Shouldering an unwieldy Civil War rifle or squinting down the barrel of a Colt revolver put me in touch with my Walter Mitty fantasies.
Mr Obama's problems already include a recession, two wars, unwieldy bills and citizens warning his congressional allies of judgment day.But a lawsuit over DOMA has put Mr Obama in a bind.
That beast has been freed, but 60 years after the war, another unwieldy creature - Russian-Japanese relations - remains frozen in time.
A sprawling, unwieldy work, it seems to have been written in a state of war between the author and her subject — or, more precisely, between the author and what she tries to feel about her subject.
This is followed by a tug-of-war removal of the unwieldy, instantly expanding intestines, like a white plastic trash bag filled to bursting, and the sawing of the carcass in half, the moment when conventional butchering begins.
"War of the Worlds," an unwieldy, often fascinating but finally uncertain examination of his life, probes that principle relentlessly.
This unwieldy but powerful epic about the horror of war finally looks set to survive its critics.In this section The first casualty "Apocalypse Now Redux" Signifying nothing In need of air Defining a nation Barking up the evolutionary tree Theatre history Light and shadows What the world is reading Reprints Related items War and its victims: The first casualtyAug 23rd 2001.
Now, in an offensive campaign, it could only wage war by committee; the process was so unwieldy that it became, to future American Defense officials, an object lesson in how not to fight a war.
"The massive foreign affairs machine built up during the post-war era rumbles on, as ornate and unwieldy as ever," he wrote after being in the Foreign Service less than ten years.
But it also created an unwieldy patchwork of sources, all operating in the fog of war, albeit a domestic one.
