The phrase "an awkward task" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a task that feels uncomfortable, difficult, or clumsy to perform.
Example: "Asking for a raise can be an awkward task, especially if you're not sure how your boss will respond."
Alternatives: "a challenging task" or "a difficult task."
Making a dramatic film about a sitting President and his advisers is an awkward task.
As he scribbles on sheets of music paper – presented as an awkward task for one whose art was rooted in improvisation – his past begins to confront him.
As an advantage, the distribution of the structural variable(s) is computed by means of non-parametric techniques, which replace the fit of parametric distributions, an awkward task involving arbitrary choices.
Since the differentiation between low-, intermediate-, or high-grade DCIS on the basis of small LCNB samples is an awkward task, no differentiation of grading was carried out.
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.
Mr. Trump was facing a potentially awkward task: moderating a debate that only two candidates said they would attend.
Their numerical evaluation using quadratures [ 2] or finite series [ 4], however, can be a pretty time-consuming, lengthy or awkward task, first because of numerical integrations over the spherical coordinates of the adopted coordinate system, and second because of the inexistence of a single expression, in the latter case.
The President of the United States' self-immolating weekend began with him trying to carry out an awkward political task.
He said he sympathised with the prime minister's "awkward task" of trying to negotiate a Brexit deal, which he said could involve nightmarish complexities.
Martin's Minotaur, $24.95) by conflating the plots of a police procedural and an international thriller and giving her series sleuths the awkward task of functioning in two different worlds at the same time.
Megyn Kelly had the unexpectedly awkward task of being the first to tell a candidate for a Senate seat in South Dakota that she'd lost her race.
