Sentence examples for cumbersome framing from inspiring English sources
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.
It deserves a less cumbersome frame.
Most of these techniques are technically challenging or involve cumbersome frames.
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.
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.
They are so restrictively framed that women and girls in severe distress because of unwanted pregnancies continue to face cumbersome and distressing barriers.
From the inside, the cumbersome steel structure needed to hold up the facade takes up most of the view, while the impact of specially framed vistas to nearby monuments is lessened by clunky fixings.
