But in this case, the awkwardness has accentuated a question that has loomed over the entire campaign: Who is Romney at his core?
He was at his core a fearful, law-abiding, overly cautious man, yet he let her walk past him into his apartment without a word.
And one of the things I admire most about Prime Minister Singh is that I think at his core he is a man of peace.
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There has been far too much hagiography written about Jordan, both in the past and now, far too much hero worship for a man who was, at his core, not an especially empathic person.
"At his core he remains the same as he was when Ian Fleming started writing - he's sexist, he's misogynist, " says Christoph Lindner, professor of media and culture at the University of Amsterdam and author of The James Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader.
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Mr Bush is flawed but his conviction and commitment are at the core of his awkward style.
Bright and jangly at its core, his is still an identifiable sound guitarists seek to emulate.
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But he was particularly good at building small teams at the core of his companies.
He said making smart decisions would be at the core of his stimulus package plans.
At the core of his later success was the reinvention of his own leadership.
The freedom of an individual to work, Romney said, is at the core of his foreign aid plan.
Small business is at the core of his Liberal Party's support.
In his presentation at the CORE event, Poon acknowledged that the CT procedures he advocates are seen by many as needing more data before they move into wide use.
Compelling attention wherever he went by turning out the likenesses people requested had seemingly no effect on the impersonal element at the core of his strength, the inborn modesty that was his toughness and that he later sidestepped at his peril.
He told Kitco News that instead, he looks at exploration companies, which is his core business.
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And his core stock pickers at the Gabelli mother ship Gamco Investors are similarly equipped with the ability to spot smart investment opportunities.
Much of that first two-thirds of his speech was spent in a defense of government and I am sure drew cheers from his core Democratic activist base watching at home.
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So, yes, the answer is his approach is an approach that has at its core the idea that you need to be open-minded about ideas while obviously sticking to your principles and willing to compromise.
In his last speech before leaving office this week, the American ambassador went out of his way to stress his country's interest in Britain remaining at the core of Europe.
He understands his core target market and knows how to tug at heartstrings with simple, clear messages.
The ex-Tory leader used immigration as a core campaign theme at the last election but said his defeat had been caused by continued public faith in Labour.
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Yet his firing is indicative of other issues which have been festering at the core of the USC athletics program during the last decade.
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So, the final plan that Michael Gove promoted, with Nick Clegg at his side, was to overhaul every exam, but starting with the core subjects.
Devesh Garg, founder and CEO of Tilera, says his multi-core processors will lead to higher computing performance but at a fraction of the power, latency, size and cost of other solutions.
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Cox stumbled across the idea at his previous company, Green Foam Blanks, which makes surfboard blanks (the foam core of a surfboard) from recycled polyurethane waste.
Yet, though Mr Almodovar sought to shock Spaniards out of what he saw as their straight-laced complacency, his films nonetheless celebrate the home, the family and the power of motherhood at the core of Spanish life.
"People talked about Steve's reality distortion field as a joke but at the same time time he gives you the impression that everything he says is core to his belief about the world, " he said.
One hard-core regular, Mike Levy, even wrote a farewell party at Ben Benson's into his will.
" Pandit also reaffirmed his committment to stabilizing Citi's capital base and said he is still looking at "non-core assets and businesses.
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