The phrase "awkward determination" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sense of resolve or decision-making that feels uncomfortable or clumsy, often in a situation where one is unsure or hesitant.
Example: "Despite the awkward determination in her voice, she pressed on with her decision to leave the job."
Alternatives: "clumsy resolve" or "uncomfortable resolve".
Her husband, Ross, calls her Mosquito because that's what she looks like to him — all awkward elbows and determination — when he is riding behind her on bicycle trips here in Marin County, Calif., or, farther afield, on more ambitious tours through the hills of Idaho or Italy.
"Juniper Tree Burning" is a vexing work--full of astonishments but held back by its awkward narrative and a determination to dazzle.
Sutton's determination to make life awkward for their visitors cranked up after the break as Bedsenté Gomis gave Monreal a fright as he wriggled into space in the box.
It's one of the awkward truths about journalism: finding out what readers want to know is often not pretty and involves rude questions and a bulldog determination to get around things like closed doors and yellow police tape.
As the number of factor variables affecting soil nematode populations is large and monitoring seasonal populations awkward, nematode influence on crop health and yield determination is seldom fully recognized.
When she was a student and young adult, her autism was more pronounced, and she was frequently withdrawn, fearful and socially awkward, alternating between high skittishness and almost bombastic determination.
Even with its thoughts of apprehension and death, the song is a cozy refuge from the album's ups and downs, its sometimes awkward mixture of Jay-Z's reflexes and his determination to sidestep them.
Which seems like an insanely unnecessary thing to say about someone live on television, but apparently had something to do with determination and was totally worth it for the agonisingly awkward on-air apology.
Schedule 4/2 was not evaluated past the initial combination dose level (sunitinib 37.5 mg and gemcitabine 750 mg m−2) as it proved to be an awkward scheduling regimen in practice because of missed or delayed doses of gemcitabine (see Determination of MTD).
Although Funny Girl portrays Brice's life, not Streisand's, it established many enduring elements of Streisand's screen image, including her transition from an awkward ugly duckling to a stylish, sophisticated star, her Jewish origins, and her persistence and determination.
