| 单词 | clumsy |
| 例句 | A true first kiss, clumsy and perfect and mine. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z They only made fun of him because he was clumsy and slow. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Rosaleen and I moved behind her in our clumsy knot, so close we must have seemed to the night creatures like one big organism with six legs. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They were clumsy, but too selfless now to be embarrassed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “He’s very clumsy, that boy,” the girl said. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Between the chain, the fetters, and his missing fingers, Reek was clumsier than he had been before he learned his name. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She looked down and saw that her hair lay in clumps all over her lap and on the floor, and she began to pick them up with slow, clumsy fingers. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. But I guess I was pretty clumsy getting close to it, so he might have heard me and been frightened.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel clumsy, like I’m wearing boxing gloves. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z My injuries distracted me, and my bandaged thumb made my hand slightly clumsy. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The clumsy little dog raced around the room, sniffing in every corner. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Everyone, from goblin to the Gentry to the High King’s mortal Court Poet and Seneschal, barely gives me a passing look as I find my clumsy way through the labyrinthine halls. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Flora Baumbach's pudgy fingers, swift with a needle, were clumsy with a comb, but after several tangled attempts she ended up with three equal strands. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The things could not be hurt, but they were slow and clumsy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The garment was a clumsy thing, a long loose shapeless sheet that had to be wound around her hips and under an arm and over a shoulder, its dangling fringes carefully layered and displayed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “The man was really killed by a clumsy stun,” reported Scientific American, “for which a dextrous blow from a pole ax would have been an expeditious substitute.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She was only a few months old, and still had her puppy-soft fur and clumsy paws. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I’m clumsy again, just like I was when I was younger. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z My hands, clumsy in mittens, could not tie the knot at this end. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z It was the tillerman’s daemon, and clumsy and heavy as she looked, her flight was powerful and swift. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The dog is big, like a man dressed in a dog suit, and runs the same way its owner does, clumsy and wild and with the limbs flopping all over the place like untied shoes. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Immediately Matthias scrambled about on all fours, hastily trying to stuff nuts back into the basket as he muttered clumsy apologies, avoiding the stern gaze of his elder. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Suddenly, to my surprise, I hear Captain Smith say in his clumsy Algonquian, “Come meet boys. They show you my home.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “I’m as graceful as can be,” he hummed, balancing on one toe, “and I’m as clumsy as can be,” he cried, sticking his thumb in his eye. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z It took a while sawing at the cloth with the clumsy shell, and she ended up ripping the cushions quite a lot. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He got out tobacco and papers and rolled a clumsy, lumpy cigarette. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s better to repeat a word that fits than to stick in a clumsy substitute that doesn’t. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He made a clumsy bow, hat in hand. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Why, you will never master this work, for your fingers are fat and clumsy,” she said, waving my hand away. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Rivera's clumsy left hook missed his head by a foot. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometime in the late nineteenth century clumsy repairs were made with unpainted cement which had turned brown and gave the building a mottled, diseased appearance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He was still clumsy and trembling and slow, but he did not fall once. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z His first three models were large, clumsy, heavy instruments, but his final masterpiece was not much larger than a heavy pocket watch. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The men ran like cripples in their clumsy boots, as quietly as spiders. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z His mother had something up her sleeve, some clumsy plan, some scheme that would ruin him forever. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For, I cannot adequately express what pain it gave me to think that Estella should show any favour to a contemptible, clumsy, sulky booby, so very far below the average. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “Phyllis,” I tried again, though the coordination between my tongue and teeth and lips felt clumsy and strange. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z His knuckles heal poorly and he is clumsy with everything but his tumbler of rum. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In comparison, Ash felt clumsy and shy, and sometimes she caught herself staring at Gwen as if she were some kind of exotic bird about to take flight. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He came forward and gathered me into a clumsy hug, his beard tickling the side of my face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But I am a clumsy predator, moving slowly in my sickness. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He seated himself in a series of clumsy motions, got out a cigarette, lit it, and fixedly watched. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z He knew how clumsy it looked, but he sent her a hopeful glance. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Her white gloves, which I refused to wear because they made my hands feel clumsy, are effortlessly elegant. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z One day just as we had given up hope, huge gray clouds, large and clumsy as elephants, came rolling in. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He’d had little luck hunting—the area was teeming with mice and rabbits, but they scampered from Pax’s clumsy attempts to catch them. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z At first she thought they were so clumsy, they spilled it on their clothes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m absolutely ordinary — well, except for bad things like all the near-death experiences and being so clumsy that I’m almost disabled. And look at you.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “I always get at it. Ain’t everybody as clumsy as you.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z At one time he had and used as legal tender at least forty-five tops of various sizes and colors, from the thick clumsy baby tops to the lean and dangerous splitters with their needle points. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He took off as the dog sprang, but his awkward clumsy flight, the long legs trailing, was not fast enough. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And as Jinny felt the hot bite of a single annoyed bee sting her hand, she had a flash, a vision of what would happen when clumsy Ess hit the hives. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z They turned the ball over early on clumsy passes, and then let the Lightning sneak past for a pair of early shots that went wide. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The exhaustion from the long night of worry had made her feel heavy and clumsy, but the children’s happiness seemed to carry her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Patiently adjusting his stride to her clumsy crawl he brought her home to the pack, perhaps against Jello’s will—she would never know. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They left him with a clumsy left hand and a slight slur to his speech. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I was the clumsiest, worst party butler Mrs. Dawson ever had, and to her everlasting credit, she did not fire me right away. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They were primitive and clumsy, but they worked! The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Paul, at fifteen, was a quiet, hardworking boy, rather clumsy in his movements but strong and careful about his chores. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Then, their clumsy movement on land giving them a swaggering strut, the birds went back to the water and sailed away downstream toward the sea. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “He...he’s clumsy. We all know he’s clumsy.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z During the call at 4:43 a.m., he told Caroline Mackenzie, our Base Camp doctor, that his legs no longer worked, and that he was “too clumsy to move.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Whether he was clumsy or cruel makes not the slightest difference to me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He was never clumsy outside of Palmer’s room. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z “Oh, thank you! I’m so sorry. Terribly clumsy of me,” Piper says. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Meggie looked at the clumsy lettering and put the little book back in the box. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Weak players were clumsy and unsure; strong players were confident and graceful. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He strapped his roll to the saddle, his scarred fingers stiff and clumsy. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He knows we’re seeing him as a clumsy, too tall, skinny guy surrounded by graceful, beautiful girls in pink tights. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I felt his body dimly, rushing past my clumsy fingers. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Both had sold well, but the two men thought that the Ergon was clumsy—an immature effort. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z We was bunched up so tight and moving so jerky and clumsy we must’ve looked like a hunnert-year-old man with six legs. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z The pressure made me more clumsy than usual, but eventually I made it out the door, feeling the same release when I saw him standing there, a wide smile automatically spreading across my face. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z But he was terribly clumsy in gym shoes and the court was his own private china shop. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He got up, on one knee, then on both; when he was on his feet he turned toward the drug store, still clutching the paper, amazed and angry with himself for having been so clumsy. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Each time she moved a foot to trip him, each time they came too close, she either became clumsy or he stepped away, as if he knew what she planned all along. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z They looked fine to him, not clumsy, and not too quick, either. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, Lyddie managed to make a clumsy knot, and Diana pulled the lever, and the loom shuddered to life once more. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z It was the first clumsy physical action I had ever seen him make. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The siren song of the void puts you on edge; it makes your movements tentative, clumsy, herky-jerky. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She liked the names—Mr. Bumble, a villain, but, like her bear, a clumsy one. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “No, sweet. Fairy blood does not make you clumsy. That’s human. You don’t see me dropping plates, do you?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I tripped over a rock and fell—I wasn’t just slower than Hassan but clumsier too; I’d always envied his natural athleticism. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Them she bent toward respectability, and in so doing taught them fear: fear of being clumsy, fear of being like their father, fear of not being loved by God, fear of madness like Cholly’s mother’s. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z But until our language has a sex-neutral possessive that everyone can agree on, we’re stuck with his, her, or the clumsy compound his or her if we want to be correct. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a plow horse, big and slow and clumsy, but better able to bear his weight than the little garrons the rangers rode. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I didn’t know assassins could be so clumsy. If you need anything, send word. I’ve had my fair share of monthly pains.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z His fingers were clumsy, unable to find their rhythm, and he faltered in his steps. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Avoiding the stabs of the banner pole and the swift whiplike slashes of the tail, Basil realized that this was no clumsy rat he faced. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Within six months their physical attraction for each other suddenly waned; they lost a sexual rhythm together, becoming clumsy in bed, self-conscious, and then abruptly withdrawn. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He was shaving by the open window, a camel-hair jacket over his pyjamas, and I in my flannel suit and heavy shoes felt clumsy and overdressed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Not that I stood much of a chance, surrounded as she was by all these clever rich boys in dark suits; me, with my clumsy hands and suburban ways. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “She fell, took a clumsy fall, over at the stream.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A second later, clumsy hands grabbed at my shoulders, trying to haul me down. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Jon tried a practice cut.He was clumsy and uncomfortable with his left hand, yet even so the steel seemed to flow through the air, as if it had a will of its own. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Mary Anne began a slow, arduously clumsy dance that began to accelerate as she circumnavigated her father’s easy chair. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are the new girl? Tanu will show you what to do. I hope you will learn fast. I can’t pay someone who is slow and clumsy. Quick now, girls.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z With hands as clumsy as boxing gloves, he fumbled a pot out of the stove and filled it with water. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z His clumsy arms had come together with a thwack, blunt fingers interlacing. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z But the canoes were too big and clumsy. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Travis returned, clutching his staff, symbols and faces carved on it with clumsy hands. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Sweating all over, hoping no one had seen his clumsy slowness, Jonathan glanced about. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z They claimed that her hands looked nervous or clumsy, not good for work with Level 4 hot agents. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He made a kind of clumsy little bow, flushing a little as he did so. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z She was tiny compared to Frank, which made him feel like a big clumsy ox. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The big guy claimed to be clumsy and useless, but he always seemed to be in exactly the right place when Percy needed him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They made pegging the clothes to the line clumsy work but kept my fingers from freezing solid. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Be careful, Ash. You’re so clumsy — why do you think we never bring you with us to the City? It would be an embarrassment.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Her sister’s appearance added to Briony’s unease, and made her feel clumsy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z George Weston, after all, was only a man—poor thing—and his wife made full use of every device which a clumsier and more scrupulous sex has learned, with reason and futility, to fear. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z My Notebook progressed nicely, each page filled with many Questions, an occasional Answer, and clumsy illustrations of various plants and animals. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Tiny feet were fashionable, but would they make me even clumsier as I grew taller? Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z But this first clumsy attempt showed her that the imagination itself was a source of secrets: once she had begun a story, no one could be told. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Watching her run, one thing is for sure—she isn’t clumsy at all. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z One good thing about being big, clumsy, and clad in metal: Frank was like a heavily armored bowling ball. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z With clumsy fingers I prized open the hand that held the wicking and saw it had blood on it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Unfusing a participle can make a sentence clumsy or pretentious: Any alleged evils of capitalism are simply the result of people’s being free to choose. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I bobbed a clumsy curtsy and walked as fast as I could with the limp burden in my arms, beseeching with every step. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z My father does the same, though it’s a clumsier gesture. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Often he was able to enter her presence in disguise, now as a rude reaper bringing her a basket of barley-ears, now as a clumsy herdsman, or a vine-pruner. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “That was mighty clumsy of me,” Red said to the other men. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes there are parties, with awkward dancing and clumsy guffaws and horseplay by the boys, and wet, inexpert, toothy kisses. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Some could move about, but only by wearing clumsy leg-irons or crutches. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z They are big and clumsy, the breeches are tucked into them, and standing up one looks well-built and powerful in these great drainpipes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys cannot seem to do this right; their stitches are large and clumsy, and they stick one another with the needles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I take the stairs two at a time, my clumsy feet stumbling twice, my hand gripping the railing to keep me from a free fall. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He was clumsy and tired and hungry enough that he would have gladly gnawed the leather off his boot. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Somehow Tyson, who was so clumsy he knocked over lab equipment and broke playground structures on a regular basis, had caught two fiery metal balls speeding toward him at a zillion miles an hour. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z So in this clumsy way, my mother found out that Wu Tsing had taken his fourth concubine, who was actually just an afterthought, a foolish bit of decoration for his new motorcar. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt unusually clumsy, and missed the old shin-length tunic stashed in her bag. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They moved, clumsy with desire, and one of them bumped against the crystal goblet, knocking it off the balustrade to shatter, loudly, at their feet. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Instead of reading, she could perhaps use the pianoforte, but...well, it had been a while, and she wasn’t sure she could endure the sound of her own stumbling, clumsy playing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Ignatius!” his mother cried, circling his oily head in a clumsy pink woolen embrace that crushed his nose. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The little pieces of pastry Sister Fenella had left after trimming her rhubarb pies were formed into clumsy crosses or fish shapes, or rolled around a few currants, then sprinkled with sugar and baked separately. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z But he was terrified; he had visions of his own awkwardness, of how clumsy he would sound, of how startled and ashamed the women would be. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Just kicked me across the deck if I be clumsy, laughed when I be twisted in the ropes and sliding pure froze in the water that washed aboard. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The woman said Harriet was clumsy, slow, no help at all, so the man set her to watching his trap lines. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I noticed her lumpy and clumsy braids and felt guilty. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Her heart was light even if her feet felt clumsy in their makeshift boots and oversized stockings. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z For birds that can sail around in the air all day with hardly more than a movement of their wing tips, they sure were clumsy and awkward about getting started. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Phil probably has a good ten inches on me, but unlike the other tall kids I know, he isn’t gangly or clumsy. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He had been bom slightly crooked—a clumsy delivery by the midwife—like Richard III. Arthur was waiting for them, with Guenever and Lancelot on either hand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “What did I tell you? Sending me a child was a mistake. And a stupid, clumsy child who doesn’t look where he’s going...that’s even worse!” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Horse pulled Hop-Robin to his feet, and the smaller boy made a clumsy bow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Next came the antitank gunner, clumsy and dense, warning Germans away with a Colt .45 automatic in one hand and a trench knife in the other. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They looked like a tug nudging at a clumsy tanker in a narrow dock. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The letters were as clumsy as though written with a left hand. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He fumbled at his sword belt, his hands clumsy in their fur-and-leather gloves, and finally succeeded in ripping his longsword from its scabbard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He took it with hands that suddenly seemed to him to be huge and clumsy and not at all small and in every way perfect like the hands of the faerie girl. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Taisin suddenly felt every inch the farmer’s daughter— clumsy and foolish. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He put Frodo in front of him now, and kept a watchful eye on every movement of his, supporting him if he stumbled, and trying to encourage him with clumsy words. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z When I saw the gun in her hand, 1 ran toward her, clumsy and falling, wanting to save her, to save us all. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “That was me. I can be pretty clumsy at times.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She skidded down the hill on feet made clumsy from suppressed emotion, and sank down on the ground beside her mother’s grave, clutching her knees tight to her chest. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She imagined Sahel stumbling through a jungle, clumsy, oblivious to what waited for him among the vines. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He waited, and she burst through the door, carrying a clumsy parcel. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Suddenly, I had become clumsy and awkward again, and when I tried to apologize I found my tongue had become too large for my mouth. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The Prince bowed, and a very clumsy bow for a Prince it was. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Flatnose made his way down the slope, clumsy as a bear. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Would he stop liking me now that I was no longer clumsy? Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Tall, a bit shy and clumsy, she was incredibly warm and friendly, with kind eyes and a big smile. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I would see clumsy, work-hardened, calloused hands scrawling and scratching signatures on the contract, agreeing to highway- robbery interest rates in the fine print that never was read. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he ran forward down the road, very clumsy in his plastic suit, waving his arms. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Burnham could send telegrams, but they forced a cold and clumsy brevity and afforded little privacy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They felt harsh with stone dust, rough and clumsy. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Her parents were dancing a clumsy, barefoot salsa on the grass. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The James Caird still towed the clumsy Wills for safety, and the Docker dragged itself forward in the lead. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z At least, that’s how it’s supposed to happen, but only if everyone stays synchronized, which seems impossible with so many poles and feet moving, and clumsy cousins like Arwin, who still gets his ankles caught. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Jaimito wanders through plants taller than he is, tugging with all his might at the vegetables and dropping them, with clumsy toddler hands, into the sack. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z With their thick, clumsy bases, my mugs weighed in at close to five pounds each. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Then the women and girls, clumsier in their party skirts, climbed down with help from the men. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I hear clumsy paddle strokes and realize someone must be approaching in a canoe. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z A moment later the owl dæmon swooped with a clumsy fainting movement to his side, and half lay on the snow, struggling to fold her wings. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I knew the lass had courage. And are you a lady now or still a clumsy cook’s helper?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z They are tall and clumsy in their movements, always making strange noises, sweet highs and gruff lows and long exhalations. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The boys cannot seem to do this right; their stitches are large and clumsy, and they stick one another with the needles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He simply willed himself to stand, to move his feet that felt weighted and clumsy, to go forward, up the steps and across the platform until he stood at her side. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Mary swiftly threw her bridle and stirrups over his back, excusing herself for being clumsy, and mounted at once. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But the next week, Shirley’s fingers seemed as clumsy as ever and now there were lessons on the piano in addition to the lessons at school. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Not only was she drunk and clumsy, she seemed to be completely unresponsive. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “Prydain belonged to us before the race of men came. You drove us underground. You plundered our mines, you blundering clodpoles! You stole our treasures, and you keep on stealing them, you clumsy oafs...” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z “Out of respect for our fallen comrades. Let their memory be untainted by clumsy forensics that might cast aspersions on their legacy.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Still holding his hand, I laugh at him for being so clumsy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As she spoke, Felicia rolled the spoon between her palms and watched its clumsy, twirling shadow on the wall. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z My feet felt clumsy, and when I looked down I saw that my shoes were already tied. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She stood for hours, winding yam, her hands clumsy, unaccustomed to the job she had to do, the thread catching, catching on the rough places on her fingers. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of my clumsy hands and feet and the slope of my shoulders. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z When I whisper them, they feel strange and clumsy in my mouth. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His jacket and leggings were patched at knees and elbows, and sewn with large, clumsy stitches—the work, Taran was certain, of the bard himself. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Unlike you, I was clumsy with my hands. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I tried husking corn and blistered my slow clumsy hands while experienced field hands sped through the work effortlessly, enjoying themselves. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to spoil the page with my clumsy scrawl. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “No. You are too clumsy. If you have time on your hands, there are pots to scrub.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z They had been clumsy and shy at first, but the giddiness that flooded through her after the kiss had plowed through all those nerves. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z At eleven, her mother—convinced that Izzy was overly clumsy—had enrolled her in dance classes to improve her coordination. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Doon concentrated on his feet—the clumsy boots made it hard not to stumble. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was the clumsiest production of physical interaction; the whole thing lasted no more than several seconds. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The boy got his shield up and tried a clumsy countercut. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The rocks would be slick in the rain, and Ess was so clumsy. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z But he allowed himself to be pulled along as they lurched over the black crevice to the next floe, Hazel conscious of how clumsy she must look. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He began fumbling with the laces, trying to get the helm off with clumsy fingers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z At one point, I think Liam must have tried to help me up, but I pushed him away with clumsy, slow hands. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z This is awkward and clumsy, it isn’t what I mean. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Her insides turned to stone, and she felt clumsy and thick, but also light and weak as a newborn. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She takes several clumsy steps toward the house and I quickly close the curtains. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She was surprised by how clumsy and self-conscious she was, after all she had learned and seen. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He was too clumsy; he kept falling down or getting his holds on backward so they weren’t holds at all. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Recruiters might be that clumsy, but then, if they’re out this far, they’re hunting for sure. Got to be stealthy to sneak up on Indians.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z His hands were callused from the work he’d done at the salt factory, and he was afraid the hard labor had made his fingers clumsy. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But it also made him clumsy at the tables. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As a result, the Phaistos disk’s printing technology was much clumsier, and offered fewer advantages over writing by hand, than Gutenberg’s printing press. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The construction of his verse was often clumsy, possibly because strict deadlines meant he had to work so quickly. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I’m clumsy in the fields, holding the shovel awkwardly, my movements jerky and full of effort. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I had so far been successful in hiding my thoughts and feelings from them, but I knew that I would create hostility if I went about this business of reading in a clumsy way. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He was disgusted with that summer’s athletic program—a little tennis, some swimming, clumsy softball games, badminton. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z In Minneapolis there had been only silence and the inevitable clumsy petitions of potato-fingered men looking for someone, anyone, to share the agony of their days. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I’m a little clumsy at first, but after a while I get the swing of it, though I end up with newsprint all over my fingers as we read some stories. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z The ink would not flow properly, and all his words seemed curt and crude and clumsy, yet he persisted. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As they were about to take the first step down, the great bell rang and startled him so, he nearly dropped the clumsy bundle; but it was only telling the time. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “He’s not like that. He’s just a little clumsy sometimes.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z To distract attention from Finn’s teary face and from the fact that all three of us are just numb and clumsy and stupid right now? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “The boats are cheap, graceless, clumsy affairs, as much out of place in what people are calling the ‘Court of Honor’ of the Exposition as a cow in a flower garden.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Unlike me, he had an excuse for being clumsy. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “We might be big and clumsy and stupid like we are now,” she said, “or maybe we’ll get some brains and turn into geniuses or something. How the crawly crud should I know?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Dicey tried to help, but she felt clumsy—as if she was interfering, not helping. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z They felt heavy, clumsy, as if they belonged to someone else. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Cheetah raised his arm to hit her again, but he was clumsy from the drugs and booze. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I could read the thoughts running across his eyes, like a news ticker: I’ve been clumsy. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z His fingers, unlike Baba’s, were clumsy around tools, especially ones as delicate as a protractor, compass, or ruler. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z She swung her machete at Nailer, a clumsy swing that nonetheless whistled through the air. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The pages were thin and her fingers calloused and clumsy, and she did not know the spelling. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I would have tried my hand on the lathes and shapers, but the machinists were having none of that—this work required too much precision for my clumsy teenage hands. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He was clumsy, and he wasn’t dressed for riding, but he got a leg across, and that seemed to be the main thing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He feels inept, clumsy, as he tastes and smells her there, and yet he hears her whispering his name, telling him it feels wonderful. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Neither child knew what the word meant, exactly, but it was often used to describe someone uneducated or clumsy, someone who didn’t fit in. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes it’s too clumsy to use a possessive with an ing word—for instance, when you’d have to make a whole string of words possessive, not just one. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She placed the folded deed on top of the clumsy star bank. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Bitter often joked to Jam that her father moved like a functioning disaster, clumsy and charming and breaking at least one breakable thing a week. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I turned around and began a clumsy run across the field in a line which avoided his house and aimed toward the road leading back into the town. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Ignatius could not understand her sudden, clumsy effort to protect the American Way against her son. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Jam wondered briefly if it needed some help; it really did seem to be just as clumsy as Aloe. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Being constantly on guard after a sleepless night was a good way to render one’s muscles stiff and clumsy, and that was the way Kaede felt when the wolves finally moved in. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z They knew his clumsy abortions and the little brown pennies he gave sparingly for alms. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Any effort they made to defend the territory was clumsy at best, and hopeless, at worst. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z A clumsy, hurried blow, and not hard, but the other slumped immediately and slid clattering among pans and buckets to the floor. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Tony’s not very bright, but he has a sort of clumsy tenderness that sometimes prompts him to give his mother a rough hug and plant a sticky kiss on her cheeks. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “If he’s a spy, he’s a clumsy one. If he’s after you we don’t need to worry. My business will be quickly done. You’ll stay here and keep out of sight. Then we’ll go.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Elinor closed the closet door again and pinned up her hair with clumsy fingers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z But as it was, I had to try to stumble through in my own clumsy way. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She walked in the castle garden with her companions, dressed in the white clothes of a novice, and there was a clumsy action in her walk. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I veered away from him, hanging on to the clumsy ball. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Saliva makes a discreet trail down the side of his mouth, and he reaches with clumsy hands for his napkin. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z My clumsy hands tore large openings in the skin. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But even in the dim light, she could tell Kaz was moving too slowly, his gloved fingers clumsier than she’d ever seen them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Her fingers seemed more clumsy than usual as she fumbled on her clothes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She rushed in, then stopped and stared at the clumsy scaffolding I had rigged up to look into her flat. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat on the porch swing, thinking about himself as a child—a skinny, clumsy boy running through the hills and climbing trees. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Although bellowing that Beetle was stupid as a woodchuck and clumsy as a donkey in a dress, the midwife allowed the girl to help her into the cottage and onto her straw bed. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Like any teenager, I was largely oblivious to the clumsy figure I cut. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Tally remembered the scrawl of Shay’s directions to the Smoke, clumsy but readable. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Once he tried to slip her a hot apple tart, but he made such a clumsy job of it that two of the cooks saw. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He exits the town house complex with a quiet, clumsy turn onto the street. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z And her soft padding of fat made her slow and clumsy. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Or: “The child’s clumsy fingers fumbled in sleep, feeling vainly for the wish of its dream.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z If he let his sword hand stiffen and grow clumsy, it well might be the end of him, he knew. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Her parents were dancing a clumsy, barefoot salsa on the grass. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z It took longer to get back, because the load was clumsy, the bucket was heavy, and she didn’t want to spill. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Sitting in the entrance, he tried to make the blackthorn wand levitate small stones at his feet; but his magic still seemed clumsier and less powerful than it had done before. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z After a nurse appeared at St. Tarkmanchatz without warning and plunged a clumsy cholera injection into the arm of each student, Liyana stayed home from school for days with a raging fever. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Guenever, who was not particularly good with hawks and had no special interest in them, was frightened by his frowning brow, and, because she was frightened, she became clumsy. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z That first day, we were clumsy with our new tools and extracted litde. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He swam the fingers of one hand around in the air, clumsy in his grasping. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z His left hand,- his bandaged right was still too raw and clumsy. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Olive says I’m clumsy and probably trip over my own shadow.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z I took her hand, with its puffed flesh and gnarled bones, between my own small hands, which were not, as Cristiana claimed, fat and clumsy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z While he descended the three floors, piece by piece, in clumsy, grasping hand grips, Sheed traversed the debris, nimble as always. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The clumsy examples above show that long and complicated subjects are best left unmarked, whereas simpler ones like pronouns work well in the genitive, as in I appreciate your coming over to help. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z His personnel file painted the picture of a CIA agent who was deeply knowledgeable about the KGB but also careless, clumsy, and erratic. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “I hope you are telling the truth, because it was both clumsy and foolish. Already you are suspected of having a hand in it.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Someone had sewn the tom flesh together with catgut, and their clumsy stitches were still in place across the seam of raw, red, half-healed flesh. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I misdealt, as was only natural, when I knew she was lying in wait for me to do wrong; and she denounced me for a stupid, clumsy labouring-boy. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Gawaine got up from his bench and tramped over to the King with clumsy sympathy. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Brave Orchid stared at her pink-painted fingernails gesticulating, and thought she probably would not have given out so much information if she weren’t so clumsy with language. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Even thinking it, the words were dull and clumsy. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “Well, you are a clumsy,” said Ellen, as she bent down to mop up the water. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z People were running through the plaza now, dark figures bolting out of the alleyways, some mounted on clumsy, staggering knuckleskulls. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z At two in the morning, he made clumsy sandwiches and overboiled coffee for her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As the clumsiest hunting dog of Old Tallow’s pack, he needed to stand tall over something, even if only a sick little girl. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Logan dropped his shovel and made two or three clumsy steps towards the house, then stopped abruptly. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The plane was so clumsy that it was difficult to fly in the tight formations that were critical to fending off attack. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z We made a clumsy, yahoo progress through the swamp. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He looked at us, shrugged, and hauled it away down the hall, staggering under its clumsy weight. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z As this method was clumsy, , Euergetes—very possibly at the advice of his new librarian— proposed a simpler four-year cycle with three years consisting of 365 days each, plus a leap year of 366 days. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z All the same, she hurried and her heart was beating fast when she pulled the clumsy wooden door closed behind her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a massive, barrel-chested man, and his bow was clumsy. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It arose, clumsy and big—carrying food—and winged back to the valley. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Aside from its dangerous aspects, the curse often made a fool of me and was partly the reason I seemed so clumsy. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z They were not squirrels, nor the cubs of men, they could not wriggle up the trunks of trees, clinging with soft pink paws and clumsy feet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Her mouth was clumsy, fogged with uneasy sleep. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z When she had first begun to work, she had been clumsy and slow. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But he didn’t want that clumsy antique; he wanted Speedy. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I read it and felt that in a clumsy way it linked white life with black, merged two streams of common experience. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Anthony described Stanton’s physical decline in a letter to a friend, writing that it was a pity “that such mental powers must be hampered with such a clumsy body.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The uses of these telegraphic, clumsy, ambiguous early scripts were as restricted as the number of their users. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z With hands made clumsy by haste, he unrolled one after another. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z He did not think that Mace Tyrell would be so clumsy as to try to murder either Pycelle or Swyft, but if guards made them feel safer, let them have guards. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “It makes me feel funny not knowing someone’s name. Wrongfooted, you know, or as if I had three thumbs on one hand, if you see what I mean. It’s clumsy...” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The Salamander boomed to a halt, throwing men off in slips and clumsy hops. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just . . . you used to be so clumsy, remember? I don’t know how I missed that you weren’t like that anymore.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z If you were clumsy, maybe you could fall out, but JT wasn’t clumsy. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One of them told me I was the clumsiest guy she’d ever met. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Logan with his shovel looked like a black bear doing some clumsy dance on his hind legs. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z On the table is a stack of paper, on top of which a thick and clumsy spiral has been drawn by a heavy hand. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I sink into a low bow and hope he will think me only clumsy. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Piggy, always clumsy, stood up and came to stand by him, so mat Ralph rolled on his stomach and pretended not to see. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The dory felt clumsy, and it would not keep its nose where it was supposed to go. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z And with a most clumsy technique, the audacity and crudeness of which I could hardly believe. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Johnny stood and watched Dove’s clumsy work as long as he could in silence. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In that moment I made a clumsy lunge at the man with the stick. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I thought he’d be one of those quiet types who was awkwardly gentle and clumsy, the kind of mild-mannered guy who says, “Am I hurting you?” when I can’t feel a thing. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z All the figures were suddenly so big, far too big for a small fat boy, who was clumsy even before his transformation! The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I step forward, my clumsy feet scuffing the floor, echoing across the stillness. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Somehow he managed to break his tumble with his hands and turn it into a clumsy thumping cartwheel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps he would berate me for my clumsy theory. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Then she got clumsy or cocky and fell onto the tracks, losing both the broom and any desire beyond huddling on the ground. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Van Rensburg was a big, clumsy, brutish fellow who did not speak but shouted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Gentle to the clumsy, girl-voiced boys whom he trained to be average, to be adequate, as he hit the soft fungoes to the outfield green. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He typed the date and salutation and plunged straight into a conventional apology for his “clumsy and inconsiderate behavior.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Will slid the knife into it and buckled it as tight as he could with his clumsy hand. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She moved her clumsy shoe a few centimeters and deliberately crushed a twig. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z No longer hesitant and clumsy, she had become vocal, aggressive, and confident. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Must you be so clumsy?” shouted the duke. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z I feel clunky and clumsy and slow, and I’m glad for the handrail. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z This bird, thought Palmer, is either dumb, clumsy or a comedian. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Of course I had always been clumsy around him, but at least I knew I had been in love with him for months. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z His fingers were clumsy, and he kept messing up. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z His passions were books and kittens and dancing, clumsy as he was. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was a large, clumsy unbeautiful robot, smelling of machine-oil and destined for the projected mines on Mercury.—But it could speak and make sense. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The maester’s fingers, normally so sure and deft, turned clumsy as he worked the latch and opened thelid, to reveal the skull within. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Fm going to punch Captain Black right in the nose the next time I see him,” gloried die chaplain, throwing two left jabs in the air and then a clumsy haymaker. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Not clumsy, not feigning false incompetence, but with perfect, practiced skill. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The fact that the partners were expected to maintain contact throughout these clumsy contortions seemed a certain recipe for sprained ankles and embarrassing collisions. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z But the thoughts in my head are still clumsy, dull. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Tired, bewildered, sitting beside my daughter in her bed, I said a series of wordless prayers, my clumsy attempts at devotion. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z The faux-documentary style is a little clumsy and unnecessary; what's more insightful are the interviews with women on the front line of dating. BBC Proms 2010-07-23T05:44:00Z It’s hard not to giggle at the clumsy, clownish walk of a brown pelican. Brown pelicans can inspire awe, laughs and concern for their environment 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z “I can’t say I like the Niagara Falls in that the human figures are clumsy, but these are paintings from his peak period.” Rec Room Treasures: Special Hand-Me-Down Paintings 2011-04-05T17:00:36Z I got a camera and I was on my own and I started acting in front of it and making this very early, clumsy version of Where's the Money, Ronnie?. Britain's best film directors show some early promise 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z With a final, clumsy motion, I clipped the rope that was tied to my harness into two carabiners at the route’s end. Rugged Country, Rugged History in California?s Owens Valley 2010-05-06T21:41:00Z The terrible dialogue is awkwardly delivered, the desktop special effects are cheap and clumsy and the camerawork inelegant. TV Picks: 'Community,' 'Decker,' 'Empire,' 'iZombie' 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z But while we're chortling over his clumsy, intimate exchanges and looking at those mortifying photos, it's humbling to imagine how any one of us would fare in, quite literally, the same position. Weiner's poignantly hilarious Facebook messages 2011-06-07T16:01:00Z Young people can smell a clumsy attempt at a deep talk from their literature just as quickly as they can from their mom. Parachuting In, Then Speaking Out 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z On the subject of Becky, though, it’s tough to think of a series so sharply over-correcting for its clumsy handing of social issues as this one is doing with her storyline. Without Roseanne, who are “The Conners” now? 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z “The genius of ‘Lincoln,’ finally, lies in its vision of politics as a noble, sometimes clumsy dialectic of the exalted and the mundane,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s On Sunday 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z “I began putting pen to paper and writing clumsy stories and poems,” he said. New play explores a world in which everyone must watch what they say 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z The filmmaking is rough and rather clumsy, but by ceding the floor to his open, highly articulate sisters, Mr. Colvard has created a fascinatingly raw study of ferociously wielded male power. | 'Family Affair': Reconnecting the Dots of a Scattered Family 2010-11-19T06:05:00Z If Harman is enlisting Lovecraft as a foot soldier against bland, realist empiricism, he has to prove that Lovecraft’s apparent failures to describe were a form of intellectual honesty rather than simply bad, clumsy style. HP Lovecraft, pulp philosopher 2013-04-11T20:22:00Z He’s also husky and clumsy, unlike his dad, who’s buff and great at sports. Body Language in Middle Grade Lit 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Mark Wilde's strongly sung Albert gets the balance between innocence and anger just right, though his nervous tic is a clumsy directorial detail. Albert Herring – review 2012-10-07T15:33:49Z This thrilling sequence is an apt metaphor for the entire film series: at first a bit clumsy in transferring Rowling's vision into movies, then gaining strength, finding its wing power and soaring in later episodes. Harry Potter: Hail and Farewell to a Hallowed Franchise 2011-07-10T05:45:00Z The topical tint that had made it so addictive had become a clumsy crowbar. How Rosalind’s fatal lift plummet marked the death of LA Law 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z India, often clumsy and arrogant, has also been at fault, building alliances in Afghanistan that worry Pakistan, and allegedly helping separatists in Pakistan’s Balochistan province or talking of plans for invasion. Divide and rue 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Its pacing is clumsy, with too little sense of process, of action unfolding in the camera’s presence, of interviews developing dramatically. Kitty Genovese’s Brother Reëxamines Her Famous Murder 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z The sweetness is clumsy and the studio audience’s reactions blaringly false. What to watch after "Stranger Things" season 3: Start with "Harlots" 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z But they don’t consider where their clumsy words will land. The question we came to dread: ‘Are you going for a second child?’ 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Led by Matheson, the Brats accidentally start a recording studio fire, mystify the audience at a debutante ball, topple overboard in a drunken boat mishap and generally behave like clumsy rubes. ‘Sick On You: The Disastrous Story of the Hollywood Brats’ 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z When Cunningham began working with the computer in 1989, at 70, he used it differently — as a creative collaborator, turning to a new, and at that time somewhat clumsy, program called LifeForms. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z On a song that strives so hard for sincerity, it's a clumsy way to burst the bubble. Magna Carta Holy Grail – a first-listen review 2013-07-04T14:23:37Z I remember thinking that was a clumsy plot device in the book and seeing it on screen made it more so. ‘Outlander’ Season 3, Episode 8: The Secret Revealed 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Dwight is clumsy, and bloodied, at each wrong turn of his mishandled mission. ‘Blue Ruin’: Revenge through the eyes of a fearful amateur 2014-05-08T22:02:03Z It’s because you are in a healthy relationship with a person you met through said friend, as if you’re the charmed, clumsy protagonist in a romantic comedy. I Quit Dating Apps. Five Times. 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z And then there’s Frank, whose continuing diminishment took him from an “unnatural” liaison in the fertility clinic to a wake in a warehouse to a clumsy fistfight in his old club with Santos. 'True Detective' Recap: Some Bounce Back, Others Descend 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Anyway, Will Scarlett is there, and Hook's "unsavory" tendencies come out as he grabs the clumsy thief, with intent to harm. 'Once Upon a Time': Anna's contract, Hook's date and 'The Apprentice' 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z There is tension, of course, and apprehension and suspicion — particularly of the various well-intentioned, clumsy English people who arrive to help build houses and organize sanitation. ‘The Jungle’ Review: Migrants’ Heartbreaking Search for Home in Calais 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z “When it comes down to it, I’m quite a loquacious, quirky, clumsy human being.” Natalie Dormer: ‘Female empowerment shouldn’t be only about sexuality' 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z The cast must also cope with a clumsy script, improbable chance encounters, illogical timings and villains with names like Darko. The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman – first look review 2013-01-23T17:14:22Z “He didn’t seem to notice my clumsy, unladylike movements and I was grateful for his offers of help whenever he noticed me struggling.” ‘No one expects people with disabilities to have a family’ 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z As embodied with heartbreaking earnestness by Mr. Blum, he is clumsy, irritating and mostly ineffectual. Review: ‘Rancho Viejo,’ Where Banality and Trouble Cohabitate 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z It occurred to me, as the two of us watched from the sidelines, that I might not be the girliest or the clumsiest guy on the team. On boys and balls: How I learned to stop hating sports 2014-05-12T23:00:00Z They are unabashedly loose, stupid, clumsy, gross — by one dictionary definition. Review: UMO Ensemble's buffoonery shines in 'El Dorado' 2010-08-20T21:44:00Z New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission would do well to turn down the Frick Collection’s proposed expansion, which imagines replacing a prized garden on East 70th Street in Manhattan with a clumsy addition. The Case Against a Mammoth Frick Collection Addition 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z The movie has a roughly equal number of clumsy moments and sweet ones. Review: ‘Growing Up Smith’ Plants a Boy From India in 1979 America 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z It's jarring and clumsy – or it would be if it wasn't close enough to the tepid style of narrative presented in Dennis's voice the rest of the way through. Rereading Stephen King: week 15 – Christine 2013-01-30T14:40:59Z But the writing seems a little flat and clumsy. Outcasts: season one, episode two 2011-02-08T22:00:03Z During a dance exercise, he suddenly realized, he said, “how hilarious and clumsy we both are. And self-conscious. And tall.” Liev Schreiber, the Reluctant Rake 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z While the show is getting there on the trappings and content, it's the delivery that's still awkward and clumsy. Falling Skies: episode four 2011-07-26T21:00:02Z Of course, this implies that celebrity relationships bear any resemblance to the clumsy, cackhanded romantic negotiations the rest of us undertake on a day-to-day basis. A Robert Pattinson–Kristen Stewart break-up may be good for #robsten fans 2012-07-26T11:50:17Z Josh Rhodes' choreography looked clumsy, and the actors seemed as though they were trying to figure out the dimensions of the house. Enchanting 'Cinderella' brings happily-ever-after to Ahmanson 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z She was clumsy with the mechanical aspects of developing prints and had others assist her. A disturbing new image of photographer Diane Arbus 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Throughout the work the clumsy installation, credited to Mr. Brooks and Philip Treviño, remains mostly stationary. Dance Review: ‘Big City’ by Brian Brooks Moving Company 2012-06-04T21:13:32Z Dion’s character is written in such a clumsy and obvious way that Sturgess’s only option is to drench a lot of acting sauce on his scenes and then proceed to chew ’em all up. AMC’s ‘Feed the Beast’ is served with a vintage Schwimmer, but still overcooked 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z The clumsy foreshadowing notwithstanding, the scene’s anticlimactic nature exposes a fundamental paradox of the show: The stakes of the series’ very first scene were possibly too high, and thus desensitizing. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 6: Walk, Talk ... Duck! 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z But there’s scant evidence of that in this clumsy pastiche, which relies on unimaginative video projections and clanging dialogue signifiers to denote time and place. Theater Review: ‘Forever Dusty’ at New World Stages 2012-11-21T21:57:24Z Depicting the "aerial balloon, a clumsy/ creation cobbled together from rope and rags," the translation catches the contraption's awkwardness in its alliteration: clumsy/ creation/ cobbled/ropes/rags. Poem of the week: The snow whirls over the courtyard's roses by Tua Forsström 2013-03-04T10:39:48Z Newspaper reporters, who initially lauded the efforts of the police detectives, have begun to ridicule them and their clumsy efforts to pose undercover as dance hall patrons to catch the killer. Review | Based on serial murders that rocked Scotland, ‘The Quaker’ is a chilling suspense tale 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z An episode about the stars' clumsiness dealing with race "in and around" the show is itself clumsy at times. 'The Comedians' works as star vehicle, 'Louie' as thought play 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z The whole mise-en-scene gets shifted and everyone gets a bit clumsy. Isabelle Huppert: 'There's such respect for movies here' 2012-05-26T23:05:49Z That said, the C4480 was neither as clumsy nor as fussy as H.P.’s newer models, including mine, or its competitors’ machines. Looking at Digital Downsides 2010-09-05T16:30:00Z The long-necked robots on wheels, lurking in clumsy packs on street corners, are either really loved -- or deeply hated. E-scooter death reignites safety concerns as devices grow in popularity 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Despite stunning aerial scenes and good intentions, the George Lucas-produced "Red Tails" is grounded by clumsy dialogue, a meandering plot and the occasional jarring anachronism. 'Red Tails': an inspirational tale of the Tuskegee Airmen 2012-01-18T21:26:04Z With men, you find out the next morning, because we’re so clumsy. Joel Stein Talks with the Director and Stars of Before Midnight 2013-05-23T18:29:15Z The ABC News anchor also shows how clumsy Trump’s sparring form is, which is what happens when a politician trades questions and answers with personalities who don’t reveal his weaknesses. ABC's "30 Hours" Donald Trump special was a ratings bust — but in history's long view, it will count 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z Her selfie stick sculptures are clumsy, combinations of lumpy organic forms a la William Tucker, and upright wood planks familiar to much postwar abstraction. At Regen Projects, Rachel Harrison showcases the art of self-importance 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z I cherish that, in my own clumsy, careless way, but now I’m determined to cherish it more actively and more carefully. How to win friends – and keep them 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z There are a more than a few clumsy moments, but for the most part Simien's feature debut is funny and frank in all the right ways. 'Dear White People' takes a funny, frank, provocative look at race 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z Just as my writing, clumsy and imperfect, is part of it. Reading Myself Aloud 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z The waltzes were heavy-footed, the party music overwhelmingly intense and the “Dance of the Reed Pipes” and other numbers a little clumsy and cluttered by inner voices. Canadian pianist continues daring performances 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Though I can only read him in translation, I think Dostoyevsky is an extraordinarily clumsy and slipshod writer. John Banville, the Contemporary Novelist Who Avoids Contemporary Novels 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z But Hardy is hardly ever satirical — and indeed almost never funny, except in a mode of clumsy rural good cheer. “Far From the Madding Crowd”: A powerful classic recaptured, in all its erotic glory 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Today it is obvious to anyone with even a little knowledge of early manuscripts that every one of the documents Ireland produced was a clumsy forgery. Mistaken identity 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z One example was the decision to clamp down on the independent media after its withering coverage of Mr Putin’s clumsy handling of the Kursk submarine sinking in August 2000. Cluster bomb 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z But the Ukip approach seems clumsy at best – blaming the last ones in when things are tight; superstitious nonsense akin to witch-burning. British Sea Power on tour: from Helsinki to the FA Cup final 2013-05-23T18:00:01Z A clumsy meet-cute in a bar or a park would seem like an antiquated relic. Netflix and chill: how TV relaxed its view of dating 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Marion is the star of the show; James is her sidekick and her father is portrayed as a clumsy but lovable idiot. The BBC Kids and Their Parents Are Back, in a Cartoon 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z The background is more problematic and Penny admits its clumsy architecture remains a puzzle. Titian discovery at National Gallery 2013-01-07T21:51:45Z Anderson was never a major player in the Watergate story, and the exploits of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein created a new generation of investigative journalists who made Anderson’s work seem clumsy and outdated. Books of The Times: The Supersnooper Pursuing the Paranoid Politician 2010-09-28T22:31:00Z But his clumsy leadership was as pronounced as his good intentions. Tested by Tragedy, Two Politicians Review Their Records — Mistakes Included 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Time-consuming, cognitively demanding, and ultimately clumsy, the novel has few mysteries to open for Perowne, even if he respects its fading cultural authority. Music, Fiction, and the Value of Attention 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z A sense of elegance freed me from my clumsy body. It’s great to be ‘in the zone’ — while working, exercising and creating art. Here’s how to get there. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Occasionally, Mr. Capps suddenly slowed the pulse of a dance, apparently to accommodate a dancer, as during the ballroom solo for Mr. Angle; the effect was clumsy. Review: ‘Swan Lake’ Features an Authoritative Sara Mearns 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z In fact, the word “nice” is the product of centuries of cleansing and bleaching — it originally meant foolish, stupid, senseless, careless, clumsy, weak or poor. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Don’t tell me to ‘Have a nice day’ 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Directed by Laura Terruso, “Work It” trades in this allure; by featuring a clumsy amateur who learns to let loose, it invites us to flounder alongside. ‘Work It’ Review: Freestyling Through Senior Year 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z The Guardian's Jordan Hoffman praised Johnson for her role in the film as the clumsy, innocent, virgin Ana. Fifty Shades film 'better than book' 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Others represent clumsy but earnest attempts at group definition by people who seem to realize just how much energy is around them. Quitting Your Job Never Looked So Fun 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z But on Wednesday “The Envelope” was performed with an air of broad comedy rather than purposeful intrigue, and the effect was clumsier than it need be. Dance Review: Works to Challenge an Audience, or Not 2011-01-27T22:41:02Z In Gramercy Tavern’s last review in The Times, nine years ago, Frank Bruni wrote about “forgettable” meals at the end of Mr. Colicchio’s tenure and a “clumsy, laughable one” at the start of Mr. Anthony’s. Gramercy Tavern: A Classic Still on the Move 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Marine iguanas, which he referred to as “imps of darkness,” were in his eyes “most disgusting, clumsy Lizards.” Transformative Travel, 4 Ways 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z The perfect baby becomes a baby vulture who screeches all night; in toddlerdom, he’s a clumsy elephant. How to survive the teenage years: a parents’ guide 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Besides just a clumsy, robotic candidate, what else is going on here? “Rubio deserved what he got”: New Hampshire’s gotcha moments, media spats and why the GOP “is built on mendacity” 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Louisa is just the latest example of the most well-worn of romantic tropes: making your female lead clumsy, socially graceless, or generally inept in order to make her more “relatable.” We like women better when they fall: “Me Before You” stumbles into the same old “relatable” trap 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Wesley, who is best known for taking part in more supernatural activities on television’s “The Vampire Diaries,” brings a grounding, clumsy centeredness to a role that could have turned camp. Review: In ‘Cal in Camo,’ a Raw Welcome to Motherhood 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z I’m sure there will be clumsy tearful days ahead and days when the blindfold and handcuffs will come out, along with the distance and the detachment. My awkward sober sex life 2012-10-28T16:01:00Z “Or they are just clumsy and accidentally showed they stalked.” Orbiting, Another Thing for Online Daters to Worry About 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z But how refreshing to encounter the clumsy words in a seemingly heartfelt song rather than one more well-vetted statement. Celebrities quick to apologize for mistakes but are they sorry? 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z If you screw your eyes up, its faceted steps recall early expressionist architecture and the crystalline forms of Hugh Ferris's New York setback diagrams – only here interpreted with a clumsy commercial bulk. Russia's Mercury City tower cuts the Shard down to size 2012-11-05T16:46:00Z The uninhibited, unpredictable chats of the original web series – filled with profane, non sequitur observations and clumsy lunges at buckets – worked better than Comedy Central’s current careful production sometimes does. Drunk History season two: it isn’t quite as funny when it isn’t quite as trashed 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z The real Zuckerberg, in his brief stint at Harvard, was in some ways mature beyond his or anyone's years, in other ways a clumsy adolescent. 'The Social Network': A Pie in the Facebook 2010-09-24T18:50:00Z If Merrylees’ Hamlet were as fully realized as Brown’s Joan, Bedlam’s Shakespeare would have similarly managed to transcend its clumsy patches. Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and Shaw's 'Saint Joan': A marathon for four actors, and the audience 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z There’s the kid who becomes an Internet celebrity when a video of his clumsy lightsaber moves is put online. Review: ‘How Star Wars Conquered the Universe,’ by Chris Taylor Originally intended as a cable television series, “Middle Men” bears some telltale scars of hasty, clumsy truncation. | 'Middle Men': George Gallo on the Internet Pornography Business 2010-08-06T00:47:00Z It’s in the machinations of the campus cold war itself — and in her clumsy homage to le Carré — that Lutz stumbles. Review | Can a thriller also be a feminist social critique? Lisa Lutz gives it a try in ‘The Swallows’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z That process can be a bit clumsy: In each parking space, concrete slabs with poles stuck in them hold a wire, which twists around your car antenna. Put on your PJs and motor to one of these five Puget Sound drive-in movie theaters 2010-06-19T00:40:00Z When I remark that “Artful” is clumsy, what I mean is this: This book’s fictional and nonfiction aspects don’t mingle comfortably. Books of The Times: ‘Artful,’ by Ali Smith, a Novel With a Ghost 2013-01-22T20:49:36Z The reader is left only with a clumsy plot device that is meant to elicit emotion but lacks self-awareness. James Frey Has Written His First Adult Novel in a Decade 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z If you're going to watch just one recent Universal Pictures horror film, bypass the politically clumsy adventure "The Hunt" and instead opt for Leigh Whannell's savvy and genuinely scary take on the H.G. The best new movies you can watch from home in March 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z “Biopic” is a clumsy word for a prosaic genre, and screen biographies of writers are more apt to be literal than lyrical. ‘Benediction’ Review: A Poet’s Life, in Love and War 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Its attempt to limbo under the radar resulted in a clumsy hulk. The Cheesegrater: Richard Rogers sprinkles the Square Mile 2013-06-16T17:00:01Z In contrast, Chevy Chase’s impersonation of Gerald Ford for "SNL" gave viewers an impression of Ford as clumsy, when in fact he wasn’t. 5 ways the 2020 election will be shaped by late night comedy 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z And Ms. Coonrod’s staging of the play within the play, in which Don Armado and his associates perform a clumsy pageant for the King and Princess, is terrific. | 'Love?s Labor?s Lost': ?Love?s Labor?s Lost? at Public Theater - Review 2011-11-01T02:01:01Z He and Ani were just starting to get a nice dynamic going, a couple of clumsy exchanges notwithstanding. 'True Detective' Recap: Big Blasts and Diminished Men 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z I reached up with hands as heavy and clumsy as hocks of ham. How I became an adventurous woman 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z In the face of all that, Paramount made what many saw as a clumsy attempt to position “True Grit” as part of the revolution. Coen Brothers Saddle Up a Revenge Story (or Two) 2010-12-04T00:13:00Z The audience is clumsy in comparison to the dancers, who never once appear to threaten the art, no matter how high they leap or how far they stretch. Who are those dancers spinning through the Broad (and LACMA and the Getty)? 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Its launch got plenty of attention, mostly because of Goldberg—and the cheerful but somewhat clumsy way he had of addressing his new subject matter. Bustle Has a Baby 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z “Showgirl” stands out in Monroe histories largely because of Olivier’s clumsy mishandling of his co-star and misunderstanding of her gifts. Movies: A Season of Movies About Movies 2011-12-04T03:43:05Z 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 This seat-of-the-pants theater company, at whose clumsy, makeshift antics we’ve been laughing, is to be regarded as a troupe of serious avant-garde artists? Review: ‘Shows for Days,’ With Patti LuPone as a Diva With Depth 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z The heroes tend to be relatable — shy, clumsy, anxious, myopic, in recovery, short-tempered, middle-class, broke — but their stories are fantastic, over-the-top, a wild ride and a welcome escape from a reader’s quotidian life. Meet the writers who still sell millions of books. Actually, hundreds of millions. 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z In addition, the pictures are often artless, with clumsy composition, skewed angles and weak lighting. Me, my selfies and I: A perspective shift on what otherwise looks like just ego The endlessly dissected 1997 cover story “Kevin Spacey Has a Secret,” written with grand New Journalism pretensions, was widely viewed as a clumsy attempt to “out” Mr. Spacey, who compared the article to McCarthyism. The ‘Esquire Man’ Is Dead. Long Live the ‘Esquire Man.’ 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z The clumsy hands and feet of the man, two women and baby in “Another Happy Thought,” a kind of Adoration-picnic scene, recall children’s drawings. What to See in New York Galleries This Week 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Sometimes, in hindsight, these transactions feel clumsy, complicated. The Discovery of Roscoe Holcomb and the “High Lonesome Sound” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z A clumsy hiker kicks a pebble that starts an avalanche. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z “So even just getting into this feels great. But it also feels very clumsy.” Penn Badgley Flexes New Dance Moves 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z It's really just a torrent of age-old gags and clumsy, pointless situations dressed up with street slang. Anuvahood ? review 2011-03-17T22:00:03Z At the recent Caravaggio show in Rome I could see that three paintings were dramatically retouched — areas way too clumsy to be his work. Backers of Yale Italian Paintings Show Lament Loss of ?Eye? 2010-08-04T22:44:00Z Yet there's something a little too considered, not to mention clumsy, about the film's realisation. Post-credits scene: The Brothers Bloom 2010-06-07T16:46:00Z The mood they are going for in this poorly conceived and surprisingly clumsy series version eludes their grasp, no matter that Curtis himself is credited as a producer. Review | Send your regrets to Hulu’s ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ (and a sympathy card) 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Ben Affleck was mocked when, in the middle of his clumsy response to the Harvey Weinstein scandal, pictures suddenly surfaced of him adopting a stray puppy. How do celebrity publicists operate in an era when the truth can mean anything? 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z That may mean clumsy "Truman Show"-like mugs to camera or nakedly commercial sales pitches like the one parodied in "Wayne's World." WWDDD: What would Don Draper do? 2011-04-13T17:30:00Z Nicodemus is desperate to be accepted, but he does things in a clumsy way that alienates the other boys, such as suggesting a nickname for himself. This Week in Fiction: Petina Gappah on the Insular World of Boarding School 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z "A Way to Leak, Lick, Leek" is much like its title -- at once evocative, clumsy and obscure. For artist Laure Prouvost's first solo L.A. show, a look at our plastic-wrapped lives 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z The character is described in Ms. Strout’s interlaced stories — which read, in aggregate, like a novel — as large, plain and clumsy. Frances McDormand, True to Herself in HBO’s ‘Olive Kitteridge’ 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z This show was just plain clumsy, with a gimmicky Oriental romance and hard jewel tones. Fashion Review: C?line, Comme des Gar?ons, Haider Ackermann, Junya Watanabe, Jean Paul Gaultier and Yohji Yamamoto: Paris Review 2011-10-03T03:10:16Z In fact, SNL was lampooning the bumbler who tried to sell his shocking pardon of Nixon with the clumsy and obvious lie: “Our long national nightmare is over.” Letterman’s presidential montage fell flat: “Mad Men,” “SNL” and why our long national nightmare isn’t actually over 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Speaking of lyrics, when Swift first announced this project, some people wondered if she’d use it as an opportunity to rewrite some of her clumsier or controversial ones. Taylor Swift Remade ‘Fearless’ as ‘Taylor’s Version.’ Let’s Discuss. 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z In the movie, Reynolds sweeps his clumsy Cinderella into a world of opulent dresses, extravagant dinners and literal princesses. Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson on How They Created ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z It's a thing of perfection – nothing is wasted, clumsy or off-topic – and it's a blockbuster that you don't need to apologise for loving or dismiss as brainless fun. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2012-10-12T23:05:40Z Tom Hardy has said he channelled a wolf to play barking Max; for Nux, Hoult opted for a puppy: “He’s very enthusiastic and committed and affectionate but also kind of clumsy.” Mad Max’s Nicholas Hoult on hanging off lorries and channeling Andrex puppies 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The resulting episode contains flashes of brilliance, but overall is clumsy and unbalanced. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 8: Priorities and Principles 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z To that, Karl suggests that the board might have questions about Tom, and he frames those “as a friend,” saying, “You’re a clumsy interloper and no one trusts you.” ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 4 Recap: A Coronation Demolition Derby 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Its occasional mumbling about First Amendment rights seems more afterthought than agenda in this clumsy re-enactment of the film’s production, release and subsequent obscenity trials, which unfolds like a witless “Laugh-In” sketch. | 'The Deep Throat Sex Scandal': Trials Caused by a Pornographic Film Are Brought to Life 2010-10-11T21:13:00Z "With a very different background to most of the other nurses, his clumsy charm is sure to win everyone over," he said. Lee Mead to join Casualty cast 2013-09-20T15:06:06Z I still was not catching a thing, not a nibble, and my shoulder was beginning to ache from my clumsy casting. Learning to Fly-Fish, in Chile 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Moving down the aisles, he uttered some dismissive phrases like “the cute, the kitsch and the clumsy” while the camera passed often inconsequential work that was left unidentified. ArtsBeat: Morley Safer Launches a Halfhearted Salvo in his War on the Art World 2012-04-02T16:30:26Z Her footsteps were getting clumsier; she couldn't control her muscles, there were cramps and spasms starting in her legs. Wilderness by Sarah Hall 2013-03-18T13:22:56Z Po’s clumsy, goofy eagerness no longer seems quite as amusing now that he is a psychologically damaged warrior. | 'Kung Fu Panda 2': A Noble Panda Takes On a Nightmare Enemy 2011-05-25T21:42:30Z There's a clumsy kitchen worker who spills things all the time, but there's also a creepy, ambitious agency cook named Skoose who adds some genuine menace. Whites, Harry and Paul and The Born Free Legacy 2010-09-29T07:00:00Z But Twitter is nothing if not a hive mind on steroids, and its verdict was swift and merciless: the irony detector found only cluelessness in this clumsy ode to Chinese cuisine. “Have They Run out of White Poets Yet?”: Asian writers mock Calvin Trillin’s New Yorker poem on Chinese food 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z There’s a way that such coincidences might make a story feel silly or clumsy, as though they were lesions on reality or cheap effects. For the Art of Love and the Love of Art 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Or, as the somewhat clumsy first number argues, "It's more than a contest/It's more than dumb luck/It's more than extra cash/It is much more than a truck!" Review: 'Hands on a Hardbody' tuneful, sweet ode 2013-03-22T00:10:15Z There was the crossbow, a clumsy weapon of mahogany and steel with telescopic sights, bought at Lillywhites. From the Observer archive, 21 July 1968: The Kray twins on trial 2012-07-21T23:05:34Z Nothing was too big, too heavy or too clumsy. Auctions: Andy Warhol and a Teddy Bear Steal the Show at Christie's 2011-05-12T11:30:06Z Along the way, the conservators found traces of an enormous fire set in the first century B.C. by the Roman general Sulla, and chunks of marble from clumsy repair jobs attempted centuries ago. Caryatid Statues, Restored, Are Stars at Athens Museum 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Spooky and sad, kinetic and occasionally clumsy, “Talk to Me” is far from perfect but close to fine. ‘Talk to Me’ Review: Letting the Wrong One In 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Of course Silicon Valley execs are too detached to make an AI capable of “channeling the clumsy grace of the human soul or whatever.” How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Beyond the clumsy few, what separated our top wines from those that did not make the cut was an extra dimension, a wrinkle or two that distinguished the intriguing from the serviceable. For Pinot Noir, Put Anderson Valley Among California’s Best 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Another sentence — a slightly clumsy invocation of the power of imagination — is repeated three times and sounds each time as if it had been plagiarized from a TED talk. ‘The Imitation Game’ Stars Benedict Cumberbatch 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z So did I, but I was clumsy and dripped cement onto wing paper. Double Solitude 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Having debunked most of the better-known rival claimants, Kells settles on his own theory, which is that Shakespeare was only a dramatic adapter of previous texts, and a clumsy one at that. That Man From Stratford 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z Staring down at the plastic container, he grabs clumsy fistfuls of greens, twitchily tossing spoiled leaves aside. Review | Knockout acting in Studio’s play of a marriage on the rocks 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Without the buzz and fog of alcohol, I am clumsy and giggly and awkward. My awkward sober sex life 2012-10-28T16:01:00Z My performance was clumsy and embarrassing, but also strangely exhilarating. A Jamaica Trip With the Ultimate Travel Amenity: A Nanny 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z He is determined but naive and clumsy, running around frontlines in a white T-shirt and setting fire to his own bathroom. Panorama: A Very British Hero 2010-05-24T05:45:00Z But for a comedy writer who practically reinvented the TV sitcom, it’s surprising to see how clumsy and old-fashioned David’s playwriting is. Larry David's 'Fish in the Dark': Curb Your Enthusiasm 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Fleeing Mideast Dictator’s Unscheduled Stop The premise had promise, but “Baghdad, Texas,” a clumsy comedy directed by David H. Hickey, quickly disappoints with an inconsistent tone and painful overacting. | 'Baghdad, Texas': Fleeing Mideast Dictator?s Unscheduled Stop 2010-08-27T01:22:00Z We were studying Arabic numbers that day—I don’t mean the improvements on the clumsy Roman variety but number agreement in Arabic grammar. How to be a Muslim at NYU after 9/11 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z The last five minutes, featuring a pair of disembodied feet stomping across the screen to signify the passage of time and historical events, are unbearably clumsy and don't mesh with the rest of the film. The Way Back: A Good Walk, Almost Spoiled 2011-01-21T09:35:00Z I’m loud and clumsy, and I talk a lot. Evan Rachel Wood on Into the Forest and Revolutionary Roles 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Oliver Stone apologises for 'antisemitic' remarks 2010-07-27T11:19:00Z It was a consequence of clumsy partners, perfunctory routines, incomplete education, boredom and the chafe of overfamiliarity. What I learned talking to 120 women about their sex lives and desires 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z But it’s impossible to complain that the contestants’ efforts at cuteness are generally clumsy and that their witticisms are wan because hey, they’re nerds; says so right in the title. Television Review: ‘King of the Nerds,’ TV Contest Series on TBS 2013-01-16T23:02:45Z For clumsy, weedy kids like me who spent hours alone reading the dictionary, the silver-tongued, homely Cyrano opened a glorious new vista on possibilities for becoming a hero. Review: James McAvoy’s Rapping Cyrano Dazzles With Words 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Moreover, nothing about “Frida” any more seems even faintly clumsy, musically or theatrically. Death haunts Frida Kahlo's long and clumsily winding road to the lyric stage 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z But it is more grating in its clumsy choice of musical text and far more pretentious. Review: Christopher Wheeldon’s ‘Swan Lake’ Focuses on the Men 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z On “Home Improvement” Mr. Allen played the star of a DIY television show who was clumsy around his own house. Television Review: ?Last Man Standing? and ?Man Up!? on ABC - Review 2011-10-10T22:14:23Z Gone is the clumsy, antiquated bother of live-action filmmaking: the construction of sets, the waiting for a perfect sky, the glitches in a mechanical shark, that 43rd exasperating take to get an actor’s facial expression. Spielberg's 3-D Cartoon Adventure: It's Tintinastic! 2011-12-21T18:03:02Z Now try to envision the ways that this set, which ominously includes an upstairs and an elevator, might be violently dismembered by a cast of really bad, really clumsy actors. Review: ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ Upends a Whodunit 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Throughout his life, this “tall clumsy, well-meaning puppy who couldn’t enter a room without tripping over the carpet” — Matthew’s description of his father — resisted all attempts to curb his personal and political freedom. The real Stephen Spender as seen by his son in ‘A House in St. John’s Wood’ 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Being a clumsy girl is a way of life, but all of the public stumbles and splats never get any less embarrassing. How to Tackle Every Type of Party Stain 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Ms. Oberfelder is using Weill’s original orchestration, but not the scenario by Boritsch, which featured characters like a clumsy bear and a Chinese doctor. Kurt Weill’s Music for a Magical Dance, Lost and Now Found 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z I drop things more often and am clumsy. What science doesn’t know about the menopause: what it’s for and how to treat it | Rose George 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Released in 1978, five years after Lee died, Robert Clouse’s martial arts epic was an appallingly clumsy attempt to capitalise on unseen footage of the kung fu star in his final movie. Back from the dead: how Hollywood pulled off its most unexpected resurrection acts 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z A man that falls in love with you – pathetic, flawed old clumsy you – because the very smell of you, of your blood, intoxicates him. Vampires, blood and chastity: how Twilight turned teens on | Eva Wiseman 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z He includes a big-hearted if clumsy plea for increased arts support, especially musical programs for kids. Books of The Times: ‘How Music Works,’ by David Byrne 2012-09-12T18:02:58Z As for the final novella in this volume, it’s a decidedly clumsier performance. Books of The Times: With a Few Tweaks, Shaking Up History 2011-02-28T23:16:12Z This is an industry in which problems include protecting the owner’s Picasso collection from salt air, clumsy crew members and faulty sprinklers. No One Needs a Superyacht, but They Keep Selling Them 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The hearing quickly goes south when Claire makes a clumsy comment about American troops being “irrelevant.” 'House of Cards' Season 3 Episode 2 Recap: Balancing the Eggs 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The only difference is that, as a kid, I felt like I needed a clumsy ruse — choking, fake nausea, an early hockey game — to make my escape. The psychos down the street: Slaying the suburban slasher flicks of my youth 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z The film, about an adorable yet clumsy pooch, debuted in theaters last month but stumbled at box offices. "Marmaduke" has dog groups prepping for dumped Danes 2010-07-06T21:21:00Z In contrast, flashbacks on screen tend always to be clumsy beasts, announcing their arrival with unwanted fanfare and knocked-over furniture. Six novelists on their favourite second artform 2013-04-27T07:00:18Z The paintings are deliberately clumsy; the videos, by contrast, often embrace moments of fleeting beauty to become aesthetic objects in their own right. Ragnar Kjartansson’s exuberant work at Hirshhorn is a party celebrating mediocrity 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z This is a very uneven play, full of passages of astonishing writing and segments that feel a little clumsy and disconnected – as if whole thing has been stitched together like patchwork. Winterlong ? review 2011-02-07T18:26:39Z Walter, a successful surgeon in his fine camel coat, and Victor, an undistinguished patrolman in his clumsy uniform, are placed in opposition. Review: Brothers Joined by Fate and Furniture in ‘The Price’ 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z A big clumsy upright vacuum cleaner stands in the midst of things in its tangle of cord and hose, like a piece of abandoned highway equipment. My secret hoarding shame: I lived with my trash. It was time to throw it all away 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z It makes a strange end to a journalistic encounter, and when Watts stands up, she gathers me in a clumsy hug. Naomi Watts: ‘My soul was being destroyed’ 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z Identifying the collector as co-organizer of the show was “perhaps clumsy,” he said, “but I wanted to be transparent.” MOCA's Gaetano Pesce exhibition stumbles across a bright ethical line 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z There is Elias, a pit bull from Los Angeles, who has a perfect spot over his right eye and big, clumsy paws that he has yet to grow into. Puppy Bowl: Cuteness becomes a cash cow 2013-02-01T03:34:14Z He was known for his roles as a clumsy underdog battling against adversity. British comedian, actor Norman Wisdom dies at 95 2010-10-04T22:40:00Z The voice might say: No, that transition is clumsy. What’s on Michelle Obama’s mind? Meet the speechwriter who puts it into words. 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, facts fall inert, with some of the randomness of war, and the show takes on the clumsy awkwardness of “historical re-enactments” in TV documentaries. ‘Healing Wars,’ by Liz Lerman, Portrays Soldiers’ Trauma 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z My ears are dodgy, my fingers too clumsy. Guitar Zero: psychologist Gary Marcus says science proves it's never to late to learn music 2012-06-05T15:11:01Z There are clumsy love scenes and lots of silences. My lover, my client 2013-04-30T00:00:00Z It also brings some of the wonder and mystery back to cinematic space, inviting comparisons to Stanley Kubrick’s “2001” and Ridley Scott’s “Alien,” and making most recent science-fiction epics seem clumsy and earthbound by comparison. ArtsBeat: In Telluride, a Peek at ‘Gravity’ 2013-09-01T17:14:53Z He meant to get the knife from my mother’s hand, but he was slow and a little clumsy, and her fingers were wrapped tight around the handle. My anger and the mighty broom 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z He ended the concert with Dukas’ playful “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” which is full of clumsy footfalls. Getting to know — or at least trying to — Matthias Pintscher at an L.A. Phil concert 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z First, there's some clumsy comedy over sharpshooters trying to identify the terrorists among the comically clad runners. Four Lions 2010-05-08T23:08:00Z But in “We Live Here” in particular she is a little clumsy in putting them together. | 'We Live Here: ?We Live Here? by Zoe Kazan at City Center - Review 2011-10-13T02:01:11Z And if you read between the lines of Mr. Luna’s earnest, clumsy film, you find not just a history lesson but an argument. Movie Review: Hero Worship Abounds in ‘Cesar Chavez’ 2014-03-27T22:07:35Z The deliberately clumsy camerawork, shaky, unfocused and dizzying, reminded me of designer clothing that is meant to look distressed: art as calculated disarray. Review: A Poet’s Urgent Questions Fuel ‘November’ 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z We, your tentative, inexperienced readers, shy of hosepipe and clumsy of secateur, appreciate your attempts to make our lives more beautiful. A Gardening Book for Those Who Hate Gardening Books 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z One only has to recall the gravity with which Clive Francis and Edward Bennett played it on that occasion to flinch at the clumsy jokiness with which it is done here. Four Farces – review 2013-06-19T16:58:03Z He gave back rubs that were accurate, not clumsy; his hands were full of life. Seeking a Father for My Child (Relationship Optional) 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Pudgy and clumsy, she inhabits her world with a determined physicality, frequently throwing up and getting scraped and bleeding through stitches. Beware the infectious beasts of 'The Blondes' 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z "There is one clumsy lie covering another clumsy lie every day. And the plot gets more and more farfetched." Good news: Some missing Hong Kong booksellers have appeared on TV. But there's bad news. 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z The first half of section three, "The Kill" consists of a day-by-day account of the crimes, their clumsy coverup, and the confusion that follows. Richard House's 'The Kills' challenges what a thriller can be 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z It is essentially a concerto for two horns, and in my mind's eye they became the missing dancers, intertwining with clumsy chemistry. BBCSSO/Baker – review 2013-03-11T17:48:28Z These sources are discussed, with deliberately clumsy pretentiousness, in a sort of symposium that is conducted early in this hourlong show. Theater Review: Radiohole’s ‘Inflatable Frankenstein’ at the Kitchen 2013-01-06T22:46:36Z His portraits of Viennese cafe “types” — the clumsy waiter, the morose writer, the street tippler helping himself to drinks from an outdoor table — are grotesque but funny. Art in Review: ?Postcards of the Wiener Werkst?tte?: ?Selections From the Leonard A. Lauder Collection? 2011-01-06T22:11:22Z "Check It Out," which recently concluded its third season, has an editing style that's deliberately clumsy and is characterized by the jumpy, wrinkled-tape wobble of an overused videocassette. Dr. Steve Brule, Tim & Eric comic forces to be reckoned with 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z His nervousness showed itself as nervousness: awkward, clumsy, stilted, tripping over his feet on the sidewalk in his dress shoes. Abortion, a love story 2012-08-25T01:00:00Z The mix of minimal staging and vivid cinematic imagery was reasonably slickly handled, despite a certain early Doctor Who air to some of the more clumsy interactions. Sunken Garden; Nabucco; Mark Padmore & Graham Johnson – review 2013-04-20T23:08:33Z Ostensibly writing in support of Jackson, Senior called “A Place for Wolves” “painfully clumsy and poorly placed.” In Y.A., Where Is the Line Between Criticism and Cancel Culture? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z And it’s a clumsy one, attempting in the third act to weave aria pauses into a breakneck pace and an abrupt, Orphic turn. Wagner’s Early Operas Shouldn’t Be Mere Curiosities 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z It shouldn’t surprise that “Dark Meat on a Funny Mind,” a clumsy stumble through the highlights of Pryor’s life, presents the comedian with none of his magnetism. ‘Dark Meat on a Funny Mind’ Examines Richard Pryor 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, the script also makes amends in some of the clumsiest, most nightmarish plot developments imaginable. Like Samantha, divorce yourself from the "Sex in the City" sequel, which has aged but hasn't matured 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Gareth Saxe is appropriately boorish as Chip Bohlen, the American CIA agent who intrudes upon the Russians' gathering with clumsy bonhomie, his not-so-subtle threats putting a face to the general feeling of U.S. government dominance. Review: 'Nikolai and the Others' bittersweet drama 2013-05-07T02:12:09Z Despite the novelty concept, his direction was unimaginative, shifting the chorus in clumsy blocks and plonking the soloists front-of-stage to deliver their arias. Semiramide ? review 2011-08-29T17:30:00Z Yet with a certain clumsy charm he’s “wearing a black leather jacket with his dress shirt, the kind of jacket only Negroes wear usually.” A New Translation of an Anti-Heroic German Doorstopper of 1968 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z What’s startling here is how clumsy and uncertain his attempts seem. Review: In ‘The BFG,’ a Director and an Actor With Big Shoes 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The coming–of-age story of a mischievous, clumsy witch who leaves home at 13 to find a town and a job, as witches must. Ranking the Films of Studio Ghibli 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Until recently, in other words, most of us were simply too socially clumsy to avoid being ourselves. Look at me: why attention-seeking is the defining need of our times 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z It has the feel of a late-night stunt, but the execution is strained and clumsy. Maria Bamford’s New Special Is a Kind of Inspired Gibberish 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z This seemed an appropriate conclusion, since “Bum Bum” is in essence a karaoke experience in which a clumsy instant stardom is fleetingly achieved. At ?Malfi? and ?Bum Bum? in London, Active Audience 2010-08-12T22:26:00Z And scenery changes were clumsy and dreadfully long, sabotaging the pace. Theater Review: ‘Dancing on Nails,’ Set in a 1950s Store, Opens at Theater 80 2013-07-25T02:00:01Z Most of their jokes were cheesy, clumsy and out of date. ArtsBeat Blog: Senators and Congressmen, All Trying for a Laugh 2011-12-05T16:53:17Z A telephone lineman on his crane hears it as a clattering clank of metal, like a clumsy heist at Home Depot; soon he's gone. Secret's Out 2011-06-02T10:15:00Z In the earnest though narratively clumsy HBO documentary “Revolution Rent,” a director unpacks the relevance of this joyously defiant show when it’s translated to a different language, culture and political landscape. ‘Revolution Rent’ Review: Taking the Show South 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Like “Buffalo” — and like other Mamet plays to come — “Life” portrays a professional relationship, and a shifting balance of power, between an aging, less-than-successful veteran and an eager, often clumsy tyro. | 'A Life in the Theatre': From Mamet, a Backstage Bouquet 2010-10-13T04:30:00Z Ann and Edgar, two of the clumsiest diplomats ever to represent their nations, bicker like they're in some musty Edwardian drama. Scones and tea won't help Theresa Rebeck's 'Zealot' at SCR 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Bank swallows were eating the last clumsy salmonflies over the river. Can Montana’s Smith River Survive a Nearby Mine? 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z And Dawn is Luther’s daughter — fiercely religious and devoted to her father, even as she tries, with clumsy steadfastness, to find her own way. Joyce Carol Oates tackles abortion in her powerful novel, 'A Book of American Martyrs' 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z It's a little clumsy at times; some scenes and encounters, as when Squillari writes Madoff a letter or interviews a reporter, have the flavor of being staged for the camera. 'A Very Larry Christmas,' Bernie Madoff, 'Christmas Light Fight' 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z As a novel, however, it's artless and inept, spoiled by mouthpiece characters, stilted dialogue, clumsy information-dumps and a near-absence of dramatic tension. Eric Brown's science fiction choice ? reviews 2011-08-04T09:00:01Z I know sophisticated readers, devoted science fiction fans, who can’t stand it, finding Herbert’s prose inept, the action ponderous, and the whole book clumsy and tedious. Perspective | ‘Dune’ has long divided the science fiction world. The new film won’t change that. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z That said, it’s not hard to see where Shyamalan was coming from with this clumsy preamble. Unbreakable at 20: the film that finally took superheroes seriously 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Which is both rude and offensive, as well as being clumsy and arrogant. How to have a great conversation with someone who is going to die 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z A. It might seem like it would be the fun part of an actor’s job to take your clothes off and lie in bed with a beautiful woman, but they’re always nervy, clumsy affairs. Arts & Leisure: Damian Lewis of ?Homeland? on Showtime 2011-12-09T21:13:41Z Hicks is an endearing but clumsy artist, so perhaps the masonry of his arch is just bad painting. Perspective | Rekindling the wonder of Natural Bridge, once a testament to American grandeur 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z MacLaverty’s only missteps are his occasionally clumsy and largely unnecessary segues into flashbacks. Exploring the mystery of a long, challenged marriage 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Still, we clumsy Americans can worship at this shrine and maybe pick up a few tricks. Guides for Better Living From Around the World 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z When he plays the part of the athletic hero – when he's trying to be like Ken – he's clumsy, awkward and gets hung up on walls and barricades he's only equipped to go around. The secret "Barbie" message everyone can get behind is that Allan is amazing. He is also like us 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z The Dogstar production suffers from clumsy transitions, but the vivid and strange characterisations see it through. Sweetness ? review 2011-03-15T18:23:25Z The film’s brain is hopelessly addled — if you want to see a smart movie about French society, there are plenty of other choices — but its clumsy heart is somehow in the right place. Movie Review: ‘The Intouchables’ Arrives From France 2012-05-24T23:57:43Z I was also intrigued by what it felt like to be in a four-wheel minority, feeling clumsy and outnumbered on the road. Frugal Traveler: What I Learned Driving Through the Heartland 2013-08-28T21:32:04Z I feel like a very large, very clumsy bull in a very small china shop. On a Maine windjammer, feasts of food, scenery and conversation Also, the show’s clumsy mix of long bursts of theory and a laborious plot would test the endurance of even Alan Greenspan, a famous Rand admirer and veteran of long, boring meetings. | 'Ideal': In Ayn Rand?s 1934 Play, No Shelter for Actress on Run 2010-06-24T20:37:00Z "But you see my confusion, right? Because you used a clumsy, racist comment to complain about my hiring. Did you think I wasn't qualified? Was that it?" The stunning, rude awakening of Nicole Beharie's Chris Hunter on "The Morning Show" 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z Using the clumsy, now blessedly defunct method of VCR-to-VCR editing — record tape from one machine to the other, stop, rewind, repeat — he learned the basics of cinematic rhythm and narrative. David Lowery Directs ‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’ 2013-08-09T19:06:44Z Another cheap shot is a clumsy ear-grating performance of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” at the annual Miss Cut Bank pageant. Review: ‘Cut Bank,’ Looking to Escape a Small Town and Its Eccentrics 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z While scenes that focus quietly on relationships bring out the best in “Trek,” the action — particularly featuring “The Next Generation” cast — is often clumsy. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: Family Secrets 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The setups are clumsy and lyrical subtlety is effectively banished. 'Bright Star' at the Ahmanson: Bluegrass, tears and a big, vacuous smile 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z A clumsy baker in Pudding Lane is thought to be the cause, but at the time it was considered part of a plot and Londoners sought their revenge on foreigners. The Untold Great Fire of London 2010-06-30T07:00:00Z The real problem, which may explain the sense of dislocation ungenerously felt all evening, was the clumsy, computerish English translation. Tosca; La fille du r?giment; Takacs Quartet 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z The rest of the novel is a whodunit, occasionally clumsy but entertaining. Summer Thrillers: Daring Escapes and Other Acts of Derring-Do 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z So, yes, of course Katniss is back, just as promised by the clumsy title of her last movie, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1.” Review: ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2,’ Katniss’s Final Battle 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z “I’m clumsy as hell. But it feels good.” Penn Badgley Flexes New Dance Moves 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z The film in question is “A Haunted House,” a crass and clumsy attempt to parody the genre of horror movies built on hand-held camera work and supposedly found footage of paranormal goings-on. Movie Review: ‘A Haunted House,’ Starring Marlon Wayans 2013-01-12T00:51:46Z Luo’s sense of indignation seemed to reflect an implicit belief that achievement or birthright should insulate one from such clumsy expressions of racism, especially in a place like Manhattan. The Anxious, Unfinished Story of Chinese-American Assimilation 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Her character, Becky, a newly pregnant young wife and schoolteacher, seems so graciously clumsy, so endearingly upfront that we’re willing to follow her anywhere. ‘The Village Bike’ Stars Greta Gerwig as a Woman Obsessed 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Apparently no one could fix the clumsy comedy of the fairy trio, or the minimal impact on Aurora of two royal deaths, and least of all the unfortunate casting of Copley. REVIEW: Maleficent: Sympathy for the Rebel 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Then, for the bulk of the film, two men, Sasha and Valera, embark on a night of drunken passion that swings between tenderness, clumsy sex and physical and verbal abuse. Inside Dau, the 'Stalinist Truman Show': 'I had absolute freedom – until the KGB grabbed me' 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z “You are clumsy,” the cat tells her, “but you have the beginnings of a poem, absurd feeling anguishing in translation.” New Fiction About Family Members Gone Missing 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z A scene called “The Tweedles,” which pairs Bollywood music with bobbling white baby masks, aims to be amusing; it comes off as clumsy and careless. Review: Momix’s ‘Alice’ Is a Rabbit Hole (or 22) Too Far 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Francis used the Spanish word "tronco", or tree trunk, which is colloquially used for someone who is very clumsy, or a disaster at something. I'm a technology disaster, pope confesses 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z David Attenborough avoided clumsy anthropomorphism or the tendency to attribute morality or consciousness to creatures such as Franzi and I, who are essentially automatons driven by need and instinct. What does the insect community make of ITV's celebrity freak show? 2012-11-25T00:05:45Z To begin with it is directed at Mr Yanukovych, with his clumsy duplicity and flagrant corruption. I witness 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z He was clumsy and tasteless, that's why he removed the posts. Sympathy for Gilbert Gottfried 2011-03-15T19:55:00Z Subtle jabs are increasingly replaced by sledgehammer blows, clever insinuations by clumsy insults. Is Satire Possible in the Age of Trump? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Next, we see her early work, domestic sketches of her son and mother, evocative but sometimes a little clumsy. Review | Suzanne Valadon modeled for some of the world’s greatest artists. Then she became one. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z But in the end, he is too clumsy, too bipedal—and altogether too intellectual. Animal instinct 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Failed Writer Entangled in Domestic Dramas A clumsy mixed-nuts comedy, Carlo De Rosa’s “Finding Joy” suggests Mad Libs with its story of an uptight, failed writer who moves back in with his family. Movie Review: ‘Finding Joy,’ Directed by Carlo De Rosa 2013-06-07T03:26:18Z To prepare, the kids and I spend some time with a Greek language CD, cheerfully parroting phrases and bouncing our clumsy Greek off my in-laws and my Greek-speaking husband, Spiro. Introducing my kids to their grandparents’ Greece 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Paul’s clumsy pursuit of Lene is as desultory as everything else he does, and as immature. ‘Bungalow’ Review: Young, Restless, Drifting 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z He’s clumsy in a cartoony way, and he’s so unabashed in what he does. ‘Ratatouille,’ the Musical: How This TikTok Creation Came Together 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z And then for the capper, she released a clumsy trio of videos on YouTube in which she referred obliquely to “hurtful language” and said, “I beg your forgiveness.” Paula Deen finally learns how to apologize 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z The dancers captured the heart of the story without resorting to clumsy mime. Lost in translation: does dancing to words work? 2011-04-06T15:58:31Z Although The New York Times praised Craig for bringing the same intensity to talking as he did to his death-defying feats as James Bond, it said the production was crude and clumsy. Daniel Craig impresses in Broadway revival of 'Betrayal' 2013-10-28T18:06:40Z And then Nolan proceeds to hammer them relentlessly into the ground with an increasingly clumsy, clunky plot and an allegedly profound mystery that just sort of fizzles out into what-if-this-world-isn't-real sophomoric musing. "Inception": A clunky, overblown disappointment 2010-07-15T01:01:00Z “Fellow citizens prioritising loving kindness and compassion, no matter how clumsy or messy, could no longer be taken for granted. That’s what I remember most vividly.” The hippy is back: not so cool if you remember it the first time round 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z She is slow, maybe, and possibly clumsy; or she is traumatized, or distracted. NW by Zadie Smith – extract 2012-08-17T21:55:12Z I spend my clumsy descents looking at my feet, and each time I look up, Paris is defying gravity – not so much dropping as floating down. Faster, higher, longer: how female ultra-athletes started to beat men 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z It’s a clumsy device, a feint toward significance that nothing else in the movie earns. Movie Review: ‘Killing Them Softly,’ With Brad Pitt, From Andrew Dominik 2012-11-29T16:13:01Z For “The Gildless Age,” an apt if rather clumsy title, guest curator Denise Johnson brings together work by a dozen West Coast painters, sculptors and photographers. 'The Gildless Age': A different tale of the '1 percent' at the Torrance Art Museum 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Dietze's staging isn't all that smooth, and there are a few clumsy moments when the play breaks with realism, but she elicits pungent performances from her cast. Lily Knight sets 'A Small Fire' aglow with her performance 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z But its members, too, are caught up, flummoxed by words, by themselves, by the spare props which they manipulate to marvelously clumsy ends. | '3 2?s; or AFAR': ?3 2?s,? by Mac Wellman, at Dixon Place - Review 2011-10-17T23:32:34Z She was mildly amused by his clumsy attempts to conceal the truth. ‘I just knew he loved me. I could see it in his eyes’: can a psychologist cure lovesickness? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Jason’s father provides a prime example of how this works when he donates two buildings to the school as a clumsy way of protecting his son. Books of The Times: ?The Starboard Sea,? a Novel by Amber Dermont 2012-02-28T23:57:01Z The emphasis on malignity and negative emotion is extreme: Miranda is reduced to her horror at the storm, and her love for Ferdinand to a clumsy form of brute attraction. Dance Review: ‘The Tempest Replica,’ From Kidd Pivot at the Joyce 2012-11-29T22:27:36Z It became a bigger story, and not merely a satire of some characteristically clumsy British tourists. Tessa Hadley on Teen-Age Losses of Innocence 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z But the merging of the two genres by Dante Lam, a director based in Hong Kong, is clumsy, and so is the film. | 'The Viral Factor': Jay Chou in ?The Viral Factor? ? Review 2012-01-20T01:28:50Z I was pleased he is as clumsy as me. Blind date: ‘Did we kiss? Enthusiastically’ 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z Did a star lash out at a clumsy boom operator on a film set? Perspective | Harvey Weinstein and the dark side of Hollywood’s talent-worship 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z She was in turn glamorous and clumsy, funny and mournful. ‘Introducing, Selma Blair’ Review: An Actress in Her Second Act 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z There’s humor and real sweetness in this clumsy slow-dance of middle-aged dating. Sue Miller’s ‘The Arsonist,’ reviewed by Ron Charles There are so many memory-searing instances of aborted contact: of clumsy hugs and self-conscious handshakes, of drunken dancing and chases and races over furniture. | 'Uncle Vanya': Chekhov?s Slugfest, With Pratfalls 2011-08-07T21:36:44Z The pastels and paintings are especially strong, with matte, powdery surfaces; rounded, sometimes clumsy shapes; and gently radiant arrangements of mostly blues, greens and yellows. Art in Review 2010-02-25T20:58:00Z And lyrically, the duo is clumsy, approaching musical theater at their best, and rarely even that; “Shorty Don’t Wait” is the sort of song Jason Mraz would toss for being too simple. New Music: A Great Big World and Linnea Olsson Release Albums 2014-01-20T23:07:13Z In his typical clumsy way, he managed to bump into her, scattering to the ground the work she was taking home with her. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z But what’s in between is often clumsy, with dropped lines, missed cues and scattershot lighting and sound. Review: Metropolitan Playhouse Tackles Labor History in ‘Injunction Granted’ 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z His performance anchors the film’s otherwise clumsy tonal shifts. ‘Persian Lessons’ Review: Performing for His Life 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z It was messy, it was clumsy, and it was terrifying. "Barry" star Anthony Carrigan on the finale: "Something lights up inside of Hank" 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Charles Boyle, clumsy and over the moon about the things he loves, which include Brooklyn pizza, obscure ethnic food and, intermittently, Det. An Andy Samberg roll call on 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' cast 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z It was all so clumsy, but Ted didn’t address it as he silently pulled me toward him, his face slack with disbelief. It Wasn’t Me He Wanted 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Disengagement would cause the pen to fall immediately, but for the next hour its motion – fluid, clumsy, jerky, strained or otherwise – will be produced by our playful but silent negotiation. Tim Etchells on performance: learning your lines 2010-10-26T14:53:00Z It's huge for a girl, and there was a disconnect between my limbs and brain, so I was constantly falling over and very clumsy. Rebecca Hall: class act 2010-06-11T23:02:00Z The Hariris found that the forever views were compromised by clumsy air-handling units in knee walls parked smack dab in the glass façade. Simply Sustainable 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Moments of reflection and reckoning are too little, too late; they’re also the show’s clumsiest scenes. Review | Netflix’s ‘The Politician’ is back for another cynical run, but the snark attacks get tiresome 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Instead, they are tossed into a single Pyrex to roast among the other flavors; audiences will decide whether this style is adept or clumsy. How Much Does a Play Change During Previews? Just Ask ‘The Perplexed’ 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z “But softly now; you are tearing the lace of my sleeve. A plague on your clumsy fingers!” one Doomsman warns Constans, in that time-honored tradition of upbraiding rubes from the suburbs. The 1906 Novel That Imagined Present-Day New York 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Submit to a swirl of clumsy metaphors and a been-there-done-that narrative and become one with "Drones," the cerebral new concept album by the British art rock band Muse. Concept album by Muse just drones on 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z There is, to be sure, more than one side to the argument: Stirling's defenders always said that his projects were victims of poor construction, cost-cutting and clumsy clients. Stirling buildings 2011-03-20T00:01:01Z Instead, French Montana is a Waka Flocka Flame for New York: dark, blunt, rowdy, a little clumsy and, over time, oddly effective. Playlist: New Music by the Singer Mariah McManus 2011-12-23T14:33:58Z Because his films play with theme and variation, the logic goes, they are best viewed in tandem, as installments in a continually refined investigation of the clumsy, painful, droll ways that people, often booze-slicked, interact. ‘In Front of Your Face’ Review: Clumsy Interactions, Pensive Revelations 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Think of a simple flip book, which does the same thing, to much clumsier effect. Douglas Trumbull Honored for Technology He?s Still Creating 2012-02-01T13:00:01Z Also, there are three thick, clumsy handles attached, and as if those were not enough, there are three square brackets, each holding a dangling clay ring. Art Review: In ‘Making Pottery Art’ at the Met, Beauty Is Political 2014-02-13T21:07:22Z At least Ballet Theater’s production, though often clumsy in construction and relentlessly jolly, is a friendly circus. Dance Review: Ballet?s Home Away From Home for International Stars in New York 2011-05-24T22:13:23Z The problem is that his press appearances have been more the latter than the former—clumsy, off-putting, and increasingly painful. 7 celebrities who kill press tours: Henry Cavill’s “disaster” interviews could be worse 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Ozon creates a look and mood of high retrocomedy, but his pacing, within scenes and from one to the next, is slow and clumsy, preventing the plot from gathering the momentum it needs. | 'Potiche': Labor Strife? Send in the Boss?s Wife 2011-03-24T21:03:06Z Even though they were squarely facing death, these kids derived amusement from the same things that normal children do: silly antics; clumsy adults; slapstick humor. What terminally ill children taught this doctor about how to live 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z I am more conscious of Griffin’s occasional lapses into clumsy prose and his inclination to mount a soapbox . . . but the story itself remains powerful, revealing and moving.” Reading About Racial Boundaries 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z And I think the humor that comes out of "Barry" is this kind of clumsy real-life, real-time situations while the stakes around these characters happen to be very, very high. "Barry" star Sarah Goldberg loves playing her unlikable role: "Make her a monster. I'm all for it" 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Harris is giving a highly disciplined performance that has the graceful illusion of sometimes clumsy spontaneity. Theater Review: ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ Stars Neil Patrick Harris 2014-04-23T02:00:14Z The formal ball at which Eggs makes his clumsy debut in human society is a wonderful set piece, as is the open-air vaudeville re-enactment of his mythical abduction, performed by a chanteuse named Madame Frou-Frou. ‘The Boxtrolls’ Is an Adaptation of ‘Here Be Monsters!’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z So, whether it was meant as one or not, I'm taking Thor's clumsy treatment of the capital as a compliment. Film-makers, what has London ever done to you? 2013-04-25T10:48:31Z At times you think you are watching a clumsy stage pageant superimposed on a documentary; it’s so stiff, and yet at the same time so real. Movie Review | 'Blood Done Sign My Name': A Town Torn Asunder by Racial Killing in ?70 2010-02-19T04:53:00Z She's a clumsy, oversensitive and slightly paranoid British-Asian woman who wants her first commission to be a nonjudgmental tale of prison life. The Village by Nikita Lalwani - review 2012-06-22T21:55:05Z Londoners—let’s embrace Swift, and her clumsy but heartfelt love of the city. With “London Boy,” the English Delight in Some Fine Mockery of Taylor Swift 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Shelley by being so effusive in her clumsy embrace of Amira that she becomes exhaustingly offensive. ‘You People’ Review: Guess Who’s Going to Roscoe’s 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z In the same way, the comic book industry is still addressing decades-worth of whitewashing, clumsy attempts at diversity and the peddling of white savior tropes. Nerds of the world, unite: The villains have weaponized “canon” — and it’s up to us to stop it 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z The episodes usually revolved around Wilbur’s clumsy attempts to undo Ed’s mischief, situations made more difficult by the fact that Ed would speak only to Wilbur. Alan Young, the Affable Owner on ‘Mister Ed,’ Dies at 96 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Corny, perhaps, but it’s hard not to see this as an exercise, however forced or clumsy, in empathy. Does Our Cultural Obsession With Safety Spell the Downfall of Democracy? 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z He built a clumsy labyrinth based on half-heard conspiracy theories, well known hoaxes, and misunderstood speculation that came up in his most cursory of research to form the basis for a very modest pulpy thriller. I think Dan Brown turned my parents into QAnoners 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z But he has tried, at least I think it's an orange, and the poor sphere seems to float in mid air because of the clumsy circle of shadow below it. Damien Hirst: Two Weeks One Summer – review 2012-05-22T15:13:15Z In Betty America Ferrera has created a character who is at once worried and optimistic, clumsy and impressive, driven and naive. The beauty of Ugly Betty 2010-12-22T11:08:21Z The ambitions of “Romeo & Juliet in Yiddish” outstrip its execution, which is clumsy and sometimes amateurish. | 'Romeo & Juliet in Yiddish': Love Speaks in Every Language 2011-07-08T02:42:00Z I was as anxious and clumsy as a child. Daughter and Dad, Chasing Salmon in Upstate New York 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Whether it's his color, or if it's the fact that he's clumsy, like a lot of kids are clumsy. Clifford the Big Red Dog feted on 50th birthday 2012-09-24T20:41:15Z Should we call this theater, cinema or television — or a sometimes graceful, sometimes clumsy hybrid of all three? ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Review: All the Blues That’s Fit to Sing 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z When did awards shows become such clumsy roasts? Oscars 2013: the meanest show ever? 2013-02-25T19:02:22Z “I recognize it is clumsy on my part,” he wrote, after first defending the costume as a tribute. The Campaign to Remove a Shocking Painting from the French National Assembly 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Much like its young protagonist, the movie feels clumsy when trying too hard to provoke: one such sequence alternates rather arbitrarily between Lucas’s conversation with a priest and an anonymous hookup he has in Paris. ‘Winter Boy’ Review: Lost and Found 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z But referring to Ford's occasionally clumsy moments, Sutherland joked, "I'm going to try not to fall down the stairs." Kiefer Sutherland as an accidental president in his new show 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Her opening phrase seems clumsy: "Just like as in ..." Poem of the week: Of Many Worlds in This World by Margaret Lucas Cavendish 2012-07-02T10:52:13Z An extended sequence observes a Bastille Day parade with a pathetic marching band and a troop of clumsy majorettes. ‘Li’l Quinquin,’ a New Mystery by Bruno Dumont 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z With a fine prospect like this about, is there a clumsy but good-hearted woman around? Love is All You Need: A Rom-Com for Adults 2013-05-03T03:30:41Z Its book, by Alan Jay Lerner, has always been considered clumsy and overlong; for Bartlett Sher’s Lincoln Center Theater revival, which begins performances on March 9, Aaron Sorkin has rewritten it. When ‘A Little Touch of Star Quality’ Is a Little Too Much 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Yet got up for a big fight, they look like faulty robots: faces caged in behind their bright helmets, hands made clumsy by their swollen gloves, speech slurred by gumshields. Hamlet; Passion; Beautiful Burnout; Wanderlust 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z The network, in particular, has been painted as clumsy at best and villainous at worst in its handling of the issue. 2010-01-18T16:50:00Z The slave Leia approach to these issues is clumsy and sexist, but the questions themselves are neither of those things. The 'slave Leia' controversy is about more than objectification 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z It is hard to imagine anyone other than the most devout Queensryche aficionados will care either way, but the whole clumsy debacle serves to suggest that no one is indispensable. When one frontman is as good as any other 2013-05-23T13:14:08Z Location changes aside, “As You Like It,” the program’s first play this season, still finds the company offering performances that range from clumsy to excellent. Review: An ‘As You Like It’ on Asphalt, From Shakespeare in the Parking Lot 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Mahler writes that the second movement, an ironic parody of the ländler, the Austrian country dance, should be “somewhat clumsy and very coarse.” Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs Mahler and Thomas Ad?s - Review 2012-01-07T00:40:59Z Tristan, being something of a clumsy playboy, is in less of a hurry to settle down. A worthy return for PBS' "All Creatures Great and Small" celebrates the value of the little things 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z But at a certain point, a more primal instinct has to take over, as Josie metamorphoses from clumsy country girl into the all-forgiving earth goddess of every aging bad boy’s dreams. Review: In ‘A Moon for the Misbegotten,’ Audra McDonald Is Front and Center 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z Characters vacuously reel off references to "Saddam," "chemical attack," "genocide" and "mass grave" as some sort of clumsy shorthand for eliciting liberal guilt. Jano Rosebiani's pedestrian explorations of Kurdish culture 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Halfway through, however, the teal series featured some rather clumsy shapes; and the creative message was elusive on several white ensembles with rather unflattering speckled prints. Givenchy, Kenzo, Chloe get tough, Celine delights 2013-03-04T02:31:05Z Some critics disparage Nabokov's straddling of 19th-century realism and modernism as clumsy. A brief survey of the short story part 28: Vladimir Nabokov 2010-08-25T09:05:00Z It's fast-moving and sharply written, though the frequent explicit sex scenes make the whole seem jadedly one-dimensional, and an improbable intersection of the main figures is a clumsy detraction. First fiction 2010-10-01T23:15:00Z An elegant allegory, “Walk Unafraid” espouses the idea of living a fearless life, even if this path is different: “They claim to walk unafraid, I’ll be clumsy instead.” R.E.M.’s 10 best songs after Bill Berry: Daring, brilliant, underappreciated 2014-04-19T15:00:00Z They glommed together in clumsy embraces, pawing and heaving and searching as if blind for each other’s lips. Dance Review: A Duet, Delicately Spun And Formally Elegant 2011-01-27T23:10:29Z In a world where Uma Thurman's clumsy turn in the ridiculous Smash gets rewarded, that seems like an oversight too far. Emmy nominations 2012: Downton dominates, despite its flaws 2012-07-19T16:04:00Z I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things and ruining sofas. Q&A: Matt Smith 2013-03-30T08:00:07Z In the past four days, she had endured a 14-hour plane ride from New York to Shanghai and the embarrassment of watching her parents use clumsy hand gestures to communicate with the locals. At Shanghai Disney Resort, Mulan, Mickey and Dumplings 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Akpan, who good-naturedly pokes fun at Ekong’s clumsy yet endearing attempts to squeeze all things Nigerian through an American filter, employs the same artifice in constructing his novel’s narrative. Review | In ‘New York, My Village,’ the long shadow of Nigeria’s civil war is impossible to escape 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z “He draw big, clumsy, ugly men in hideously rendered rooms going at one another, and it’s just gross,” says Richards. | The Secret History of Homoerotic Illustration 2014-03-27T16:00:16Z According to Mr. Brühl, Mr. Morgan talked Mr. Howard into conducting an audition during which he upbraided Mr. Brühl in precise Viennese German for having attempted “my clumsy and embarrassing false Austrian accent.” Daniel Brühl’s Global Accent in ‘Fifth Estate’ and ‘Rush’ 2013-08-28T21:48:14Z Lyrically, “Privilege” is not quite sure of itself, and clumsy. The eternal Macklemore dilemma: Can his good intentions balance out terrible songs? 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z For most of these men these are clumsy and a bit passé. Books Of the Times: ‘The Dictator’s Learning Curve,’ by William J. Dobson 2012-06-10T20:56:47Z It is printed on plain paper, includes colloquial phrases such as “just plain ugly” and offers broad and clumsy definitions of architectural styles. Perspective | Why Trump shouldn’t be allowed to dictate how federal buildings are designed 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z And what could be less au courant than 3-D’s clumsy mode of distribution? The Misunderstanding of 3-D 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Thus, there is no one else to blame for a flat, clumsy show. L.A. Opera opens season with flat, clumsy 'La Traviata' 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Du Bois, though a clumsy and inert drama. Theater Listings for June 26-July 2 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z If others saw the noose as Smollett’s clumsy effort to portray his attackers as racist, Andre Hope saw much more. Black juror: Smollett’s reaction to noose makes no sense 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Carrot Top’s props are still quaintly homemade, a clumsy juxtaposition to the rest of the show. How Carrot Top Wins in Vegas (Yes, He Can Be Funny) 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z But then in the next moment, it's gone, lost in an onrush of clumsy scenes and canned characters mouthing false dialogue. 'The Way': Respectable drama loses its footing 2011-10-20T20:09:07Z Fontaine could play a saucer-eyed naivety and clumsy vulnerability, which is often how Hitchcock would cast her, but she also had humour and wit. Who is the best Oscar-winning lead actress of all time? 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z As Charlie Brooker, the creator of “Black Mirror,” explained, what seems to unite people these days is the clumsy way we adapt to new technology and media. Jon Hamm Stars in ‘Black Mirror’ Christmas Special 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z Then you see it used in a movie or TV show in such a clumsy, ignorant or otherwise misguided way that you watch the scene through splayed fingers. When movies ruin great songs 2011-03-18T23:30:00Z Nearly all of his dances offer purposefully clumsy attempts at emotional connection, usually through physical connections of the contorted variety. Dance Review: Misnomer Dance Theater at Joyce SoHo 2011-12-12T23:21:34Z I, personally, am right now moving toward some image that I cannot see clearly yet, and for that reason I am writing strange, clumsy lines that make no sense. Is journalism killing my creativity? 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z Social media may be the earth’s clumsiest tool for meting out justice, but lately it has at least been proving a slightly less hospitable venue for comics with a poor track record around women. Social media strikes back at Cosby and Dapper Laughs 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z The second point is that the national chorus of indignation over the vain, clumsy lies that Williams told is, in fact, a direct measure of our own neurotic impulses. Our dangerous macho delusions: Brian Williams’ fraudulence — and our own 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z And yet, somehow, the execution was often clumsy. When a Quarantine Comic-Con Keeps Fans at a Distance 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Christine is depicted as socially awkward—contentious, sarcastic, detached, clumsy in conversation, insensitive to social cues; her on-air presence similarly tended to be stiff and unemotional. Why Dramatize an On-Air Suicide? 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z What remains is an admiring and affectionate portrait but a clumsy and inert play. Review: ‘Most Dangerous Man in America (W. E. B. Du Bois)’ Focuses on Government Investigation 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Now I was exposed in all my clumsy pettiness. Tania Unsworth: ‘My father was almost heroic to me. Then he cut me out of his life’ 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z My reading, clumsy and imperfect, is part of this story. Reading Myself Aloud 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z The imposture is clumsy and tentative, which Laurel blames on amnesia from the accident. Movie Review: Zoe Kazan Plays Disparate Twins in ‘The Pretty One’ 2014-02-07T00:05:05Z Note “spatter” rather than the clumsier “splatter,” and the carefully delayed “thorn of the rose.” A Poet Traces Her Personal Obsessions, in Prose 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z With all that hush, adding sound must have felt like planting a big clumsy foot in the middle of a perfect sheet of untouched snow. The disquieting sound of The Great White Silence 2010-10-25T14:33:00Z We were clumsy on approach, not knowing where to put our shoes or hang our towels, before we relaxed into the water. Naked with strangers, finally unafraid 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z As the couple’s only onstage witness, his reappearance to discover Sylvie’s body is inevitable and unfortunately clumsy. ‘Modern Swimwear’ Review: The Designer and the Murderer 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Stimulating, fun conversation, with few clumsy moments from myself. Blind date: ‘Any awkward moments? Consistently’ 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z He is appropriately respectful of the hunting rules and traditions, though he is, admittedly, a bit clumsy. In the stunning yet grim "The Last Ice," melting glaciers and development threaten Inuit way of life 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z It's meant to be tragic, but it's just wrong enough to sound clumsy and overwritten. Foals: Holy Fire – review 2013-02-07T15:30:01Z Child zombies call for candy; others stumblingly play the sports that they loved while alive, and the newly undead, clumsy looters, leave the streets strewn with the detritus of their desires. “The Dead Don’t Die,” Reviewed: Jim Jarmusch’s Fiercely Political Zombie Comedy 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z If this is a misdirect made to confuse the audience as to who is the hunter and which party is the prey, it’s also a puzzling and somewhat clumsy one. Arya versus Sansa, the other battlefront on “Game of Thrones” 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Safe from the clumsy efforts of restorers, protected from being badly lit or hung against the wrong colour, it becomes indestructible by being destroyed. Now you see them: the eternal allure of lost art 2012-07-01T18:31:01Z The gracefulness of even the poorest Indian woman contrasted with often clumsy Europeans. The Fishing Fleet by Anne de Courcy - review 2012-07-13T21:55:05Z But calling out ethnicity in that context represents a choice, and a clumsy one at that. "Love Hard," a holiday catfish story masquerading as a romance, is a swipe right and a miss 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z If clumsy, mortifyingly unsuccessful Tantric sex had a musical spokesperson, Feyd Rautha would be on every billboard west of Santa Fe. Ten bands I will be forced to listen to in hell 2012-07-11T14:15:00Z Their clumsy manner led some scientists to erroneously suggest that their flight even defied aerodynamics. Bumblebees can fly into thin air 2014-02-07T13:15:00Z And yet I've always thought of her comedy – being rubbish with boys, rubbish at not being clumsy, rubbish at managing her mother – as being universal. TV comedy: is it really a class issue? 2011-01-24T15:42:09Z It’s talky and clumsy, alternating between self-importance and clowning. ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ Review: They Fought the Law 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Up close they are – as with most iterations of their kind – clumsy and rather tragic. World War Z – first look review 2013-06-07T14:31:05Z There were a lot of very clumsy transitions and I don't like this kind of dialectic approach. Boos at Bayreuth, but Brunnhilde shines for Wagner 200th 2013-07-31T22:54:21Z The actor's sweet grin and sensitive portrayal of clumsy insecurity make us invest in seeing her win, especially in the cases when that victory happens to be a hard-learned lesson. "Never Have I Ever" returns smarter, funnier and at the mercy of its hormones more than ever 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z It’s not that ‘‘The Hard Problem’’ — which is crisply directed by Nicholas Hytner, the National’s departing artistic director — is a dull or clumsy play. In Tom Stoppard's 'Hard Problem,' a Search for Certainty and Order 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Twists of fate lose their magic when they’re obvious as clumsy script contrivances. ‘Sam & Kate’ Review: It’s a Family Affair 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z By the time the surviving soldier reaches the beach, you are already closely acquainted with his heavy breathing, wild fumbling and clumsy, chaotic running. Review: ‘Dunkirk’ Is a Tour de Force War Movie, Both Sweeping and Intimate 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z The more these actors are challenged to engage physically with an unending pageant of nameless henchman, the more conventional, commonplace and clumsy the fight scenes become. The Expendables 2: Locked and Overloaded 2012-08-16T12:00:05Z The reunion, oiled with Scotch, leads to upsetting revelations, the airing of grievances, clumsy tendernesses, profane screams and forgiving ruminations that volley across the stage in a zany, often very funny cacophony. Plenty of bite in 'Of Good Stock,' but a soft heart lurks within 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z And in his own clumsy way, he articulates something many of us have heard repeatedly over the course of our lives, an argument that boils down to boys being boys. Scott Adams' defense of rape mentality 2011-06-20T15:30:00Z Simon & Schuster, in an act of mercy and less clumsy syntax, changed the title to The Winners but gave it an awkward subtitle, “The Sequel to Joyce Haber’s ‘The Users.'” A literary feud for the ages: What fueled the bad blood between Dominick Dunne and “the Didions” 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z “Moon,” which depicts a clumsy, drunken revel on the Glencairn, docked off a West Indies island, was revolutionary in 1918 for its lack of traditional plot. Theater Review: ?Early Plays? by O?Neill From Wooster Group at St. Ann?s 2012-02-23T05:07:20Z This screen adaptation feels like a clumsy hybrid. ‘Doctor Sleep’ Review: A Duller ‘Shining’ 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Initially, our love-making was clumsy, and painful for my wife; she was prescribed an anaesthetic cream. My life in sex: ‘For me, it’s like enjoying the same meal every day’ 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z His clumsy white lies were like a toddler’s, and nearly as endearing. He Married a Sociopath: Me 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z U2 left the stage feeling their performance had been clumsy; they had missed the opportunity. The Eighties: One Day, One Decade by Dylan Jones – review 2013-07-08T09:00:02Z Yet these musical pleasures are undercut in Seattle by several clumsy reorderings and splicings. Critic's Notebook: Tales Within Tales Create a Tale of Two ?Nutcracker? Productions 2010-12-01T08:00:00Z The clumsy bartender, spilling the bubbly into the manhattan, set the mess aside and made the drinks anew. That Historic Cocktail? Turns Out It’s a Fake 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Most of the celebrated indie rockers of the nineties were male, and the term “indie” remains a clumsy signifier for white, a fact that wasn’t lost on either of us. Whither the Indie Band? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The exposition, though, is occasionally clumsy, as when Kerr expresses surprise at running into Smith in a regular women’s restroom at the Senate. ‘Conscience’ Review: The Woman Who Stared Down the Red Scare 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Blow’s journey to adulthood is pockmarked by halting, clumsy attempts to achieve that masculine ideal. ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones,’ a Memoir by Charles M. Blow 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Though the film brings gay characters to the fore, it still has all of Bollywood's worst traits: terrible writing, clumsy editing and appalling acting. When will Bollywood offer a realistic portrayal of relationships? 2010-09-01T10:49:00Z But passwords are also long and clumsy—honestly ain’t nobody got time for that. How a Hacker Protects His Kids Against Other Hackers 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z This year, for instance, after a long hiatus, Yann Martel published Beatrice and Virgil, a woefully reductive, clumsy and disrespectful allegory. Real-life tragedies for real-life cash 2010-08-13T08:13:00Z Less simple to remove are the caustic responses to what purists and skeptics see as a clumsy tribute and perhaps a marketing ploy to promote Valmorbida, his collection and his proposed Hambleton experience. The Return of the Shadowman 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z But then he convinced me otherwise by being as clumsy and as uncertain as the rest of us. How do actors learn to be invisible? 2011-08-16T16:29:40Z Then he takes her arm with a clumsy gesture. Magda Szabo, a Hungarian novelist once silenced, speaks again in a new book 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z I put my parents through laborious conversations and countless clumsy metaphors, trying to get them to see what I saw so clearly. Jesus never gave Christmas porn 2013-12-23T01:00:00Z Such suspicions, substantiated or not, have inspired many applicants to attempt to avoid detection by partaking in a new rite of passage, changing their Facebook names to alternative spellings or clumsy puns. Harvard’s Ugly Offshoot of Campus Meme Culture 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z If I’m honest with myself, my actual experience of office work was often tedious, the offices themselves dingy, relationships with colleagues clumsy and strained. Is Your Office Closed? Compensate With a Workplace Comedy 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z “Promised Land,” directed by Gus Van Sant, is an earnest attempt, sometimes effective, sometimes clumsy, to dramatize the central arguments about fracking and its impact. Movie Review: ‘Promised Land,’ With Matt Damon, Directed by Gus Van Sant 2012-12-27T23:24:39Z The film is a much more pedestrian affair, and its clumsy attempts to daub mystical touches over the gaps in its narrative almost make you feel sorry for it. From Hell: in a handcart, From Hell: a ripping yarn turned into a yawn 2010-05-06T07:46:00Z I am not the first to point out what a clumsy, awful writer that Dan Brown is. I think Dan Brown turned my parents into QAnoners 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z Some of the writing is a little stilted and clumsy, but the history is solid. A cool new coin app 2012-07-23T14:15:00Z “Ozark” teems with the sort of authentic details you’d only get through research, but even with its attention to atmospherics, the show is clumsy with its sense of place. Review | Netflix’s relentless ‘Ozark’ gets drunk on an ice-chest full of redneck cliches 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z There’s little evidence of direction in the clumsy blocking, and whether the nondesign is a minimalist aesthetic or just lack of budget or stagecraft is unclear. | 'Small Craft Warnings': Barroom Dirges of the Working Class 2011-02-22T22:02:02Z He recounts Nixon’s clumsy efforts to come on to a White House secretary — in front of Mr. Butterfield and a Nixon friend, Bebe Rebozo, while all of them were aboard a Marine helicopter. Review: ‘The Last of the President’s Men,’ Wading Back Into the Watergate Swamp 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Until you read the book yourself, keep your wand drawn to ward off the summaries of enthusiastic fans and clumsy reviewers. Review | Susanna Clarke’s infinitely clever ‘Piranesi’ is enough to make you appreciate life in quarantine 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Under her direction, “Youth” becomes more explosively physical than I recalled it, a ballet of gracefully clumsy collisions. ‘This Is Our Youth’ Stars Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z From this clumsy tangle of themes, a killer who is more deranged than on-message winds up at the Versace mansion’s front gate. Review | FX’s ‘Assassination of Gianni Versace’ reaches for beauty but can’t find meaning 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Yet as more artists — especially those who are not black — wade into this sensitive territory, the line between thoughtful examination and clumsy exploitation can become muddled: How are the creators tackling these issues? Fictional Police Brutality, Real Emotional Toll 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z British Library conservators, by contrast, do not dare wear gloves while handling the Diamond Sutra, the world’s oldest printed, dated book, for fear of clumsy gloved fingers damaging the mulberry sheets. Antiques: Antiques Beach Reading (Yep, That?s Right) 2010-06-24T20:42:00Z His clumsy circumlocution reflects a desire to wriggle out from answering for the consequences of one’s own choices, a basic inability to make a defense masquerading as a defense. Why so stupid: how Joker is too juvenile to be provocative 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z “Honey and Clover” dignifies the clumsy missteps of young adulthood in a way that teens will appreciate, because if rejection and failure have to be a part of life, might as well romanticize it, right? 7 Manga Titles Perfect for Any Young Adult Reading List 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z Al Pacino is both searing and goofy as the would-be criminal, a clumsy amateur whose ineptitude turns what should be a quick job into public sensation over the course of one long, hot summer day. The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Other moments are jarring, with the clumsy insertion of black humor into fraught dialogue, or plot contrivances that are too neat to be believed. Theater Review: All Words, Yet at an Impasse of Sorts 2011-07-15T21:43:23Z It worked really well, but it inaugurated this trend of Chris being really clumsy and falling down a lot…. The Big, Funny, Tragic Life of Chris Farley 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Through all the cringing, there’s the comfort that many have had experiences like Jim’s, but nothing so epically hapless and clumsy, and no heart-to-hearts with Dad afterwards to heighten the agony. American Pie at 20: why the raucous comedy could never be made today 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z In clumsier hands it would be easy to get lost amid the expanding thicket of narrative twists. Movie Review: ?Bons?i,? From Chile, Directed by Cristi?n Jim?nez 2012-05-10T22:15:46Z A corny and sometimes clumsy one, it scatters pleasures here and there, Mr. De Niro’s alert performance among them. Review: ‘Hands of Stone’ Returns Robert De Niro to the Ring but Pulls Its Punches 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Emma is fairly patient, even when Bruce’s sweet but clumsy American provincialism alienates her relatives and friends. ‘Welcome to Sweden’ and ‘Working the Engels’ on NBC 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Both Rheingold and Die Walküre, the first two operas, had incandescent moments but still felt provisional, with more than a few clumsy manoeuvres and minor hitches. Das Rheingold/Die Walküre – review 2012-09-29T23:07:03Z Even the possibly gay connections that pervade a story set in the closeted ’50s are either clumsy or carefully crafted spy talk; it’s hard to tell. A Debut Novel Reimagines the C.I.A.’s Efforts to Promote ‘Doctor Zhivago’ 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z By the 1990s, five resorts pocked the island, and clumsy divers and sewage runoff threatened to wreak havoc on the corals and marine life. Journeys : A Monsoon, Then Underwater Magic in Malaysia 2013-01-25T17:46:35Z World Conference on Women, when the Museo de Arte Moderno produced the clumsy tribute to women, the museum also put together a colloquium that brought together women from disparate fields — artists, historians, anthropologists. How Mexico's súper rudas 'Radical Women' are rewriting the history of Latin American art 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The Pasadena Playhouse is nobly committed to diversity, but offerings of this clumsy, obsolete, baldly commercial kind only harm the nonprofit theater's standing. 'Waterfall' plunges over the edge of banality 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z That is a clumsy sentence – and it is not the only one. The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit – review 2013-06-08T13:00:01Z It was not an ideal space for the company’s second season, with the setup — there were essentially no wings — necessitating clumsy, distracting entrances and exits. MorDance in a Triple Bill at the Sheen Center 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z In the early hours of June 17, 1972, the clumsy quintet broke into the DNC offices next door and were arrested for attempted burglary. Does the Watergate Hotel need a younger, sexier scandal? 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The movie delivers on Wood’s famous mediocrity, but astounds you with its sincerity, even when its clumsy, which, for most of its hour-plus running time, it is. Critic’s Notebook: Looking at Gay Movies Before Stonewall 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Freud approved of the novella's happy end, but wryly warned that where writers could give pleasure and enjoyment, his own observations would be "clumsier and the yield of pleasure less". Which writer taught me most about love? 2012-02-10T22:55:10Z The next day, while my husband took the children to the park, I received a clumsy text. There’s No Place Like Home (Theater) 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z The show — a ragged mix of video clips, ear-splitting music, profanity-laced monologues and clumsy attempts to encourage audience participation — did not so much end as collapse. Critic?s Notebook: Belligerent and Boozy, and That?s Just the Audience 2011-04-03T20:27:46Z Still, "due to" is best avoided because it leads to formulations such as "due to the fact that", which is a really clumsy way of saying "because". Grammar rules everyone should follow 2013-05-09T13:56:00Z Stahl is returned to work only after clumsier people are vaporized. Review | A believably creepy villain plays on the fears of a city 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z His screen persona, a well-meaning but clumsy vagrant with social aspirations – wasn't showy, or imitable in an obvious way. Clip joint: Charlie Chaplins 2011-07-13T15:34:00Z Online media, said Mr. Buckley, “was clumsy and adolescent, just like us.” Welcome to the Space Jam, Again 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Why show Oswald’s mother and father having clumsy puppet sex if the audience needs binoculars to see it? Review: ‘Lee Harvey Oswald,’ an American Assassin in Puppet Form 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Referring to himself as “a clumsy ape,” Mr. Law communicates both the primal and poetic impulses raging within Mat, a lively talker who clearly thinks with his fists even when wearing a suit. Theater Review: Jude Law Makes a Revelatory Performance in London 2011-08-23T11:00:07Z I haven’t found its clumsy reliance on the gross-out quotient especially compelling, but it may show the way forward for more innovation. Critic?s Notebook: Zork to Amnesia: The Dark Descent: Horror in Video Games 2011-10-27T22:10:39Z And that bear attack, a sequence of vicious, haunting beauty, sure is something: the great brown she-beast charges DiCaprio’s Glass with clumsy fury. Review: There's Lots of Suffering in The Revenant, But Bear With It 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z His seemingly clumsy and naïve efforts were ridiculed by the critics, but they caught the eye of a fellow artist, Paul Signac, who invited him to exhibit at the Salon des Indépendants in 1886. Rousseau’s Wide Circle of Devotees 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Thanks to Angel of Death's harrowing and seemingly impartial lyrical stance, Slayer also became metal's most controversial band, dogged by clumsy accusations of political dubiousness. RIP Slayer's Jeff Hanneman 2013-05-03T13:54:00Z On the stage in front of us, it is painfully clumsy. A nobody's guide to the Oscars 2010-03-25T21:30:00Z I am in fact quite a clumsy photographer, often forget things. In Transit: Amsterdam Show Combines Corbijn's Two Careers 2011-08-02T10:00:26Z That is to say, each over-the-top Broadway-style banger feels earnest, awkward, clumsy, and a tad self-serving. The "Transparent Musicale Finale" is a fitting eulogy for a wacky, messy series 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z The film fared less well with critics, many of whom harped on it for copious violence and clumsy attempts at social commentary. 'The Purge: Anarchy': Will horror fans come back for more mayhem? 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z It was fraught with posturing and missed cues, brilliant strategy and clumsy planning. Exhibition Review: ‘1812: A Nation Emerges,’ at National Portrait Gallery 2012-06-25T21:40:37Z The resulting film, directed by Paul Johansson, feels rushed, amateurish and clumsy. | 'Atlas Shrugged: Part I': A Utopian Society Made Up of Business Moguls in Fedoras 2011-04-29T00:13:06Z In the desert, we chased ostriches, who ran off like clumsy ballerinas. ‘Crushes Thrive in Small Spaces’ 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z It tries, in its frantic, clumsy fashion, to be all of those things, and comes close enough to succeeding to qualify as an honorable failure. Review: Matthew McConaughey Mines Profane Capitalism in ‘Gold’ 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z This is probably not what the post meant, but Playboy has been so clumsy these last few years, when the magazine became something that tried to be modern. Let’s Talk About Hugh Hefner’s Political Legacy 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z A day earlier, Trump’s press secretary had sparked an uproar with clumsy, offhand references to Nazi concentration camps. These are complicated times for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Cuccinelli’s clumsy gloss articulates a suspicious, begrudging permission extended only to the sufficiently equipped. Perspective | Don’t let the Trump administration vandalize Lady Liberty’s inspiring message 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Chevy Chase is still remembered for playing a clumsy, stumbling President Gerald Ford in the show's earliest days, and Dana Carvey's impression of President George H.W. Jim Carrey resigns from Joe Biden duties at "Saturday Night Live" 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z They generate a soft-pedaled, beguilingly clumsy charm in the second act, in which an abashed Eddie returns to Rose to apologize and winds up falling in love. Theater Review: ‘Dogfight’ at Second Stage Theater 2012-07-17T02:00:00Z The pleasure in making Shakespeare corporeal is the pleasure of imagining timeless wisdom emanating from a body as clumsy as our own. A new show imagines a punk rock Shakespeare — the latest of our many fantasies about the bard 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z The “Glee” premiere made “High School Musical” look like a collection of clumsy song-and-dance routines from “Happy Days.” Riff: How Football Players Got Trounced by ?Glee? 2011-06-03T12:00:00Z I look for an articulate witness, not what they’re witnessing, and I have a pretty short fuse if I feel like I’m in clumsy hands. Sloane Crosley: By the Book 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Only rarely does his work get weighed down by an overzealousness with material invention, as in two clumsy pieces involving tape and foam. Ben Buswell's photographs look like drawings and act like sculpture 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Brzezinski is making tea as she explains this lifelong balancing act while warding off the clumsy adoration of her German shepherd puppy, Daisy. Emilie Brzezinski is her own kind of power player: an artist with a chainsaw But Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad didn’t just fail due to a lack of comedy smarts; they failed due to muddled storytelling and spectacularly clumsy attempts at world-building. Five tasks Justice League must complete to save the DC universe 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z And after Powell’s own death, Spurling notes, V. S. Naipaul, an early admirer of “Dance,” “reversed his view, characterizing the sequence as irremediably trivial and clumsy.” The One-Hit Author Whose One Hit Had 12 Volumes 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z “For the yearning of weak and clumsy people for something better than the stagnant lives they live is revealed as the core of the dilemma, and sin is shown to be no way to happiness.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Race for the Championship’ and ‘Stargirl’ 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Strange, clumsy, disastrously misjudged remarks leap out of his mouth when he is just trying to be nice and normal. Comedy gold: Simon Amstell's Do Nothing 2012-11-15T12:00:55Z “I’m clumsy,” she said, sopping it up with insufficient napkins. Jane Lynch Finds Herself 2011-09-16T22:44:26Z Schumann often writes deliberately awkward things; Chopin would never write clumsy, and only rarely heavy. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Which wasn’t fair: Sure, Ford stumbled a few times, but he wasn’t actually clumsy; he was a gifted athlete, a University of Michigan football letterman. Letterman’s presidential montage fell flat: “Mad Men,” “SNL” and why our long national nightmare isn’t actually over 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The direction is clumsy from the opening moments as Ruth is seen reentering society. Despite a steely performance, Sandra Bullock's dreary film of life after prison is "Unforgivable" 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Instead it tacks on a clumsy third act that focuses on the details of the robbery and the back story involving Taylor’s relationship with a double-dealing bank teller. | 'The Perfect Host': A Welcome to His World Is Accepted at Your Peril 2011-06-30T22:13:04Z Wednesday: When I look at my painting in the clear light of morning, it seems clumsy and murky. Review | What is the strange allure of Bob Ross? I painted my way to an answer, sort of. 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z With a statement such as "I'm not naturally clumsy but I've learnt to be", the implication is grimmer. Maggie and Me by Damian Barr – review 2013-04-25T09:00:12Z Their adaptation to new surroundings — being teased for their skinny tails and clumsy arms, getting in fights and making new friends — gives the movie the buoyant, high-spirited sincerity of young-adult fiction. ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Review: Big Blue Marvel 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z In fairness, they do taste of something, but in a cheap, clumsy way, where everything is far too sweet and the flavours clang about. Supermarket sushi: taste test 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Back on the terrestrial plane, we were clumsy and felt our weight again and the itchy drying of the salt on our skin. Bonaire: Where Coral and Cactus Thrive, and the Sea Soothes the Soul 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z And the genius of “Lincoln,” finally, lies in its vision of politics as a noble, sometimes clumsy dialectic of the exalted and the mundane. Movie Review: ‘Lincoln,’ by Steven Spielberg, Stars Daniel Day-Lewis 2012-11-08T13:00:00Z "If anything is sort of clumsy and not possible to read aloud to oneself, which I think one should do … it doesn't work." Ruth Rendell: a life in writing 2013-03-01T10:00:01Z The jargon is clumsy: download, reboot, global positioning device. Novels about the Internet can still be compelling 2013-01-19T23:00:00Z I don’t like my sister: she is a feminist, political, clumsy, loud and overbearing. My sister is a nightmare at Christmas. Do we spend it together? 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z I went to work on crutches, lying to my co-workers about my clumsy slip down the stairs. I didn’t just fall down the stairs 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z The session in “Room” takes place in the driveway, yard and interior of the Georgia house Winner was renting, and it is conducted with a clumsy casualness. ‘Is This a Room’ Review: Why’d She Blow the Whistle? 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The oysters are shucked with care: no clumsy haste, no messy errors. Seattle, a Tasting Menu 2011-06-10T19:22:33Z ‘Love’ is a clumsy word the way we use it. Theater: David Henry Hwang?s ?Chinglish? 2011-10-23T03:27:21Z Failure to serve macaroni cheese upright does not so much suggest you are a clumsy cook as prove you have no soul. How to eat: macaroni cheese 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z In my clumsy Spanish, I asked a nearby ranger whether I should be worried about the “Danger” sign. A relatively undeveloped island off Puerto Rico mainland offers solitude (amid unexploded bombs) 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Yet the melodrama — like that of the framing terrorism plot — acts as a bracing counterpoint to the clumsy, funny interactions of Ez and Barry. Alan Ayckbourn’s Latest, ‘Arrivals & Departures’ 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z “Even if your body is clumsy, it’s still a magnificent feat of engineering. Marvel at what your body can do.” Hygge Is Where the Heart Is 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z I got off to a disheartening start with “Reading Between the Lies,” by Endangered Artists Sanctuary, a clumsy parody of a 1940s murder mystery set during a reading of a new play. A Double Dose of Divine, and Other Reports From the Fringe Festival 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z "I'm a clumsy ox who doesn't dance well enough, but I have my ideals and hopes — the way Don Quixote did." Tom Skerritt: Ballet is a 'wonderful challenge' 2012-01-26T17:58:41Z The overall structure is clumsy and rambling — a sign that the story is still unfolding, with each day providing new bombshells. Trump as theater: Mike Daisey's one-man show, 'The Trump Card,' delves into the Donald phenomenon 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z No wonder most teen gymnasts would rather get back to doing something phenomenally daring instead of the potential embarrassment of looking vulnerable and clumsy. It’s hard to look like a swan when you’re doing a wolf turn 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z I would argue that this was a clumsy sexual encounter. 'It's always high drama. It's somebody's life at stake': inside British rape trials 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Skerritt's face as the Don dances a clumsy minuet with Kitri is worth a dozen triple pirouettes: He's achieved, just for a few seconds, bliss. PNB's 'Don Quixote' provide spectacle and story 2012-02-06T22:50:04Z Pop culture is a window into our lives and, while clumsy, USA Today did hit on something of a phenomenon. The American media has no idea how to talk about race on-screen 2013-12-05T00:00:00Z It wasn't helped by the clumsy voiceover and coda that the studio insisted upon. Blade Runner: No 3 2010-10-21T10:52:00Z It’s a clumsy gesture in the show, which plans to close next month. Feminist Stories Are Being Set to a Pop Beat. But Are They Empowering? 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z The film’s earnest message of acceptance is encumbered by stylistic choices, like a disruptive voice-over and clumsy split-screen montages contrasting the boys’ vastly different social experiences. Review: High School Is Still Terrible for a ‘Handsome Devil’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Mostly landscapes, they are clumsier but also more intense, less Olympian than Avery’s works. Sally Michel, Landscapes of Color and Texture 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Yet the interpretive delights of Goode’s playing were tempered by some technical shortcomings: the brusqueness of his attack, a rough-hewn tone and the occasionally clumsy run or trill. Richard Goode lends a lively voice to an exuberant all-Bach piano program 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z On the more sensitive list: small towns, especially along the coast and near parks, some of which were overwhelmed by clumsy, littering, blunderbuss tourists in 2020. The tourists have returned to Washington state — but some areas are recovering more quickly than others 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z "People appeared to either be acting dumb or clumsy, but there was a very orchestrated effort to undermine the building of that airfield," he said. My grandfather survived the Holocaust. Here’s what his story tells me about today 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Making the most of the actress’s underused comic chops, “Call My Agent!” portrays her as clumsy and disheveled at the Cannes festival, speaking in English that’s considerably worse than it is in real life. ‘Call My Agent!’ Puts a Human Spin on Show Business 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z As "Get Back" demonstrates, he's absolutely game for anything that might move his clumsy, stumbling documentary along. If "The Beatles: Get Back" has a villain, it might be Michael Lindsay-Hogg 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z “It destroys the garden, it destroys the scale, it’s a clumsy attempt at imitating the classicism of Carrère and Hastings,” he said. Frick’s Plan for Expansion Faces Fight Over Loss of Garden 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z But the efforts are often clumsy, flagged with a wink-winking that deadens the gimmick, especially in a classroom scene in which a discussion of Gothic literature turns to name dropping. Review: A TV ‘Scream,’ With Fresh Carnage and Winking Nods to the Genre 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z With the globe-trotting storytelling, Sense8 could easily be about the new world we live in and how each human is connected, but it’s too clumsy to do that in any nuanced or original way. Netflix's Sense8 is the Wachowskis' very own Lost, with a few big flaws 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z “They felt I was ugly, clumsy, insignificant,” she said. Laura Antonelli, Leading Italian Actress, Dies at 73 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Kim tries to be sensitive, but she still ends up being the ugly American leaving her big, clumsy footprints all over someone else’s culture. Review: Tina Fey Falls in Love With a War Zone in 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot' 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z The birds looked curiously at the strange creatures, who were equally clumsy and clownish. In the Falkland Islands, a quest to see as many penguins as possible 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z A white writer writing about nonwhite people in a clumsy fashion. Cultural appropriation: It's about more than pho and sombreros 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z The transition from daily life to song and dance is the musical’s central conceit, but it also feels like a clumsy trick, an uncommonly dorky hustle. Basketball, the musical 2012-12-16T16:00:00Z Frequently clumsy and tirelessly self-indulgent, the work's most powerful evocation of its title consists not in a revelation of some cosmic harmony, but in its apparent indifference to its listeners. Danish NSO/Thomas Dausgaard 2010-08-12T10:40:00Z “The tech industry, which is still seen by many as a cultural backwater full of socially clumsy but well-meaning nerds, is now an acquisitive and seemingly amoral force,” Chafkin writes. ‘The Contrarian’ Goes Searching for Peter Thiel’s Elusive Core 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z It came after he received a critical drubbing: "faulty co-ordination between … conductor and … cast", "tentative, clumsy conducting", "looks of fear in the vocalists' faces" are some highlights of American reviews. How Leonard Slatkin blogged an opera disaster 2010-04-05T11:47:00Z It’s never easy to inhabit the inner world of a teenager, let alone one facing the end of the world, but Morrison’s ventriloquizing of Haley often feels clumsy and forced. A Survival Guide for the End of the World 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Cianfrance’s ingenious chronological gimmick, coupled with his anxious, clumsy plotting, leaves them without enough oxygen to burst into breathing, loving life. | 'Blue Valentine': Chronicling Love?s Fade to Black 2010-12-28T23:12:13Z It can seem clumsy, in hindsight, as it switches between live and video sequences. Theater Review: ‘Roadkill’ Bears Witness to Human Trafficking 2013-06-17T02:00:09Z I playfully admonish them for laughing at their clumsy mother. Motherlode Blog: 6 Years Old, and Reaching Summits 2012-08-25T19:00:35Z He’s clumsy and ill at ease, an introvert with no social skills, but the cardinal has heard that he’s also good with newly sober people. I am cuckoo, but hope is coming 2012-12-12T21:01:00Z Despite its shambling, slapdash manner, it shares overly much in the very media gloss that it lampoons; the movie is both soigné and clumsy, unable to break through its own sheen. The Scattershot Satire of “Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie” 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z The production makes a clumsy meal of the elements of hostility in “The Tempest,” while revealing a pronounced hostility to all the play’s charity, humor and complex eloquence. Dance Review: ‘The Tempest Replica,’ From Kidd Pivot at the Joyce 2012-11-29T22:27:36Z The final episode, presumably prepared in a rush after CBS’s abrupt midseason cancellation of the show, was clumsy, overly sentimental at times and infernally clever. ArtsBeat: 'Medium' Ends With Emotional Farewell 2011-01-24T19:44:17Z Johnny’s job is to take the clumsy, unschooled Baby and give her a whirlwind education in the basics of exhibition dancing. 30 Years Later Patrick Swayze Still Stuns in 'Dirty Dancing' 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z It is somewhat marred by the clumsy rendition of the posture of one of the two women whose left leg seems inordinately long. 2010-02-03T15:25:00Z In Shakespeare the Athenian wedding festivities reach their climax in the fabulously clumsy performance of the play within the play, “Pyramus and Thisbe.” Dance Review: City Ballet in Balanchine’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 2012-06-06T21:59:12Z In one of his best performances, Walter Matthau plays a bankrupt snob who schemes to marry a clumsy heiress and botany professor played with sneaky charm by Ms. May. Don’t Cry, Resist! Movies From a Female Revolution 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z The term comes from an age-old trick in the antique trade: Put fragile items on teetering display and let an unsuspecting shopper’s clumsy reach knock them over. Left Behind by China’s Economic Miracle 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z |
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