Sentence examples for clumsy performance from inspiring English sources

Wallström's political opponents came down hard on what they saw as a clumsy performance.

Terrence Howard, giving a clumsy performance in an underwritten role, plays the Javert-like F.B.I. field officer leading the hunt.

In Shakespeare the Athenian wedding festivities reach their climax in the fabulously clumsy performance of the play within the play, "Pyramus and Thisbe".

The score for this divertissement is known all for the wrong reasons: elephants and hippos in frilly tutus tiptoe through an endearingly clumsy performance of it in Disney's Fantasia.

It was Kieswetter's third drop of the innings, the England wicketkeeper having earlier put down Amla and AB de Villiers, and his clumsy performance behind the stumps may increase the calls for Test wicketkeeper Matt Prior to be recalled to the one-day squad.

Although protective of Upson, who has disappointed with some clumsy performances, Grant brightened when talking of Parker's credentials.

Surely it must have been a slip for Maureen Dowd to align the artistry of my late husband, Gene Kelly, with the president's clumsy performances.

The long-winded explanations and clumsy performances are made worse by graceless effects and a last-minute 3-D conversion that wrecks whatever visual grace or beauty might have been there.

The bees' performance – as clumsy as it may be – is just the latest example of their amazing intellects.

This road was treacherous, but Clive drove it as though it were a test track and our clumsy rental van a performance vehicle.

The £59.7m Ángel di María scored one and made the winner for Radamel Falcao in another incisive, classy performance, whereas £28m Romelu Lukaku gave another clumsy, static display at the head of the visitors' attack.