The phrase "awkward ease" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone appears comfortable or relaxed, but there is an underlying sense of discomfort or awkwardness.
Example: "She moved through the crowd with an awkward ease, smiling at everyone while clearly feeling out of place."
Alternatives: "clumsy comfort" or "uncomfortable grace".
Over 650 pages long, with almost 60 contributors, London: City of Disappearances is a highrise of paper, too awkward for ease of use, too dense for comfort, too big for its own good, and - once you winch it open - as sprawling and overcrowded as the city to which it pays its tributes.
"That moment was very encouraging for me," says Theroux, who comes across exactly the same in the flesh as on TV: sort of awkward, but so at ease with his own awkwardness that he is probably the most relaxed person in the room.
She still feels physically awkward and ill at ease.
But, confronted by his own six-year-old son, Rylance's Byron suddenly seemed awkward and ill at ease.
The 70 or 80 normal-looking people appear awkward and ill at ease waiting for the ice to break.
The unshowy, northern-born-and-bred Simm knows how to convey an awkward interior life with ease, to play the tormented loner with a quietly biting, ironic wit.
Give them each a heads up: "Matt, I'm looking forward to seeing both you and Samantha at my wedding!" Encourage your female friend to attend, and assure her you will do what you can to ease the awkward interactions.
Mel is not a relaxed, sociable individual to start with -- sampling any interview with Gibson leaves the impression that he is awkward and ill at ease in public.
A branch of industrial psychology that combines experimentation, engineering and product design, human-factors engineering is concerned with easing the awkward, often ill-considered marriage between man and machine.
It's not exactly a dialogue, so much as a way of easing the awkward interaction of having to repeat the same command over and over again. .
