Sentence examples for painfully clumsy from inspiring English sources

There are a number of problems: All the State Department characters around Leoni's character are poorly defined and uninteresting, the show seems tone-deaf about how Washington and the media really work, and the home-life story lines are either cloying or painfully clumsy.

Painfully awkward.

The sporadic shooting heard over the next three hours over the incessant wah-wah of the fire alarm came, in fact, from Swat teams pumping bullets into locked classroom doors in a painfully slow and clumsy effort to track down the killers.

From its forced malapropisms to sudden, clumsy lurches into farce, the movie's humor feels like a painfully self-conscious exercise in genre bending.

Just clumsy.

Clumsy, yes!

Ha! Clumsy.

Clumsy muskrats?

Painfully honest.

Painfully so.

Painfully overpriced.