There is a certain awkwardness to this structure, as though the writer couldn't settle on a set of characters.

She seems to have a certain awkwardness in that regard.

To Emily's ears, the silence which followed betrayed a certain awkwardness.

I now see a certain awkwardness in the way Summerchild sits on the other side of my desk.

Anyway, one can observe a certain awkwardness about him when he has attained such objects.

He spoke with a certain awkwardness, for he also had two tongues.

One might think that this would create a certain awkwardness when someone with a mask walked into a bank.

"Hello," said Ben simply, feeling no fear, but a certain awkwardness.

But there was a certain awkwardness in the locker room.

But there was always between them a certain awkwardness, a formality.