Christian possibly felt awkward with praise losing core element (8)
I believe the answer is:
fletcher
'christian' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'felt awkward with praise losing core element' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'felt' is 'flet' which is present in the answer.
'element' could be 'he' (He is an example) and 'he' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'possibly' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for fletcher that I've seen before include "Old playwright" , "Ronnie Barker's character in Porridge" , "Maker of arrows" , "Arrow-maker" , "Maybe Christian" .)