Sentence examples for clumsy bit from inspiring English sources

As drawn by Swarte, the fairy's "magical" entrance looks obviously faked, like the clumsy bit of stage business he assumes we take it for.

"A sonnet gets no better by doubling its lines," pointed out the Evening Standard's Milton Shulman; he thought the new act "a gauche, clumsy bit of biblical farce... an Old Testament version of Up Pompeii!" Where the original Joseph had possessed a "bouncing and vivacious spontaneity", this new material was "flip, arch, jokey".

It began as a stock trader's nightmare, an error caused by a momentary lapse in concentration perhaps, or a clumsy bit of typing that led to a $331-million 331-million loss

Reword any clumsy bits, cut out any flab.

It has lumpy and clumsy bits and collisions of detail that don't seem intended.

I see no reason to believe that the intent of one level of government is benign and the other malign; the potential for abuse exists in both cases.What's more, they both seem rather clumsy bits of signalling.

Dynamic recompiling (DR) emulators do not stop at translating instructions; they go on to analyse how the new code works and translate the clumsiest bits all over again in order to improve efficiency.One of the newest emulators, launched in February, was developed by Connectix, a company based in San Mateo, California.

So primary and forceful have been this novel's appeal and effects upon two generations of us that to not already know Richard Yates's great book seems incongruous, and handing it over cold feels clumsy, a bit like introducing a sage old friend to a precocious new friend: we almost would rather not, for all the crucial things that cannot be thought and said again.

If the situation is socially awkward and a bit clumsy, it may not be Asperger's, they could simply not get along.

These days the treasure map is digital and Long John Silver is a mixed-up kind of guy in a film that is less an "act of homage than a clumsy and cynical bit of piracy" (A. O. Scott).

But the movie, which opens today nationwide, is less an act of homage than a clumsy and cynical bit of piracy, designed to steal time and money from schoolchildren and their harried, Pottered-out parents during this very long holiday weekend.