But its rejection of liberalism is over-hasty, clumsy.
The tomboy image would be ruined if this Sim had any of the following traits: Neurotic, Coward, Neat, Perfectionist, Bookworm, Hates the Outdoors, Over-Emotional, Clumsy, or Hydrophobic.
Better yet, she had made it without being knocked over by a clumsy if well-intentioned volunteer.
So primary and forceful have been this novel's appeal and effects upon two generations of us that to not already know Richard Yates's great book seems incongruous, and handing it over cold feels clumsy, a bit like introducing a sage old friend to a precocious new friend: we almost would rather not, for all the crucial things that cannot be thought and said again.
He tripped, artfully, over the clumsy attempt by Emir Spahic to stop him at the edge of the penalty box.
Until, stumbling over another clumsy mention of how much he misses polishing his broadsword, one finally builds the nerve to say something.
1.03pm GMT 16 min: Buttner is booked for a late lunge across Albrighton, who did well to avoid injury by hurdling over the clumsy challenge.
The Giants made their first in-season head coaching change since 1976 when they ousted McAdoo last Monday, with their season in disarray and many fans and former players livid over the clumsy benching of Manning the previous week.
The new AbioCor replacement heart, as it is called, appears to mark a major technical advance over the clumsy artificial hearts whose disastrous effects in the early 1980's threw a cloud over the field and greatly slowed further progress.
They understand his need to establish his independence, but they roll their eyes over the clumsy way he does it, wondering why he does not make more of the administration's successes.
