Sentence examples for would be clumsy from inspiring English sources

But I told you this review would be clumsy.

In 2009 and 2010, Congress debated whether to legislate limits on carbon dioxide emissions, with backers arguing that imposing agency rules instead would be clumsy and expensive.

Such control would be clumsy and expensive and involve a new shadow frontier with western Ukraine that could be a continued source of unwanted, as opposed to manipulated, troubles.

According to Spark, the notion of the Typing Ghost came from hallucinations she involuntarily gave herself by taking Dexedrine: "I could see that to create a character who suffered from verbal illusions on the printed page would be clumsy.

Naturally you might think that such a brutish off-roader would be clumsy on the highway.

On the Watch, Force Touch often exposes additional actions that would be clumsy in a standard, swipable interface on the small screen.

Freud approved of the novella's happy end, but wryly warned that where writers could give pleasure and enjoyment, his own observations would be "clumsier and the yield of pleasure less".

OK, so maybe it leads to some inelegant coinages, but I'd rather be clumsy than offensive.

But he also said that delaying bonuses to benefit from the coming tax cut "would be rather clumsy and lacking in care and attention to how other people might react".

That leaves both trade experts and labour-market scholars in agreement that restricting imports would be a clumsy and ineffective way to make low-wage workers better off.* "The Effect of Globalisation on Wages in the Advanced Economies".

Its heroine, Ruth Trail, appears to be not only among the first detectives but also the first professional female detective: she is, according to one policeman, "a female detective — a sort of spy we use in the hanky-panky way when a man would be too clumsy".