Throughout, there are no awkward melodic leaps; everything proceeds smoothly, by arpeggio or by step.

The Eeiauoan was beside him with an awkward leap, her eyes round.

It made an awkward, high leap, twisting in the air to land on its foot a dozen feet nearer the tractor.

His step quickened as much as his throbbing knee allowed, and he took the back stairs in a couple of awkward leaps.

I nearly slipped and fell when his awkward and exaggerated leap over it took me off-guard in mid-stride.

She blundered on through the mud in awkward leaps.

By awkward leaps and bounds he was rapidly becoming a mental case.

The first movement defines C minor in the first bar, but then destabilizes it with awkward leaps at odd intervals:

But each of her vocal registers seemed to inhabit a different world, with awkward leaps between them.

The mouse hole was in front of them and Tennyson made an awkward leap for it.