Sentence examples for sort of clumsy from inspiring English sources

I could take some elements, create a sort of clumsy invention, and make them work for the camera.

"If anything is sort of clumsy and not possible to read aloud to oneself, which I think one should do … it doesn't work".

The move against Twitter looks desperate and, given how accessible the service remains, futile — the sort of clumsy measure that authoritarian leaders often take as they witness their power draining away.

This sort of clumsy jest wouldn't be at all the sort of quip you'd expect from such a famously polished and canny political operator — but then again the whole strange enterprise is decidedly not the sort of thing you'd expect from him, which is possibly the whole point of it in the first place.

This sort of clumsy jest wouldn't be at all the sort of quip you'd expect from such a famously polished and canny political operator but then again the whole strange enterprise is decidedly not the sort of thing you'd expect from him, which is possibly the whole point of it in the first place.

This time the excitement turned to a sort of clumsy nerd jubilation when I laid eyes upon the contents of the box.

Kind of clumsy, you know?

"I felt kind of clumsy," Ellis said.

Bella may be clumsy, but it's a graceful kind of clumsy.

"But it was an awfully clumsy, cumbersome sort of thing".

In a clumsy sort of way, I set out to praise him, but the success of that approach was summed up by a commenter who told me that what I'd written would in fact "come down like a Monty Python foot on Vinterberg's future bankability".