The phrase "a set of awkward" is not complete and lacks context, making it unclear in written English.
It could be used when referring to a collection of awkward situations, moments, or items, but it needs additional information to clarify its meaning.
Example: "During the meeting, there were a set of awkward pauses that made everyone uncomfortable."
Alternatives: "a collection of awkward" or "a series of awkward".
Osborne and Peter Mandelson - whose stay on Deripaska's £80m yacht, Queen K, led to the trade secretary facing his own set of awkward questions - are not the only famous faces to be seen.
Talk show host Conan O'Brien on Thursday really got into it by telling Kevin Hart to do something awkward during a set of pullups.
Sometimes, adding "full" insoles to a set of shoes makes them uncomfortable or awkward to wear.
They come to talk business in a setting free of awkward assumptions ("What does your husband think?").
Behind the main structure, a long corridor provides a slightly awkward link between the new-build foyer (where a curving staircase dominates) and a set of pod-like two-storey units set up on the hillside behind.
"You put a dealer in an awkward position when you ask him to come in and give a 'fair market valuation' of a set of maps," one said.
The only down side to the set was a moment of awkward pretension when Grainger asked who in the audience had been at the band's first Chicago show at the Empty Bottle some years back, when he added, "Do any of you even know what that is?" At any rate, their decision to reunite as a band this year arguably stands as the best such decisions of 2011.
Within the monologue form of a set-piece speech, awkward questions about exactly how far these things had climbed, or from what depths, could be brushed aside.
But if they stay in, as many are expected to, their employers must contribute as well.The lure of the short termLord Turner's success in designing a workable set of reforms holds an awkward lesson for Labour.
What made the production different, she says, was Dunster's enthusiasm for collaboration, and a commitment to casting actors who understood the setting, rather than "a group of awkward, middle-class white people".
