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The Lakers didn't have a turnover in either the first or third periods, but have seven for the game after a clumsy second period.

In architecture the Jacobean age is characterized by a combination of motifs from the late Perpendicular Gothic period with clumsy and imperfectly understood classical details, in which the influence of Flanders was strong.

In spite of its evident nostalgia for the cruder sexual politics of bygone days, the movie is as innocuous as it is pointless, and Mr. Allen's lame attempts at Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder wit are as clumsy as Santo Loquasto's period sets are meticulous (Scott).

But then it takes a while to shift your rhythm back again, and during this period people become tired, irritable, clumsy, disorientated, ill and generally not much use.

On Volume 1, the hybrid is tentative and a little clumsy, though it has some of the period charm of blaxploitation soundtracks.

"I can't say I like the Niagara Falls in that the human figures are clumsy, but these are paintings from his peak period".

In his review for The New York Times, Ben Brantley praised Mr. McClure's "heartbreaking grace" while blasting the show's clumsy, flashback-heavy narrative structure, "vaporous music" and "vaguely period dances that go on forever without going anywhere".

But they then went through a period of being sneered at as yesterday's clumsy conglomerates, before being lauded in the 1990s (including by third-world leaders in Davos) as the bringers of foreign capital, technology and know-how.

His art had developed slowly from his first clumsy attempts at expression to the apparently playful masterpieces of his later period.

Administrative rule-making is a somewhat clumsy process, generally involving legal review, publication in the Federal Register and a period for public comment.

Clumsy tackles, one of which brought a booking, and rash clearances suggest he will need a period of transition to adapt to the pace of the English game much like Patrice Evra who started on the substitutes' bench here.

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