The phrase "awkward burden" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or responsibility that is uncomfortable or difficult to manage.
Example: "He felt an awkward burden of expectation from his peers, which made it hard for him to enjoy his achievements."
Alternatives: "uncomfortable weight" or "clumsy load".
Moreover, Mr Brown and Alistair Darling, the chancellor, were slow to announce their recapitalisation plan, and will soon struggle with the politically awkward burden of controlling a big chunk of the banking sector.
Mr. Morales, 36, and the handyman struggled with the awkward burden, hauling it out of Mr. Morales's basement apartment and stuffing it in a crawl space used for storage in his Bronx building.
He was an upbeat boy, though socially awkward and burdened by numerous food allergies and strong aversions — to haircuts, to bluejeans, to chocolate.
Doris — whimsical, hypersensitive, socially awkward — is burdened by her sudden solitude when, in an elevator at work, she bumps into John Fremont Max Greenfieldd), the handsome and charming twentysomething new art director in her office.
However, strenuous work tasks in this study include lifting of heavy burdens and awkward body positions, which may rather call for high muscular capacity than aerobic capacity.
My therapists and trainers, male and female, are burdened with the sometimes awkward responsibility of trying to help me strengthen my gluteal muscles, which are surprisingly necessary for many functional activities.
Once he was on base, that squinting, finger-twitching pause when leading away from first made the infielders sidle to more awkward places in the diamond, and insufferably burdened the pitchers' attention.
Maintaining that informality -- and the burden of responsibility for continually negotiating the awkward space between pure compliance and communicative anarchy -- is essential not only to a free society but to a free economy.
"It is a very awkward situation for the country because our greatest achievement is also our biggest burden," says Wang Jinnan, one of China's leading environmental researchers.
Because of the awkward partnering of public governmental investigations with private corporate compliance efforts, that normative burden on employees may not be offset by enforcement benefits.
He had warm but awkward dealings with his sons, realizing late in life that he had burdened them with the sort of hectoring pressures to meet his standards that he had suffered from his own father.
