Sentence examples for a less graceful from inspiring English sources

The signage has a less graceful version of the subway's Helvetica, and the Corinthian columns are painted an oddly vivid blue.

The delirious exterior was replaced by a less graceful design, with floors piled loosely on top of one another, their forms twisting as they rose.

He gets six more next ball, this time over the offside with a less graceful shot with his bat at eight o-clock and his eyes closed.

Juba's talent consists in walking round the stage with an air of satisfaction and with his toes turned in; in jumping backwards in a less graceful manner than we should have conceived possible; and in shaking his thighs like a man afflicted with palsy.

It's a bad compromise: the tower, still too big to satisfy the neighbors, is also a lot less graceful.

It's a third-person shooter in two-dimensional form, mixing themes from cowboy frontiers and steampunk about five years before the movie Wild Wild West did a rather less graceful job.

But offering a lesson to teenagers is less graceful, less subtle, than conveying an idea or theme, and these books can feel like after-school specials.

His lines evade all obvious aural patterns; they suggest threads cast over an abyss or, when less graceful, serially scribbled notes.

An injection of spoken-word recordings towards the end is less graceful, displacing a vibrant, textured soundtrack with on-the-nose intonations about "the prisoner of war within".

Mobula rays can reach heights of more than two metres (6ft 6ins), remaining airborne for several seconds, but their landings are much less graceful, creating a loud bang as they belly-flop back into the sea.

Mr. Brown's version is less graceful, coarser, head-on, a blunter kind of comedy.