| In the Middle Ages the cumbrous but powerful crossbow was widely used in continental Europe. |
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| Clearly, members were unhappy with the cumbrous nature of the rulemaking process. |
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| It was anti-futuristic, so cumbrous and mechanical that even the acronym seemed dated. |
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| Her treatise has the usual cumbrous apparatus of scholarly citation, though I did wonder about her methods of research. |
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| The parry of prime which was effectual enough when a heavy cut was to be stopped was too slow and cumbrous to keep pace with the nimbler thrust. |
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| I am glad John Winthorp and John Carver did not bring cumbrous and cruel iron branks to America. |
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| Without decimals, Europe would have remained trapped in the cumbrous Roman system of numeration. |
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| Still, they will not be blocking intersections or chanting beneath cumbrous papier-mache puppets. |
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| I shall hope that a more rigorous, if more cumbrous, mode of expression will always be readily available. |
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| Early European settlers adopted the process, but found less cumbrous methods. |
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| Against such a view as his, it can be argued that touring something as cumbrous and labor-intensive as opera is an expensive business. |
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| You will surely need to get rid of a few furniture pieces or cumbrous objects which will not fit appropriatly in your new home. |
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| At the heart of this strange embedded narrative lies a cumbrous allegory. |
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| If that be so he will have a choice, which will often be a choice between the old, cumbrous, costly, on the one hand, the modern, rapid, cheap, on the other. |
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| She meant to use the cumbrous machine to pick out this, that, and the other interesting person from the muddle of the world. |
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| With Mr Kibaki as president and the opposition leader, Raila Odinga, as prime minister, the mere fact that their cumbrous joint administration has hung together is an achievement. |
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| When the number grows to 20, or 25, and the committee gets ever more cumbrous, will that rule still work? For now, Mr Solbes points out, this is not an issue: the rule is set by treaty, and a change is not in prospect. |
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| Landholding did prompt South Australia's most famous contribution to reform: that land transfer proceed simply by registration, rather than through cumbrous title deeds. |
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| Assembler is a cumbrous language, and hard to learn. |
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| Their ruddy faces and somewhat cumbrous forms belong to the animal period of life that links together boyhood, colthood and calfhood. |
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| In the course of thousands of years, this cumbrous system developed into alphabetic writing. |
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| Cumbrous compounds are formed as the names of objects and a character of tedious and time-wasting polysyllabism is given to the language. |
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