Sentence examples for clumsy device from inspiring English sources
That is a common, if clumsy, device in Canada.
It's a clumsy device, a feint toward significance that nothing else in the movie earns.
One can tell fabulous stories through moving images, but how to show thought in film without resorting to the clumsy device of the voice over?
That first time behind the wheel, probably in 1965, I could feel myself manipulating the machine through an unimaginable series of linkages with a clumsy device called the steering wheel.
But any rhythm that Winterbottom and Whitecross build up is dispelled by a clumsy device: in interviews filmed in England, the actual young men — gentle-looking bearded fellows, finally released in 2004 — speak directly into the camera.
This we learn when a census officer pops by his breeze-block house – a half-cute, half-clumsy device – just before he hops on his boneshaker for the night shift at the local auto factory.
In a clumsy dramatic device, high-school students are visiting the White House and have to stay there while the Secret Service investigates the security lapse.
By a somewhat clumsy narrative device, Baudolino recounts the entire story of his life to the real-life Byzantine historian Niketas Choniates, at the time of the Crusaders' sack of Constantinople in April 1204.
Least successful and most wearing of all is the clumsy framing device in which Eddie, now near 80 and dying of cancer in his Manhattan apartment, contemplates suicide while looking back on his life — an activity engaged in, as far as I could tell, mainly for the reader's benefit.
For the most part, this risky, seemingly clumsy artificial device works.
