Sentence examples for cumbersome affair from inspiring English sources

Flying around Europe used to be a cumbersome affair.

But my left hand would still be in plaster, making the writing of this piece an extraordinarily cumbersome affair for a sinistral type such as myself.

Also taking ship was WK Dickson, experimenting with a new moving picture camera, "an immense, imposing and cumbersome affair made of mahogany, leather and brass" called the Biograph.

But until now withdrawing money from the system was a cumbersome affair that could take months, as MindArk employees manually verified that the player's virtual fortune had been earned legitimately (and not by hacking).

By the end of the day, Mrs. Bush was laughing about her tour of the Pisa tower, a cumbersome affair with dozens of security people, tripping photographers and gawking tourists, many of whom had no idea who she was.

Lizzie Clachan's set is a cumbersome affair, dominated by an upstage, gilt-framed proscenium arch that simply leads to a set of anonymous rostra: I never felt for a moment that I was in the Restoration London constantly invoked in the text.

Compared with these skydivers' aerial ballets, his great leap was a complex, cumbersome, physically passive affair — the last gasp of Big Science.

8. Expresses its concern about restrictions on independent civil society organisations, including the cumbersome registration process, government interference in the internal affairs of Rwandan non-governmental organizations and the intimidation and expulsion of human rights activists.

Anthony J. Principi, President-elect George W. Bush's choice for secretary of veterans affairs, promised today to review the often slow and cumbersome veterans' benefits system.

Some taxpayers had been working around the $1 million limit by structuring big loans in two parts–a first mortgage and a $100,000 home equity line of credit, says Mel Schwartz, legislative affairs director with Grant Thornton in Washington, D.C. "It was cumbersome, but it got around the previous IRS position," he says.

Suddenly, that device we've been used to operating with one thumb or the other feels more cumbersome; closing that annoying pop-up advert for an unaffordable car is no longer a one-handed affair, while the developing vogue for "side drawers", where menus adhere to the right-hand side of the screen, sees us – the 33 per cent!