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Sie lachte, um ihr Unbehagen zu verbergen. She laughed to cover up her feeling of awkwardness.

Sie machten einen Spaziergang, um die Beklemmung zwischen ihnen zu lösen. They took a walk to ease/assuage the awkwardness between them.

Das ganze Interview folgt einer Rechtfertigungsdramaturgie, deren Peinlichkeit durch die schwammigen Fragen der Journalisten noch vergrößert wird. [G] The whole interview pursues a dramaturgy of justification whose awkwardness is only magnified by the journalists' flabby questions.

Es gibt viel neue Bewegung, aber nicht mehr die Angestrengtheit und Aufgeregtheit der vergangenen Jahre, als man nach immer neuen Etiketten für wenig Neues und jedenfalls oft Banales suchte ("Fräuleinwunder", "Ostalgie" etc.). [G] There are a great deal of new things going on, but one no longer encounters the awkwardness and anxiety of previous years, when people kept trying to find new labels for what was sometimes not terribly novel and certainly often banal (the Fräuleinwunder, Ostalgie, etc.).

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