The phrase "a sort of awkward" is not correct in standard written English.
It can be used when describing a feeling or situation that is somewhat uncomfortable or lacking in grace.
Example: "The conversation took a turn and became a sort of awkward silence that lingered in the room."
Alternatives: "somewhat awkward" or "kind of awkward".
The model could barely walk, much less ski in the roomy pants, but she did have a sort of awkward charm.
After having had a high-profile but not necessarily successful career and then a disastrous ending, she became what we might call "iconic," a sort of awkward word that means that people relate to the icon without any historical sense or intellectual comprehension of what it means.
More than any other president, shaking hands (or in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's case, not shaking hands) has become a sort of awkward performance art for Trump, or at the very least a spectator sport for the rest of the world.
Like middle schoolers, modern cats are caught in a sort of awkward transition.
Lee's emergence signals a sort of awkward torch-passing from his mentor, Stan Shih of Acer, whence BenQ sprang.
But my thinking is that Labs occupied a sort of awkward position, internal projects too buggy or specific to be implemented, but not big enough to be features highlighted in a blog post or in-app update.
We're in a sort of racially awkward phase in this country.
A mini swarm of bots is seen in the installation video above, performing a sort of strange, awkward dance and in the process creating a generative image.
We can hope he knows that and that his laughing remark was a sort of joke — an embarrassing, awkward, ambiguous sort of joke, perhaps, but one that implies an ethical sensibility.
While this makes for some eerie storytelling, it's unfair to his protagonist, a distraught heroine in a Gothic melodrama blundering through the motions of being a cop, the sort of awkward position she was also placed in for most of Frost's previous novel, "Run the Risk".
That has led to all sorts of awkward practical issues, said Jon Benjamin, chief executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, because Orthodox Judaism forbids writing or using a computer on the Sabbath.
