| The style shows its best in New York, but even there it was relatively heavy, lumpish, and derivative. |
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| Once wide awake, even enterprising, they slowly become dilatory, leaden, slow, laggard, and lumpish. |
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| If he governs according to what he said during the campaign, it will be a lumpish mess at best and could be disaster for the Democratic Party. |
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| The buildings are formed from quite blunt, lumpish volumes, which are then cut and deformed according to an abstract procedure. |
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| He studied antiquity in immense detail, in search of a basis for reforming modern architecture, which he thought had become lumpish and boring. |
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| This potentially lumpish dish was served in a parfait glass, covered in a veil of horseradish cream. |
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| Yet lumpish Jane's fairytale romance is left stranded on the roadside by the self-centered pragmatism of robbers on the run. |
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| Silent and lumpish, he seems to live chiefly through the random fixations of his senses. |
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| Even allowing for Manet's playing 18th-century games, the pastel Portrait of Eva Gonzalès is lumpish, sentimental and cack-handed. |
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| Three lovelorn teenage girls: Marie, the tomboy, neglects her lumpish friend Anne for Floriane, a synchronized swimming nymphet. |
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| For the kids the knee-jerk tourist products are wooden toys, but they are lumpish, boring objects, unlikely to appeal to any but the most simple-minded of toddlers. |
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| But see how it is shaped and painted: saggy, lumpish, clumpy, sluggish, slobbish, squidgy. |
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| Underneath their airs of great lumpish beast there lies a sensitive animal, sometimes timid or even afraid. |
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| He is otherwise best known for the lumpish statue of Hercules and Cacus that still stands outside the Palazzo, a desperate and failed attempt to rival the greatness of his nemesis. |
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| It takes me a little while to get my bearings as I manipulate the arrow keys: every small movement seems exaggeratedly fast and my surroundings, lumpish and crudely-coloured, whizz by me. |
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| Ironed flat to the ground even as what we have made, these lumpish, unlovely shapes of concrete, stone, steel, soar so preposterously into the unreachable sky. |
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| Without an exhibition plan to dazzle the viewer, the merchandise would have looked like nothing more than a collection of forlorn, banal, lumpish items. |
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| Thus, also, you pass from the lumpish grub in the earth to the airy and fluttering butterfly. |
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| The more of their lumpish loans that are converted into liquid securities, the higher the profits that accrue to the middlemen, the investment banks. |
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| Direction of the principal characters is effective, but the crowd scenes tend to the lumpish, with a paradoxically static feel, despite the overt busyness of it all. |
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