This is its first full-fledged production, and it was pummeled by local critics who, though generally taking time to admire Ms. Pawk, found the show perplexing and insufficiently emotional, bearing the sledge-hammer dents of heavyweight theater professionals trying to bang an unwieldy chassis into shape.
Her novels have been consistently unwieldy in shape: they are excessive and irregular in a way that suggests Simpson is committed to letting feeling find its own form.
The unwieldy cast includes three other candidates.
The first-past-the-post electoral system, however, was thought to be in workable shape — unwieldy, perhaps, and long overdue, some said, for structural reform, but not in itself a cause for Dickensian outrage.
Emily Flynn helped wrangle the unwieldy tables into shape.
The result was a mixed record that included some spectacular losses — the Delaware and Nevada Senate races — but plenty of victories that Ms. Palin and her allies have already begun to point to as evidence of her political prowess and her ability to shape and direct the unwieldy frustration that is fueling American politics.
The fictional form would have allowed him to shape his narrative, which is unwieldy, over-long and often loses its momentum.
Michael Leeds, the director, has shaped and shorn an excess of unwieldy material, interpolated Porter classics from other shows -- that is what is done to make oldies more golden -- and collaborated seamlessly with a splendid new choreographer, Andy Blankenbuehler.
But as we approach the growing prospect of a contested convention, in which delegates can make game-time choices about whom they will support, it's becoming clearer that Trump may seek to shape the outcome by using his most unwieldy weapon of all: the latent power of usually peaceful people.
