1.   I realize my generation has made some really awkward attempts to change that equation.

2.   As Republicans struggled over tax cuts, President Clinton and his aides spent the day in awkward attempts to recover their political equilibrium on the budget issue.

3.   But his awkward attempts at lovemaking repel her.

4.   But it would be shortsighted to ignore the baby steps, the awkward attempts to undo hundreds of years of racist history.

5.   But other than his sometimes awkward attempt to slightly distance himself from Sharpton, whose support he now says he would welcome, Green has not done this.

6.   For a while she tried her own awkward attempts at seducing him, thinking it might protect him from dangerous outsiders.

7.   Gielgud was also famous for his tactlessness and for his awkward attempts to explain it away.

8.   He seemed to have been discomfited by his own awkward attempt to get tough.

9.   In their awkward attempt to make connections, they may come on too strong or quickly retreat and become unaccessible.

10.   Slutskaya proved to be more athletic, but her awkward attempt to top Kwan left her in second in that competition.