Her fingerwork was limpid and supple, though an occasional awkward passage indicated that at 76 she may be losing technical resiliency.

Everyone is familiar with the famously awkward passage in which he announces that he has come not to bring peace, but a sword.

Knife climbing was for those short and awkward passages, and frowned on anyway because it suggested you'd chosen a wrong route.

It has its infelicities, awkward passages and repetitions.

In a typically awkward passage, Esquivel explains that her heroine "soon found that whoever controls information, whoever controls meaning, acquires power.

Instead, awkward passages ("Tell Peter what we've been through," Alice says to one of her sons) and rhetorical excess disrupt occasional lyric passages about a family's simple dreams.

They kept their bright tone and their light but driving rhythm through the most awkward passages of the Grosse Fuge, which ended the published program.

His playing was shapely, musical and sensitive, but occasional finger slips and some awkward passages seemed signs of uneasiness.

The intricate key organization that makes this range possible can make the playability of some passages awkward.

If a subject's grammar or taste is unsuitable, quotation marks should be removed and the awkward passage paraphrased.