Sentence examples for clumsy opening from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, Romney has made a somewhat clumsy opening gambit as a potential overseas ambassador for the US.

"Do I have to be in a book with such a clumsy opening sentence?" asked Harriett, Charlotte's petite precocious 10-year-old daughter with the brown bob who bore absolutely no resemblance to the author.

"My heart is filled with love and care/Not an ounce of gas I would get up there" he sings in the clumsy opening of "Gust of Wind," suggesting heart overflowing less with passion than flatulence.

"Oh... hi," he says, for clumsy openers.

Colorado followed a somewhat clumsy season-opening victory over Colorado State with a 52-7 loss to its future Pac-10 rival California.

And then there has been a series of setbacks: the lousy weather, a faulty torch lighting during the opening ceremonies, the organizers' clumsy handling of ticket refunds, and NBC's much-lamented tape-delay broadcasts.

Far from the elegant and mischievous "Once upon a time" opening, I was confronted with a mystifying, clumsy passage about a cartoonist named Robert Horn (in "Laughter," he becomes the much more felicitously named villain Axel Rex) and his cartoon creation, a Mickey Mouse-style guinea pig named Cheepy, who was (wisely) excised completely from "Laughter".

Palin's opening gambit was transparent - it had been a clumsy attempt to place Biden on even-footing with her, but it did not work.

Kieran Gibbs did claim the ball from Lens, only to play a clumsy ball to Laurent Koscielny, who was robbed by Lens for the opening goal.

Ciftci had an eventful opening to the match, getting booked in the first minute for a clumsy tackle on Scott Brown before finding the net.

The software to connect to music players was clumsy and seemed more suited to technophiles than average consumers, Mr. Munster said, creating an opening for Apple.