The phrase "awkward elegance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a style or manner that is both clumsy and graceful at the same time, often in art, fashion, or behavior.
Example: "Her dance had an awkward elegance that captivated the audience, blending grace with an endearing lack of precision."
Alternatives: "clumsy grace" or "graceful awkwardness".
That push and pull drives "From Before" and shows off Mr. Fagan's affinity for locating a place of awkward elegance.
Over the years serious, thoughtful artists like Bruce Nauman and Wayne Thiebaud and Roy Lichtenstein said how much they appreciated his work for its strangeness and awkward elegance.
In Sarah Michelson's "Dover Beach," performed at the Kitchen in June, Non Griffiths — then 12, pale, blond and skinny as a beanpole — used her cool, knowing presence to evoke an awkward elegance.
You can see in the show, which consists mostly of minor works but has a few very good pictures, the luminosity of his palette and the awkward elegance of his line.
She moves with an awkward, dream-logic elegance through the stages of grief, chain-smoking at Ouija boards, the phonecalls to prove he loved her in real life not only her imagination, the gorgeous, taunting mountain of roses delivered to his widow rather than her own lonely bungalow, that bury her in a nightmare, the creeping in of self-doubt, the descent into madness.
Oh, and there's the figure skating gala, a kind of end-of-term dance, only with more elegance and less awkward and inappropriate behaviour.
Henrik Nánási conducts with stylish panache and considerable elegance: the couple of moments of awkward stage-pit coordination on opening night should sort themselves out during the run.
Or its elegance can make you feel like an awkward American: tarragon is very French.
(It is mathematically possible for a golfer to hit 18 straight holes-in-one, but only the late Kim Jong Il of North Korea has ever come close to doing so outside the realm of video games with cheat codes).The conceptual elegance of the perfect game makes for an awkward juxtaposition with the rather prosaic list of players who have done it.
Awkward as this sounds in translation, the original German has the elegance that arises where accuracy of thought and economy of expression intersect.
The show, which opens tomorrow, highlights the genome's elegance, power and decided air of mystery while playing down the awkward guest's most tiresome features.
