The phrase "awful task" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a task that is unpleasant, difficult, or undesirable.
Example: "Cleaning out the garage was an awful task that I had been putting off for months."
Alternatives: "dreadful chore" or "terrible job".
Parker also described the awful task of having to explain Emilie's death to her siblings aged three and four.
It was an awful task, to salvage Britain's biggest finance house from the wreckage left by Gordon Brown's City favourite, Fred Goodwin.
I will go in; 'tis an awful task I undertake; an awful deed I have to do; still if it is Heaven's will, be it so; I loathe and yet I love the enterprise.
Mr. Presley will eventually have to grapple with what he called the "awful task" of not pushing the utility into bankruptcy while determining how much electricity customers, taxpayers and investors should pay for the billions of dollars in cost overruns.
"It was too hard to bear if you thought about it as a whole, you had to divide the awful task of raising children into days of trials and tempers, minutes of love, seconds of comprehension".
But many other people, from hard-hatted workers in the pit to blue-suited officials in City Hall, wanted to mark the awesome completion of an awful task: the separation of human remains from 1.8 million tons of debris, and the delicate removal of both.
When he went downstairs to make himself coffee, he would encounter the couple in the kitchen, in some aspect of their private hell, dark-eyed and irritable from lack of sleep and mutual loathing, as they divvied up their awful tasks, which included prayer and meditation.
So if you're an Indie author struggling with that god-awful task of building a platform, my advice is to look around.
Kaag rather spoils the moment here by reducing this awful existential task to a version of the old metaphysical idea "that the movement of reality is best described in terms of cycles and epicycles".
The serenely delightful Agnes Ayres is dedicated by author and director in "The Awful Truth" to the task of illustrating that jealousy in a husband is an awful thing and no proper-spirited wife should put up with it.
At the camp, which Anka called "this awful, crowded place", she was tasked to work in the kitchens, "therefore had access to food.
