproducibility of music patterns'.
We know that he does not want to refer to the matter too awkwardly again.
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Eavesdropping evidence is admissible as evidence in criminal proceedings and this sits awkwardly against the fact that intercept material is not.
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To make them work inordinately long hours or awkwardly spread-out hours is a bad proposition for the country, not only socially but commercially and politically.
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Like many, it accepts that current legislation is awkwardly drafted, difficult to enforce and full of anomalies.
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I have, somewhat awkwardly, to raise the question of cost.
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There are a great variety of circumstances which may change rapidly and awkwardly towards the end of the financial year.
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How do we best handle the courageous, cussed men with their awkwardly long memories, particularly of grievances?
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I think it is also true that the changes have been awkwardly brought about.
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I realise that one is exposing oneself rather awkwardly on an occasion of this kind.
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I think it would have been very unwise to have got out of one strait-waistcoat merely to get into another, which might work awkwardly in certain parts of the country.
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There can be no case for staggering awkwardly into the most difficult position of all, with one foot in each camp—one in the metric and one in the imperial camp.
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He is also rather eccentric and culturally awkward to romantic customs, has he has a habit of awkwardly moving his arms during romantic situations.
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Shoe heel or beetle might better express the awkwardly inelegant form.
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Sleazely always ends with his insistence that he will not be resigning before awkwardly resigning from making the statement.
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The station is awkwardly located in a very deep chalk cutting, with a long staircase from the booking office leading to the up platform.
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He had kicked four goals and fell awkwardly to the ground after taking a mark at the start of the fourth quarter.
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Following an awkwardly tense visit to a village pub, the two men venture deep into the moors at night.
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He had already kicked 8 goals and had just taken a mark within distance when he fell awkwardly.
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However, the two do get engaged as he proposes, somewhat awkwardly, atop the water tower.
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He still walks rather awkwardly as a result of those injuries.
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Temporary paraesthesiae can be caused by sleeping or poor posture while awkwardly placing weight on one's arm, or by cycling for extended periods of time.
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While in overall a fairly simple and light car, the triple carburettors were awkwardly located at the front of the engine, behind the rear seat.
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When the chick is 36 days old, it can stand and walk awkwardly.
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They are having a perfunctory cup of coffee together, awkwardly catching up on each other's lives and news of their friends.
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I just thought you should know and laughs awkwardly.
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However, midway through the first quarter, he was stretchered off and did not return after landing awkwardly and badly injuring his right knee.
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He adhered to a moral code that emphasized grace under pressure, and his protagonists were strong, silent men who often dealt awkwardly with women.
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The site for the stairs, a comparatively narrow sliver of land between church and palace, is awkwardly shaped with irregular converging walls.
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All are about the craziness of our awkwardly ordered society and the desire to escape it through whatever means possible.
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However, his season ended in the first quarter with a knee injury when he landed awkwardly on a long pass route.
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While running, the species held its forelimbs awkwardly and moved them in a rotary motion.
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Giorgio awkwardly changes the subject, but when he observes a hearse pulling up, she is seized by a hysterical convulsion.
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The 1980s saw television moving with the times and beginning to respond, albeit awkwardly, to calls for greater sophistication in black representations.
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She's just going to dance around awkwardly in a red wedding sari, no big deal.
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Palladian architecture was growing in popularity, which sat awkwardly with the typical design of a medieval castle.
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Her aunt's husband warns him off, but he rebels, proposes to her awkwardly, and is amazed to find himself accepted.
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Often, the amount of land left over in areas immediately surrounding the grants was grossly undersized or awkwardly shaped.
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Filipovi collapsed awkwardly after receiving the blow, pinning his right foot, which was rotated 180 degrees backwards, underneath his body.
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All the while, the narrator stands somewhat awkwardly thereby (like he has for much of the story).
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Cases that seemed to be prepared in advance and linked awkwardly to the resolution were strongly discouraged, and judges were trained to deduct points accordingly.
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The two share obvious personality traits and a mutual habit for awkwardly giving people shoulder massages.
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He seems to have a multiple personality disorder, as he sometimes behaves awkwardly.
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After a cocktail, the old man requests both girls to sit next to him on the couch to which they comply awkwardly.
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He fractured his right arm after falling awkwardly.
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He further termed it easily the most awkwardly written, clumsily paced and disposable hour it has ever aired.
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The two part awkwardly, though he wishes her a belated happy birthday.
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The new house fit awkwardly onto the footprint of the old, necessitating a short hallway with seven doors leading off.
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She sometimes wears womanly clothes, awkwardly preferring the girlish dress; other times, she revels in her budding womanhood.
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They wield hammers, maces, and more awkwardly, spoons.
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Tamanduas move rather awkwardly on the ground and are incapable of galloping like their relative, the giant anteater.
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She awkwardly walks away, then laughs off her attempt.
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While hanging curtains for his new home one day, he falls awkwardly and hurts his side.
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When she asks him about his strange behavior, he starts awkwardly mentioning their history together.
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Kit accepts her decision but notices that the two are suddenly speaking stiffly and awkwardly.
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The magazine also dealt awkwardly with the recession, she commented.
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After going up for a rebound, he came down awkwardly, his leg emitting a loud crack that was heard throughout the arena.
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The two continue to date awkwardly, not wanting to give specific names to their relationship.
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Hiding their prior encounter in the forest, they awkwardly greet each other as if they'd never met.
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The woman looks at the clerk awkwardly until her friend explains he means showers.
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He awkwardly blunders at her; she attempts to throw him out.
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The film is not a beautiful object or a memorable cultural one, and yet it charms, however awkwardly.
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He awkwardly attempted to place it back into his mouth.
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They stand awkwardly in front, linked by a fragile beam projecting from the facade.
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The painting, however, also has technical faults; it is unevenly finished, with brushstrokes visible in places, and the legs join awkwardly with the subject's body.
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She is known to act awkwardly around people.
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Ashore it is a bore, awkwardly staged and lumpily written.
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I hooked up my parachute and climbed awkwardly into the low cockpit.
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Unable to control his fall, the crown of his helmet hit the turf and his body rolled awkwardly over his neck.
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He does not appreciate either the reporters camped outside his front lawn, nor his parents, who welcome him home awkwardly.
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When they did run, it was awkwardly and with short steps in a straight line.
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While in the pits the nozzle was connected awkwardly and fuel began to spill out.
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They awkwardly avoid one another the next day.
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The conveyor, which is a conveyor belt on a truck, brings in the awkwardly shaped, or late luggage.
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His hair grew awkwardly longer, prompting him to apologize for its length.
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In both cases the theme of female self-empowerment plays out, sometimes a bit awkwardly, against the fact of an unnamed but specific male partner.
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He awkwardly asks her to prom, and they get back together.
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She calls and awkwardly invites him to breakfast at a coffee shop the next morning.
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Initially, the reports are full of spelling errors and awkwardly constructed sentences.
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In addition, too many details are ambiguously phrased or awkwardly placed.
However, his critique is not particularly thorough, and its targets are awkwardly chosen.
He moved stiffly and awkwardly when doing the exercises.
The opposite view, with the fine back, is good too, but in between the extended limbs telescope awkwardly though the full-face is splendid.
The one major flaw in its presentation is the typesetting of the small cap constraint names, which is at times awkwardly disjointed.
Walking and not walking equals doing and not doing, but it is awkwardly expressed as intervening or not intervening.
Her mouth, slightly open, discloses her teeth, as the squire's son awkwardly, sullenly thrusts a handful of strawberries toward her.
Most such benefits fall into the category of benefits known (somewhat awkwardly) as 'payment for time not worked'.
However, the new policy resonates awkwardly with an unfortunate venture some 40 years ago.
The article explores how local professional historians have mediated, sometimes awkwardly, between academic history and popular history.
As such it was not adverse to commercial success, although this did sit awkwardly at times with the indie values associated initially with the label.
Analysis demonstrates the tensions inherent in policies related to children and in particular how rights and responsibilities sit awkwardly within dominant understandings of childhood.
All this results in a book that is brilliant, intimidating, original, disconnected, often hilarious, intentionally disconcerting, and sometimes awkwardly personal.
The rather awkwardly colloquial 'too bad!' seems like a deliberate device for sabotaging the pathos.
An inventory of representational systems involved in spatial processing is presented, alongside a schema showing (somewhat awkwardly) relations between the different systems.
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