Sentence examples for so ungainly from inspiring English sources

(They seem so ungainly -- unlike the Concorde -- that it's almost impossible to imagine that they can fly).

That car, an open-cockpit design dressed in boxy body panels the team had fabricated, was so ungainly that French racing fans nicknamed it Le Monstre.

A stammer translated into text always looks so ungainly, a string of letters and dashes and pauses that inevitably steer the reader in a comedic direction.

But it is so ungainly and so rarely seen that it might as well be an earthwork in the Nevada desert.

IT has been said that a camel is a horse designed by a committee, but not all the works of collective or bureaucratic imagination are so ungainly.

Its wings are so ungainly, spanning about seven feet, that if it landed on water, it wouldn't be able to take off again.

So the ungainly Texan's gracious acknowledgement of a good opinion from the Guardian tickled Cole's vanity as TV fame probably didn't.

And the reality is that Franzen is an exceptional writer, more skilled than most other men or women at producing brutal insights, perfectly evocative turns of phrase, and genuine hilarity: "Self-pity seeped into her, a conviction that for no one but her was sex so logistically ungainly, a tasty fish with so many small bones".

The construction is repeated in the original, but "were it not so" would be ungainly to repeat.

"I became round-shouldered, ungainly and so filled with bitterness that my height nearly wrecked my life," he once said.

"What right has it to be so beautiful when we ungainly bipeds must putter on?" Mr. Cunningham writes in a habitual scrawl of red ink on lined paper.