It is also great to have friends who let you get comfortable first than put your
awkwardness in the spotlight.
The golden age of
awkwardness has seen technology geeks become celebrities (e.g., Steve Jobs, Bill Gates), nerdy interests become cool (e.g., ComicCon), and even movie stars identifying as awkward (e.g., Awkwarfina).
The beggars are "causing annoyance and
awkwardness" as well as "nuisance and embarrassment," and pose a danger to the safety of "vehicular traffic, as well as pedestrians and public in general," the statement asserted.
Josh:
Awkwardness comes in many forms: It's saying the wrong thing, not knowing what to say, not making eye contact or having unique body language.
Scope has partnered with the UniLad Facebook page to produce six light-hearted short films starring disabled talent, including The Last Leg's Alex Brooker, covering familiar settings where people's
awkwardness around disability has led to hilarious results.
In this returning series, another batch of celebrities celebrate these very British problems by telling their own anecdotes of
awkwardness, or generally having a good old moan.
So a play on
awkwardness has more universality," says Randall Rothenberg, a former New York Times advertising columnist who's president of the Interactive Advertising Bureau.
Awkwardness, he claims, stems from moments of "rupture" or "unexpected shifts" in these relationships that expose the "differentials and misalignments in knowledge, affect, or desire among filmmakers, social actors, and viewers" (p.
As someone who drinks very little alcohol, I've found myself at times using clever tactics to avoid the
awkwardness that occurs when everyone around me has a drink in hand.
Speaking about the Tate commission, Barlow explained, "I want to re-claim the 'lump' in a revitalized form, to suspend it, to have space circulating around it in an attempt to manipulate its weight and gravity." As the word lump suggests, her sculptures have an inherent
awkwardness. Barlow's achievement is to have made this
awkwardness her own; in Dock she made it work on an unexpectedly grand scale.