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Not exactly clumsy but, well, endearingly homespun, belying the sleekness of the glass, this evocative structure is packed with fanciful allusions and tributes: to country carpentry, old-style American farm life, vernacular rural architecture and, at the same time, the futuristic vision that glass seems to offer.
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Just clumsy.
"I was just clumsy".
On paper he could be clumsy, exactly the opposite of what he was in person.
Mussorgsky's orchestration, at once shining and murky, creates great blocks of chords, moving with unadorned, almost clumsy simplicity (exactly the characteristic of this composer which Rimsky was keen to polish and refine).
And yet each side's ability to grasp the other's position (or fail to), and to adjust its policy (or fail to) in the light of changing events, seems exactly as agile, or as clumsy, as it is today.
It was just a wee bit clumsy.
It just seems a bit clumsy".
As he fumbled with what to do with his hands and she "egregiously violated the conventional eighteen inches of distance" between their faces, the young Tashiro felt nervous and clumsy and unclear on what exactly he should be doing.
I mean, it's just a TV show about a young woman who makes a clumsy entrance into a workplace where she doesn't exactly fit in...at first.
The execution may look a little clumsy, but then Adam and Eve weren't exactly producing the Kama Sutra from the get-go.
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