Sentence examples for clumsy questions from inspiring English sources

He interrupts his interviews with pointless asides; his clumsy questions tend to elicit annoyed stares and quizzical looks.

So for most of his three-hour grilling clumsy questions bounced off his granite certainties and sheer grip, the ultimate hands-on editor.

We ask clumsy questions, use the wrong words, and make rookie mistakes ad nauseam.

The Ministry of Defence therefore devised a clumsy question-and-answer script for its press officers.

Coltrane is great fun, flitting between comedy voices and generous with laughter, but the no-nonsense edge is never very far from the surface and it takes only a clumsy question to provoke the sharp end of it.

When the misunderstanding regarding the therapist's clumsy question was resolved, Jeremy started to settle.

In the 2001 campaign, Mr. Bloomberg's clumsy handling of questions about baseball seemed to raise larger questions about his ability to relate to average New Yorkers.

There is an unfinished quality to the entire Pfefferman clan, and without making the question clumsy and overt, "Transparent" asks whether the secret at the core of the family prevented the Pfefferman kids from fully embracing their own identities as adults.

For a very long time, critics — Poe being one of the few exceptions — dismissed him as a caricaturist: facetious, melodramatic, antic, clumsy, and, on political questions, dangerously out of his depth.

But he said the Home Office's handling of the Metropolitan case had been "clumsy" and it raised questions about the message it was sending to foreign students about how welcome they were in the UK.

The clumsy wording of the question meant it was not clear whether those who answered positively were inspired to go and see it, or put off.