The phrase "cumbersome text" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe text that is difficult to read or understand due to its complexity or length.
Example: "The report was filled with cumbersome text that made it hard for the audience to grasp the main points."
Alternatives: "awkward text" or "burdensome text."
One can't argue that certain scenes aren't brilliantly realised – for example, one slide summarising some of Lincoln's favourite songs is a wonder of brevity, cutting out cumbersome text, removing the middle man.
The eight-page outline, drafted by the chairman of the W.T.O.'s governing general council, Stuart Harbinson, moves away from the cumbersome text that trade ministers grappled with in Seattle two years ago.
But the device proved somewhat more cumbersome than paper texts.
Several factors accounted for the attrition: End-of-the-year and holiday chores left workers little time for the meeting; they found email traversal of the hypertext too cumbersome and the texts themselves overwhelming, and may user were interested only in information and not discussions.
Until now reading aids for the visually impaired and the blind have been cumbersome devices that recognize text in restricted environments, or, more recently, have been software applications on smartphones that have limited capabilities.
A compact pile of pages could be opened instantly to any point in the text, eliminating the cumbersome unrolling and rerolling, and facilitating the binding of many more leaves in a single book.
Even sites like Amazon where consumers go to buy and often spend a lot of time comparing products and reading reviews - it's important to keep in mind that most potential readers will move on if your text is too cumbersome.
Texting can be cumbersome.
On Thursday, Sony Ericsson, a handset maker, announced the P910; its fold-down keyboard is more convenient for sending long e-mail messages than a conventional cellphone's numeric keypad, which requires a cumbersome three-tap system to enter text.
Since eight categories were evaluated and patients were offered five options each, listing all results in this text body would be cumbersome.
Even so, some may find the device rather more cumbersome for sending messages or reading texts than a quick glance at their smartphone.
