Sentence examples for clumsy gesture from inspiring English sources

"It's not important," I said, and, taking out my wallet a clumsy gesture that, later, Füsun often mimicked—I counted out the damp bills.

It is that snag in Mr. Gore's television persona -- his propensity to trip suddenly over a clumsy gesture or a coy or overly rehearsed remark -- that made him such an irresistible target for "Saturday Night Live" comedians and makes his decision to be the host of the show so puzzling.

"It was a crass and clumsy gesture from an increasingly isolated tinpot despot – a morally deranged authoritarian who was at that very moment clinging desperately on to political power in the face of international sanctions and a rising chorus of international condemnation," he said.

Caught unaware, I remove my baseball cap in a clumsy gesture of respect.

"It was a crass and clumsy gesture from an increasingly isolated tin pot despot, a morally deranged authoritarian," he said, referring to Putin.

The incident was about to leave the lower realm of clumsy gestures and mixed feelings and local relationships for the higher altitudes of full-blown national controversy.

In reality, the formation of the government — and the rise of Maliki — owes much more to what the writer Rebecca West, describing the inevitable difficulties of international politics, called "clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge".

Those writers create heroes who operate under self-designed codes: inarticulate, dumb brutes or stoic brooders who long to give voice to the complex contents of their noble souls but who, alas, are left only to perform their clumsy gestures as if with paws.

-GEORGE CANNING International relations are... preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

His skittish, dim-witted superhero, El Chapulin, was all limbs and clumsy gesturing, while as El Chavo, he captured the innocent gestures and awkward body language of a boy who doesn't quite have a place in society.

However, the snarling British bulldog is out of shot as Griffin makes clumsy hand gestures and bemoans the invasion by spongers who've never lifted a finger, demands British jobs for British workers etc. Floating voter-grabbing potential: 4/10 British National party The BNP bid for council election votes is redolent of the heyday of Liberal party pavement politics.