Sentence examples for cumbersome style from inspiring English sources

Police language has long been famous for its cumbersome style, although on this occasion the WPC did not resort to the time-honoured "proceeding in a northerly direction".

Generally, I think this worked in my favor, although I remember getting a note from one editor saying that my ideas were good, but could I redraw them in a less cumbersome style?

His sprawling imagination and cumbersome style kept him from performing well in the smaller literary forms, and his nonfiction writing, especially his essays, are marred by intellectual inconsistency, a lack of objectivity, and even bitterness.

The author has pared and fine-tuned what was once a cumbersome style so that it is now as clean, lean and forceful as the series's heroine, whose spooky beauty and daunting manner make an indelible impression wherever she goes.

With its extravagant, cumbersome, opera-style scenery and mannered acting style, the performance seems frozen in the 1960's.

Russia has invested heavily in its military, transforming a cumbersome, Soviet-style army into a lighter, more flexible force, with the ability to carry out rapid interventions.

Mr Wagoner duly brought in Bob Lutz, a 70-year-old industry veteran with a glittering career at Ford, Chrysler and BMW, in both America and Europe, to shake things up.The result has been an overhaul of its cautious, cumbersome committee-style management.

Tad DeBoni remembers when it took 14 wagons, 50 men and a team of mules to haul a cumbersome, old-style thresher from the hills to the valleys.

Bay was reluctant to film with 3-D cameras since in test he found them to be too cumbersome for his filming style, but he did not want to implement the technology in post production either since he was not pleased with the results.

The Associated Press manual is O.K., the Chicago Manual of Style is too cumbersome and The Elements of Style is a tad brief.

While De Rosnay's writing style was intermittently cumbersome, the story captivated me from the first page and I quickly devoured it.