The phrase "awkward brilliant" is not a standard expression in written English, but it can be understood in context.
You can use it to describe someone who is both socially awkward and exceptionally intelligent or talented, often in a way that is endearing or relatable.
Example: "His awkward brilliant nature made him a unique presence in the room, as he stumbled over his words while sharing groundbreaking ideas."
Alternatives: "socially inept genius" or "clumsy prodigy".
I will say this about "Kalifornia": It's an alternately awkward and brilliant movie that's meant to and does disturb an audience.
Shankman is replacing Dr. Hank on the USA medical drama as HankMed's newest hire, the socially awkward but brilliant Dr. Jeremiah Sacani.
Etkin: DVR It It's Robin Williams doing voices, talking quickly and being awkward, but brilliant and Sarah Michelle Gellar being the stick-up-her-ass workaholic.
The record ranges from affably awkward to irreverently brilliant; his live act should bolster it with no shortage of past hits, from "Eat It" to "Smells Like Nirvana".
I was watching an episode the other night and one of the characters was wearing a green bikini, and she was so awkward it was brilliant.
Two more recent novels -- written a few years after a fatwa-forced existence hiding out with Salman Rushdie, then her husband -- claimed sweeping imaginative territory, but made awkward if fitfully brilliant efforts to occupy it.
That gives a competitor a shot at grabbing a socially awkward but otherwise brilliant young engineer.
To outsiders, it looked like a corporate marriage made in hell: a 38-year-old executive with considerable experience hitched to a brilliant, awkward man-child (23 years old) who has the fastest-growing social networking site in the cosmos and no idea of how to make money off it.
Glover's brilliant, socially awkward astrodynamicist Rich Purnell plays a crucial part in bringing stranded botanist Matt Damon back from Mars, where his fellow astronauts accidentally left him for dead.
All of them share a lack of terror about awkward silences, a sometimes brilliant obliqueness in the writing style and – every now and then – a sense of real melancholy.
