The phrase "a pair of awkward" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to describe two awkward individuals or situations, but it needs additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "At the party, there was a pair of awkward dancers who kept stepping on each other's toes."
Alternatives: "two awkward" or "a couple of awkward".
And by serendipity, the first-wave-feminist chic she personified – a dark turtleneck, a pair of slightly awkward trousers – was a touchstone for fashion this year.
On top of the poor conditions and awful pay, a lack of workers right can make something as simple as buying a pair of jeans an ethically awkward task.
Yet he was still able to locate the insecurity of a newly married couple in their first cold-water flat, the professional resentment of a pair of aging vaudevillians, and the awkward ambush of an unemployed actor showing up soaking wet at your front door having sublet your apartment from your recently decamped ex-boyfriend.
But while Mr. Smith demonstrated his opposition on the Senate floor by stabbing a plastic doll with a pair of scissors, Mr. Sununu's serious, somewhat awkward demeanor would hardly lend itself to such a tactic.
The bad-writing apology mark is simple: as its inventor explains, it merely requires you to surround a sentence with a pair of tildes when "you're knowingly using awkward wording but don't have time to self-edit".
One morning as she looked forward to preparing her heirloom violets, which she grew year round in a hot-house of her own design, for entry in the monthly tri-county flower show, Miss Oriflamme discovered that they had been trod upon by a pair of size 11 boots – just Dr. Awkward's size.
Lawrence Walker dons a pair of round glasses to transform into the awkward, cuddly Plop while Stephanie Levi-John plays his stern but loving mum and all the other characters.
No one knew whether they represented a new species of dinosaur, or were just a pair of T. rex that had died during an awkward teen phase.
Pushing a pair of skis through knee-high snow is like jogging in water: slow, awkward and exhausting.
Otherwise the only moments of stretching here come on a pair of songs — "So Bad," "Seduction" — on which he takes a crack at flirtatiousness, with awkward results.
