There was no awkwardness there.

I'm glad there's no, you know, awkwardness between us.

Instead of blank stares and awkwardness, now it is pointing and smiling!

Here, you see, we are all easy with no awkwardness or ceremony.

There's a sort of a high social awkwardness for that, but I was able to help get a message for my son to the Dean because I have very low social awkwardness with my son and I have fairly low social awkwardness with the Dean.

And one of them had an awkwardness about his hands, a mutated fourth finger.

Very often when I meet someone and they learn this about me, there's a certain kind of awkwardness.

If two friends have a reciprocal transaction, like selling a car, it's well known that this can be a source of tension or awkwardness.

And a similar analysis, I think, can apply to the potential awkwardness of a sexual solicitation, and other cases where plausible deniability is an asset.

The sister admittedly sought to cover up the awkwardness of everything as much as possible, and, as time went by, she naturally got more successful at it.

The example of this sort of thing might be that we want to send a message from one person to another in a social network minimizing, say a social awkwardness.

We learned a lot of things about the social awkwardness of it and some of the ergonomic aspects of it that you couldn't have figured out ahead of just thinking about it.

In dating, the transition from friendship to sex can lead to, notoriously, various forms of awkwardness, and as can sex in the workplace, in which we call the conflict between a dominant and a sexual relationship sexual harassment.