| For d'Alembert the language of infinitesimals or differentials was just a convenient shorthand for avoiding the cumbrousness of expression required by the use of the limit concept. |
| Excessive weight, cumbrousness, and other drawbacks stand in the way of stored-electricity as a motive power. |
| Not a small part of this new cumbrousness is due to the loss of distinctions between words, the misuse of words, and other abuses of language. |
| Over time, its descendants became ever more adept at swimming and paid for their aquatic prowess with increasing cumbrousness on land. |
| The higher self craves freedom from the cumbrousness, the limitations, the pains and disabilities of the body. |
