Sentence examples for clumsy instruments from inspiring English sources

It was also a triumph of courage and technical skill, to stand near the thunderous carnage of the war and try to record it, using a difficult and unwieldy chemical process, and clumsy instruments, operating out of a moving darkroom that was highly visible to all.

They are clumsy instruments that, like a shotgun, can miss a fast-moving target.

Dialogue may be a clumsy instrument, but it beats more spilled blood.

But that's also because when they do come to light, the police and prosecutors exercise enormous discretion, knowing that there are all kinds of gray areas in which the law is a clumsy, crude instrument; that a jury may be loath to punish a gesture of apparent mercy; and that it's not uncommon for death to be hastened by painkillers, even in hospitals.

The song moves smoothly, in a seamless blend of instruments; its craft is something that clumsier bands might covet.

Just clumsy.

Clumsy, yes!

Ha! Clumsy.

Clumsy muskrats?

A clumsy silhouette.

Sleepless, I got clumsy.