Sentence examples for clumsy character from inspiring English sources

"He's a rather clumsy character.

Rob Dunster, Rugby We say: Jacques Tati only directed nine films in his long postwar career and most of them featured his most memorable creation, Mr Hulot, the forefather of Mr Bean, a well-meaning but clumsy character baffled by the modern world.

He is a clumsy character too, mistaking the table-cloth for a napkin and dropping the contents over the floor when he stands up, and breaking a mirror in the middle of the night after mistaking his own reflection for a burglar.

At 8.30pm, the final episode of Ms Hart's self-starring, self-written and self-named comedy ended with the bulky, clumsy title character finally hooking up with Gary, her hot-and-cold chef boyfriend.

I usually search for a flaw of mine I can use for comedy, and then I try to find a way to make it lovable – for example, the clumsy Travelling Matt character in Fraggle Rock came out of wanting to preserve my dignity and not be shamed in front of people.

Such lousy hand-eye coordination is just one of the many ways the clumsy and lovable character has endeared herself in the eyes of "Midwife" viewers.

"As he rose from the table, frowning... .. was precisely the type of clumsy machinery, moving a character from here to there, which Sebald mocked.

The play's clumsy exposition, inchoate characters — Lilith is exploited only meagerly as Maddie's lusty alter ego — and frequent shifts in tone suggest an early draft that has yet to be refined effectively.

Ms. Coolidge, who is known for playing clumsy, sometimes ditsy characters, like Paulette, the manicurist in "Legally Blonde," said the heart association probably chose her for the campaign because even "people who are incapable like myself can do CPR".

It was a brilliantly written portrait of New Yorkers coping with age, monotony and looming loneliness, and Borgnine skilfully captured the sensitivity beneath his character's clumsy, bumbling surface.

Miles as a character is clumsy in his spider abilities, and like a pubescent teen awkward in his discoveries, it's easy to laugh with his growth instead of just at him.