Obscure by nature and unwieldy by design, Darger's work is difficult to confront and consume; Ms. Yu has brought it a little closer, and that is as fine a public service as an art documentary can provide.
He also improved telescope tubes, constructing them of wood rather than of cardboard covered with leather; though somewhat unwieldy, these designs proved durable, and wooden telescopes continued in use until the 19th century.
In Washington, where the show had its out-of-town tryout, the reviews were largely positive, though some major critics were skeptical, citing a leaden, out-of-date book and, in one case, an unwieldy, grand-scale design.
While it's somewhat unwieldy from a design standpoint (It will take you a long time to figure out where every thing is on Podio) Podio's killer app in a sense is its Add App button at the top navigation bar.
There are assistive devices for motor-impaired people out there already, Song and Hojah acknowledged, but they're generally expensive, unwieldy and poorly designed.
Yet due to the unwieldy nature of the designs and the inefficiency of existing technologies and construction materials, most companies lost interest in the idea after test pilots met their untimely deaths.
As the materials of 20th-century art and design became more unwieldy and industrial, artists increasingly sought talented fabricators who could translate their ideas from paper to real dimensions without losing the design's integrity.
By that time, Mr. Sviridoff had become disenchanted with the unwieldy structure he had helped design, saying that such efforts were doomed because of turf battles, bureaucratic inertia and other obstacles.
WITH a startling high-tech design and an unwieldy name, the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge was already dominating dinner-table conversation here before its architect pointed out construction problems, forcing the cancellation of a preview planned for Aug. 26.
At the heart of the problem is an unwieldy, conflicted, obsolete structure, one designed to support athletes in the bygone days of amateurism but ill-equipped for the modern era of commercialism and professionalism.
