Most of these techniques are technically challenging or involve cumbersome frames.
It's a cumbersome framing device, presumably intended to induce some of the same foreboding as the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
A younger writer might be tempted to burden such a story with the cumbersome framing devices, manifold shifts in point of view and temporal dislocations that pass, in this age, for dazzling style.
Instead of just saying what's on their mind, everyone is forced to frame suggestions in the cumbersome form of "motions". These have to be "seconded". Efforts to "move the question" are proceeded by an explanation from Joe about what is and isn't an acceptable way of doing this.
I had further problems with a rather cumbersome narrative framing device.
A year ago, Nujeen completed a 3,500-mile 3,500-mileom Syria to Germany in a cumbersome steel-frame wheelchair, an Odyssean adventure that involved dodging masked Isis fighters, navigating perilous Mediterranean waters and fending off packs of wild dogs.
His musical line was hesitant, his frame cumbersome.
The foxed-looking sepia-tinted drawings are made even more out of place and time by the diminutive hordes of toiling workers that people them; the racketty scaffolding, the gangs-of-men-with-ropes technology, the drawings themselves hung in wormy-looking, cumbersome old picture frames.
In a proposal that has all the elegance of strapping leg splints on a Dalek, they have resolved to erect a cumbersome series of frames around the base of the building, from which screens and canopies will be hung in an attempt to mitigate the wind.
Treatment is often prolonged with a substantial amount of time spent in a cumbersome, at times painful, frame.
