• Across the board, all agree that it's becoming less and less awkward for women to socialize without a husband or partner.

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  • It has also adopted the same pebble-like design that's found on the Galaxy S III, which makes the Note II slightly thinner (9.4mm vs. 9.7mm) and helps it feel a little less awkward in-hand than the original version, which used the square and slightly blockier GS2 design language.

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  • It's certainly a unique approach to browsing from your couch -- and no less awkward then sluggishly dragging a virtual mouse across your TV -- but the view centric navigation can break the illusion of a well designed website, showing blank space on a page's borders if the user isn't looking at it dead-center.

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  • Eventually you can get it all to work much like TiVo, storing and retrieving shows on the hard drive, but in more awkward and less useful ways.

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  • Sure, Microsoft announced the business version of Office 365 a while ago, but previous efforts at a rental model by the Redmond company were less consumer focused, in no way a Netflix of productivity but instead awkward first attempts to fast-follow Google and others into the software as a service space while not really feeling it.

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  • A. rebels, who wear awkward long coats and caps as they scramble across a hill, look less like a guerrilla force than like fellows who had planned to go shopping with their families but somehow got sidetracked into a bizarre adventure.

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  • The big but somewhat awkward truth--awkward in a democratic society that believes so fervently in equality--is that the schools make far less difference than your own ability.

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