One of the evening's more awkward moments involved a tribute to British fashion icons.
The external antenna does wonders for reception, but makes the tight fit even more awkward.
But when the markets turn, budding financial conglomerates could find themselves with more awkward questions to answer.
But it is also possible that the story conceals an even more awkward dining partner for September 9th.
The more awkward question is whether the amount of dark energy is changing.
It would be even more awkward if the euro's birth broke Europe's sole currency union, that between Belgium and Luxembourg.
The charge that Bain left misery in its wake is all the more awkward because Mr Romney had a privileged upbringing.
More awkward still, any deliberate loosening of the budget would increase the risk that the deficit would reach 3% next year.
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Even more awkward are suburban commuter lines, with their large peak-hour flows.
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.
It's about a millimeter thinner than the Nexus but, thanks to its straight sides and almost featureless body, it feels quite a bit more awkward in the hand.
The current unwieldy structure will become even more awkward if the EU follows through on its plans to add up to 12 more nations over the next few years.
If the Europeans really have done nothing more on fiscal policy by then--and if the eurozone still has relatively high interest rates--the conversation may be rather more awkward for them.
Likewise, couples assigned any other seat pairs but the middle two will face each other, which is not the end of the world, but makes for more awkward (and louder) conversation.
More revealing, however, was the more awkward and equivocal reaction of newspapers closer to the centre, reflecting the reluctance of many commentators and interest groups to incur Mr Berlusconi's wrath, in the expectation that he will win.
An example is Turkey, which was bound closely to America when its generals were running the show, but which has become a more awkward ally since the rise of the moderately Islamist Justice and Development (AK) Party.
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The morning papers say that Mr. Trichet, President of the ECB, is poised to raise the policy rate later this week for the second time in the present cycle, but the European economy has slowed since his first tightening move, making the timing more awkward.
It had been strange and more than a little awkward having to explain to the surgical team why Osteen was spending the morning with us.
As we fiddled with them, they seemed more solid than the awkward covers seen on last year's Xperia S although we reckon the headphone socket flap could prove to be a frustrating extra step when plugging into our music.
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When the young members of Generation-i use their phones to send text messages, the small keyboards make typing awkward and abbreviations even more important: "b4n" (bye for now), "cu" (see you).
EU's new foreign-policy chief, will also be put in charge of the ten-nation Western European Union, a weak but explicitly military organisation which the larger body is now expected to swallow up, though this raises awkward questions about countries more involved with one than the other.
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This has left the industry in an awkward position: it needs more government money to fight the disease, but kicking up a fuss about it sours milk's wholesome image.
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Although Harbhajan batted freely and without alarm in hitting an unbeaten 18, numbers nine to 11 had no answer to Krejza as a series of awkward defensive pokes brought three more wickets.
The Samsung combination of the stylus and their Swype-esque keyboard (or your finger) makes writing a big email a lot more pleasant and accurate than poking the awkward fringes of the slim iPhone 5.
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Swimmers on Coney Island, identical twins at a Christmas party for twins and triplets, ageing fur-coated women on buses or smoking at diner counters were caught at awkward moments, all revealing more about themselves than they might wish.
Resurrecting the economy, he suggests, is more important than getting rid of Albania's awkward president.
Yet, if talking about Korea is awkward now, it will be even more fraught in the teeth of a crisis.
Story, acting, and visuals all stand out as Nathan Drake adventures in typically over-the-top style on his jungle adventure, but the overall gameplay experience is dragged down by truly awkward aiming, making the shooting portions more irritating than fun.
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