And we both completely agree with her, and yet cannot help but admire the man's clumsy, life-denying rigour; but most of all we're lost in that moment, in that room, with those lives, in that midwinter stillness of snow.
The patient indicated that she had been clumsy all her life and started walking at 14 months of age.
She clung to the provincialism she satirized, and she was sometimes clumsy at conveying real life among blacks beyond her own circles.
She clung to the provincialism she satirized, and she was sometimes clumsy at conveying real life among blacks beyond her own circles — their class distinctions, their communication with one another apart from whites.
Having spent time with him in Moscow and London, I would venture that there is something genuine in his retreat from fashionable society, in his search for silence amid the clumsy clamor of contemporary life.
The tussle of family life, the clumsy accommodations and forgivingness of it, the comedy of membership in a club that has to take you in at the moment of birth.' This would seem sentimental in another context but is sharpened by the knowledge that family life, in the earlier volume, was exactly what the witches, neglectful mothers and (almost) proud of it, despised.
The woman wasn't completely unaffected – she had suffered from uncertain, clumsy, movements her whole life.
He seems a clumsy stranger in the modern life – and art – that Japan invented.
The result, notes Mr Hyman ruefully, is that children are starting to learn (or, more accurately, to attend lessons in) Spanish, when they cannot even read or write English.The interplay between Mr Hyman's reflections on government and his experience in real life is sometimes clumsy, but never dull.
It's as painful as reading through Tom Wolfe's clumsy recreation of modern college life in his novel I Am Charlotte Simmons.
"Hmmm, risk my life saving this clumsy cow, or save myself?" For fuck's sake woman, now is the time you're testing the guy's loyalty?
