Sentence examples for ungainly language from inspiring English sources
Why would you use such ungainly language, especially as a veteran writer whose third book, "The Purity Myth," is about to come out in paperback?
As the economy blasts away at white-collar workers as well as blue-collar ones, the newly jobless are learning an ungainly new language: How to spin their situation to other parents on the Saturday morning sidelines.
I left "not a single good hair" on Germany or the German language: ungainly, boring, fussy, and in its contemporary version – what passed for a teenagers' argot – merely grotesque.
He obsesses over body language too: the angular, ungainly stride he created for Sheldon, and the alternately swift and halting paces of Elwood.
Certainly "Double Falsehood" contains echoes of Shakespeare ("A gleam of day breaks sudden from her window"), but for the most part the language sags or is ungainly.
But that does not mean being indifferent and taking no action to promote civility through language that is neither jargon nor the ungainly, unspeakable invention of impersonal committees.
In The New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis wrote that "the film communicates in the language of guilt and fear," while Roger Ebert called it "amateurish and ungainly".
