The phrase "awkward directions" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe instructions or guidance that are unclear, uncomfortable, or difficult to follow.
Example: "The map provided awkward directions that left us confused and lost in the city."
Alternatives: "clumsy instructions" or "confusing guidance".
During a conversation about whether the ska-influenced pop star and her country crooner boyfriend, Blake Shelton, had any overlap in their music taste, Stefani decided to steer the conversation in an awkward direction.
Boomers may feel awkward taking direction from younger bosses and younger bosses may feel awkward dishing it out.
It has become a toxic, socially awkward place without direction.
He thinks better of it, and poses his caddy a test instead, the bagman forced to catch a club lanced at an awkward angle in his direction in mild irritation.
Given the poverty of Austin Pendleton's script, it's not surprising the direction is awkward -- or that the acting is muddy and occasionally stilted.
As the soldiers backed away with guns drawn, the Palestinian girl took a few awkward steps in their direction before one of the soldiers shot her in the stomach and shoulder, leaving her hospitalized and under arrest by Israeli authorities.
Perhaps his neatest trick was making the usually silken Federer look consistently awkward, as he stumbled changing directions and hit soft, imprecise chip backhands and wild, off-balance forehands.
Maintaining the right point locations and directions may feel awkward at first but it gets easier with practice.
(The New York scenes are murky, and the direction is generally awkward.) That reasoning would fly better or at least more sturdily if the filmmaker stuck to the personal angle and didn't try to wrench an object lesson about female empowerment from the Rosenstrasse action.
