Sentence examples for clumsy manner from inspiring English sources

Amatzia Baram faulted Bremer for the clumsy manner of the March crackdown on Moqtada, but not for the effort itself.

When Johnson came around to support emancipation in 1863, he did so in a clumsy manner; he even called himself "Moses" to a gathering of blacks in Nashville.

Since staff notation indicates volume, attack, and technical effects in a comparatively clumsy manner, the written page becomes cluttered and unclear.

[Back to top] Gordon Brown has been criticised for his clumsy manner in front of the cameras, which contrasts starkly with Tony Blair's assured media performances.

A legitimate invitation presented in an clumsy manner?

Yet the human need to speak in this clumsy manner epitomized necessity itself.

It is a perfect image, with its suggestion of a flock racing along in the clumsiest manner possible but still stumbling over the finish line.

The result may be a little clumsy, in the manner of a "down with the teens" teacher trying to have an awkward backwards-chair sit-down, but it's earnest and well-intentioned.

This author then goes on to highlight a book called We, the Accused by Ernest Raymond and says: Perhaps it even … gains something from the clumsy long-winded manner in which it is written; detail is piled on detail, with almost no attempt at selection, and in the process an effect of terrible, grinding cruelty is slowly built up".

But even when it is not stretched to absurd extremes, sexual-harassment law has become a clumsy substitute for manners.

The calculation of c3 has been automatized using a computer algebra system which was also used to plot the graphs in Figure 2 and 4. In contrast to c1 (Eq. 19) the output for c3 is too clumsy to be displayed in a comprehensive manner.