The phrase "awkward forms" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe structures, shapes, or expressions that are clumsy or not smooth in appearance or execution.
Example: "The artist's latest sculpture features several awkward forms that challenge traditional aesthetics."
Alternatives: "clumsy shapes" or "ungainly structures".
The oppressed can take on awkward forms.
Smaller-screen Web phones offer an ever-increasing panoply of services, including instant messaging, e-mail and online games, though often in awkward forms; even some non-Web phones offer limited messaging options.
I believe there is something closer to the reality of the body in these awkward forms than direct realism can give you.
Snap's tenancy in Venice is an awkward form of urbanism.
The striving for monumentality reached its most awkward form in the highly nationalistic period of the 1930s.
The problem has been that gallium arsenide, used heavily in the space program because it captures a high fraction of the light it receives, usually comes in an awkward form: rigid, heavy, fragile crystals.
Anyone watching a few minutes of the BBC Olympic cover age would have noticed that the average British person sounds painfully awkward forming the syllables of the phrase "hopes and dreams," which trips lightly off the American tongue.
The études of Chopin and Debussy are among the greatest works of classical music; but in dance, where human beings inevitably suggest drama, the étude is an awkward form.
Her awkward form in that event figures to be her biggest impediment to becoming the first female track and field athlete to win five gold medals in one Olympics.
That being said, both Mr. Hart and Mr. Kristol emphasized that such moments could be transitory and that Mr. Gore could squander his newfound appeal by returning to a plodding, awkward form of his not so distant past.
In many ways barter is just an awkward form of money and lacks the deeper benefits of doing something completely for free (such as you do with close family and friends), and it brings up the age old problem of "the double coincidence of wants", where both parties have to have something the other desires.
