The phrase "awkward tasks" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe tasks that are uncomfortable, clumsy, or difficult to perform.
Example: "During the team meeting, we discussed several awkward tasks that needed to be addressed to improve our workflow."
Alternatives: "uncomfortable tasks" or "clumsy tasks".
Making a dramatic film about a sitting President and his advisers is an awkward task.
"Sing 'Motel Blues'?" Loudon confirms, as the awkward task of tuning his guitar is completed.
Mr. Trump was facing a potentially awkward task: moderating a debate that only two candidates said they would attend.
Sandusky's lawyer, Joe Amendola, has had the awkward task of having to cross-examine the witnesses, some of whom were still wiping tears from their eyes.
That left the reporters the awkward task of calling sources who thought we had already gone out of business -- which we mostly had.
He said he sympathised with the prime minister's "awkward task" of trying to negotiate a Brexit deal, which he said could involve nightmarish complexities.
As he scribbles on sheets of music paper – presented as an awkward task for one whose art was rooted in improvisation – his past begins to confront him.
As an advantage, the distribution of the structural variable(s) is computed by means of non-parametric techniques, which replace the fit of parametric distributions, an awkward task involving arbitrary choices.
Others, including Pharan Mot as Kaley, are just as luminous, even when charged with the sometimes awkward task of carrying pieces of the crocodile while etching the refined positions of Cambodian dance.
So the Spanish Cycling Federation is faced with the challenging and awkward task of having to decide whether Contador, its biggest star, should be sanctioned after testing positive for a banned substance.
