The phrase "awkward contrast" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where two elements are juxtaposed in a way that feels uncomfortable or out of place.
Example: "The film presented an awkward contrast between the lighthearted comedy and the serious themes of loss and grief."
Alternatives: "uncomfortable juxtaposition" or "clumsy disparity".
The awkward contrast is being played out across northeastern Japan, including at schools here.
"I think it's an awkward contrast," Coach Mike D'Antoni said Thursday, "just because we're still filling up holes in behind that trade".
The Nuremberg precedent might be invoked to argue that committing crimes in order to overcome tyranny is legally permissible, but there is an awkward contrast with the treatment of German war crime in 1945: now it is the US and Britain that many believe have waged a war of aggression.
Its Italianate architecture, experts said, stood in awkward contrast to the surrounding buildings.
The result is an awkward contrast, especially considering how willing Ted 2 is to allude to the oppression of LGBT Americans (and to throw in some bonus transphobia early on).
In spite of their awkward contrasts, both genres coexist on the menu, for seeming little other reason that that Filippo La Mantia says so.
Luca Marazia, the odd man out, dashes on and off the stage to perform awkward, contrasting movements; strutting walks with flexed feet melt into sliding squats that hug the floor.
Wood quotes a poem in which Auden, matily mocking his friend Isherwood, notes how 'plain and awkward' novels are by contrast with the operatic virtuosity of poems.
"Once and Again," in contrast, traffics in awkward silences, private snubs, articulate half-truths and a rueful sort of humor that shares more in common with observational stand-up comedy than with sitcom punch lines.
The presumption has become that such regimes will endure.By contrast, "globalisation", that awkward term that covers the freer movement of goods, capital, people and ideas around the globe, has become the governing principle of commerce.
Mr. de Blasio hit back, and hard, a contrast to his awkward response to the topic on Monday, when he sidestepped several questions and led a pack of reporters on a three-block chase in Midtown Manhattan.
