Sentence examples for was too clumsy from inspiring English sources

He was too clumsy to be a cat burglar.

Whereas he was too clumsy for that, and so had to sweat and gnaw his mental cuticles.

"This cost 5 or 10 euros," about $6.50 to $13, she said, adding that she had not mended it herself because she was too clumsy.

(Early in his career, he excised one z from his last name because "with one z it just looked better," Mr. Pistella said. "He said the two z's and two t's was too clumsy").

That awkwardness gave some of his supporters pause, as they wondered whether he'd been too long out of the fray and was too clumsy for the split-second hyperscrutiny of the Twitter era.

It was emotive with its associations with US history, and it was too clumsy a term to be useful to cover a very complex phenomenon of housing, schooling and employment.

Yes, there are other, deeper sympathies but I'm too clumsy to get at them.

Which is why the usual conceptual duo of translation — fidelity, and the literal — is too clumsy.

"I could not stand the form," he wrote, "it is too clumsy and unreal.

It also speculates that public-sector institutions will be too clumsy to prepare people for this brave new world.

It seems young Mulan is too clumsy to qualify as a decent potential bride, even after a makeover song.