Sentence examples for is too clumsy from inspiring English sources

Which is why the usual conceptual duo of translation — fidelity, and the literal — is too clumsy.

"I could not stand the form," he wrote, "it is too clumsy and unreal.

It seems young Mulan is too clumsy to qualify as a decent potential bride, even after a makeover song.

A mouse is too clumsy a tool, but then I found these tablets that you can draw on that are pressure sensitive.

This positioning does not absolve a candidate of requiring some political dexterity; if he is too clumsy in balancing the party's various coalitions off against one another, he may come to be seen as unprincipled.

Whatever the outcome, the episode will reinforce the impression among people from right and left that the elderly Singh is out of touch and that his government is too clumsy to govern Asia's third-largest economy effectively.

He was too clumsy to be a cat burglar.

Yes, there are other, deeper sympathies but I'm too clumsy to get at them.

It also speculates that public-sector institutions will be too clumsy to prepare people for this brave new world.

Whereas he was too clumsy for that, and so had to sweat and gnaw his mental cuticles.

"This cost 5 or 10 euros," about $6.50 to $13, she said, adding that she had not mended it herself because she was too clumsy.