Sentence examples for clumsy expression from inspiring English sources

The use of jargon, clumsy expression or clichés can sabotage the chances of even the most capable of candidates.

Luo's sense of indignation seemed to reflect an implicit belief that achievement or birthright should insulate one from such clumsy expressions of racism, especially in a place like Manhattan.

But how embarrassed are you allowed to be at the candidate your own party nominated, and hailed, and whose worst gaffes — including the "gifts" line — are clumsy expressions of your actual policies?

There's a strain of thwarted puritanism than runs through his work as a whole, but this is its crudest and clumsiest expression – at best slightly goofy, at worst vaguely sinister.

This clumsy formula, however, was soon discarded.

Both women are inward-looking and mercilessly observant, and sometimes a little clumsy in their expression.

His art had developed slowly from his first clumsy attempts at expression to the apparently playful masterpieces of his later period.

I promise my expressions were clumsy, but they were counted.

And since when is a clumsy, propagandish, inaccurate film an expression of "American values"?

Perhaps it's the proposition that you're such a comforting luxury (for me) that you've become a necessity (for me) for most intents and purposes a proposition whose explicit expression is regrettably clumsy and longwinded and ungenerous.

Sometimes fusion look clumsy.