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1  His awkwardness infected the pretty sister-in-law too.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 26
2  She felt it awkward to call him either the count or Alexey Kirillovitch.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 23
3  At that instant Alexey Alexandrovitch did in fact walk into the room with his calm, awkward gait.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
4  It was all so simple, but he took it so awkwardly, and was so long thanking me, that I felt awkward too.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 33
5  In old days to go anywhere in a ball dress was a simple joy to me, I admired myself; now I feel ashamed and awkward.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
6  And so in spite of the friendliness and directness of their relations, Konstantin felt an awkwardness in leaving him alone.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
7  Levin was in a continual state of awkwardness and discomfort, but the intensity of his happiness went on all the while increasing.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 16
8  She ascribed this hostility to the awkward position in which Anna, who had once patronized her, must feel with her now, and she felt sorry for her.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 28
9  On getting home that day, Levin had a delightful sense of relief at the awkward position being over and having been got through without his having to tell a lie.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 1
10  "No," he broke in, and unconsciously, oblivious of the awkward position into which he was putting his companion, he stopped abruptly, so that she had to stop short too.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 21
11  He was more lovingly respectful to her than ever, and the constant care that she should not feel the awkwardness of her position never deserted him for a single instant.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 8
12  There were crack skaters there, showing off their skill, and learners clinging to chairs with timid, awkward movements, boys, and elderly people skating with hygienic motives.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 9
13  And just the same feeling of shame and regret he felt now, as he reviewed all his past with her, recalling the awkward words in which, after long wavering, he had made her an offer.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 25
14  She recalled the timid, softened look with which he gazed at her, and the strange feeling of compassion and awkwardness, and later of a sense of her own goodness, which she had felt at it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 33
15  In spite of his feeling of pride and, as it were, of the return of youth, with his favorite daughter on his arm, he felt awkward, and almost ashamed of his vigorous step and his sturdy, stout limbs.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 34
16  It seemed to Levin that he had deceived someone, that he ought to explain something, but that to explain it was impossible, and for that reason he was continually blushing, was ill at ease and awkward.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 26
17  Awkward as it was for Levin to withdraw now, it would still have been easier for him to perpetrate this awkwardness than to remain all the evening and see Kitty, who glanced at him now and then and avoided his eyes.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 14
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