Sentence examples for clumsily expressed from inspiring English sources

However clumsily expressed, its prurient intent cannot be misconstrued.

Downton takes no offence, thinks it was merely something clumsily expressed and in no way malicious but it is grist to the mill at a bad time.

But when it comes to young people with an interest in computers, why is it seen as acceptable to characterise them as spotty nerds?" Mr Cridland said in response that he had not meant to cause offence and admitted his comments had been "clumsily" expressed.

While Mr Akin's words have been condemned by leaders from both sides of the aisle, they continue to dominate conversation because his staunch anti-abortion stance, however clumsily expressed, is supported by the newly influential Tea Party and conservative rump in the party.

But grief, joy, pain, fear, and hope are clumsily expressed by science and numbers.

"He got the theme right, but expressed it clumsily," says a senior figure on the right.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg expressed himself clumsily recently when he said that workers and residents do not want to live and work around a cemetery.

Assume that the message is, in fact, intended to be helpful, that its author does in fact share your values, but has written in haste, expressed themselves clumsily, or maybe even made a mistake.

Her mere demi-retraction after the furor over her comments about the hostages grew ("I expressed myself clumsily," she said in a written statement, in which she claimed she meant to criticize not the hostages but their "political instrumentalisation,") indicates that it's a line she's willing to toe.

What the Post Office had been clumsily trying to express using only colour (poor, primitive organisation!), this criminal Jess fan had managed to put into words.

Sometimes, in this otherwise tough and lyrical book, those ideas can be expressed a bit clumsily.