Sentence examples for making clumsy work of from inspiring English sources

Ms. Weymouth, who became publisher in 2008, got off to a rough start, making clumsy work of moving out the longtime editor, Leonard Downie Jr., and bringing in Mr. Brauchli, who left The Wall Street Journal's top job that year.

I start making clumsy, jerky strokes.

It's an old man making a clumsy offensive conversation about race, following making clumsy offensive conversation about gay people.

Bruno Praticò was oddly lackluster as Gamberotto; as Buralicchio, Lorenzo Regazzo made clumsy use of a nice-sounding voice.

Instead, Farage made clumsy everyman-style noises about being discreet like many of his target voters would have done.

Lumping them together this way, though clumsy, makes the task of understanding the emergence of feminist critiques (and the subsequent positive theories) much easier.

I loved all these stories, and (the possibly slightly clumsy) Dr Bond made working as a research chemist seem very dramatic.

As collaborators, Holland and the princes of Orange could make the clumsy governmental system work with surprising effectiveness; as rivals, they imperiled its potency as a state, at least until one or the other emerged a temporary victor, but neither force was able to rule permanently without the other.

Does a vision problem make you clumsy?

Close by, a weird bird kept up a disturbance of flirtatious twitters in the jungle; closer still, beneath me, the snails on the plywood made their clumsy crackling.

Edith's mother made desperate clumsy efforts at proper conversation.