Sentence examples for rather ham-fisted from inspiring English sources

The result is unsurprisingly some rather ham-fisted plot-wrangling.

He played the rather ham-fisted single, "Sugar" as well as more appealing tracks.

But most of this is dusty old news, and few of those enemies show up anyway in Mr. Avrich's film, which compensates for a lack of revelation with portentous music and a rather ham-fisted narration by the actor Albert Schultz.

They're (almost) all sung beautifully and the only real complaint one has with the show is the rather ham-fisted treatment of the Siamese.

This early passage hints at many of the pleasures to come: certainly the reverent eye for workaday objects, the Matisse-Monet-like brush-loads of color and the writer's deft establishment of a time (early last century, before the age of the automobile) through precise telling details rather than ham-fisted declaration.

Set within the grand and severe territory of Sophocles' original, the resulting amalgamation seems rather humdrum and ham-fisted.

Dull pastries and a rather (pardon the pun) ham-fisted eggs benedict, were very much – unlike those impressive bedrooms – standard hotel fare.

Through 12 hours of these exhaustingly cacophonous missions, the confusing story of CIA shenanigans leads us inexorably toward … well, toward the ending of the original Black Ops – only here the guiding force is advanced computer technology rather than psychotropic drugs and ham-fisted brain washing.

If a combined security and development team can do this early enough in the design process, they can bake security into the product at a low level, he added, rather than try to add a ham-fisted measure at the end, such as a long password or an unfathomable array of warnings.

Instead it turns out to be his ham-fisted way of asking if she wants to go steady.

The concern is that the belated response from the security forces to these events is more often than not ham-fisted, brutal and generally perpetrated against Kenya's own significant Somali population rather than any member of al-Shabaab or other militia groups.