Sentence examples for doing clumsy from inspiring English sources

Demeter nodded, staring at the girl, doing clumsy math.

Some of his dancers are old (for dancers); they do clumsy things — crawl on the floor, manhandle one another, get their hair messed up.

But real people don't rehearse the things they say, they laugh at stupid things and quite often do clumsy things.

Scotty T sees the world in perfect black and white: that women are there to chat to and fuck and boys are there to do clumsy half-high five, half-hugs with, and that's everything you need to know.

Yet what does the clumsy human outline add to that experience?

The kind of thing she did when clumsy and terrified riders were feeling humiliated.

The kind of thing she did when clumsy and terrified first-time horseback riders were feeling humiliated.

My worry that I would do something clumsy was driving out of my head whatever I might have ventured to say.

Johnson's references to Hammons and Walker do seem clumsy, as though any piece about a new black artist must compare him with other, better-known black artists.

He's been mocked for his hot dog eating skills and his two kitchens, and the Daily Mail have even done a clumsy smear job on his late father.

Mr. Amis does a clumsy, mechanical job of dovetailing these characters' stories, and his narrative curiously lacks the sort of odd, prickly details and zingy dialogue that have distinguished his previous books.