A re-writing increased the length by about ten per cent; awkward phrases and sentences were eliminated, and the general style of the writing was improved.

And the awkward little phrase "but he spake of his body" had to be added to Jesus' grandiloquent claims that he could demolish the temple.

The challengers selected a box first, the money amount was revealed and the team attempted to decipher an awkward phrase.

That seemed to be an awkward phrase.

There's the painfully awkward phrase "your help file(s)".

She made one or two small changes, correcting a typo here and an awkward phrase there.

Moreover, Mr. Bush's speeches are sometimes littered with awkward phrases.

That awkward phrase is actually quite good, because, for most people, if there were ideal circumstances they could, in theory, do some sort of work.

He didn't want to hear a bunch of awkward phrases and silly comments like so many other memorial services.

It is the "user interface," the industry's awkward phrase for a program's look and feel, that Lotus argues is embraced within its copyright.