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About the only thing they had in common was knowledge of system internals, social awkwardness and a taste for yaag
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Hell … what have I said? … the awkwardness of the whole situation here in the café suddenly clobbers me … embarrassment crawls up my face … made worse as I remember where we were at the time
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confidence is something that can cause tension and awkwardness between you and a potential
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‘Sarah, you are sure about this, I’m aware of the awkwardness of your situation …’
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Bex loves him for it, loves him for the awkwardness that separates their respective generations, but he seems a little flat, a little down, monotone
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She stands breathlessly in the spare bedroom, her arms aching after the awkwardness of the exercise, watching him stow the roll tidily beside the window
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subject and hide his awkwardness
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the awkwardness of his oversized fingers walking on a keyboard several years
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the materials which he might sometimes spoil through awkwardness and inexperience
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There was a little awkwardness as she
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which allowed her maybe not to entirely forget the previous awkwardness but at least to ostensibly move on from it and remain just as close as they ever had been
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The price, however, which a lady, it is said, would sometimes pay for a piece of very fine linen, seems to have been equally extravagant ; and as linen was always either an European, or at farthest, an Egyptian manufacture, this high price can be accounted for only by the great expense of the labour which must have been employed about It, and the expense of this labour again could arise from nothing but the awkwardness of the machinery which is made use of
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Deanna’s conviction that Scott must still be alive had become a source of anguish for Colleena and awkwardness and
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Geoff and I walked side-by-side, not exactly comfortably, but I wouldn’t say the slight awkwardness was a bad thing, either
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It teetered on the brink of the frame as Andre struggled with the weight and the sheer awkwardness of it
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All his awkwardness interacting with Jade and I was gone
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He greeted the kids in the stern way that most officers do and the children looked back at him in the way they always do without awkwardness
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chipping away the awkwardness
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I really don't have a lot of experience," he chuckled to ease the awkwardness and thought of his few experiences in the past having heart-to-heart conversations with women
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I felt an awkwardness in me
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Chris felt an awkwardness in Steve and could stand it no longer
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Funny thing was, there was no awkwardness, and I didn't feel embarrassed at all
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Small gestures such as their eyes meeting and a strange awkwardness followed but she was trying not to dwell on such moments
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awkwardness being manifested mostly in her body) as she told me about the comment,
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Ok, that was silly but at this instant we were experiencing extreme awkwardness
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Mabel laughed at his awkwardness
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During the awkwardness, Tony, the camp guy had returned to his senses, he waited for a till all was in focus
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The awkwardness of the
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The awkwardness of her face slowly disappeared like dandelion seeds in the breeze
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He gently lowered himself into the chair, trying to gather his wits, and Sheriff could feel the awkwardness in the modest man
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“It's okay, Henry, it's okay,” Sarah whispered, and she could feel awkwardness within her
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He could only imagine the awkwardness that could be created if his call
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only moment of awkwardness, the only reminder of all her sexual experience thus far,
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some awkwardness with Bernard and the twins
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The awkwardness of having a board
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Part of that awkwardness was due to the fact that Alice had
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All throughout the meal, Ailia noticed that even though Soren seemed to return Lucia’s affection outwardly, he had the slightest expression of awkwardness in his eyes as they moved from place to place, never finding rest
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Relieved that he didn’t have to go through the awkwardness of meeting with Lola so soon Ben felt glad to have such a decent friend
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Isn’t it clear that she’s unexcited about her marriage? Won’t that make her a candidate for conquest? But that subtle awkwardness discernible in women, when attracted to men, is missing in her, is it not? All the same, she doesn’t seem to be vainglorious either
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Shirley, as well as Sally, noticing Tom’s awkwardness with the
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Realizing the awkwardness of the moment, she changed the
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The two gazed at each other for a moment before Rad realized the awkwardness and
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To avoid awkwardness, Paramita tried to make a conversation with Dewi
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Why do you think he waited for the last-minute to tell your father that he wanted you instead of your brother, and set the wedding so soon, almost like a shotgun marriage? So it wouldn’t cause awkwardness in your household
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"But they can't _possibly_--" she began; then broke off, feeling the awkwardness of a position in which one was unable to argue without at once revealing the "Encyclopædia
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He did not want to hear about super-phosphates, and resented having regularly every afternoon to pretend he did; and he did want, and this became a growing wish and a growing awkwardness, to make love to Herr Dremmel's wife
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drink’ without the usual awkwardness because she has
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There wasn’t a hint of awkwardness as they included me in conversations among themselves and with others who stopped by
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I still had a touch of fear beforehand, but all vestiges of awkwardness were gone
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Lord Wesley slips into the seat next to him with a sheepish grin, and Eugene braces himself for the great stretch of monotony and awkwardness spread out ahead of him
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Many, many hours of guilt and awkwardness
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He nodded, but an awkwardness came over the table that hadn’t been there before
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There was no awkwardness of the flesh
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and his natural awkwardness with his own body
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help, the awkwardness of riding on a chair-lift
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He acted with awkwardness and reserve towards her while his heart pounded
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I had never done this before and although she squeezed back my hand, confirming the removal of the wedding ring, I did not know whether I could turn our sexless camaraderie into a viable sexual ambiance without awkwardness
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It was bad enough that she had to do this, but by Saturday? They had just broken up! And it was even worse today since all of the guys sat at another table, not wanting to put up with the awkwardness of two pissed off and depressed ex-couples trying to sit at opposite ends of the tables
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Claire took a sharp breathe of air, feeling as if the air was heavy in mix of tension and awkwardness
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Even if there was also the awkwardness of Teresa"s presence in the background
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Especially with the lingering secret awkwardness that hovered in the air obviously, no matter how hard they tried to avoid it
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'Morning, Tom,' he greeted the desk sergeant with false bonhomie in an attempt to cover his awkwardness
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awkwardness hung thick and silent in the room
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There had always been an awkwardness I had felt around him since then
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Deshavi stood at the sink washing dishes feeling, as usual, the deep awkwardness that she felt around anyone that knew
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The silence is louder than the awkwardness
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We made it last, without awkwardness, without ambiguity
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awkwardness with a volley of awed appreciation as soft feminine fingers and eyes traced
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overtake them in a retreat, laughing at the human awkwardness as they stretch their jaws
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He saw my squirm and could probably feel my awkwardness, so he humored me and changed the subject
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“Okay, give us then that “adobo” and rice,” Philippe demanded without more ado, in hopes of cutting the creeping awkwardness
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Raskolnikov saw signs of a certain awkwardness in him, as though he had been thrown out of his reckoning or caught in something very secret
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"I was half inclined to make it try; however, he moved off to open the door, and, as he raised the latch, he looked up to the inscription above, and said, with a stupid mixture of awkwardness and elation:
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"There, that is pure awkwardness! Why did you hold the candle horizontally? Be quick, and bring another
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all the awkwardness and simplicity of country breeding
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him wider of the truth, I answered him, with an awkwardness and
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She entered the apartment, and seeing near her stepmother the stranger of whom she had already heard so much, saluted him without any girlish awkwardness, or even lowering her eyes, and with an elegance that redoubled the count's attention
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Then Godwyn would have the awkwardness of inventing a plausible story to explain what he was doing
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” She winced at her own awkwardness and pointed to the screen
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As soon as Hume returned, the tentativeness, awkwardness, and uncertainty they had felt when Ulbrickson had taken him out evaporated
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" and the like; to all which the blushing simpleton answered to my wish, in a strain of perfect nature, perfect undebauched innocence, but with all the awkwardness and simplicity of country breeding
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He spoke to me; and this address from a stranger throwing a blush into my cheeks, that still set him wider of the truth, I answered him, with an awkwardness and confusion the more apt to impose, as there really was a mixture of the genuine in them
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In her memories of Vronsky there always entered a certain element of awkwardness, though he was in the highest degree well-bred and at ease, as though there were some false note—not in Vronsky, he was very simple and nice, but in herself, while with Levin she felt perfectly simple and clear
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him to perpetrate this awkwardness than to remain all the evening and see Kitty, who glanced at him now and then and avoided his eyes
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His awkwardness infected the pretty sister-in-law too
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Levin was in a continual state of awkwardness and discomfort, but the intensity of his happiness went on all the while increasing
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awkwardness of her position never deserted him for a single instant
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‘One has to know Anna and Vronsky—I have got to know him better now—to see how nice they are, and how touching,’ she said, speaking now with perfect sincerity, and forgetting the vague feeling of dissatisfaction and awkwardness she had experienced there
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his brother, felt an awkwardness in looking at him
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Had Charles with his fumbling awkwardness and his married Melanie, and that certainty was almost all that she desired
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In a moment Phil came down, all long legs and arms and awkwardness
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She remembered the embarrassing and disgusting events of her brief honeymoon with Charles, his fumbling hands, his awkwardness, his incomprehensible emotions—and Wade Hampton
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Thinking back, all of the acts were probably lip-synching, but next to the graceless, self-conscious awkwardness of most English acts, the Motown performers were astonishing in their dress sense, choreography, and the way they delivered their songs
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sense of the awkwardness of having to thank him just then
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Perhaps something unusually stiff and embarrassed in their attitude, some awkwardness in acting up to their profession of unity, different from the natural shyness of young couples, may have been apparent, for when they were gone Mrs Crick said to her husband—
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He met his visitor with an apparently genial and good‐tempered air, and it was only after a few minutes that Raskolnikov saw signs of a certain awkwardness in him, as though he had been thrown out of his reckoning or caught in something very secret