Oddly for such a visual director, he lays out the themes in clumsy, expository dialogue instead of just showing us. |
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As the clumsy little boy approached he tripped, and fell into his waiting arms. |
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I was in a strange land, where small, clumsy, country boys were not appreciated. |
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Frantically, she scrambled back through the ventilation shaft, haste making her movements clumsy and loud. |
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A few minutes later I heard the clumsy movements of my mother rushing out of the room. |
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Their movements are clumsy, but they can open doors and remove objects from closets and drawers. |
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Fumbling, my fingers clumsy and slow, I fought with the buttons on his soaking-wet shirt. |
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The bear was big and frightening, but his clumsy movements made people laugh. |
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The girls were running and giggling at the same time, making them clumsy in their movements and me even angrier. |
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Boule concluded that Neandertal man could not have walked erectly, but rather must have walked in a clumsy fashion. |
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I'm so completely clumsy and incapable of handling a sword or a gun that I just gave up on it. |
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As it rocks from side to side, a walking penguin may look clumsy, but its movements are actually quite efficient. |
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So, what has the dizzy blonde been doing, besides the usual clumsy bumping into things, talking rubbish and general silliness? |
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Often thought of as clumsy and gristle filled, Austrian cuisine is as varied and sophisticated as any contemporary Asian menu. |
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Hand movements may become clumsy and the person may find it difficult to even to fasten buttons. |
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The Fast Show hit British screens on 27 September 1994, and its rapid-fire approach quickly made other sketch shows seem slow and clumsy. |
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There's only so much space for awkward dialogue and clumsy exposition when you have to cram a movie full of fight scenes. |
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It is an attempt, and a clumsy attempt, to codify the present criminal law. |
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These categories are clumsy and incomplete, but I'm hoping you can deduce what I mean for the sake of brevity here. |
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It's a common theme in movies, the American who purges bad feelings by facing danger head on, and director Joe Johnston is clumsy with it. |
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He also uses the clumsy narrative device of the flashback in attempt to generate a sense of depth in the relationship. |
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For instance, when we learn to drive a car, our initial attempts are clumsy and full of errors. |
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It is difficult to believe that such clumsy moments derive from even a very early work by the great composer. |
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With this uncharacteristically clumsy device the author seems to be trying to relate his novel to public events, and trying too hard. |
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It comes off as a clumsy storytelling device and suggests a more general weakness with the criminology aspects of the film. |
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The shooting appears to be a clumsy attempt to provoke violence that would justify their continued presence in the country. |
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His downfall came only when he made a clumsy and inept attempt to forge her will, to claim her legacy for himself. |
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It's lovely to watch their progress as they grow from cute and clumsy children into poised and elegant women. |
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The extraordinarily clumsy and transparent attempt to bury the issue failed, however, resulting in a further inquiry and the present trials. |
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But these clumsy attempts to prevent its publication only promoted the swift growth of interest in the book. |
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Iron ploughs engineered to reduce soil resistance replaced clumsy wooden ones, increasing ploughing productivity. |
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The outer wooden framework, which is clumsy and heavy and painted grey, protects and cages the garland. |
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The weapon and its ammunition will be too heavy and clumsy for general issue and its cost per weapon and ammunition will be huge. |
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No longer must we rely on our clumsy thumbs to arbitrarily slam derailleurs into the proper speed. |
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With their clumsy wooden carts, they cleared the refuse from the streets and cleaned the open drains bordering its streets. |
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In Milan Kundera's clumsy new novella, a portentous, worn-out philosophy that borders on the ironic and absurd stands in for real thinking. |
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They were difficult to conceal, clumsy, expensive to manufacture, and required bulky ammunition which created stowage and logistics problems. |
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I am pretty clumsy and awkward but I try real hard never to trespass in a way that would be offensive to a place. |
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In a complex of lonely and socially clumsy bachelors, disheartened by too many rejections, she was news. |
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His characters are often awkward and clumsy, expressing people's inability to communicate. |
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The words fell out of his mouth in a clumsy, awkward fashion that instantly made him regret talking at all. |
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Many of them were written in crayon in David's clumsy writing, with each letter picked out in a colour different from the letter preceding it. |
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Ecosystems are delicate and complex, easily disrupted by clumsy interventions. |
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Why did we ever choose to become clumsy land beasts when water is our essence and feels so much like home? |
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The photographs are of indifferent quality, the layout and design clumsy and amateurish. |
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She has rendered the novel in the simple present to get over the problem of switching tenses which sounds alright in Tamil but clumsy in English. |
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I hate to tell you this dearie, but Cody's always been a bit of a clumsy klutz. |
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Strawberry jam and lemon curd are probably clumsy words to describe the flavours in such a delicate wine. |
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Many wine tasters have resorted to using anthropomorphic terms such as aggressive, clumsy, gutsy and precocious. |
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The benefits of an open internet, free from clumsy regulation and inquisitive authorities, have been huge. |
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A soldier went down in a flash of steel as he neatly riposted his clumsy strike. |
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So, trapped in the musty atmosphere of planet earth, they appear clumsy and fragile. |
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Michel spent a year apprenticing but he's clumsy and often drunk, so nobody really trusts him. |
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Overall, this is a clumsy, uneven affair which, by the time the final credits roll, grates. |
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One of the findings of this clumsy study was that the average age of death of priests in the archdiocese had been thirty-six years old. |
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Children with autism and Asperger's syndrome tend to be clumsy and to struggle with games lessons at school. |
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He was a big clumsy galoot in how he delivered his theory, but you don't have to look that far to see what set him upon his soapbox. |
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Roughly speaking, such a feat is akin to picking up a solitary dime with a clumsy front-end loader. |
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He bombs about with the other dogs and is so determined to do whatever they do but he is really clumsy, which has landed him in bother. |
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Add to this a couple of clumsy run-on sentences, and it's not really clear what he is trying to say. |
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Commentators have pointed out the numerous inconsistencies, contradictions and clumsy passages. |
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The enemy ships made a clumsy tack northerly, not expecting to see Indefatigable in their path. |
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Like many early talkies, this film alternates between stretches of awkward pantomime and stretches of clumsy dialogue. |
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I was always a bit awkward and ungainly as a child, so I thought that maybe I was just on the clumsy side. |
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He felt clumsy and awkward in the air, his body too ungainly to be properly streamlined. |
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But left-handers are renowned for being awkward and clumsy and in some societies they are still looked upon with suspicion. |
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Now she faked her clumsy and awkward movements, often purposely stumbling over anything that came her way. |
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With most artists of his stature, this would more than likely involve a clumsy catharsis resulting in a crude ego trip. |
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It's all too often clumsy, insincere and inappropriate, making a mockery of otherwise noble values. |
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This has been an extremely clumsy maladroit approach on the part of the US economic team. |
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With the ball in hand they were ambitious and expansive. And clumsy, incompetent and inadequate. |
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Also, larger oars were heavy and clumsy to maneuver and required multiple oarsmen. |
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There were a lot of bad websites at one point where the loading was bad, quality of images were poor and the interface was clumsy. |
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On terra firma the young albatross is hopelessly clumsy, but once gliding, it's poetry on the wind. |
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The sublimity is lost in renderings as clumsy in verbal baldness as a schoolboy's crib. |
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I know of a professor who was in the habit of deducting marks in examinations for bad spelling, poor grammar or clumsy sentences. |
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The choreography is stilted and clumsy and could have been a great deal more imaginative. |
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Allie made her way onto the beach, still clumsy legs getting relief in the mercifully soft sand. |
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As the lexicon expands, the clumsy but motivated compounds and periphrastic expressions disappear. |
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Wedgwood greatly improved the clumsy ordinary crockery of the day, introducing durable, simple and regular wares. |
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She became the comic symbol of the longing for grace and beauty that is in some way shared by everyone who is clumsy and shy and ill-favored. |
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His chances of career survival are made bleaker by his transparent and clumsy attempts to turn himself into the victim. |
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There were complaints from libraries and bibliographers that the Bulletin's full title was too clumsy. |
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But the cretonnes and tapestries of Merton are coarse and almost clumsy compared with these exquisite stuffs. |
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I was far too clumsy in social situations to attempt a visit, not even to apologize for something that had been plaguing me with guilt all day. |
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The waiters were clumsy to the extent of walking in to people and dropping things, and forgetful, missing people out when pouring wine. |
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I envy her recklessness, the roughness of her unpracticed pirouettes, the occasional clumsy misstep that inspires no apologies. |
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Never a thing of beauty, the game got even scrappier with Tom McCarthy brandishing the yellow card to three perpetrators of clumsy fouls. |
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Three weeks after birth, pigs have their first deciduous molars in occlusion and show large and often clumsy jaw movements. |
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The production looks chic in her design, but it is clumsy, with long blackouts after each scene, and lazily paced. |
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Rude, clumsy, offensive and unafraid, and more than willing to throw someone else's judgment of you back at them. |
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From there I became a clumsy little child, then blossoming forth into a uncoordinated teen devoid of all sporting ability whatsoever. |
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Simple self promotion is jarring, far too revealing and far too blunt, gauche, clumsy, and vulgar. |
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I'll admit that the language is clumsy in places, and parts could be read as bolshy. |
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This is a high-tech facility purpose-built to turn clumsy slicers into golfing ninjas. |
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Under the low slanting ceiling of the bathroom, he seems clumsy and ungainly. |
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Not so large that they were ungainly and made him clumsy, but not so small that you would be suspicious of him. |
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Dereth felt clumsy and ungraceful next to the two companions, as though they belonged to an exclusive club that he could never join. |
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Her music, soft, almost folky, retains enough rhythm to be labelled rock, but throwing any clumsy label on it is not any critic's place. |
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While he seemed to have an unpracticed grace, the chap was still clumsy to almost a point of impossibility. |
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Despite her classic feminine behaviour, forgetful, clumsy, unpunctual and indecisive, she succeeds in her quest to find Susan. |
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They continued to press and could have had a second penalty when a clumsy tackle went unpunished. |
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It's a clumsy, unnecessary portent of doom, both for Gilda's life and for the next two hours of watching a clumsy and unnecessary movie. |
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In person he is below the ordinary standard, somewhat disposed to corpulency, and rather clumsy in his form. |
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It gets kind of clumsy when the path leads down the screen and you have the press the up key but that's a relatively minor quibble. |
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Several pieces of equipment had been damaged by the astronauts who were clumsy in their big spacesuits. |
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Like The End Of Violence, it sometimes feels clumsy and ponderous, and seems unlikely to attract more than a cult audience. |
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The hints too had been so heavy and so clumsy that journalists well versed in the field of arms control were beginning to guess who it could be. |
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Squeezing the push-to-talk button felt a bit clumsy, though, with everything hanging bulkily from the Xbox controller. |
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The combat and movement can be clumsy, but the game haunts you nonetheless. |
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All bumbling conjurers, clumsy squires, no-talent bards, and cowardly thieves in the land will be preemptively put to death. |
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And when called to kick it up to action hero, he's clumsy and butterfingered, but determined. |
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I'm only worried about the sword fighting because I'm naturally quite clumsy. |
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Our branch contains a fair number of clumsy oafs and we own a hard boat with plenty of deck space for stumbling about. |
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The Akkadians invented the abacus as a tool for counting and they developed somewhat clumsy methods of arithmetic. |
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Such a clumsy oaf should never be allowed to dance, much less with such energy. |
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Sea urchins and starfish are the last and most obvious group of marine creatures lurking to catch unwary and clumsy humans. |
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But, at the heart of this argument, I have reached the conclusion that I'm a slightly clumsy, rather ineffectual speaker. |
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With a series of ungainly steps, clumsy lunges, and eventually a kind of painful waddle, he made his way to the phone. |
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Your writing was repetitive and clumsy and bigoted, your villains were stereotyped, your characters all wooden, but so what? |
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Eventually, I made our excuses and took her home, worried that I had ruined yet another woman's life with my clumsy social skills. |
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Cranky and carnaptious, he vented his spleen in satires and clumsy lampoons. |
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At first her movements were clumsy, but after a couple of gentle tugs it was like standing on plush carpeting. |
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But a few other hawk-eyed readers pointed out that the grammar I used in my column was actually imprecise and clumsy. |
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She is as clumsy as a young carthorse and falls over anything that lies in her path. |
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The force is designed, built, and skilled for integrated, networked operations that make today's joint ops seem clumsy. |
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In transcribing clumsy translations of the titles, I noticed that de Pomiane's titles were often waggish. |
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There were awkward speeches saying kind and clumsy things, gauche jokes and real fondness. |
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Some believe that de Vries is over-rated, and he can certainly look clumsy, but there is no arguing with his strike rate. |
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Sometimes I wonder whether they often use clumsy statements that can hurt us directly on purpose or out of sheer ignorance. |
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And Jane was described as a real woman, with nothing clumsy about her character and as a genuine heroine unlike today's film stars and models. |
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The clowder of kitties featured are mischievous, cuddly, jerky, funny, clumsy and, as always, adorably furry. |
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When in flight, females stayed close to the ground and always appeared clumsy and overladen. |
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In her clumsy attempt to parry she overreached herself and plummeted from the back of her horse, landing heavily on the ground. |
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While a tripod is clumsy, awkward and requires special adjusting, the unipod can go anywhere with ease. |
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However I found it dramaturgically clumsy, and as a whole, the ballet had less power than Alfred Rodrigues's 1953 work on the same subject. |
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Meanwhile some clumsy clot seems to have copied and pasted from last year's invitations. |
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He would smile mysteriously at her, or look at her with a new kind of interest that made her feel awkward and clumsy around him. |
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A clumsy man with a broad northern accent, Paley delighted in fishing. |
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Politics is wily, skilled and intelligent, not clumsy and ham-handed. |
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On the other hand, I always was a clumsy, accident-prone little boy. |
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Or is this a clumsy attempt at a makeover for the water of life, something based on the London vodka restaurants that once revolutionised the perception of Russia's finest? |
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He must be pretending to be something, striking some kind of clumsy tribal note. |
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But Silva, hapless Silva, got his merely for tangling with the Colombian goalkeeper in a clumsy melee of limbs. |
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Season one of OITNB chronicled her clumsy, fumbling attempts to get her legs under her so she could run for safety. |
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Rather, after weeks of clumsy diplomacy, they consciously led their nations into battle. |
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Prepare to see what she looked like as an adorkable and clumsy 5-year-old. |
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He will draw figures in a clumsy way and make use of the cheap look of junky illustration while at the same time handling other elements, such as watercolor, elegantly. |
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While eating a large fruit picked from a tree, the kalong takes up a position which, although certainly very comfortable, appears to us as very clumsy. |
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Some modern editors have occasionally been known to spoil the nicely turned prose of an accomplished writer by adding clumsy or redundant phrases! |
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A lonely widow repining for the past while enduring the boisterous attentions of her clumsy Irish housekeeper encounters a cripple collecting money for an invalid hospital. |
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He almost laughed out loud at how clumsy he had been at that age. |
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The scales are covered with ganoin, a dense shiny substance like enamel, which gives the fish an archaic armoured appearance and makes it rather clumsy. |
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The word inept, according to Roget's Thesaurus, means clumsy, artless, awkward, bungling, inadept, inefficient, unskillful, ham-handed and incapable. |
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It is more like an anti-gimmick, undoing the gimmickry of often clumsy stereo effects. |
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Others are clumsy and awkward, obvious targets of adolescent rejection. |
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But her style is often clumsy, particularly when she discusses generalities, and I was worried by apparently unjustified discrepancies in transcription of schwa. |
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No, I was just a tall, big-boned, and still very clumsy girl. |
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It's a grand misstep full of clumsy guitars and a confused direction. |
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Unlike her somewhat clumsy, unladylike friend, Crystal was a born Lady. |
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Present government has a unskillful and clumsy economic policy. |
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At the risk of making racist generalisations, why is it that Europeans and Americans are so clumsy and unsubtle and appear to be such galumphing oafs in diplomacy? |
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Some observers hypothesize that she had been indoctrinated to believe the malicious stereotype of the Ursidae as awkward, clumsy, ill-mannered brutes. |
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Many professional dancers make ends meet, or simply share their love of the art, by teaching classes in studios that are surprisingly manageable for your average clumsy oaf. |
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Behind the bar is Steve, a clumsy, almost heroically inept young oik. |
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Primitively clumsy and slow, with conical heads and pointed pink noses, sparse gray fur and naked ears, mature opossums reach the size of house cats. |
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They must have been clumsy and difficult to manoeuvre as well. |
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Coursers had none of the ponderous, muscle-bound massiveness that characterized the chargers of heavy foreign knights and made them look so clumsy and unwieldy. |
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Your sword must strike purposefully, not just clumsy swipes. |
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There was a clumsy clonk on his door and Malin let Mr. Razors in. |
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I was astonished, when reading his memoirs, to learn that such a polished and poised fellow had never lost the sense that he was awkward and clumsy. |
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The child may look dazed, and his or her movements may be clumsy. |
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When the shot broke, I tried to run the bolt quickly and prepare for a follow up, as we had practiced, but my hands were suddenly awkward and clumsy. |
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Last year I was daft enough to get the guy to help me with the counter top and the clumsy fellow managed to gouge a great chunk out of the kitchen wall. |
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I made this clumsy, half-hearted suicide attempt about a year ago. |
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The characters appear out of nowhere and act as little more than clumsy devices to move the plot along and reveal the truth behind mysteries set up elsewhere. |
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The clumsy frame-up attempt was as stupid as it was shortsighted. |
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These clumsy wood snowshoes were heavy and made walking almost impossible. |
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The reason seems to be that they are clumsy and difficult to manoeuvre. |
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The gypsies hold a kind of informal fair on the village green with cockshies, swings, and all the clumsy games that extract money from clumsy hands. |
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Within our graphics department final year students had priority on the photosetter, a large and clumsy lump that hummed and spewed out bromides to command. |
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And it hurts when we have this clumsy, plodding exchanges because he was my best friend, and now we can't seem to talk to each other without diffidence and discomfort. |
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The slow clumsy creodonts, well adapted to the jungle thickets, were replaced by the swift intelligent cat and dog type carnivora as the dominant predators. |
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Even the original Vulcan, as connoisseurs of Roman mythology will remember, was a clumsy bore, which is one reason his wife Venus cuckolded him with the more mobile Mars. |
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Birds, generally, will not tolerate human beings, especially human beings with gigantic clumsy flying machines that fume with black smoke and sound like a flying earthquake. |
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But gack, it's just so clumsy here, and so very, very self-conscious. |
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The game looks sharper, and the gameplay remains as hectic as ever, but you'll get the most out of it if you own a gamepad, as the keyboard controls are quite clumsy. |
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Tacking on vibraphones to clumsy, endlessly repetitive garage rock does nothing but emphasize the complete lack of original ideas that plagues this album. |
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The tone is that of rancorous comedy, and there is skill in the writing, but the play, unlike the movie, is weighed down with a confusing prologue and a clumsy epilogue. |
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She frequently dropped a stitch and her clumsy, fluttering hands always became entangled with the yarn till she ended up with an endless row of impossible knots. |
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The finale using Guarani Indian music was invigoratingly jolly but the clumsy ending left the audience bemused. |
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A clumsy math geek with little fashion sense, Diego knows he can't compete with the NBA-bound player. |
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As he looks to get a shot away, a clumsy, lunging scissor tackle by Ledley King drags him to the ground. |
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Denturist Steven Burchell, aged 41, of North Street, said the internet was now proving an invaluable surgery tool for those with clumsy choppers. |
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Then she stepped out of the dress and came and began to unknot his tie, pushing aside his own suddenly clumsy fingers. |
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An antiquated or clumsy search system, or staff unwilling or untrained to engage their patrons, will limit a library's usefulness. |
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Furthermore, you can eat sushi with your fingers, a fact that allows the clumsy among us some face-saving grace at the sushi bar. |
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The term may have arisen from the notion of a clumsy or rough manner of speaking. |
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Since then he has been a harsh critic of clumsy bank policies and argued that no one should be able to do what he did. |
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She sprang into the air and jack-knifed into a clumsy pike before following her hands into the water. |
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To say she can be clumsy is a bit like saying the Mafia can be a bit shooty. |
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Although they are excellent swimmers and divers, their walking appears clumsy. |
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This is thought to provide protection to seabirds, which are often very clumsy on land. |
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While it is exciting to encounter a wide-ranging intellect, sometimes the novel's learnedness is like a clumsy book report. |
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The fourth Naked Brothers movie, which will be shown on Nickelodeon Friday night, is clumsy but criticproof. |
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Achebe's critics argue that he fails to distinguish Marlow's view from Conrad's, which results in very clumsy interpretations of the novella. |
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The riddle may depend upon the assumption that a clumsy person falling off a wall might not be irreparably damaged, whereas an egg would be. |
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It is a really klutzy clumsy looking device, but that's the way everything starts out. |
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This new role was unwelcome to the Government, which made clumsy attempts to silence him. |
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Parrot's feather floats on the surface with a lacy delicacy that makes ferns look clumsy, while it works as a wonderful aerator for pond fish. |
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It was a clumsy, side-handed, chopping blow, but Louis was unprepared for it. |
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Ignore the clumsy comparisons of the Syria War and the balkans War. |
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Her clumsy attempt to cut the cake was the cause of much mirth. |
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He's very clumsy. I wouldn't trust him with carrying the dishes. |
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While there is a cocky swagger in Thicke's brash come-on lines, there is also goofy charm and a clumsy vulnerability in his blue-eyed soul delivery. |
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I'm clumsy, stupid, making a numb-handed mess on the clean cloth. |
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The ads were already showing as he clambered along and in their patchy glare he loomed and ducked and apologized, and was a clumsy intruder in a world of snuggling coupledom. |
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A feature of the characterisations undertaken by Sellers is that, regardless of how clumsy or idiotic they are, he ensured that they always retain their dignity. |
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Dayan, a firm infantry man, preferred that arm of the service at the expense of armour, which Dayan saw as clumsy, pricey, and suffering from frequent breakdowns. |
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All guess-work exploits shrivel up a good yard, or sometimes two, when brought to the measure, and the champion of the county dwindles into a clumsy clod-hopper. |
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Maybe the 90 degree dives and Immelmann loop had gone to my head, but something about being in Florida was turning me from a clumsy quiet girl to an action junkie. |
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The contest was a clumsy attempt to harness the power of open-source software development, in which informal bodies of coders attack a common problem. |
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I suppose I can't blame them, I'm known to be something of a clumsy clart. |
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As these clumsy tetrapods slowly became more mobile and terrestrially comfortable, their efforts to move more efficiently became an evolutionary force. |
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