Sentence examples for clumsy framing from inspiring English sources

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.

The lack of context, the clumsy framing of the story as a curse put on Clinton by a Russian mummy that itself turns out to be fake and the lack of willingness to say something beyond "look at this" reduces the impact of the themes above, ones that are well worth investigating.

But Moto Guzzis come from one of the most curvaceous regions in cycledom, where a clumsy, frame-dragging motorcycle is just not done.

But the primitive sometimes verges on the clumsy: the window frames, for example, are unbearably clunky, more akin to 1970s uPVC conservatory than a gallery of modern art.

Braving pedestrian framing and clumsy exposition, Ms. Hemingway remains miraculously committed to her brisk, appealing character.

Directed by Akiva Schaffer from an improvisation-enhanced script by Pam Brady, "Hot Rod" is unapologetically, almost proudly crummy looking, as though paying tribute with its sloppy framing and clumsy editing to the goofy, half-baked quality of its hero's stunts.

This is a view shared by a cluster of scholars whose works bear a family resemblance and can be described – even while they may deem the framing a little clumsy – as 'liberal nationalism' (cf Miller, 1995; Mason, 2000).

It eliminates the need for clumsy prods like a primary frame character yelling "Over here!", suspicious sounds coming from the center of the action, or secondary characters looking or pointing that way.

Clearly, having your self and career framed in the same clumsy and reductive gender-centric way time and again must be a demoralising experience, and it's easy to see why many prefer to avoid the topic entirely.

The General feels that he was framed by some American rear admiral with a clumsy sense of humor.

She believes the current frame is too narrow and small, and contains "clumsy marbling".