Sentence examples for almost clumsy from inspiring English sources

There's something curiously inelegant, almost clumsy in the way swifts fly.

NOT many years ago, California's sparkling wines were predictably heavy and overly fruity, almost clumsy tasted against comparably priced Champagnes.

Benjamin Critton It's a heavy-handed homage to the standard New York Times logo -- an almost clumsy, vaguely familiar iteration of an inimitable thing.

It's a great work, so powerful that it's almost clumsy at times, reminiscent of Dostoyevsky's "The Double" in its intellectually crowded, poetic examination of the doppelgänger.

Nearby, members of a young able-bodied group fenced, their advances and retreats looking almost clumsy compared with Ms. de Mello's repeated, careful movements.

Mussorgsky's orchestration, at once shining and murky, creates great blocks of chords, moving with unadorned, almost clumsy simplicity (exactly the characteristic of this composer which Rimsky was keen to polish and refine).

Walking, likewise, results in few injuries, unless, like me, you are almost comically clumsy.

He's almost uniquely clumsy with quips that draw inadvertent attention to his affluence.

Instead, Mr. Kuchma's political critics dismissed Mr. Smirnov's statement as an almost laughably clumsy attempt to divert public suspicion away from the president.

But rather than trumpeting the heroic form of a triumphal archway, its proportions seem squashed and deflated, presenting a facade that is almost wilfully clumsy.

Meanwhile, the accepted workaround is almost comically clumsy when you think about it: You take a load of data you want to analyze, send it over the internet to a data center where the AI actually lives and computers perhaps a thousand miles away work at top speed to calculate the result, hopefully getting back to you within a second or two.