Sentence examples for downright clumsy from inspiring English sources

The odd thing about its corporate identity is that it looks anything but skillful; in fact, it seems downright clumsy, and it's the clumsiness that makes it work.

Sometimes, as with "Coven," last season's arc, which dealt with witchcraft and slavery, it's downright clumsy about its incendiary themes.

The camerawork on "The Fosters" is blunt and sometimes downright clumsy, with the simple closeups that are endemic to teen soap operas.

It's just not intuitive, and in fact, it's downright clumsy.

In fact, some are downright clumsy, as has been the case with many of his most topical songs over the years.

The issues facing us are complex; party-politics have become too confrontational, clumsy and downright childish to deal with them.

Reviewing one of them, a Washington Post critic wrote, "It is torture from first to last, downright embarrassing in its clumsy prose and lurching plot".

That this sixth sense doesn't feel dramatically clumsy or downright preposterous is one of the film's subtle but significant achievements.

It all feels slightly patronising for move-on housing, dressed in the child-like garb of a My First House, while some elements are downright shoddy, like the clumsy metal staircase leading to the access decks.

Even some of his fellow Democrats viewed his attempt to schedule an address on job creation before a joint session of Congress next Wednesday — the same night as a major Republican presidential debate — as clumsy if not downright rude.

Phrasing sounded clumsy, flaccid and at times downright ugly.