Sentence examples for clumsy hand from inspiring English sources

The phrase 'clumsy hand' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is usually used to refer to someone lacking coordination or physical skill, as in this example sentence: "My clumsy hand made it difficult to write neatly."

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Computers have greatly speeded up the editing process: computerized time coding of film has replaced clumsy hand marking.

The much-loved world of Middle-earth, mutilated beyond recognition by the clumsy hand of a developer who needed to bludgeon Tolkien's narrative into a leveling grind".

Because the novel swerves between events that take place so far apart, the reader is given a clumsy hand in navigating the jumps — "Con (in 1989)"; "Con in her Brooklyn apartment in 2003"; and so on.

This time the mucky mind who pitched into the Scary Movies (Scream parodies, the first two of which were directed by his older brother Keenan) and the Haunted Houses (Paranormal Activity parodies) turns his clumsy hand to EL James' bonkbuster and its derided film adaptation.

(John Currin reportedly compared artists at Miami Basel to pigs in a sausage factory.) For my tastes, the greater aesthetic pleasures were found at the numerous off-site exhibitions that have cropped up around Miami Basel, though even here, amid cheaper, more conceptual work, the sometimes clumsy hand of capitalism proved difficult to elude.

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.

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In clumsy hands, Major Barbara can be a bit of a trial for 21st-century audiences.

It was the snicker she heard whenever she tripped over discarded towels or dropped the broom with her clumsy hands.

"I'm messy but I'm totally yours/My clumsy hands will hold you," she promises in "Lonely".

In Lacis's writings we get a much livelier impression of Benjamin: his glasses like little spotlights, his clumsy hands.

Maybe the DNA of the place that Mr. Arrington built is hearty enough to survive the clumsy hands of its owners.

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