The phrase "awful lines" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe lines of text, dialogue, or poetry that are poorly written or unappealing.
Example: "The script was filled with awful lines that made it difficult for the actors to deliver their performances convincingly."
Alternatives: "terrible lines" or "poor lines".
Poor John Hannah - a decent actor who deserves better - is given some awful lines and awful direction, playing their rackety pal Jonathan, running a club in Shanghai.
The actor slows down his Canadian cowpoke delivery even more than usual, so his eye-of-the-storm timing becomes the joke instead of his awful lines.
Andy and Guy gave him these brilliant, awful lines: "Are we cooking with napalm?"; "Let me run this across the road, see if it gets knocked down"; "stirring ideas in my strategy wok".
Pitchfork Media's Meaghan Garvey said his rap on the track made "a mockery of the song's serious tone with hysterically awful lines like "How can we keep the feelings fresh/ How do we Ziploc it?"" Lipshutz found his verse "unnecessary, yet [it] has morphed into an interesting confessional now that the dating rumors are on".
("We share a vagina" is a peculiarly awful line, for all its clip-reel ubiquity).
Similarly, there's something weary and wearying about the awful line that pops up midway through Eminem's guest appearance: "I even make the bitches I rape come," says Marshall Mathers, who is 42 years old.
It's like that awful line in Pretty Woman that's so great, when he says, 'What do you want?' and she says, 'I want the fairytale.' And there are a lot of lives out there that people have lived that are very fairytale-ish.
When they say this awful line, 'Yo crew, show them where the exits at!' I turn and pause and look at the crew member who is behind me and we both share this look of disgust as we're pointing to the doors.
Despite this newfound popularity, however, Guinness hated his role in these movies, later stating in an interview that he had encouraged George Lucas to kill off his character: "I just couldn't go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines.
It's also not about slithering up with some awful PUA lines and trying to bully-fuck her.
"I'd just hate to lose you, oh that was an awful blah line," she wrote.
