"Though I never slapped together anything as clumsy as this".
If a narrative is going to be as clumsy as that, can't it have some guns?
I am anxious to see if I am as clumsy as I used to be.
He looked as clumsy as it is possible to be in public without actually falling over.
None of this is as obvious or as clumsy as it sounds.
Some of the dialogue is as clumsy as the previews suggested.
Much as this might signal the novel's preoccupation with masculine sensibilities, it is not as clumsy as it sounds.
Human intimacies here often feel as clumsy as the "acting" parts of classic porn, which supply a glad, chummy aura but also reveal an abyss.
The exam sheets themselves served as evidence of the suspected cheating — crude markups, blatant copying, unexplained bonus points — that proved as clumsy as a botched rhythmic routine.
He has described his work as "super-real", and certainly his dialogue, with every "um" and "ah" carefully included, is as clumsy as real speech.
The bees' performance – as clumsy as it may be – is just the latest example of their amazing intellects.
