Sentence examples for clumsy use of from inspiring English sources

Our careless and clumsy use of words is pushing us beyond the point where we can have a rational and decent public discourse.

For the alleged mistake was not merely the clumsy use of language, as the Treasury implied.

Right, you've gone and brought up something else that annoys me: the clumsy use of the word 'rate'rate

Bruno Praticò was oddly lackluster as Gamberotto; as Buralicchio, Lorenzo Regazzo made clumsy use of a nice-sounding voice.

The software system that monitors the registers at Sunglass Hut's more than 2,000 stores, for example, singled out several instances that turned out to be nothing more than clumsy use of equipment.

Though it was not altogether a success the young Dennis Potter, then a TV critic, dismissed it out of hand this was mainly due to penny-pinching production and the rather clumsy use of mocked-up aircraft, as no Lysander (the type used) was still flying.

He felt clumsy using a pen and was unable to operate a keyboard: writing was a reminder of his handicap, his defect, his shame.

These cases already fraught with difficult moral questions involve the rather clumsy and "low-level" use of pharmacology to target the bodily sex drive, and hence are capable of only indirect modification of a person's "higher order" feelings of love or attachment.

The use of jargon, clumsy expression or clichés can sabotage the chances of even the most capable of candidates.

But Leon Edel, James's biographer, believes them to be loaded with significance: The reference to his "clumsy pen" and the curious use of the word "divorced" suggests that some troubled feelings had been stirred in Henry.

For some agencies, this was a matter of convenience, while others admitted that knowledge of ICS among staff members was inadequate, stating that "our own use of ICS was clumsy because we don't have a broadly held understanding of ICS, including at the highest levels [of the organization]".