Sentence examples for clumsy by the from inspiring English sources

Salmond and his finance secretary, John Swinney, have pushed for Scotland to be given control over corporation tax, excise duties and greater borrowing powers in the new bill, but those measures were rejected as ill thought out and clumsy by the UK government and Labour.

Nothing Is Forgotten THEN "I was struck by the thought that every word I spoke, every expression of my face or motion of my hand would endure in his implacable memory; I was rendered clumsy by the fear of making pointless gestures".

The piece, however, has dead spots that are not the production's fault: awkward quasi-Romantic thrusts, clumsy texts (by the composer), and in particular, the slow and leaden start of Act I. Blitzstein's jazz-band insertions seem almost gratuitous, although they sound fine, and the progress of the piece seems almost to stop or at least to digress to allow a place for them.

A clumsy ball by the pony-tailed Argentinian was intercepted by Sean Murray.

The committee's suspicions were triggered by what appeared to be a relatively clumsy attack by the G.R.U.

A bungled burglary at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee headquarters on 17 June 1972 was followed by clumsy attempts by the White House to conceal its involvement, and by the slow, relentless exposure of the cover-up by the Washington Post.

The relatively rare occasions in which plot points are performed are underwhelming, too, cluttered with amateurish shadow puppets and clumsy staging by the director and designer, Gretchen Van Lente.

The last time this was tried, by Gordon Brown, it was clumsy, epitomised by the phrase he used: "British jobs for British workers".

It turned out to be an inelegant swing, the first clumsy stroke by the captain and No8 on the day he won his 115th cap.

He was voted into the starting lineup, and despite clumsy efforts by the league to talk him out of it, he ended up playing in the game.

Nani makes a complete fool out of him on the right and wins a free-kick after a clumsy foul by the Holland midfielder.