| 单词 | ungainly |
| 例句 | Already they were turning on Ged again, coming quick and ungainly with iron beaks stretched out agape. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z She went to the shed door, opened it, and though her face was tear-streaked now, she smiled at the eager, ungainly puppy who bounded forth, jumped into Matty’s arms, and licked his cheeks. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Matty tucked him inside his jacket, curling the ungainly legs and feet, and the puppy nestled there against his chest. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “You know he is as ungainly within as without. A deficient, ill-tempered, lowering, stupid fellow.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Coulter could see it clearly in the wash of the floodlights, streaming with rain, an ungainly mass of machinery and wiring slightly tilted on the rocky ground. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Her ungainly iron ram, fashioned after the likeness of the fish from which she took her name, parted the surface of the river before her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Vincent Obi was a small round man submerged in a large pair of jeans and an ungainly coat. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The terrified chicken took to ungainly flight in a flurry of golden feathers. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z As the children looked up, sheltering their eyes from the lashing raindrops, they saw an aircraft unlike any they’d seen before—ungainly, six-legged, dark, and totally silent. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The locomotive was black, an ungainly contraption led by the triangular snout of the cowcatcher, though there would be few animals where this engine was headed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Certainly the captain of the Swordfish did not, intent as he was on finally spearing something with his ungainly fat sword. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I was ungainly, awkward, a fat kid. I didn’t feel comfortable,” Flom remembers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It is wondrously ungainly: it runs as if its legs have never been introduced to each other. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The yews sprawled, yellowish and ungainly; the stone steps had the grimy, unswept look of a city institution. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Where Ess had always been ungainly, tripping over the air and toppling when she ran, Loo was strong, surefooted. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z They're slow and ungainly, tripping over their own feet, tangling in the dense underbrush, dragging themselves along the ground when they can't find their footing. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z She was much shorter than her mother and seemed chunky and ungainly in comparison. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z While he talks, he makes ungainly movements and bumps the table so that the spoons clatter in their bowls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He gave an ungainly wobble, and the golden egg, still damp from the bath, slipped from under his arm. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The Standard Model is not only ungainly but incomplete. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He was so heavy and so ungainly, it would be just like him to break a wrist or twist his ankle getting out of the way. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The tall, ungainly girl left the hall with long strides, almost unnoticed amidst the revelry. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She ran from him, but her body seemed thick and ungainly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He saw my ungainly movements as I climbed the library steps, the broadness of my shoulders inside my Papagallo coat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She turned back and caught a glimpse of the towering creature taking a slow, ungainly step in her direction. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z She felt awkward and ungainly and grateful for the mask that hid her face, and she felt Sidhean’s magic all around her in a way she had not felt on the day of the hunt. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They lay the ungainly elf on the guest bed and quietly shut the door. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Reporters called her “a reformatory Amazon” and “an ungainly hermaphrodite, part male, part female with an ugly face and shrill voice.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Friar Hugo entered, with a slight swagger added to his ungainly waddle. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It seesawed its way toward her in an ungainly, almost blind fashion, tongue lashing wildly, mouth pulled back slightly to reveal double rows of grungy, bladelike teeth and puffy, bleeding gums. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Joffrey examined the boy, an ungainly lad with a coarse, freckled face and thick red hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I had slid down the seat and slept the night through in an ungainly position. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Corkers was a charmer, a vast ungainly man with drooping bloodhound cheeks and filthy clothes. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Her legs were as big around as the stumps of trees, and she moved with an ungainly shuffle. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of armor, her body seemed ungainly, broad of hip and thick of limb, with hunched muscular shoulders but no bosom to speak of. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z One eluded our grasp and toppled through the dark, a thing flapping, but too ungainly to fly. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I haul myself up to the top, groaning from the effort, kicking and scrabbling in a downright ungainly manner. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The ungainly face has a nose that is too big and jaws that are too strong. Fair Swamped by Second Raters 2010-03-12T12:30:00Z A Philadelphia man’s 1960 Lincoln Continental Mark V, an ungainly beast that is hard to miss, is from an era when cars were huge. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia 2014-03-06T18:12:27Z The craft looks a little ungainly, but it is river worthy, as one of the videos demonstrates. In the galleries: Inspired by their homelands and beyond 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Although his designs include vivid video projections, they’re shown on a screen that parts for the dinosaurs to enter, as if they were ungainly beauty contestants. Spare Times for Children for July 25-31 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Their bodies rocket forward and down in ungainly, fruitless trajectories. Dance Review: ?Once Upon a Time Country? at Danspace Project - Review 2011-11-18T23:34:27Z His quake is the opposite: long and ungainly. Earthquakes in London; The Good Soldier; FIB 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z Photograph: Pollaro Custom Furniture The results are an ungainly fusion of Pollaro's polished deco sensibilities with injections of Pitt's doodles, all finished in a luxurious palette that recalls a hotel lobby. Brad Pitt turns master furniture designer – with discomfiting results 2012-11-09T13:20:55Z Both shows struggle to make use of an ungainly trap door and a plain black curtain at the back of the playing area. Review | When blood and guts aren’t enough, even for a pair of tragedies 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z In the ungainly, interminable pageant of public apologies of late, one statement about misbehavior is proving strangely popular. What Is Your True ‘Character’? And Who’s to Judge It? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z After it establishes an initially ungainly concept as something surprisingly workable, it does little else to captivate and appears unable to find much flexibility in its core mechanic. Dream Trigger 3D ? review 2011-07-16T23:05:53Z A charming, earnest, sometimes ungainly mixture of history, criticism and high-minded gossip, “Notfilm” testifies to an almost inexhaustible fascination with the pleasures and paradoxes of cinema. Review: ‘Notfilm’ Tells How Beckett and Keaton Collaborated 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Miniseries: After three years in which TV movies and miniseries were lumped together in one ungainly group, the television academy believes there's enough programming to again warrant a separation. Emmys 2014: 'Breaking Bad' for the win again? Well .... 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z “The Little Mermaid” may have been ungainly in its initial form. Perspective | Read all about it: Why Disney owns the live stage, too 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Such is the case after Eustace is turned into a grand, ungainly, unhappy dragon. | 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader': Enchanted Realm, Aquatic View 2010-12-10T05:23:00Z But it’s not at all ungainly, either, and frequently speeds down the highway at 95 mph, with its well-drilled ensemble blissing in primal ecstasy that dangerously feeds on itself. Review | Signature’s ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ looks hip and sounds vintage 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z They’re spun by compressed air, shot through a hole in the vessel from a bottle connected to a long, ungainly silver tube. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Initially Frank’s attempts to right the world’s wrongs using only his fists and ungainly body are ludicrous, foolhardy exercises that end in cuts and bruises at the hands of stronger and more ruthless foes. | 'Super': You Don?t Need Superpowers if You Have a Pipe Wrench (and Anger Issues) 2011-03-31T23:05:03Z Poor old Ebenezer Scrooge, saddled with that sharp and ungainly first name. Review: Hey, Eb, 3 Christmas Spirits Would Like to Chill With You 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Are there limits to how much it would wrestle a character or a story line into an ungainly shape, in order to satisfy modern tastes or pander to modern demographics? Gene Weingarten: Have you lost your Marples, Hollywood? 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Adaptations of Kafka’s novel often seem ungainly onstage. Hamlet’s ‘bad’ self and Kafka’s bug, on compact stages 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z And at the end of their ungainly lives, they must be hauled away as trash. If pulling weeds makes you want to pull your hair out, there’s a simple solution 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Whatever the struggle of the moment, the bears hold a visual fascination throughout — their ungainly, baggy figures suggesting nothing so much as an ill-fitting animal suit. Movie Review: Disney’s ‘Bears,’ Set in Alaska 2014-04-17T23:20:07Z Williams It’s architecturally ungainly outside but I love that about it. Carnegie Hall and the Jewels of Midtown: Stroll the History 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z But for the genre to achieve its potential, Hellermann agrees it must outgrow the ungainly moniker he gave it 30 years ago. Hear hear: Artangel sound art comes to Radio 4 2013-03-28T07:00:06Z It has been her fate, unfortunately, to make her furious, inspiring way through a series of plodding and ungainly stories. | 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo': ?The Girl With Dragon Tattoo? ? Movie Review 2011-12-19T18:19:04Z The result, alas, is an ungainly, mannered — and unbelievable — story that’s saccharine where it’s meant to be moving, contrived where it’s supposed to be suspenseful. Review: Jo Nesbo, in ‘Blood on Snow,’ Tries a New Kind of Hero 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Tchaikovsky’s 35-minute Sonata in G is seldom played, probably because technically it’s not just difficult but ungainly. Review: Nikolai Lugansky Plays Schubert and Tchaikovsky 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Dull and colorless, at Lilka’s first glance, with ungainly modern buildings hunkering under a wintry glare. Book World: ‘The Train to Warsaw’ by Gwen Edelman This famously tall and ungainly president sits scrunched up in a chair, legs crossed, hand to chin, thinking hard. Presidential Portraits: Staring History in the Face 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Meg was at once teenaged and awkward, pregnant and ungainly, maternal and graceful. Motherlode Blog: 'A Wrinkle in Time' Turns 50 2012-02-01T00:05:36Z An ungainly yet strangely captivating oddity, “London Road” snags your attention from the get-go in the manner of any razor-edge experiment: By making you wonder, what on earth? Review: 5 Murdered Prostitutes and an Anxious City in ‘London Road’ 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z They tuned the strings, adjusted the straps and shifted the ungainly accessory against their slight frames. Travel: Mountain View, Ark., Folk Music Capital of the World Hence, I have been thinking about the ungainly panfish around dinner time for a month or so now. Porgy is the trash fish of the summer 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Children read “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and learn about the transformation of a small, ungainly creature into something full-grown and unbound. Butterflies were symbols of rebirth. Then they started disappearing. 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z But that excerpt was put through the magazine’s famously aggressive editorial process, one that transfigured scores of ungainly sentences. ‘Cuz’ Mourns a Loss and Denounces a System 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z A grim social-realist drama from New Zealand that labors to twist its narrative into a redemptive arc, “The Justice of Bunny King” has an unsteady tone to match its ungainly title. ‘The Justice of Bunny King’ Review: No Way Out 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z I found its ungainly mix of obscene luxury and militaristic design off-putting even before I learned that Saddam Hussein’s deplorable son Uday had owned one. Among the Masters at the Ferrari and Lamborghini Museums 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Another was a Shirley Temple medley in which the cast members resorted to ungainly childlike contortions and mannerisms. ‘Here’s to the Girls!’ at the 92nd Street Y 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z A love scene between Cootie and Flora, who is the size of a doll to him, gets off to an ungainly start before they figure out how to connect. "I'm a Virgo": Boots Riley's incredible, ungentle giant swing at late capitalism 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z It can look unsubtle, ungainly, even lumbering at times, but more than anything else, it looks large. Andris Nelsons Gets Ready to Lead the Boston Symphony 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z That’s exactly what happens to Rebecca in Madeleine George’s “Zero Hour,” an endearing if ungainly drama about a young woman in publishing who starts randomly meeting former Hitler Youth on strolls through the city. | 'The Zero Hour': Madeleine George?s Hitler Youth at Walkerspace 2010-07-07T21:11:00Z Applying reason to ask questions about it feels ungainly. A dark fable of love, adventure and redemption 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z This review concerns one of the others, a place that stumbled at the start, as ungainly as a day-old giraffe, and only recently found its footing. Restaurant Review: Bar Bolonat in the West Village 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z But under Mr. Gilbert, the work unfolded fitfully, moving through its distinct episodes with an ungainly spirit that felt merely unsettled, rather than a nod to Sibelius as a structural innovator. Review: New York Philharmonic Honors Boulez, Though With Composers He Snubbed 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z The profanity and sexual imagery can be blunt, often unrelentingly so, and their juxtaposition with laid-back, almost Bill Cosby-like domestic scenes is as ungainly as it is fresh. "Louie's" hilarious, poignant return 2011-06-23T11:24:00Z The aliens themselves look metallic and ungainly, as if about to transform into a Nissan Micra, with plenty of firepower. Battle: Los Angeles ? review 2011-03-10T22:00:00Z He was referring to Mr. Lemaire’s ungainly design of leather trousers with shoes attached. On the Runway: Herm?s: Are We Ready for Pant Boots? 2011-03-06T17:25:40Z Ejiofor combines his talents for high drama and physical comedy in the series, as Faraday learns to manipulate his ungainly Earthly form. Chiwetel Ejiofor Was Asked to Play a Space Alien. He Knew What to Do. 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z She sets up ungainly and awkward scenes with a compositional eye that’s almost classical. ‘Queen of Diamonds’ Review: Fear, Loathing and Misogyny 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z A more recent credit, “The Nanny Diaries,” is a charmless, ungainly comedy that, as the awkwardly directed “Girl Most Likely” suggests, may not have been the anomalous misfire it seemed. Movie Review: In ‘Girl Most Likely,’ Kristen Wiig Has to Go Home Again 2013-07-18T21:25:47Z When they first saw the design the council's planning officers called it "unacceptable", "alien" and "ungainly", "with an overly-complex external envelope that has no relationship with its setting". Jessop hospital, Sheffield – review 2013-03-31T00:05:21Z Until recently, that museum had clung to its plan to demolish a prized garden on East 70th Street in Manhattan and replace it with an ungainly six-story addition. Critic’s Notebook: Frick Collection Returns to Square One, a Prized Garden Intact 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z All with small glazed eyes and ungainly movements. At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Her inner life feels shrouded; without it, the novel lacks an emotional core that might have unified its ungainly plot. A Novel of World War II Espionage With an Unlikely Heroine 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Perhaps watching Widdecombe being ungainly reminds me of my own clunkiness in that department, not that it seems to have embarrassed her. Gordon Brown and Ann Widdecombe ? two possible paths for politicians post-power 2010-12-06T12:25:00Z As is, the play seems to nail their collective grief into one ungainly place. Fable of grief has clipped wings at Theater J 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z There were certainly influenced by family and friends, but more importantly by a desire to create a big, ungainly family, with a lot of disparate parts, that would bring us conflict in our story telling. ArtsBeat: Your ‘Modern Family’ Questions Answered 2012-12-10T19:00:22Z It’s an awkward moment, and perfectly in keeping with the ungainly spirit of this show. Review: ‘Unexpected Joy’ Is a ‘Me’ Generation Musical 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Nijinsky's "anti-ballet" involved ungainly stamping, inelegant jumping, limping and squatting and, most scandalously, the pointing inwards of the dancers' feet, giving rise to Stravinsky's memory of the curtain rising "to rows of knock-kneed Lolitas". The Rite of Spring: still crazy after all these years 2011-02-03T22:30:01Z Hutchins attaches her ungainly clay or papier-mâché jugs on old-furniture pedestals plastered in bits of carefully chosen newspaper clippings. | Frieze-Dried London 2010-10-14T17:33:00Z It is a mess – wrinkled, proportions ungainly, light spills, dancers’ silhouettes fuzzy. Twyla Tharp’s Premiere Week: The Stage Ship Sails 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z In essence, the movie is an ungainly but irresistible romantic-triangle comedy built around Rudd, Reese Witherspoon and Owen Wilson, with Nicholson rambling around its periphery like a demonic bear, part comic relief and part distraction. "How Do You Know": A deliciously messy holiday rom-com 2010-12-17T01:30:00Z But I also think that any momentum it gains by fracturing its scenes and subplots is counteracted by its lurching, at times ungainly rhythm. Dear "Treme": Why are you in such a hurry? 2011-06-27T15:01:00Z Similarly, Agnes says that her avoidance of her cousin was not overt but that she still wanted to keep herself clean of the ungainly suffering. Ayşegül Savaş on Imitation and Identity 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z I have never seen a dragon take flight, but I imagine it being a kind of ungainly thing at first. Game of Thrones Watch: Dark, and Full of Terrors 2012-04-02T11:06:12Z Any effort at naming is an ungainly process, and begins with metaphor — what does this moment recall? In Search of Time Lost and Newly Found 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z And, as in “Little Miss Sunshine,” Ms. Breslin, with her ungainly physique and overly dimpled smile, didn’t hide her age’s inelegance. Girls of a Certain Age Challenge Hollywood 2011-06-03T16:57:32Z Gosling was now delicate and goofy, as light on his toes as a ballerina, while Crowe was an ungainly, unshaven lump. Ryan Gosling movies – ranked! 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The results are bulging and ungainly — precarious-looking feats of artistic engineering. Nancy Rubins: ‘Our Friend Fluid Metal’ 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The musical, though, is an ungainly beast, by turns zany and sentimental. Review: Billy Crystal Carries the Tune in ‘Mr. Saturday Night’ 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z After another bird-filled stop, where we saw our first turkey-like hoatzin — whose ungainly size and clumsy movements made us all laugh — we were transferred into two smaller canoes. Bears, Binoculars and Bucket-List Birds: A 15-Day Tour in Ecuador 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z After three years in which TV movies and miniseries were lumped together in one ungainly category, the television academy believes there's enough programming to again warrant a separation. A look at the Emmy races for movies, miniseries, talk shows and more 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z “Blood Done Sign My Name” is a curious, somewhat ungainly movie. Movie Review | 'Blood Done Sign My Name': A Town Torn Asunder by Racial Killing in ?70 2010-02-19T04:53:00Z His most recent novel, “The Buried Giant,” is set in Arthurian England and its inclusion of ogres sent at least one prominent critic to dismiss it as “ungainly” and worse. Kazuo Ishiguro is a rarity and now a Nobel Laureate 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z It’s an ungainly title, but from it, Cornell William Brooks builds steadily to a fervid crescendo. Who is the NAACP's new president, Cornell William Brooks? Yet these agile performers find a beguiling grace in the ungainly process of fast-forward maturation. Review: ‘John & Jen,’ a Revival Starring Kate Baldwin and Conor Ryan 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z This story, “Optimists,” seems to have been the kernel that gave birth to Mr. Ford’s ungainly but at times powerful new novel, “Canada.” Books of The Times: ‘Canada,’ a Novel by Richard Ford 2012-05-21T21:59:38Z The job that “Xscape” sets itself, in an ungainly term from the liner notes, is to “contemporize” the songs — that is, to update them for the pop market and the radio environment of 2014. Michael Jackson, the Remix 2014-05-07T16:08:06Z But this ungainly book puts me in mind of the message you get on a pinball machine when you shake it too hard: tilt. Books of The Times: ?Extra Lives?: Tom Bissell?s Video Game Manifesto 2010-06-22T22:53:00Z Salvation comes when she relaxes and takes on the chaotic and unpredictable, in the form of the more human, if ungainly, Georges. Valentine's Day: let's hear it for Hollywood's odd couples 2013-02-14T08:01:01Z Some sculptures include human figures, usually ungainly and somehow forlorn, but the most sumptuous and extravagant works tend to feature plants. Around the Galleries: Matt Wedel's 'Peaceable Fruit' ceramics have a hint of fiery apocalypse 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z It’s easier to just discard the works that look as ungainly to us now as “The Octoroon.” Reading Racist Literature 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z One critic called the girls “exceedingly red-legged and ungainly”; a family magazine drew trousers over their legs. What Greta Gerwig Saw in ‘Little Women’: ‘Those Are My Girls’ 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z The ZDX isn't the only car held back by ungainly looks. The Ugliest Cars Of 2010 2010-12-01T21:00:00Z But with the exception of Mara Brock Akil's classic, none of those shows captured the ungainly feeling of early adulting and independence without a fallback option or privilege to coast upon like this show does. "Insecure" to the end: Issa Rae's groundbreaking comedy sails into its final season 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z The ungainly format is applied here to immigration. Nick and Margaret: Too Many Immigrants? review – it feels reductive and cheap 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z The language for the verdict was passive and ungainly — a sentence that has to tie itself into knots in order to bear such moral contortions. When Jim Crow Violence Came to a Small New York Village 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Some people dislike it for its sharply pointed leaves, but I just find it ungainly and awkward, perhaps because I rarely see it used effectively with other plants. Three head-turning perennials Washington gardeners should try this year 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z The best children’s books slip beneath the surreal surface of youth itself, swimming with the current, graceful and ungainly, at ease in both the fizz and the fear. Rikki Ducornet's 'Brightfellow' is a sophisticated embodiment of children's imagination 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z The ungainly telephone assistant with the bright red briefcase has covered some ground himself. Antonio Banderas: Almod?var and me 2011-07-29T21:59:00Z But the sewing machine on the table is so superbly painted in all its black ungainly force that it upstages everything else. Frederick Cayley Robinson: Acts of Mercy 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z Baldwin’s ungainly, impassioned 1964 drama, set in an unnamed Southern town, would test the resources of a considerably more established company. | 'Blues for Mister Charlie': A Murder, an Arrest and Racial Tensions 2011-07-05T00:37:51Z A series of pas de deux dominates, but they are unpredictably structured, seamlessly interwoven with the flocking patterns of the corps de ballet, and punctuated by slightly ungainly, angled lifts that relieve the prettiness. Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet Finishes Its London Season 2012-09-25T22:04:19Z There will be edits and compromises and ungainly commercial interruptions. NBC’s Unkind Olympic Cut 2012-07-28T16:00:53Z Ochs, lightly and comically wounded by Octavian’s sword, is usually cast as a fat and ungainly older man. Savor Renée Fleming in “Der Rosenkavalier,” at the Met 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Almost every movement mutates as you watch: bodies curve and swoop, hips angle, legs buckle, chests and heads push out with ungainly emphasis. Dance Review: Echoing the Tones of Francis Bacon 2011-07-11T22:23:00Z Although I am short as well, I felt huge and ungainly next to her. An Optimist’s Guide to Divorce 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z He obsesses over body language too: the angular, ungainly stride he created for Sheldon, and the alternately swift and halting paces of Elwood. Theater: Jim Parsons Prepares for His Lead Role in ‘Harvey’ 2012-05-23T15:00:21Z What exactly makes HSAPB’s particular flaws — Peterson labels the prose “ungainly” and the plot “not that interesting” — feminist in a new way? Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z Indeed its gestures left such slight traces that my sense was of a music whose inner dance playfully resisted the ungainly attempts of my ears to keep step. Total Immersion: New from the North – review 2013-03-11T15:56:53Z The result is a loud, ungainly hybrid that does not serve police procedurals or fantasy spectaculars very well. Review: ‘Bright’ Has Fairies, Orcs, Elves and L.A. Cops, but Little Magic 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z But the dense, self-reflexive writing and the willfully commercial plot combine here to create what is, in the end, an intriguing but ungainly Frankenstein of a novel. Books of The Times: ‘The Woman Upstairs,’ by Claire Messud 2013-05-02T16:47:10Z He is large, a little ungainly and charismatic without quite being handsome, and somehow able to seem at once exquisitely self-conscious and utterly obtuse. | 'Everything Must Go': A Picture Window on a Life Turned Inside Out 2011-05-12T21:43:02Z Her latest novel, “Casebook,” provides an ungainly look at a boy’s relationship with his mother as their family navigates the choppy waters of separation and divorce. Books of The Times: In ‘Casebook,’ Mona Simpson Explores a Family 2014-04-14T21:15:11Z And yet the makeover feels makeshift and ungainly, and it throws the film's balance out of joint. The Lone Ranger – review 2013-07-10T23:34:53Z It’s frustration guaranteed, especially after the belt clip on your Walkman breaks off and you’re forced to carry the ungainly device in your hand. A Personal Foray Into the Long-Lost Pynchon Tapes 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Gnarled or elongated fingers, ungainly bodies, oddities of perspective and scale, heavy-handed outlines — these features made Neel’s work feel closer to van Gogh’s. Perspective | Alice Neel was the greatest American portraitist of the 20th century. Her work continues to astonish. 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Or if Chicago started filling the Loop with a collection of ungainly skyscrapers, each more of an eyesore than the last. Freeway design is a mash-up on newly expanded 405 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z One thing that is very important is to secure branches and bows with display clay or tape so that, by accident, the entire mantel isn’t wiped away by some guest’s ungainly elbow. Martha Stewart offers hints on entertaining for the holidays 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z It all reads forced and false, whether he’s pensively still or exploding in ungainly hops and heavy stamping that’s about as musical as a toddler’s tantrum. Review: ‘Lorca Madly in Love’ Portrays a Forbidden Romance Through Flamenco 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z The journalists Norman and Hirsch, on the other hand, offer up more personal takes — valuable if ungainly melds of memoir and reportage marked by excellent intentions and awkward prose. Three Views of the Crisis in Women’s Health 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Several irreverent one-liners populate the show, including the image of the Normandie sinking into Times Square, its upright stern forming a new, ungainly high-rise, by Rick Bell, Roger Finney and Bonnie Harken. ‘Times Square, 1984,’ at the Skyscraper Museum 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The second, ungainly duo disrupts the harmony established by the first, illuminating just how sublime that harmony was. Review: Traditional Dance From Okinawa at Japan Society 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z It’s that from the ankle up he’s an ungainly bore, without physical grace or line or intensity. Dance Review: Savion Glover Taps at Hummingbird Speed at the Joyce 2010-06-22T22:32:00Z The assemblage, ungainly as it is, also functions something like a family album. Dieter Roth’s Works Live On as a Family Business 2013-01-17T13:00:00Z The famous Chanel suit, edged with silver and shown with culottes trimmed in tulle, looked fine standing still, but too much like ungainly shorts in motion. 2010-01-27T13:08:00Z The paragraph-long evaluations were ungainly and of little use after the fact; it was hard to detect a pattern from them. David Brooks will never get it: After getting Trump and GOP wrong, now he has a new crusade 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z But in “Our Country,” a somewhat ungainly examination of Saunders’s bond with and duty toward her own legally beleaguered younger brother, she suggests there might be another way of looking at Antigone’s self-sacrifice. At Under the Radar, Family Histories Bubble Up With No Easy Answers 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z His mother, also seated, turns toward him, her twisted, ungainly posture conveying pain, discomfort and conflict. Salman Toor, a Painter at Home in Two Worlds 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z He makes a powerful case for that argument — and the Who’s contribution to the cause — in the pages of this deeply felt but often ungainly book. Books of The Times: ‘Who I Am: A Memoir,’ by Pete Townshend 2012-10-09T00:36:11Z “There was this strange, foreign creature, with its ungainly neck that sticks above the player’s head,” Grad recalled in a recent phone interview. The magic lute: Baroque instrument gets electric update for world premiere 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Plus they're a few years older and get to quench their massive horns in real life not just in their minds, even if the sex is mostly ungainly, unsatisfying, often simply wrong. TV review: My Mad Fat Diary; Girls 2013-01-14T23:10:01Z But all too often that means knee-high clompers that not only compel an ungainly walk, but are also a pain to store. It’s Almost Spring. Let’s Get Organized. 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Making an ungainly leap from Broadway stage to movie screen, the musical “Dear Evan Hansen” is the story of a liar, an accomplished fabulist who uses a troubled classmate’s self-harm to gain popularity. ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Review: You’ve Got a Friend (Not) 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Mae Mobley is plump and ungainly; she looks charming in a diaper but not in the sort of frilly dresses her mother favors. 'The Help': Black Maids and White Mistresses in the 1960s 2011-08-10T09:00:00Z A stammer translated into text always looks so ungainly, a string of letters and dashes and pauses that inevitably steer the reader in a comedic direction. The monster in my mouth: Maggie O'Farrell on fighting her stammer 2013-02-27T20:00:01Z At the miniature Metropolitan Playhouse, this debate is presented unadorned by present-day editorializing; this, underlines Glaspell’s penchant for slamming melodrama up against wry turns of dialogue, a compositional tactic by turns ungainly and excitingly destabilizing. Review: In ‘Alison’s House,’ a Family Struggles to Protect a Literary Legacy 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Considering the cultural connections between hip-hop and African dance, it’s not surprising that they would blend well, but hybrids are often ungainly, and it’s a relief to see one as smooth as this. Illstyle and Peace’s ‘IMpossible IZZpossible’ at BAM Fisher 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z The result is clever, ambitious and ungainly, with discordant elements stitched together and too many points to make. With 'California: The Tempest,' Cornerstone makes homespun magic 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z “Who could possibly have any experience managing such a massive, ungainly beast?” 'Game of Thrones' Finale Recap: Shocking Deaths and a Walk of Shame 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z This eagerness toward the adaptation is understandable, given its ungainly charm, but the problem is that the documentary isn’t strictly about the remake. Review: In ‘Raiders!,’ Two Boys’ First, Great Movie Crush 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z The gentle poetry of Strauss’s invocation of spring was reduced to ungainly prose. Soprano Heidi Melton shows promise in Strauss’s ‘Four Last Songs’ program 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z Trapped between our hands is a pen, tracing lines on the paper we've placed on the table, marking the restless skids and scratches of our ungainly Ouija-board-meets-broken-seismograph collaboration. Tim Etchells on performance: learning your lines 2010-10-26T14:53:00Z The resulting slug sculptures, manipulated to fit within the room, coexist with her paintings, which, as usual, depict ungainly yet attractive figural distortions. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z As this tends to happen with the youngest, most enthusiastic but least experienced fans, it communicates the status of novice and is seen as amateurish and ungainly. Ask the indie professor: What does your gig T-shirt say about you? 2010-10-04T15:58:00Z The same can be said of this ungainly and oddly unforgettable film, which will screen at 12:15 p.m. both days. Movie Listings for Aug. 29-Sept. 4 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the ungainly artist plants himself smack in the middle of the scene — standing in the way and blocking the view down life's long and winding road. 5 pieces in the Broad collection that highlight Pop art history 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Here, however, the result is an ungainly fable that reflects none of Mr. Ishiguro’s myriad and subtle gifts. Review: In ‘The Buried Giant,’ Ishiguro Revisits Memory and Denial 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z A former competitive swimmer, at the Yale pool she reveals a new, ungainly body: “I stood there like a sea lion.” She Ate and Ate, and Never Felt Satisfied 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z It didn't help that deep cuts "Mason's Children" and "New Potato Caboose" came off as ungainly. Grateful Dead pays slack tribute to legacy 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z A few are so ungainly or candidly perverse they may be better suited for coffee table display. Art’s New Perch: Your Neck, Not Your Wall 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Jojo, the reluctant hero, is a classic Ward protagonist: a tender, ungainly teenager — easy prey. Faulkner and Other Ghosts Sing Through Jesmyn Ward’s New Novel 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z The notebooks, of course, give us the full measure of her youth: “I was small and ungainly, thin, covered with freckles, burdened with two carrot-red braids that hung to the middle of my thighs.” Marguerite Duras’s ‘The Lover,’ and Notebooks That Enrich It 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z In his opening aria his solo line is full of extravagant emphases and ungainly leaps. La Cenerentola - a musical guide 2012-06-19T12:21:43Z These are powerful pieces that promote self-reflection and connective empathy through their ungainly forms and their quiet intrusion into our everyday lives. Brooding sculptures invite interaction, pushing of 'Borders' 2012-08-09T20:29:11Z Six miles off the coast of Israel, beyond the brightly colored sails of wind surfers, an ungainly steel structure looms above the blue Mediterranean. An American Energy Giant Sees Israel as a Springboard to Europe 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Despite its flaws, threaded throughout this ungainly film is a dramatic and at times moving tale about people trying very hard not to be the villains in anyone’s hero narrative. Review: Pulpy, revisionist World War II thriller 'Blood & Gold' focuses on survival not war 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z The King County Courthouse’s ungainly profile photobombed countless Seattle cityscape portraits for four decades. A fireproof ‘Cruel Castle’ rose on First Hill after Seattle's big blaze 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z The Turks want to the world to stop using a name that in English is an ungainly, flight-challenged bird, and sometimes an insult. On Blinken Visit, Quake Relief Soothes U.S.-Turkey Tensions 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z The ungainly bird, which stood around one meter tall and weighed about 15 to 20 kilograms, represents a particular kind of evolutionary misfortune: It should have been afraid of humans, but it wasn’t. A 'De-Extinction' Company Wants to Bring Back the Dodo 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z The sprawling, ungainly U.S. government has plenty of people who can see at least some secrets and are supposed to keep them closely held. Leaders are meant to keep state secrets. Just not at home. 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z As well as, his party’s ungainly understanding of diversity and representation. Perspective | Republican Byron Donalds is Black. That’s basically the talking point. 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Lincoln in 1860, as he entered the forge with its licking flames, was an ungainly, uncouth, mocked and widely hated man. Opinion | Rising to a historic destiny, Zelensky embodies America’s values 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z As often happens in the realm of human spaceflight, Artemis is ungainly, controversial, compromised and excessively expensive. Opinion | Artemis says, to the moon! But it might simply prove our human limits. 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z The plot is overcomplicated, relying too much on detailed explanations of how spells work; and the premise offers an ungainly mix of relatable disappointments and outsized dilemmas, frequently involving cartoonish villainy. Review: Less enchanting than its predecessor, 'Disenchanted' gets by on the charm of Amy Adams 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Neither the publisher nor I expected many people to read it, especially with such an ungainly title. Why I write about war — and why I can't escape it 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z Once dismissed by scouts as too ungainly to succeed, he is, like all great athletes, relentlessly competitive and impervious to noise. Opinion | Judge holds the home run record. Bonds doesn’t. Reality is real. 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z To outsiders, the Hef looks like an ungainly industrial workhorse that no longer works. The Country That Wants to ‘Be Average’ vs. Jeff Bezos and His $500 Million Yacht 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z And since Dinosaur Jr. was always a band for alt-rock connoisseurs, perhaps it’s fitting that this movie about them is equal parts heartfelt and ungainly. Review: 'Stargirl' gets a sequel on Disney+, WWII flyboys and more movies to watch 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z For best results while pumping — an ungainly experience at best — it helps to be relaxed. Opinion | Breastfeeding isn’t ‘free.’ Here’s what it cost me. Her work as Bertha Russell, the series’ ambitious climber, kept me invested in this ungainly show, if only to see when she might launch another tea tray across the room. Emmys 2022: Drama acting power rankings 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z The latest member of the rogue’s gallery of variants and subvariants is the ungainly named BA.2.12.1, part of the omicron gang. Virus mutations aren’t slowing down. New omicron subvariant proves it. 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z One other artifact is a bent D.C. license plate, planted at the bottom of an ungainly stack of bricks titled “Unrepresented, but Present.” Review | In the galleries: Objects of ruin build images of D.C. history 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z You can watch what that looks like in the video below: As you can see, Mini Cheetah’s new running gait is a little ungainly. Want to make robots run faster? Try letting AI take control 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Look again at those absurd videos of Putin practicing judo — the aging, chill-faced little man taking an ungainly roll. Perspective | Knocking Putin’s teams off the sports stage leaves him exposed to his own people 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z The Irishman collected an awkward pass-back on his right foot, took an ungainly touch, and began to stumble. Dundee see off impressive Peterhead 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Spiraling and sometimes daringly ungainly, the sculptor’s creations look a bit like monumental crags or massive ceramic vessels. Review | In the galleries: Dynamic abstract sculptural works in wood show disparate styles 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z He was tall, languid, just on the border between rangy and ungainly. The Joy in Embracing the Unknown 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z The model’s body, meanwhile, assumes an ungainly, almost bizarre shape — all lumps and weird angles. Think Degas was a misogynist? Take another look. That dissonance reflects how things routinely work in Congress, where legislating and politics are ungainly and often produce convoluted messages. Tussling Dems tumble toward deal on Biden’s economic plans 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z A willingness to subvert expectations is one reason this ungainly, ingenious and altogether fascinating collaboration works as well as it does. Review: Ridley Scott's epic 'The Last Duel' rebukes the patriarchy in every era 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Pudgy, ungainly tardigrades are among the smallest legged animals on Earth, and these microscopic water bears lumber around like chubby-thighed toddlers. Why Tiny Tardigrades Walk Like Insects 500,000 Times Their Size 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Officially called the Thunderbolt, the A-10 looked so ungainly that pilots affectionately called it the Warthog. Pierre Sprey, Pentagon analyst who battled brass to produce A-10 warplane, dies at 83 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z But I was even more curious about how Kaling and Fisher would revise the ungainly smorgasbord that was their show’s freshman year. Review | The second season of ‘Never Have I Ever’ gives us more of its best — and its worst 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Gamble and Huff executive produced “The Jacksons” and wrote five of its 10 songs, and it sounds like it — the music is a jauntier, somewhat ungainly version of the duo’s lushly orchestrated Philly soul sound. The musical thrill, and moral unease, of rediscovering Michael's sibling group, the Jacksons 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z The Coast Guard said at least two people were seen going back inside after clinging to the overturned hull after the ungainly platform ship flipped over in hurricane-force winds on Tuesday. Families hope loved ones can be found alive in capsized boat 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z With a birdlike arrangement, in contrast, the chest would have to be so large as to be ungainly. How to Make a Hippogriff Fly and Other Flights of Fancy 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z That ungainly term doesn't refer to the chronic food scarcity and undernourishment, which afflicts more than 800 million people in poor countries, but rather to the disruption of people's typical food-consumption patterns. On the frontlines of pandemic suffering 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z But it just becomes less elegant, more ungainly — and so less memorable. So fascism came to America — but what was it wearing? 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z Look, a newborn donkey taking his first, ungainly steps. Imagine a World Without Apps 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z It’s just the latest of many ungainly terms from the world of marketing, where language is often twisted into new shapes with a certain goal in mind: persuading you to buy things. ‘Thumb-stopping.’ ‘Humaning.’ ‘B4H.’ The strange language of modern marketing. 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z The alternative is gathered at the doors, shrieking for another chance to crush American democracy beneath the ungainly bulk of Trumpism. Our politics isn't about left vs. right anymore — it's about reality vs. dreadful fantasy 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, Chez could clearly see the incoming abuses, the crimes, the ungainly nonsense, the recklessness, the racism, the petty vindictiveness — all of it. Time to dump the presidential dilettante — he's a cruel and incompetent failure 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z In the top of the ninth inning, the Mets’ ungainly right fielder, Ron Swoboda, made a diving catch of a line drive off the bat of Brooks Robinson to stop a Baltimore rally. Tom Seaver, Hall of Fame pitcher for New York’s ‘Miracle Mets’ of ’69, dies at 75 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Soldier through the perils of both live TV and video conferencing, namely pixelated computer camera interviews, ungainly moments of dead air, awkward missed cues and frozen smiles. The traditional political convention is dead. Long live the virtual one 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z Perhaps most important, the president is the strongest adhesive holding together an ungainly Biden voter coalition that ranges from democratic socialists to four-star generals. Biden Leaves Convention With a Clear Mission: Stop Trump 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Pixelating, tiling computer camera interviews ran back-to-back with ungainly moments of dead air between segments, missed cues and stagehands accidentally walking in front of the camera. In praise of the Democratic National Telethon — ahem, Convention 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z PHE was formed as part of Government health reforms in 2012 with an ungainly merger of health protection and prevention initiatives such as obesity strategies. Health Secretary axes public health body 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Yet before Mr. Sanders appeared, in a reflection of Mr. Biden’s ungainly coalition, some speakers sought to nudge the former vice president in a different direction. Democrats Begin Virtual Convention, Hailing Biden and Denouncing Trump 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z It’s a surpassingly yucky punchline in a movie that glories in the most ungainly aspects of fleshy human life. Review | SNL’s Pete Davidson delivers a powerful performance in ‘The King of Staten Island’ 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z Police officials and authorities have struggled to respond, deploying an ungainly mix of responses that includes voicing support for peaceful protesters, denouncing violent actors, backing their officers and punishing misconduct within their own forces. As protests grip cities, violence against police raises fears of harsher crackdown 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Pop is generally regarded as U2’s latter-day nadir: its recording was rushed, its attempt at grafting samples and loops on to U2’s sound ungainly, and even its title managed to upset US rock fans. U2's 40 greatest songs – ranked! 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z He allowed internal arguments to fester within his campaign, an ungainly operation that fragmented into factions beneath the only two real decision makers — Mr. Sanders and his wife, Jane. How It All Came Apart for Bernie Sanders 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z The Jayhawks’ 62-58 fight through Kansas State on Saturday didn’t gut that notion, even if it did look ungainly enough that Coach Bill Self rated his offense “so poor.” Perspective | In Kansas, we might have an NCAA tournament favorite, if not a favorite of the NCAA 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z It is a perfectly absurd sport with tricky rules and a tiny audience, strange and ungainly, memorably described by the NBC commentator Bob Costas as “a contest to see who can whisper the loudest”. Racewalkers' long march for equality deserves recognition at Tokyo 2020 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z She now faces the ungainly challenge of seeking to capitalize on the energy of that debate without having triumphed, or even fared especially well, in the contest immediately following it. Bernie Sanders Wins Nevada Caucuses, Strengthening His Primary Lead 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z The first: No one is truly qualified for an office as ungainly as the presidency. Does Running a City of 100,000 People Make You President Material? 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z North Korea is nothing if not emboldened by Trump’s ungainly experiment in statecraft cosplay. Donald Trump's new "fire and fury": More madman cosplay, with no exit strategy 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z The finish, bundled home off Meslier from in front of the posts, was ungainly but accurately reflected the transformation. Reiss Nelson puts Arsenal through in FA Cup despite Leeds’ best efforts 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z A somewhat ungainly word came into being a decade ago: nomophobia — short for no mobile phone phobia — meaning a fear of being without one’s phone, or at least without juice or network coverage. Opinion | Look Up 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z The result is a film with striking locations and sumptuous visuals, undercut by choppy pacing, clumsy dialogue and ungainly exposition that includes unnecessary and bewildering flashbacks. Review | A movie about the Indian queen who defied English colonizers is pretty but stodgy 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z That is what this centaur of a play is like, too: a tragic torso from which comedy sprouts, ungainly and irrepressible, singing a song of hope. American Dreams in “The Rose Tattoo” and “Soft Power” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Osweiler was tall and white and ungainly and gangly and mobile. $1m per touchdown: did Brock Osweiler have the easiest ever NFL career? 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z The acoustic bass is an ungainly instrument, large and bulky, and almost always taller than the man or woman who plays it. Tucked in the corner of a hotel lounge is what is likely the longest running jazz gig in D.C. 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z She was considered to have a very large voice but one lacking personality and, well, not always in control — magnificent if ungainly. Appreciation: Why Jessye Norman was more than a great voice. Much more 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z And there he is, drifting in from the right and finding the top corner with an ungainly but nonetheless precise finish. N’Golo Kanté is Chelsea’s dynamic all-rounder in a team lacking structure | Jonathan Wilson 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Few could argue that Ms. Harris, hovering around 5 percent in early polling, entered the 2003 race at much of an advantage, even as her fund-raising drew on an ungainly Filofax full of high-end contacts. Kamala Harris Was Ready to Brawl From the Beginning 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z The map the two men produced at about 7 a.m. the next morning was ungainly, Mr. Oldham wrote. Republican Gerrymander Whiz Had Wider Influence Than Was Known 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z The campaign has already started; his social media presence has gone from ungainly swiping to a more coherent regular punching. To beat Trump in 2020, Democrats will need to get down and dirty | Nesrine Malik 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z His ungainly drumbeat against alleged voter fraud will only grow louder as the election draws closer, while his already precarious grip on reality grows weaker. Trump's outrageous claims of voter fraud have a clear goal: Refusing to accept defeat in 2020 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z And finding that life – and the unsteady, ungainly process of that task – looks different for everyone. As an overworked perfectionist, ignoring wellness advice was the salve my soul needed | Johanna Leggatt 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z For every breathtaking winner by Serena Williams on Centre Court on Tuesday, there seemed to be an ungainly mistake. Wimbledon 2019: Serena Williams Shows Some Rust in Opening Win 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z But the process of memorializing fleeting moments of ungainly success—on the badminton court, the basketball court, the soccer field—had a curiously deflating effect. The Brooklyn Startup Helping High-School Athletes Go Viral 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Start with that ungainly name of the commission. Perspective | The administration’s plan to redefine ‘human rights’ along conservative lines 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z An ungainly mess with a cluttered and sometimes atonal arrangement. Prince ‘Originals’ puts the sex back into songs he gifted to protégés and pals 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Requirements that soldiers wear high-heeled boots led to “many blistered feet” and induced “a most ungainly walk and ungraceful carriage.” Japanese Women Want a Law Against Mandatory Heels at Work 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z It looks as if he’s conducting ungainly music, but he usually brings his sentences home, phrase by baritone phrase. Can Beto Bounce Back? 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Her behavior stemmed from a wish to keep herself apart from their ungainly suffering. “Canvas” 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z While the film ended being a smash at the box office, it was also an overlong, ungainly, and nigh unwatchable mess, roundly savaged by audiences and critics alike. From zero to hero: how the DC cinematic universe was saved 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z It climbs up into the sky in ungainly lumps, with a triangular observation deck wedged into its side near the top, forming a pointy beak that gives it the look of an angry chicken. Horror on the Hudson: New York's $25bn architectural fiasco 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z This musical cut-and-shut of astral grunge and 6Music indie may seem an ungainly chimera, but it is part of a broader trend. Billy Corgan touring with Noel Gallagher: what could possibly go wrong? 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z At several points last season, Gronk appeared greatly reduced, slow and ungainly in heavy pads—a bionic man, leaking oil. Goodbye to Rob Gronkowski, Who Made It Look So Easy 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z “But what I realize now,” she said, “is that they were not so ungainly at all.” “Canvas” 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Just the usual petty vengeance that’s been all but normalized by this ungainly and incompetent crackpot. Time for the Electoral College to die: Can the popular-vote compact save America? 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z An ungainly hybrid of low-key drama and tawdry thriller, the Martha’s Vineyard-set indie “Off Season” squanders some inviting local color on a blah horror/mystery plot. Reviews: Boxing doc ‘Cradle of Champions,’ Emile Hirsch and John Cusack in western ‘Never Grow Old’ and more 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z I also like “The Bones,” in which Morris compares a sturdy relationship to a house with a solid foundation — a potentially ungainly metaphor that she manages to sell. Review: Maren Morris is aiming too hard for the Grammys with ‘Girl’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z These dueling forces have created a growing but ungainly coalition that shares contempt for Mr. Trump but is less unified on policy matters like health care. Medicare for All Emerges as Early Policy Test for 2020 Democrats 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z Our lengthy conversation resulted in an ungainly transcript, which has been carefully edited to maximize clarity. Salon Interview: Tucker Carlson bashes capitalism, says he might vote for Elizabeth Warren 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z There were huge cranes down in the harbor, jutting into the air like the antennae of some ungainly creatures that had crawled out of the ocean. “Cream” 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z You could see his maximal effort in the shape of his strokes—the slightly ungainly, compact forehand, the sometimes junky shots. Andy Murray, Who May Have Played His Last Match, Is Already Missed 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Our system is an ungainly hybrid of private operation and public oversight, with nursing home companies becoming expert at passing state inspections without providing residents with the personal attention and quality of care they deserve. Editorials from around New York 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z To make sure that television sets would become something more than ungainly appliances, entertainment executives of the late 1940s and early 1950s went in search of programming. In the Race for Content, Hollywood Is Buying Up Hit Podcasts 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z Last year, a skit on the G20 summit depicted Mr Putin as an athletic, skilful practitioner of judo who ran rings around his Western counterparts, who appeared ungainly and foolish. How Putin's Russia turned humour into a weapon 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Near the planned site sat an ungainly taxi garage, a bunkerlike building housing the New York Blood Center and a smattering of drab government offices. Long Island City faces Amazon dilemma: How to reap rewards amid changing landscape 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Many who remember the first iterations of the car found it ungainly or downright ugly. Porsche's Panamera E-Hybrid isn't going to solve global warming. But it's a fast, nimble performer - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z We learn at an early age to be grossed out by our bodies, with their ungainly fat deposits and nipples guaranteed to be the wrong size and slimy, bleeding, wrinkly holes. How Tori Amos's Boys for Pele rewrote pop by daring to be ugly 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z S.U.V.s — a term that didn’t exist yet — were thirsty, ungainly trucks. You Don’t Drive a Minivan? You Should. Here’s Why. 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Apparently, you get a car based on a Soviet-era design and an ungainly monster more than 13 feet tall that many people doubt is capable of moving. Kalashnikov Unveils a Car of the Future. Russians See a 1970s Relic. 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Some supported him, and some felt it was an unconventional choice by an unconventional man, an all-timer who had started as an ungainly, shy kid from Alexander City, Ala. Terrell Owens — unique, defiant and maybe self-defeating — inducts himself into the Hall of Fame 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z The ungainly Hollywood hybrid commonly referred to as the “action-comedy” has often struck me as one of the scourges of mainstream American movies. Review: Kate McKinnon seizes control of the frenzied action-comedy ‘The Spy Who Dumped Me' 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z When Cypress announced its closure, the plan was for an ungainly merger with a C.M.O.-managed school. What New Orleans Tells Us About the Perils of Putting Schools on the Free Market 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Because, in the eighteenth minute of extra time, Walker took an ungainly, tired swing at a Croatian cross. World Cup 2018: The Tragicomic Opera of Croatia’s Mario Mandžukić 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z “It was the mound that got me,” says Thorn, who still finds himself mentally replaying that one ungainly lob. How to Throw Out a Ceremonial First Pitch 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z On top of that, it’s an ungainly shape: the decorative side turbines tend to get caught on chairs, the corners of buildings, and the legs of inattentive parents. I couldn’t test-drive Radio Flyer’s Star Wars landspeeder, but my 5-year-old did 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Next to him dances an ungainly plucked chicken. Out of the shadows, into the light: 'Chiaroscuro Woodcut' is a sleeper hit at LACMA 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z One of those scenarios seems delightful, the other indecent and ungainly. New Sentences: From Jesse Ball’s ‘Census’ 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z An engaging if ungainly hybrid of “The Graduate” and “House of Cards,” the political potboiler “Affairs of State” benefits greatly from being both timely and, for this day and age, uncommon. Sex-tinged melodrama 'Affairs of State' mirrors real politics 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot, for instance, is a hulking humanoid machine that can be seen hiking across broken ground, jumping onto pedestals, and even performing an ungainly backflip . Animal robots’ secretive maker slowly emerges from stealth 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z All of which created some unusual, and often ungainly, scenes in the Senate chamber. Hochul Takes Helm of New York Senate, to Republican Displeasure 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z She was the ungainly, insecure daughter of an austere, beautiful mother who put her down. Opinion | Barbara Bush: Fake Pearls, Real Heart 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z The real pièce de résistance in this great-space-for-calming-down-after-a-bad-hair-day-at-the-office, however, is nearly invisible from inside, hidden behind a large, ungainly outdoor fireplace. Orlando show home is designed with the multigeneration family in mind 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Released in summer 2001, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider was an ungainly attempt to level up the art of cinematic Raiders of the Lost Ark knockoffs. The 2018 Tomb Raider movie dials down the franchise’s tackiness 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Unpredictable and ungainly, "Downsizing" takes chances that don't always pay off. New video: 'Downsizing' doesn't always work, but it's thoughtful and heartfelt 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z It’s an ungainly space and there are lots of touches to take things that look like they wouldn’t work and suddenly make them interesting, even though they’re awkward or difficult spaces. On my radar: Richard Sennett’s cultural highlights 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z Old and ungainly as it may have been, Peavy was beloved by many in the College of Forestry. OSU Forest Science Center behind schedule and over budget 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Johnson was racing in the World Cup finals in Aspen, Colo., when she crashed in the last turn of the course, catching an edge of her skis and ending up in an ungainly split. WWU ski racer Breezy Johnson has made it to her first Olympics — but she’s just getting started 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Though a few medical pioneers began to observe directly the true ungainly shape of the human heart—so different from the popular symbol—artists and artisans remained faithful to the symmetrical, scalloped form. The Mysterious Origins of the Enduring Heart Symbol 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Her bow looked so huge and ungainly as to be on the point of tipping her, nose first, into the depths. A fantastical ship has set out to seek Malaysian Airlines flight 370 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z There’s a distinct touch of the ungainly about this sort of heroine. ‘L’Accident’ Review: Road to Ruin 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The children of Generation Z might look at pictures of today’s driverless cars and laugh at the ungainly gadgets that resemble spinning coffee cans or kitchen blenders rigged atop the car roof. $75,000 per car? How competition is driving down costs of technology used in driverless vehicles 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z For Republicans in Washington the bill is an outsize and perhaps ungainly political bet. In Ohio, a Tax Bill With Uncertain Payoffs Is Met With Ambivalence 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z To their ungainly concoction of tax breaks for the various interests that support them, they added the repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate. Opinion | Republicans: Enrage your colleagues 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Instead, he left many of the ungainly fixtures in the garage bays. In a Desolate Corner of Milan, an Unexpected Home 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z The 12th was Hunter Pence, an ungainly but effective player for much of his career, a three-time All-Star mired in his worst season ever. Dodgers beat Giants 2-1 to extend win streak to seven games 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z The rapid, awkward demise of Trumpcare and the president’s confounding reaction in the aftermath might’ve been the last straw in an already ungainly relationship between both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. How long till leading Republicans turn on Trump? It’s happening already 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z So he has shoulder pads, and a long, mullet-style hairdo with an ungainly bald patch. Review: More Carell, but fewer ideas in ‘Despicable Me 3’ 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Ivanka Trump’s ramrod posture and the ungainly movements of a Republican senator were all it took to distract the public from a government meeting on Wednesday about paid family leave. Marco Rubio's latest awkward moment: a failed hug with Ivanka Trump 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z In late April, Pioneering Spirit lifted the ungainly structure off the legs and carried it off like a spider grasping prey. Digging the Graveyard of Oil’s Past 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z This was an ungainly machine, popular at the time, that contained a clock and an electric kettle; it could wake you up with morning tea. W. G. Sebald, Humorist 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z She found herself drawn to one of the most ungainly areas of the Farm, a ragged set of former pastures by the mud flats with horrible drainage. A Reclusive Millionaire’s Vast New Zealand Sculpture Park 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z As such, you cannot help feeling a sort of humility around them: They may be slow and ungainly and lumpily fashioned, but they are, in their durability and unchangeability, perfect in a way we aren’t. A Pet Tortoise Who Will Outlive Us All 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z The team notched a run in ungainly but effective fashion. Dodgers lose 4-3 to Giants as Kershaw can't fulfill his normal excellency 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Aside from most large companies, many partnerships and small businesses would benefit because they are structured as pass-throughs, an ungainly moniker that derives from the fact that they pass on their profits to their owners. Trump tax cut: Huge, vague and likely mild boost for economy 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z To understand just how fractious and ungainly the Trump coalition truly is, look no further than his administration. Fed up: 9 ultranationalist Trump supporters who are rapidly losing patience with his presidency 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Three more potential defendants have been investigated by the tribunal, an ungainly mix of Cambodian and international prosecutors and judges. 11 Years, $300 Million and 3 Convictions. Was the Khmer Rouge Tribunal Worth It? 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Regardless of Trump’s ungainly flailing on the issue, the facts are the facts. Who’s under investigation in the current White House? Devin Nunes seems to know 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z It’s a new year, filled with new opportunities, and as the political landscape takes ungainly shape, it’s a year that will certainly be spent drinking. Make 2017 your best wine year ever 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z The zoning on some side streets was changed to prevent the ungainly high-rises of an earlier era. Discovering the Lost Coast of Queens 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Trump’s stumble over his first week could end up as an asterisk in his presidency, an ungainly beginning that prompted improvements. But it underscored several difficulties that lie ahead. Trump's botched weekend threatens impressions of presidential competence 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Instead of being serviced by ungainly rear-loaders, the receptacles are emptied day and night by workers scooting around in 86 small carts. New Fleet of Fume-Free Trash Collectors Heads to Central Park 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z The ungainly Navy airplane at the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., is one of the few original U.S. aircraft in existence that flew against the Japanese armada that day. After Pearl Harbor, this mail plane had a new mission: Find the attackers 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z She made the rest of the world look stay-at-home and ungainly. Confessions of an Amateur Tightrope Walker 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Many homeowners are resorting to a simple, if ungainly, solution: putting up a really big fence. As Deer Chew Up Suburbs, Some Say a Good Fence Is the Best Defense 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Even at full strength, before he tore two ligaments in his knee, Schwarber was an ungainly fielder. Cubs' Kyle Schwarber not cleared to play the outfield as World Series returns to Wrigley Field 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The vehicle looked ungainly, but it worked, resurfacing the rink with a clean sheet in 15 minutes. This Is How the First Zamboni Machine Was Invented 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z While there is agitprop fervor to spare in "Birth of a Nation," situations tend to be presented in strokes so broad and ungainly they do not always resonate as deeply as they might. Nate Parker's slave-revolt drama 'The Birth of a Nation' wields its emotions like a blunt instrument when subtlety is called for 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z As part of the Vetements team, he ushered in an era of ungainly, oversized silhouettes and helped to turn such mundane commodities as a logo t-shirt for express-mail giant DHL into a covetable fashion item. How ‘street style’ lost its meaning and its power 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z A million dollars in hundred-dollar bills is easy to tote in a shopping bag, but a million in ten-dollar bills weighs an ungainly two hundred and twenty pounds. Imagining a Cashless World 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z To minimize the garden’s oppressive tone, Doherty replaced the home’s ungainly fountain with an oversize frog sculpture. Updating a grand Spanish home into something warmer, more modern 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z As a man of style, however, he wasn’t ready to swap his Church’s wingtips for ungainly orthopedic sneakers. The New Heavy-Hitter Dress Shoes: How Stylish Guys Wear Them 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Loria remembered a shopping spree Fernandez made on his first road trip, how ungainly he looked hauling bags of electronics and video games around with him. Loss of Jose Fernandez Shakes a Team, a Sport and a People 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z “Storks,” like the most famous folkloric image of the titular bird — airborne and carrying a baby in a pouch with its beak — is a thing at once cute, ungainly and seemingly lighter than air. ‘Storks’ delivers a bundle of meh, not joy 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Sheer ungainly desperation, however, holds the promise of deeply entertaining weeks. Giants Try to Hang On in an Inelegant Playoff Race 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z This is the Minhocão, or “giant earthworm”: an ungainly, controversial, but sometimes treasured emblem of this splendidly untidy megalopolis of 11 million. Rosa Barba examines the everyday chaos of São Paulo's 'giant earthworm' highway 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z The one-piece wing skins are so large they must be flown to Broughton in the ungainly, custom-built Beluga. Airbus wing plant is a model of robotic technology 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Donald Trump’s ungainly back-and-forth on immigration has a parallel in Britain, which is struggling to make sense of its own impetuous resolution to take control of its borders. Britain’s post-Brexit warning for Americans seduced by Trump 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Efraim Diveroli, the ungainly, socially awkward miscreant at the center of “War Dogs,” surrounds himself with paraphernalia from the movie “Scarface.” Jonah Hill and Miles Teller play pothead arms traders in ‘War Dogs’ 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z But there are other winning looks, and Miller’s gutsy, ungainly finish is a reminder of that. The Beauty of Shaunae Miller’s Ugly Dive in Rio 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z The case is bulky and ungainly; although I've never used a case on an iPad beyond a Smart Cover before, I think even people who usually do would be put off by this one. Razer's iPad Pro mechanical keyboard is indulgent typing heaven 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, it was left to Mr. Ban to manage the ungainly diplomatic moment with an oblique statement that urged Saudi officials to “improve the situation on the ground.” Saudis Question U.N. Leader Over Report on Rights Violators 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z James leaned in, made contact with Ezeli, and heaved up an ungainly shot, drawing a foul and earning three free throws. The Unlikelihood of Rooting for LeBron James 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The fish collectors use a small boat outfitted with electrical gear that hangs out over the sides like large, ungainly umbrella frames. State environmental workers back out on Louisiana waters 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The Dodgers manufactured a run in the sixth in ungainly, but effective fashion. Clayton Kershaw brilliant once again in 1-0 Dodgers win 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Giving each of these journeys their due, while also tracking the parents’ rocky marriage, is an ungainly and at times frenetic business. Hits and errors in Book-It’s well-acted ‘Brothers K’ 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z After a few beats, one body groans unexpectedly to its feet and, with an ungainly lunge, attempts to free you from your restraints. The Coming Horror of Virtual Reality 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z And while designers persistently push the “upgraded” cargo short, there is something ungainly about utility pockets on the thighs. Summer’s New Khaki Shorts: A WWII Classic Updated 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Our tools for captivation are few, and often ungainly. Porn is the secret of my future success 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Perhaps there was some latent wisdom in Woolf’s ungainly little phrase: “the person to whom things happen.” The Forced Heroism of the ‘Survivor’ 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z He could be death on academic locution and on the ungainly “in terms of,” the overused “scenario,” the misused “transpire,” the merely hideous “prioritize.” Death of a Word Man 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Everts' art, post-trial, was "technically inept" though "shot through with the ungainly passion of dedication," the Times' Wilson opined. Connor Everts dies at 88; artist's work was focus of 1960s obscenity trial 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Hologram unfortunately mixes up this soul-searching with a fish-out-of-water comedy that falls back on ungainly tropes about inscrutable foreigners. A Hologram For The King takes Tom Hanks on a frustrating journey of self-discovery 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z An ungainly alliance of Kurdish peshmerga, Shia and Sunni militias, and soldiers from the Iraqi army are slowly encircling the city. Jihadists on the run 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z As a high school freshman, Mr. Lovellette stood an ungainly 6-4 and was put through rigorous drills by his coach to improve his coordination and jumping ability. Clyde Lovellette, hulking Hall of Fame basketball star of the 1950s, dies at 86 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Their outsize flippers render them ungainly as they clumsily flap at the water's edge. Is the Pacific too warm for Galapagos sea lions? - BBC News 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Even when it’s as ungainly and cravenly audience-pleasing as its protagonist, it soars. ‘Eddie the Eagle’ tells a classic underdog story 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z This is why, after all, the crunch “pop” itself is derived from the more ungainly, less-seemly sounding, term “popular music.” Donald Trump could be most Oscar-worthy president 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z And let’s try to stem the rise of this ungainly use of “concerning” as an adjective. Bright Passages 1458-08-29T05:00:00Z It might be innovative, but it is also ungainly and ugly. China Moves to Halt ‘Weird’ Architecture 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Taken together, it is an ungainly mix of prudishness and excess, of tangled laws and hefty profits. Taxing tipplers 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z In addition to skyscrapers, he was also credited with New York’s Madison Square Garden, which had ample detractors for its ungainly appearance but is still regarded as one of America’s foremost sports and entertainment arenas. John Tishman, developer who shaped skyline of American cities, dies at 90 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z So it’s ungainly, even illogical, to use this word in describing opposition — it’s like saying someone is in favor of being against something. Close but Not Quite 1455-06-22T05:00:00Z Saudi pilots flew 192 of the first 1,000 sorties, and British, Canadian, French, Italian and Kuwaiti pilots darkened the skies as well, with ungainly U.S. Looking Back at Desert Storm 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z But over the next few years, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will undergo a series of upgrades intended to usher the aged, ungainly, and often broken transit system into the 21st century. The New York City subway is stuck in the past, but can glimpse the future 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Some think the movie is too melodramatic, beating the audience over the head with its earnest message in a way that is more "ungainly than effective," notes the L.A. Tired of your family? Here's what you might see at the movies 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z The spending bill is an ungainly mess, but it’s far preferable to having the government shut down or continue running on autopilot as it has been. The GOP candidates give in to doom and gloom while Paul Ryan tries to govern 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Spoken almost entirely in verse, staged as a sometimes ungainly series of polemical set pieces, production numbers and declamatory interludes, “Chi-Raq” doesn’t fit neatly into any genre. Spike Lee takes on gun violence with passion and bold creativity in ‘Chi-Raq’ 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z I also picked up a coconut and carried it under my arm like an ungainly talisman. How to Feel Like a Castaway 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z But that plan is messy, involving spinning off an ungainly vehicle that would merely shadow an already-listed company, and taking big tax risks on the way. How Alibaba Can Help Clean up Yahoo’s Mess 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2" is exactly what you would expect from its ungainly title, and that turns out to be not quite enough. Jennifer Lawrence and 'The Hunger Games' deserved a better ending than 'Mockingjay -- Part 2' 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Outside, ungainly gray drones took off and landed on a distant runway, and the unmistakable buzz of their propellers resounded off the desert floor. Air Force struggles to add drone pilots and address fatigue and stress 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z In from Fabregas, and Adrian clears in ungainly fashion, but it was effective, at least. West Ham 2-1 Chelsea: Premier League – as it happened 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z Part of that temple is in such disrepair that workers had to install an ungainly support structure. Restoring a Temple of Love as a Yonkers Eden Is Revived 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z When the larger 500L, a five-door hatchback, was introduced in the United States last year, reviewers called it an awkward and ungainly combination of Italian aesthetics with American dimensions. Thanks to Pope Francis, the Fiat has truly arrived in America 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Walrus are powerful swimmers but lumbering and ungainly on land. Federal officials investigate walrus deaths in Alaska 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z He was well supported by James Taylor, whose fidgety, slightly ungainly style leads to his batting being constantly underrated; and Jason Roy, who showed regular glimpses of his potential with his driving. England Revamps After Cricket World Cup Struggles 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z In from Fabregas, and Adrian clears in ungainly fashion, but it was effective, at least. West Ham 2-1 Chelsea: Premier League – as it happened 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z The collection was jarring in its styling — with models in ungainly black wigs and greased-up skin — and in its colors and proportions. Prabal Gurung was deeply affected by the Nepal earthquake — and so was his Spring 2016 collection 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z But the dull thudding that resounds isn’t part of its effective aural design; it’s the ungainly landing of nearly every shock and joke. Review: ‘The Visit’ marred by canned scares, flat humor 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Unlike Mrs. Clinton’s ungainly joke to the same effect—“What, like with a cloth or something?”—Fallon’s comment provoked horselaughs. Wipe Out 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z They are underwater acrobats, but on land they are often ungainly. Five near-blind monk seals become ambassadors for vanishing species 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z But he may now fair better than the ungainly fowl last seen in Mauritius in the 1600s. Get the Government Out of Public Broadcasting 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z It looks like a weird, unearthly creature, a delicate construction of scalloped feathers and ungainly wings: hunched into itself, its miniature claws gripping her fingers, it has deep eyes that look like reflective astronaut visors. Rescuing Wildlife Is Futile, and Necessary 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Instead, Wallace turns out to be as ungainly and endearing as his two sloppily affectionate black Labs. ‘The End of the Tour,’ a five-day conversation you won’t want to end 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Sales of the ungainly plastic clogs spiked at Amazon.co.uk. Crocs' New CEO Is Focused On The Shoes 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z It’s a bit of an ungainly term, but it means something valuable to us. Interview: Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The ungainly title of this documentary refers to how the makers of the Taser were such fans of the 1911 Victor Appleton novel that they fashioned their product’s name as an acronym from said book. ‘Kajaki,’ ‘In the Morning’: Films that are flying ‘under the radar’ 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z People working in finance like to boil down ungainly phrases. From Grexit to Grimbo: A guide to the strange lingo used to describe the Greek debt crisis 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z “It’s ungainly,” she said, “and not exactly expressive of ‘liberation.’” Restoring a Lackluster World’s Fair Sculpture for Legacy’s Sake 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Smith's transformation from an ungainly number six to the top of the Test batting rankings is one of modern cricket's most remarkable tales. Aussie watch: Who's in Ashes form? 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Add in these people and you get a figure with the rather ungainly title of "labour underutilisation". When will the Fed raise rates? - BBC News 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z They’re ugly and ungainly, and just the mention of their name can engender delight or disgust: Muscovy ducks. Feed ‘em or fight ‘em: The Muscovy duck wars rage on 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z Donors and other Republicans found the setup ungainly for a campaign-in-waiting that was supposed to be based in Florida. How Jeb Bush’s campaign ran off course before it even began 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z But Saturday’s outcome eliminated the need for the trophy’s ungainly exit. An Elusive Trophy, Gleaming Through the Smudges of Hands and Lips 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z He remains a fidgety, somewhat ungainly, presence at the crease but he possesses a sharpness of eye and quickness of hand that were in full evidence during his seemingly effortless hundred against Kent. Aussie watch: Who's in Ashes form? 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z They’ve decided to split the huge, ungainly monster of a company into four operating districts. McDonald's Updates Cooking Methods -- Toasts My Buns 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z They’ve decided to split the huge, ungainly monster of a company into four operating districts. Mc Donald's Updates Cooking Methods -- Toasts My Buns 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z “On land, if you look at a penguin when it walks around, it’s just an ungainly, clumsy creature. But in water, a penguin is one of the most graceful animals in the world.” Push to End Prison Rapes Loses Earlier Momentum 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Its name is ungainly, but this issue is increasingly cited by critics of fast-track legislation. 5 things to know about trade as Senate debate begins 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Even the game’s susceptibility to bugs and its ungainly interfaces belie a wild expansiveness, technical byproducts of a thing attempting to do things no one planned for it to do. Kerbal Space Program review: A playful masterpiece of space exploration 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Now 111 years old, the ungainly statue towers five stories over the southern edge of town from atop Red Mountain. Birmingham's Vulcan statue, often the butt of jokes, remains well-loved 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Or perhaps they find the oak-paneled bar too somber, the lounge’s armchairs too ungainly, the bedrooms too bare. The Grand Waldhaus Hotel 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z It might look a touch ungainly on first look, but it continues to present much of the design features given to the handset by Jony Ive. Wood Is Good: Orée's Artisan Solution For iPhone Wireless Charging 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Even if it was normal to be wandering around the office bothering people, doing so using an ungainly robot would be beyond the pale. I used a robot to go to work from 3,500 miles away 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Previous studies of the penguin's ungainly gait have revealed that the waddle is in fact the most energy efficient way for them to get about on land. Penguin waddle put to the test 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z It accomplished that feat at the expense of being large and ungainly, making Android Wear behemoths like the Moto 360 look svelte by comparison. One company is trying to sell a smartwatch that powers phones, tablets, TVs, and more 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z “How do you embrace something that is so ungainly and big and bulky and full of vitality and also problems?” A gallery’s worth of music, and it’s all free 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Bentivoglio plays such an eager, ungainly buffoon that “Human Capital” initially looks like it will be a cautionary comedy of manners in a post-Madoff age. Review: ‘Human Capital’ is a stylish but ultimately obvious morality tale 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The Zweigs made an ungainly parade of relatives, servants and trunks beyond number. The Real-Life Muse Behind Wes Anderson's 'Grand Budapest Hotel' 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z IT MAY challenge the spirit to think of cauliflower as anything but an overrated, ungainly plant. The king of cauliflowers 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The nut that this odd and sometimes ungainly holiday offering tries to crack is grief. - The Washington Post 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Half Charolais and half Brahman, he was still long and bony at age three, but liable to turn fat and ungainly if his breeding held true. The Ride of Their Lives 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z True, Saunders gave his less experienced rival a boxing lesson in the first half of the fight, making him look ungainly and amateurish. Back to basics for Eubank Jr 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z The trees even get in the way of an endangered albatross that breeds on the island, making it difficult for the big, ungainly birds to take flight. Giant tortoise 'miraculous' recovery 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Still, the leak on the web was an ungainly reminder of the bank’s own digital woes. JPMorgan Chase Returns to a Third-Quarter Profit as Legal Costs Ease 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z The scene is a packed school gym full of shy, ungainly people shuffling around to Gary Glitter. My life as a northern soul boy: rebellion on the dancefloor in the 1970s 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z An ungainly specter holding a mask murmured in my left ear the words of Voltaire, “Illusion is the first of all pleasures.” Living with Cancer: Hiding Under a Wig? 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Then he took ungainly flight, arm, glove and tongue fully extended. The San Francisco Giants in October: This Is When They Roll 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Jolicoeur spent about three weeks strolling around the island, asking locals to hold his ungainly, foam-sheathed microphone and tell the camera how they felt about the big acquisition. Larry Ellison Bought an Island in Hawaii. Now What? 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z The Ford Gran Torino of GOP politics — a bit ungainly, but a V-8 under the hood — emerges with some dents. The GOP’s tall order for broader appeal in 2016 Norman later posted another picture of himself beside the trees in question, with his left arm protected by an ungainly block of purple foam. Greg Norman expected to make ‘full recovery’ after chainsaw accident 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z “Converged infrastructure” is a pretty ungainly label for a new product category. Server Maker Nutanix ‘Converges’ on $2 Billion Valuation 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Tall, gaunt and slightly ungainly, in his snakeskin shoes, chunky rings and rakishly well-tailored suits, Cave resembles nothing so much as a postmillennial hybrid of bookie and peer of the realm. I Am the Real Nick Cave 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z And when you meet Neymar in the flesh, when you see him in his street clothes, he appears unremarkable, even slightly ungainly as he walks with a seemingly uneven gait. Neymar Making the Most of Being the World Cup Poster Boy 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z In the Darwinian battle for mobile-device supremacy, is it possible that the winner will be an ungainly hybrid that no one took especially seriously when it arrived on the scene just three years ago? Apple 180: Absolutely Phablet? Why The iPhone Lineup Is Growing In More Ways Than One 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z If we can stipulate that existence is an inherently messy affair, ungainly and contradictory and confoundingly unresolved, then “Obvious Child” may be the most pro-life movie of the year. ‘Obvious Child’ review I had found the book ungainly, dull and shockingly unimaginative, and had said so in my Newsweek review. The Secret Haters of 'The Goldfinch' Grab Their Torches I was a Firefox devotee until about the end of the last decade, when it finally became too ungainly to bear. Bits Blog: The New Firefox Is Fantastic. So Is Every Other Web Browser. 2014-05-02T21:04:19Z Each day tens of thousands of commuters inch, beep and curse as their cars crawl across this ungainly bridge toward the Holland Tunnel. Gotham: Need for Pulaski Skyway Repairs Is Obvious, but Honesty About Financing Is Not 2014-04-17T01:04:44Z There was added delight therefore for the spirited Tigers when Warner was bowled for 48 attempting an ungainly heave. Australia too strong for Bangladesh 2014-04-01T13:14:59Z The crew brought the ungainly thing to orbit with them, deployed it as Kinzler instructed, and then went about their 28-day mission in a shirt-sleeve environment—marking America’s first long-term stay in space. Farewell to a Cosmic Mr. Fix-It 2014-03-15T20:22:34Z I’m sure every freshly published author struggles with the ungainly demands of self-promotion. Is It Solipsistic in Here, or Is It Just Me? 2014-03-12T17:22:25Z Figure Skating, had one ungainly fall but otherwise acquitted herself well with an ambitious free skate at the Sochi Olympics on Thursday. Olympic figure skating: women’s free skate [updates] 2014-02-20T18:11:00Z Far too many consisted of a handful of impressive jumps and lyrical passages punctuated with ungainly falls. Yuzuru Hanyu wins men’s figure skating gold, topping Canada’s Patrick Chan 2014-02-15T01:06:20Z “He was ungainly, but he got things done gracefully,” he said then to The New York Times. From a ’77 Spat, a Yankee Play Is Made 2014-02-10T02:47:49Z Type in Silk Road’s ungainly address, silkroadvb5piz3r.onion, and you entered the market. Eagle Scout. Idealist. Drug Trafficker? 2014-01-18T17:31:04Z Turkeys are an ungainly mess of a bird. In its wild form, that funny looking turkey can fly. Though it won’t get very far. 2013-11-25T19:48:02Z They are painted pink, but are heavy and ungainly. Thalidomide: Were more affected? 2013-10-14T05:02:32Z The political gene-splicing produced a hippalectryon: half horse, half rooster, and entirely ungainly. Obamacare Can Benefit Businesses If Congress Gives It a Chance to Work 2013-09-26T10:12:44Z But manned solar-powered aircraft are fragile and slow, like the ungainly craft which a Swiss team called Solar Impulse plan to fly around the world. Solar powered drones: On a bright new wing 2013-09-05T15:00:47Z It’s ungainly enough to constantly remind you that this is actually a swordfighting game, not a shooter. 'Killer Is Dead' Review: Sex And Violence (Xbox 360) 2013-08-29T20:26:00Z And there is that ungainly overhead smash, which she pulls off despite a vertical leap not much higher than a Parisian curb. Marion Bartoli reaches Wimbledon final with unconventional style 2013-07-05T21:59:16Z Limbs seemingly moving to different rhythms, awkward pointing, self-conscious stepping, uncoordinated clapping, all accompanied by ungainly wiggles and thrusts. Dancing dads get into the groove 2013-07-02T01:10:16Z The demolition of classic mid-wars houses and their replacement with ugly, box-shaped mansions with massive, ungainly porticos, designed to cater to the whims of wealthy foreign buyers, is turning some roads into a toytown-looking pastiche. Letters: Diversity the key to success of UK architecture schools 2013-06-28T20:00:11Z He was pudgy, he had hay fever and his form was ungainly at best. Miller Barber, Golf Champion With an Unorthodox Swing, Dies at 82 2013-06-12T19:59:38Z As they approached the two ponds, he saw that the small home he’d left behind had been replaced by something impressive, ungainly. Jhumpa Lahiri: “Brotherly Love.” 2013-06-03T04:00:00Z Too often it looks like pinball machine cricket, a game of ricochets, hurried and ungainly. Test cricket's complex drama hits the breezy Indian Premier League for six 2013-05-15T16:00:01Z Usually, they’re just arbitrary stand-ins for people, like the ungainly pig that yearns to be a figure skater, or the family of raccoons that bakes hamantaschen for the family of beavers at Purim. Opinion: A Child’s Wild Kingdom 2013-05-04T20:02:09Z Petculescu, who studies topics including quantitative acoustic gas sensing, says he wonders if Microflown would need an ungainly database of sounds against which to compare noise in the field. In the Fog of Battle Acoustic Sensors Pinpoint Gunfire by Measuring Air Movement 2013-04-30T11:15:00.193Z Maybe the action is so cunningly ungainly that batsmen are not sure where the ball is coming from. County Championship 2013: Division Two team-by-team previews 2013-04-09T11:11:32Z The gangling Geordie gives a whole new meaning to the term ungainly, but with a ball at his feet his pipe-cleaner legs seem to come into their own. Middlesbrough 2-1 Cardiff City 2013-03-02T17:38:11Z And being unambivalent is an awkward and ungainly circumstance for any satire to hem itself into. If You Eat the Mediterranean Way, Can You Drop Your Heart Meds? 2013-02-26T18:39:20Z Forget their ungainly waddling on land or comical bobbing at the ocean's surface. Adelie penguins: cool, efficient killing machines 2013-01-24T04:34:09Z Clinging precariously to the bar at the top of the slope, Ito eventually loses his grip and embarks on his ungainly descent. Worst ski jump ever? Japan's Daiki Ito's less than graceful descent – video 2013-01-21T11:11:00Z Only when cornered is Armstrong making what is expected to be an ungainly U-turn after more than a decade of insisting that he competed clean and of hounding those who suggested otherwise. Column: Live commentary on Armstrong interview 2013-01-18T01:31:12Z His expected confession will be one of the most ungainly U-turns in the history of sport. Media Decoder Blog: Will Lance Armstrong End Up in the Naughty Corner on Oprah? 2013-01-14T19:08:17Z Its large, ungainly stores were mostly acquired well before the internet was even imagined and its vast array of products can be confusing to navigate. Marks & Spencer chief faces a less than happy new year after Christmas turkey 2013-01-13T00:06:00Z Yet this goes beyond a single Swiss bank, even one as large and ungainly as UBS. UBS and the Libor scandal: the gift that keeps taking 2012-12-20T22:19:31Z Unfortunately, it's becoming pretty clear he's not a good fit anywhere around the NFL, where running quarterbacks with ungainly throwing motions are not a prized commodity. Column: Playing Tebow not the right move for Jets 2012-11-13T00:21:09Z With barely a sound, Brooklyn Atlantis I took off for the middle of the canal, guided by a black remote-control device that looked more suited to a car-racing video game than to this ungainly robot. City Room: A Robot Plumbs the Depths of the Gowanus Canal 2012-10-15T14:52:28Z With barely a sound, Brooklyn Atlantis I took off for the middle of the canal, guided by a black remote control device that looked more suited to a car-racing video game than this ungainly robot. City Room: A Robot Plumbs the Depths of the Gowanus Canal 2012-10-14T15:00:09Z Large and ungainly, many M&S stores were mostly acquired well before the internet was even imagined: shoppers can't be bothered fighting through the jungle. Marks & Spencer chief faces a less than happy new year after Christmas turkey 2013-01-13T00:06:00Z We paused at a cryptography machine, an ungainly, oversize typewriter with extra dials and wheels. City Room: In a Visit to an Exhibit, Recalling a Date With History in 1941 2012-10-05T18:04:46Z As the church takes the ungainly role of prosecutor, Paolo Gabriele says he acted because he believed that the pope that he loved was misinformed. Pope's Butler: Innocent of Theft, Guilty of Betrayal? 2012-10-03T00:05:40Z It looks ungainly, but it is a robust system. Autonomous helicopters: Robocopter arrives 2012-09-13T15:03:53Z It stunned the crowd more than it did Ogogo, but he was down again in an ungainly tussle, and received another eight count. London 2012: boxing bronze for GB after Anthony Ogogo loses semi-final 2012-08-10T14:46:33Z Here she plays a bereaved widow teetering on the brink of new love with an apparently mismatched Swedish co-worker whose ungainly, socially awkward presence seems utterly at odds with her aloof reserve. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-08-04T23:04:08Z Purists object to American-style sushi — by which they mean ungainly rolls filled with seemingly random ingredients like peanuts or cream cheese. | Long Branch: A Review of Izu Sushi Japanese Restaurant, in Long Branch 2012-07-21T03:40:06Z They come for old and new in chaotic ungainly juxtaposition. London 2012: the graffiti clampdown is like Versailles versus the sans-culottes 2012-07-20T11:50:58Z Murray, serving, won the second point of the fourth set with Baghdatis twisted and turned into an ungainly heap on the ground. Wimbledon 2012: Andy Murray beats Marcos Baghdatis in latest finish 2012-06-30T22:35:54Z But governance in the state of 3.6 million people is complicated by its ungainly political structure. Analysis: Kuwait to weather crisis but faces long-run instability 2012-06-26T13:44:03Z The administration’s ungainly portfolio at the Supreme Court this term has drawn attention from all points on the ideological spectrum. For Obama, Supreme Court health-care, immigration rulings to close a tough term 2012-06-24T22:39:00Z Not only that but the qualifying process, long and ungainly as it is, will become a procession with average sides being rewarded with their place in the spotlight. Analysis: UEFA in danger of dishing up junk-food Euros 2012-06-19T13:29:06Z His achievements seemed even more unlikely given his ungainly running style and that, while his competitors were fiercely focused on the race, he would smile and joke along the way. Opera recalls Olympic hero Zatopek 2012-06-15T01:16:42Z The ball must seem as ungainly and nearly impossible to put into the net as the giant inflatable orb that fans bat around pregame in the grandstand. Germany 2, Netherlands 1: Euro 2012 — Germans Put Dutch on Brink of Elimination 2012-06-13T21:22:50Z As such, he was ideal to lead the effort that became one of World War II’s most unlikely successes: the ugly, ungainly Liberty ship. Off the Shelf: In ‘Freedom’s Forge,’ U.S. Industry as War Hero — Review 2012-06-02T19:30:54Z Durcan accepts that Main Sequence has an ungainly tail carriage but says it does not reflect reluctance on the horse's part, as it would in many another case. Ted Durcan has high hopes for Main Sequence in the Derby on Saturday 2012-05-29T18:31:16Z Researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz, who started tagging large numbers of the endearingly loud and ungainly creatures at Año Nuevo Island in 2004, report their findings in the journal PLoS One. Observatory: Seal Tagging Yields Huge Set of Data in Northeastern Pacific 2012-05-21T21:53:54Z He runs in an ungainly fashion; he throws like an old wicketkeeper. Alastair Cook ? tough, deceptive and always in control for England 2012-05-21T15:05:21Z Only after everything is secure is the ungainly assembly of ships ready to be flown. Shuttle Buzzes NY! 2012-04-27T11:30:00Z A squat swish image, rudely moulded into the grossest caricature on the human form, sitting with hands on knees, with gaping mouth, and the special attributes developed to an ungainly size. The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices 2012-04-11T02:00:31.327Z There was a flash, a single loud report, and then a dull, heavy thud as the negro's great ungainly body came down upon the deck. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z For King Gama the make-up of the face alone takes an hour, apart from all the physical deformities that have to be contrived when playing this ugly, ungainly character in "Princess Ida." The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z From a very early date in the siege we have been accustomed to the spectacle of ungainly structures stretching across those thoroughfares which were exposed to the enemy's fire. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z Can any of your readers be so good as to explain the allusion of the above ungainly and somewhat profane compliment to Prince Eugene? Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 110, December 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-04-03T02:00:26.740Z It represents a big, heavy, gray-headed man, ungainly of appearance, whom a smaller personage, bald and neat, is pushing off a plank into the water. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z His posture was ungainly, he did not know what to do with his hands, he opened his mouth and shut it again. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z His outward man, though somewhat ungainly, was exceedingly muscular, and he had a firmness of nerve which would make him willingly engage in any enterprise that would aid him in his calling. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z I wish to apply this to Fox’s ungainly manner. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z The graceful girl was suddenly bereft of speech, changed into a rough, ungainly bear, and driven out into the solitudes of the great forests, which were from that time forth to be her home. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z Since Brougham's time nothing so ungainly, odd, and ludicrous had been displayed upon an English platform. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Yet it is doubtful if the moment was as much to her as to the ungainly, grim--visaged man, who looked so ill at ease in her embrace. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Thus at Wells the foliate design is relieved by the ungainly figure of a melancholy individual, who, before retiring to rest, pursues an examination into his pedal callosities, or extracts the poignant thorn. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z There, Patroclus, despite your snort of fear, it is only a couple of stray calves cutting their ungainly capers as they make their way towards home. Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle 2012-03-26T02:00:39.977Z Means of production adapted for individual use; hence primitive, ungainly, petty, dwarfed in action. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 2012-03-26T02:00:37.300Z His manner is constrained, awkward, and even ungainly; his voice is thin and weak. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z As he heard his name, he, too, came to the curtains, and showed his face with its ungainly features, and intimated that he and "Tom" would play a duet. There is no Death 2012-03-22T02:00:39.257Z And he turned abruptly away--his head down, his coat-tails swinging, and both his hands thrust deep into his trouser-pockets--such a shrewd, angular, ungainly figure as only a small country town can show. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z Recalling our extracts just read, and remembering how ungainly and awkward was the sport of their sentences, listen for a moment to a few lines from Sir Thomas Malory. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z The old Leicestershire breed, in England, was a perfect type of the original hogs of the midland counties; large, ungainly, slab-sided animals, of a light color, and spotted with brown or black. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z How rude, uncouth, clownish, even vulgar, looked the big, brawny, ungainly trooper whom people had to salute as King. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Compared with them French working women of the same class are hard of feature and masculine and ungainly of form. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z He was of strong, ungainly build, with the peculiar stamp of rabbinical scholarship on a plump, dark-bearded face. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z For Schopenhauer, long-bodied and ungainly, had come with them to Europe, and was now friends with all the gay dogs of Prague. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z Already," a shudder shook his tall ungainly form, "I see blood, blood, blood everywhere! Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z In many ways, the cargo terminal resembles the airport’s passenger terminals, with designated areas for imports and exports and a massive X-ray machine to screen the most ungainly packages. Cargo Workers at Kennedy Airport Get a Glimpse of the Future 2012-03-13T05:24:41Z After the ungainly figure had shuffled away, the children still continued to make plans and offer suggestions for the new arrangement. The Dorrance Domain 2012-03-10T03:00:14.767Z Fenton, who was a tall, ungainly lad of most unprepossessing appearance, shook his head. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z |
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