| 单词 | ungainliness |
| 例句 | The addition of songs, however beguiling, thus winds up emphasizing the play’s ungainliness by adding another unintegrated element and stretching the run time. Review: Young Bros and Maidens Harmonize in ‘Love’s Labor’s Lost’ 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Though I like the ungainliness of Piano's Whitney — its willingness to look unresolved and unpretty — it doesn't come close to matching the older museum as a work of architecture or an expression of its era. The restored Met Breuer (formerly the Whitney) has a new energy as well as a lived-in look 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z This also means "Nora From Queens" has time to smooth out its relative ungainliness; all of its episodes are funny, but some are noticeably tighter than others. Awkwafina's "Nora From Queens" channels "Broad City" but must hone its own rowdy identity 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z It is perhaps pointless to quibble here about the ungainliness of those clothes and accessories made from the pelts of reptiles. On the Runway Blog: At Gucci, Assuredly 'Made in Italy' 2012-06-25T15:52:33Z Moments like that help me understand why “God Said This” received the Yale Drama Series Prize last year despite its ungainliness. Review: In ‘God Said This,’ a Hot Mess of a Daughter Heads Home 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z In his own music especially, he often seems intent on extracting consonance from dissonance or forging ungainliness into grace. Music Review: A Melting Pot of All Kinds of Rhythms, Harmonies and Vamps 2010-12-01T05:15:00Z The ungainliness of his pictures, although slight, is part of their attraction. Frieze 2012: my big art inspiration 2012-10-10T17:20:01Z Though many U.S.-set series shoot in Canada, few do so with the touching ungainliness of this one. Wearing Its Topicality Lightly, “The Bold Type” Is a Show to Warm a Jaded Heart 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Babies — adorable in their ungainliness — playfully splashed around their elders’ feet. In Chad, the Elephants (So Many Elephants) Are Back 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Whatever the psychological ungainliness of living as a multicultural character, Rakotondrainy visualizes it gracefully. Review | In the galleries: Sequence of photographs creates a graphic continuity 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Newborns of any species tend to be delightful, and the piglets — in their tininess and charming ungainliness — prove natural-born scene stealers. ‘Gunda’ Review: A Remarkable Pig’s-Eye View of the World 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Egarr compared this trait in Handel to a certain ungainliness in Brahms’s writing for piano. Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z There are moments when this extraordinary actress behaves with an ugliness and ungainliness that people reserve for those moments when they’re sure they’re alone. | 'Through a Glass Darkly': Under Pretty Skin, Madness Lurks 2011-06-07T02:06:38Z Mr. Shorter begins his solo with a strategic ungainliness, honking a single note as if stuck in traffic, before warming to an elaboration on the theme. Music: Miles Davis Reissue, ?Live in Europe 1967? 2011-09-09T16:30:32Z That's how I felt as I read on in his work, through novels and stories, accepting the occasional ungainliness and unpleasantness because he gave me something consoling and amusing and even ecstatic. The shadow over David Foster Wallace's The Pale King 2011-04-05T11:39:47Z He uses the word “representation” here — the representation of ordinary American ungainliness. The Genius Behind the Weirdest Show on TV 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z But a sourness in tone keeps the proceedings from achieving the series’ signature black wit, adding to the film’s ungainliness. Review | ‘Sopranos’ prequel ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ fails to answer fans’ prayers 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Say what you want about the ungainliness of the image. Review: Brit-rock royals Coldplay go glamping in Africa on ambitious but clumsy 'Everyday Life' 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z To this day, many Poles mutter about the poor quality and ungainliness of the buildings: gray, soulless reflections of an equally bleak era. Can Poland’s Faded Brutalist Architecture Be Redeemed? 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Deschamps’s side has been criticised for its ungainliness and its caution, for being too much about substance and not enough about style. Kylian Mbappé doubles up in France’s rollercoaster victory over Argentina 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Yet they work—their ungainliness feels appropriate for their subjects. The problem of masculinity, in men’s words 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z While the work could use some judicious pruning, McNulty says that the production "compensates for the dramatic ungainliness by getting nearly everything else right." Essential Arts & Culture: MOCA mum on its future, Bowie ballet tribute, Coachella art tower 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z But the production compensates for the dramatic ungainliness by getting nearly everything else right. Say 'I do' to 'Significant Other,' the rare romantic comedy with depth to match the laughs 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The ungainliness of the consensus-based German political system is one of the reasons for EU crises such as the Greek banking crisis and what may be an emerging Brexit crisis. Consensus? No, Thanks. German Politics Suddenly Get Messy. 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Do the Galapagos cormorants gain anything by their ungainliness? How the clumsy Galapagos cormorant lost its flight 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z So along with her passions for singing and dancing, there was that: the original ungainliness, the dreaded self discarded, fled from, which remains in eternal pursuit. The Pieces of Zadie Smith 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z She wears flowing pants and long skirts and has a broad frame and a poignant ungainliness. The Radical Mind Behind “Transparent” 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z But for all their ungainliness, Bloodborne's enemies are perfectly balanced, tough but relentlessly fair in the way they force the player to move, adapt, and win. Bloodborne is a blood-soaked, bone-splintering masterpiece on PS4 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Eneas was tall and thin; but neither his tallness nor his thinness ever reached the impressive ungainliness of angularity that was Sir Hector's outstanding characteristic. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z He watched her every moment keenly, and soon found out that her awkwardness was the result of diffidence and restraint, not of native ungainliness. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z She was slender, so that without ungainliness she had an effect of being tall, and her hands were shapely and white when they came into contrast with hands much exercised in rolling and blocking. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z She was tall beyond the average, but without ungainliness, long of limb and lightly built, and she walked with the very step of youth. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z He even suspected that his bearing was scarcely military because of the ungainliness that comes from a sedentary life, spent in bending over a writing table. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z He did not cease to apologise for his ungainliness. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z That is satisfactory; your movements are easy; you have no stiffness, nor ungainliness; but you have no distinction. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z Yet this ungainliness is occasionally redeemed by exquisite blossoms, of pale, pure hues, cropping out directly from the substance of the plant, without any pretence of a stem. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z No doubt the weight of the heavy copper ornaments with which they loaded their wrists and ankles was one great cause of this ungainliness. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z For a moment he stood sniffling the morning air like a dog, and then with a light swiftness which gave the lie to his apparent ungainliness, made for the stables. The Land of Strong Men There are creatures which are the embodiment of grace; and others whose huge ungainliness is like that of a shape in a nightmare. The Holy Earth After his recovery he gained much in flesh, and entirely lost that ungainliness of aspect which once led a friend to compare him to a geometrical line, "length without breadth or thickness." Reminiscences, 1819-1899 Also an air of ungainliness in the lines of the lean body, rather than the feline smoothness and grace of the norm-blend. The Old Martians Night came down and as her ungainliness was not thrust upon him as it was in the broad glare of day, he felt less difficulty in professing a deep attachment for her. Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6) Si And Shorty Meet Mr. Rosenbaum, The Spy, Who Relates His Adventures And the children, whose inherent ungainliness, whose ungracious spirits demanded a perpetual palliation of culture and instilled deportment. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman With increasing energy the creature made for him, till finally it was approaching his sector of the wall at a lumbering run that was rapid for all its ungainliness. The Red Hell of Jupiter Her regal fingers touch for the evil of ungainliness, and, behold, we are restored. Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences When the patient is seated and asked to move the foot in different directions, there is a characteristic stiffness, ungainliness, and restriction in the range of movement. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. There is the same exaggeration, the same petulant ill-nature, the same obscurity of phrase and ungainliness of verse, and the same general insincerity. A History of Elizabethan Literature He was a dark man, with a skin of oily sallowness; thickset, with something of the slow ungainliness of a toad. 'Me--Smith' Demosthenes combated an impediment in speech and ungainliness of gesture, which at first drove him from the forum in disgrace. Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching The King was plain even to ungainliness—a strange thing for the son of one of the most beautiful women that ever lived. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Doctor Jespersen admits that our tongue has a certain masculine ungainliness. Confessions of a Book-Lover As he opened the door Dr. Knott's heavy person showed in all its ungainliness against the brightness of sunlight flooding Dickie's room. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The purists may, accordingly, dismiss their apprehensions, especially as the neoterists have, clearly, a keener horror of phraseological ungainliness than themselves. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. "No portraits that I have ever seen," writes one, "do justice to the awkwardness and ungainliness of his figure." Abraham Lincoln We can therefore recognize him at a distance by means of a certain ungainliness of stride sometimes seen in a man wholly given over to intellectual pursuits. The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow Nickie walked along the back wall of his cage two or three times with simian ungainliness, turning with a peculiar spring that Mr. Crips had learned from the Orang. The Missing Link They must neither hide themselves nor be hidden, be spared seeing how much other people enjoy from which they are debarred, or grow over-conscious of their own ungainliness. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance He walked with almost as much caution and ungainliness as Mistrust, his deep and shining eyes busily searching the gloom to left and right of him. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance That even moderate dancing demands immoderate abilities, is attested by the exhibition of human ungainliness disfiguring all the court balls of Europe. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 There was something about his ungainliness and his homely face which would have made anyone who simply passed him in the street remember him. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him A creature with bat-like wings flapped with a monstrous ungainliness between the outer posts of the verandah. The Lamp in the Desert Now the ungainliness of his deformity was hidden, and his height was greater than that of his companion, obliging her to look up at him. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance He was conscious of his ungainliness and reddened a little as he fumbled on the inside and outside of his coat. Amos Kilbright; His Adscititious Experiences In my opinion that round, heavy summer-house on its clumsy columns, which combined the romantic charm of an old tomb with the ungainliness of a Sobakevitch,* was the most poetical nook in the whole town. Love It has all the silly clumsiness of your pelican, all the solemn want of dignity of your parrot, all the gaunt ungainliness of a flamingo, with all the extravagant chromatic conflict of a mandarin duck. The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents There was cause enough for fright without cowardice, and there is not, what I was led to fear, such uncouthness or ungainliness as should hinder me from having him with me.” A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago Moreover the monarch's attire was excessively stiff and cumbrous, and this, while it added to the natural ungainliness of his person, prevented all freedom of movement, especially on horseback. The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 He was much below the middle height, but his large head, which seemed to hang loosely on his body, gave him an odd ungainliness. Of Human Bondage The King's minions openly ridiculed Anjou for his ungainliness, which was all the greater for his look of settled discontent and resentment. An Enemy to the King He felt the eyes of the multitude upon him, and shifted uneasily from one foot to another, cursing his ungainliness, ashamed of the tingling of the blood in his cheeks. The Strong Arm As Phil leant comfortably against his hump he was struck with its ungainliness, and asked: "Don't you wish you hadn't a hump, Aleppo?" The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories Hugh had thrown himself into the action of his story; his face was slightly contorted as though sighting along a gun-barrel, his arm raised, the ungainliness of his deformity strongly accentuated. Snow-Blind The strange stiffness of joint and general ungainliness of the elk, however, were matters of such general observation as to apparently have become embodied in the German name eland, sufferer. American Big Game in Its Haunts The brown leaves amid which they rout, and the brown-tinted fern behind lend something of their colour and smooth away their ungainliness. The Open Air Presently a quick step is heard approaching, and a trim little figure greets us, wrapped in a fur-lined cloak, which, despite its ungainliness, cannot conceal the grace of the wearer. Marguerite Verne These Egyptian things give one an idea of inexpressible ungainliness. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 He began to run again, at a truly astonishing pace, considering his paunch and all-round ungainliness, getting over the ground faster than many a thin man could have done. The Winds of the World His ungainliness disappeared, as was ever the case when he forgot himself in excitement. From Jest to Earnest His gestures were lighter and quicker; he had nothing of Cyril's ungainliness; he had not Cyril's limitless taste for sweets, nor Cyril's terrific hatred of gloves, barbers, and soap. The Old Wives' Tale To the ungainliness of her figure her mode of dressing not a little contributed. The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 1 The house of the McKinstrys rose, or rather stretched, itself before him, in all the lazy ungainliness of Southwestern architecture. Cressy In one hand he held the ugly-looking jemmy he had taken from the burglar, and the new clothes he had donned, ill-fitting and soiled, served to accentuate the ungainliness of his form. The Bittermeads Mystery He seemed always to converse with effort; he took a seat with stiff ungainliness; he walked with a stumbling or sprawling gait. New Grub Street |
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