The phrase "awkward hour" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a time that feels uncomfortable or tense, often in social situations.
Example: "The party was fun until the awkward hour when everyone ran out of things to talk about."
Alternatives: "uncomfortable moment" or "tense time".
It was a not entirely awkward hour.
The second was the most awkward hour of my life.
I got to spend an awkward hour in a greenroom alone with Dionne Warwick.
Eight o'clock, the inviolable starting time for classical events, is, for a lot of us, an awkward hour; we'd rather be sitting down to dinner, not digesting.
He refuses to blame Ford for missing a chance to dine next to a famous Russian dissident: "Ford had spared himself an awkward hour," he writes, "of making small talk into Solzhenitsyn's beard".
Since the duo pulled a fast one and announced the new goodies in Hong Kong, news made its way State side at a rather awkward hour, meaning that you are likely waking up in a new era — the era of Android 4.0.
Merry Christmas: here's how to fill in those awkward hours between breakfast and dinner.
Sometimes, too, the need stems from parental jobs with awkward hours, rather than from the cost of nursery fees.
And household surveys are a bad way to poll new migrants, since they exclude anyone who lives in a hostel, works awkward hours or isn't confident in English.Councils are compiling their own rival statistics.
The boy's increasingly ambitious interventions are like a form of abstract art (he manages to change the time on a huge clock on the side of a building), and his mother, thinking her husband's spirit has changed the kitchen clock, starts making meals at awkward hours.
At the residency, they spent some awkward hours sitting side by side, too nervous to talk, until one night they "got drunk on rum punch and made out," Taryn says.
