| 单词 | maladroit |
| 例句 | That unmistakable figure, all elbows, chin, nose and great unwieldy backside, suggests someone between middle-aged and old, and yet also like a gawky, maladroit teenager or hopeless boy. Film review: The Illusionist 2010-08-19T21:52:00Z To make matters worse, Mr. le Carré does a truly maladroit job of dramatizing this story of corruption and governmental intrigue. Books of The Times: ‘A Delicate Truth,’ by John le Carré 2013-04-30T18:00:41Z The episode is yet another example of maladroit public relations from a manager who, when hired, was supposed to have shown nimbleness in such matters. The Met's Klinghoffer Problem 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z She is “socially maladroit, highly self-conscious, and disdainful of others,” Joyce Carol Oates wrote in a penetrating essay recently in The New York Review of Books. Arts & Leisure Preview: Violence That Art Didn?t See Coming 2010-02-24T19:11:00Z It’s particularly enjoyable to speculate about how these individuals may practice movement: social dance, yoga or, for some of the most endearingly maladroit, couch surfing? Dance Review: ‘Le Grand Continental’ at South Street Seaport 2012-06-24T21:47:27Z Mr. Delahaye of videogum.com said there was nothing cruel in finding humor in the works of these maladroit directors. James Nguyen?s ?Birdemic?: A Turkey Flies High as a Cult Hit 2010-03-24T21:30:00Z The memoir catches the maladroit, self-absorbed facets of the acutely miserable. A Widow's Story: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates ? review 2011-03-19T00:06:04Z While it's true that acts as experimental and commercially maladroit as Jackson's Way seldom bag the big prizes, the idea of winning "inexplicably" is just the kind of meaningless activity that Adamsdale appreciates. Will Adamsdale: the guru of nonsense 2011-01-05T22:01:01Z Obviously, Tonight has been censored for the radio, to the maladroit "loving you". This week's new singles 2011-01-29T00:06:08Z But he was particularly crude and maladroit at staying quote-unquote on message. “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 The aura of improvisation applies at least doubly to the persona of Lewis Carroll adopted by Charles Lutwidge Dodson, venerable, finicky and socially maladroit Oxford don. Looking at the Birth of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice,’ 150 Years Old 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Again, Gervais argued that the character is merely maladroit, with a dodgy hairstyle. Ricky Gervais' Derek: cruel, or just unusual? 2013-01-31T07:00:06Z Even as her voice deepens and her posture straightens out, Hulu’s Elizabeth Holmes looks consistently awkward and maladroit. Becoming Elizabeth Holmes 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z He's best known to Brit TV watchers as Maurice Moss, the brilliantly maladroit techie on The IT Crowd. Submarine: From Teen Angst to Pure Delight 2011-06-03T10:05:00Z Because I was so shy and maladroit, I spent much of my time there, lapping it up. Portrait of the artist: Todd Solondz, film director 2012-06-26T16:55:10Z The unfunny and maladroit scenes that follow make one wonder if “the anxiety of influence” also can apply to artists who are, through no fault of their own, doing the influencing. ‘American Sausage Standoff’ Review: Order the Salad 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Watching it now, in retrospect, I am struck by how accurate a depiction of maladroit teen girlhood it truly is. Daria: the 90s cartoon that nailed American feminist teenhood 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z Thus begins his first encounter with uncommunicative and maladroit doctors. Kurt Eichenwald’s Memoir of a ‘Mind Unraveled’ 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z He proved so adept at rewriting maladroit dialogue that he soon turned to full-time screenwriting. Stewart Stern, 92, Screenwriter of ‘Rebel Without a Cause,’ Dies 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z The original's famously maladroit "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield," with its adversaries whose faces were painted white and black on opposite sides, is kindly remembered as well-intentioned and poorly executed. How "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" uses Rebecca Romijn's Number One to place prejudice on trial 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Trump subsequently browbeat his maladroit FDA chairman, Stephen Hahn, into issuing an emergency authorization for the use of convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19 patients. Column: Right-wing judges are on a mission to stop the FDA from warning consumers about snake oil 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z It’s “Groundhog Day” in Denver with the Broncos’ maladroit offense unable to score and its stellar defense incapable of closing out opponents. Deion Sanders’ arrival swipes buzz from bungling Broncos 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z If Ms. Skinner’s defiant testimony was an attempt at damage control by Hockey Canada, it was an exceptionally maladroit effort. The Hockey Canada Scandal: Rethinking How Sports Are Governed 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z It may be tempting to point the finger at Gannett as especially maladroit at dealing with the economic and social changes that have forced the entire news industry into a painful retrenchment. Column: How the decline of local news exposes the public to lies and corruption 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Hubris guided Vladimir Putin’s malevolent and maladroit invasion of Ukraine. Opinion | While Putin Shrinks, Zelensky Soars 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Pierce was followed by Buchanan, whose maladroit administration set the stage for the Civil War. Column: In surprise upset, historians rule that Trump was not the worst president ever 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z AT&T found itself a stranger in a strange land, maladroit at managing creative artists and unable to attract streaming subscribers on the scale of Netflix. Column: AT&T got nothing but pain from its WarnerMedia merger. It's well deserved 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Cryptozoo never lets up on its inherently positive but maladroit ideas: animals should not be mistreated, cages inherently do more harm than good, and capitalism is bad. Cryptozoo’s stunning animation isn’t enough to save it from a meandering story 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Maine’s maladroit senator promised voters that the new justice would respect precedent. Opinion | Trump and McConnell are speeding the GOP to permanent minority status 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z The Oculus Quest 2 retains current-generation VR’s baseline flaws: it’s grainy, bulky, and socially maladroit compared to a modern phone or laptop. Oculus Quest 2 review: better, cheaper VR 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z A somewhat milder version of the many socially maladroit, chronically melancholic schlubs who have traipsed through Kaufman’s fiction, Jake is a fount of impressive, useless erudition. Review: 'I'm Thinking …’ is another marvelous, melancholy mind trap from Charlie Kaufman 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z It is likely that school district leaders will be frustrated when pressures from cash-strapped state lawmakers and a maladroit federal government collide with educators' unions' demands for smaller class sizes. For schools to re-open safely, we need to let teachers lead the way 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z His own party criticizes what many call his maladroit communication on an anxiety-inducing subject. With France in Uproar Over Pensions, Macron May Need One Early 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Equally maladroit was her debate decision to wrap herself in an unpopular policy that ended 20 years ago . Opinion | How can the presidential candidates be so silly? 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z It’s pretty easy comedy, but it perfectly crystallizes the verbally maladroit, physically awkward, deeply weird nature of the man currently occupying the Oval Office. Opinion | To understand how to beat Trump in 2020, Democrats should look to comedians 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z But Republicans have been particularly maladroit when it comes to ditching the ACA. Trump, riding high on news from Mueller probe, steps on his own applause lines 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z For every distinctive idea, there’s a generic joke about how science teachers are socially maladroit geeks, or high school girls are catty. Snatchers finds body-horror and humor in teen pregnancy 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z These artists weren’t concerned with either the epic or, although their work was nonfigurative, the abstract in any pointed way, and pitting the Shiraga against masterpieces that supremely embody both feels beyond maladroit: cruel. The Inflation of Abstraction 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z A poorly chosen word or maladroit display, as when Kaepernick wore socks with cartoon pigs dressed as police officers and a T-shirt featuring Fidel Castro, could grant critics an opening. Malcolm Jenkins, the new face of NFL player protests, says ‘We’re really just at the beginning’ 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z He also accused Mr Corbyn and his top team of being "intellectually arrogant, emotionally inept and politically maladroit". Ex-Scottish Labour leader condemns Corbyn 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z He later made a maladroit effort at damage control, after widespread outrage at his performance. Was the Putin summit a turning point for Trump? Republicans say 'nah' 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z That was better than the 5.63 percent annualized total return of those same funds, indicating that balanced fund investors typically avoided maladroit timing. Balanced Funds Don’t Inspire Fear or Greed. That’s Why They Are So Useful. 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Poor Humbert, it seems, is not even her first lover, for she has been learning about sex at her summer camp, and so assiduously has she studied that she finds her eager stepfather somewhat maladroit. Reading “Lolita” in 1958 1958-11-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Trump has been rude and maladroit in his handling of many issues, not least in the way he fired FBI director James Comey, triggering Mr. Mueller’s appointment. Congress and the Special Counsel 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z But Republicans’ actions, while perhaps maladroit, aren’t exactly a death knell to the marketplaces, either. Analysis | The Health 202: Half of Americans think Obamacare marketplaces are crumbling 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Trump may be a total maladroit in many respects, but he was insightful to recognize west Jerusalem as a capital.No one absent a serious alcoholic would imagine otherwise. Opinion | It’s Time for Mahmoud Abbas to Go 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z Nearly 80 years later, that aroma of perversion and maladroit du seigneur clings to Hollywood. Opinion | Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood’s Oldest Horror Story 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z As many people have pointed out, Malcolm Turnbull’s response to the campaign against Australia’s colonial statues could not have been more maladroit. We shouldn't look to Russia for how to treat problematic history and its statues | Jeff Sparrow 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z What matters is not Trump’s psyche, but the results of his actions on Tuesday, which are simultaneously mean-spirited and politically maladroit. Why Trump's Dreamer nightmare won't go away anytime soon | Walter Shapiro 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z But a federal judge ruled in 2016 that she saw “no error or maladroit drafting” but an explicit distinction that would requires the CSRs to be annually appropriated by Congress. Analysis | President Trump’s claim of Obamacare ‘bailouts’ for insurance companies 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z It was politically maladroit to discuss the two issues in the same meeting. Who governs Peru? 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z “It is a uniquely maladroit invitation because of its timing — there is no precedence,” said Paul Flynn, a lawmaker for the opposition Labour Party and member of the Petitions Committee. British lawmakers to debate Trump’s state visit 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z While the days of maladroit Soviet propaganda are long gone, there are still echoes of it, particularly with the Kremlin’s commitment to lies and falsehood. How Russian ‘kompromat’ destroys political opponents, no facts required 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z He always looked destined to replace the maladroit Pastor Maldonado in our hearts. F1 2016: from Rosberg and Verstappen to Ferrari, the season’s best and worst | Paul Weaver 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Thanks to the maladroit Mrs. Clinton, we now have the language to make that distinction. David Who? 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Gove, 48, a devoted campaigner for Brexit, is regarded as an intellectual heavyweight on the right wing of the Conservative Party but often maladroit as a public figure. 'Brexit' campaigner Boris Johnson withdraws from race to become Britain's prime minister 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z In 2008, a “citizen journalist” attended a private San Francisco fund-raiser and posted a video of President Barack Obama making a maladroit reference to embittered Americans who “cling to guns or religion.” James O’Keefe Accidentally Stings Himself 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z In 2008, these creations were the vehicles by which a maladroit government turned a housing bust in a few U.S. states into a global financial meltdown. Big Banks Aren’t the Problem 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z In film, at least, nerds may be socially maladroit or physically awkward, but they’re generally intelligent, obsessively dedicated to their interests, and surrounded by equally nerdy friends. Three types of onscreen losers at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z A maladroit answer could be mined for gaffes by Republicans who expect to see Clinton on the ballot in November 2016. Clinton’s debate performance leaves trail of fodder for political adversaries 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z But it took Blair’s compromises with economic Thatcherism, his role in the Iraq war of 2003, maladroit Brown’s defeat in 2010 and the Cameron coalition’s austerity drive, finally to alienate Labour’s core vote in Scotland. Jeremy Corbyn: like Bernie Sanders, UK politician is shaking up the mainstream 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z But within weeks of those achieving those lofty poll numbers, Perry’s candidacy was in a rapid descent, caused by his opponents’ attacks and his own maladroit performances in early debates. After ‘oops,’ Rick Perry is ready to try again 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z With a chance to smother the , their crosstown rival, while they were down, the Nets instead proved too maladroit themselves to do so. Analysis: Nets Hit Bottom, but Have Plenty of Company in East 2013-12-07T03:07:16Z There’s not going to be any hostile takeover, despite Blackstone’s maladroit floating of the prospect of Mark Hurd or Mike Capellas taking over the helm at Dell. Only One Good Outcome for Dell 2013-04-01T13:48:59Z Prev Next Incompetent, Insular, Intolerant The bureaucracy of the Catholic Church is more maladroit than managerial. Your Guide to Pope Picking 2013-03-12T23:30:00Z That verdict is widely shared among the prelates who aren’t hunkered down in a Curia that is more Roman than Catholic, a self-referential bureaucracy that is more maladroit than managerial. Incompetent, Insular, Intolerant 2013-03-08T09:45:00Z As the paper tells it: As a freshman at Newtown High School, Mr. Lanza’s socially maladroit behavior attracted attention from school officials but he managed to make friends in the Tech Club and through videogames. Nancy Lanza let Adam use guns to “teach him responsibility” 2012-12-23T04:06:00Z How can traders be so maladroit in their anticipation? The Investor Is Fleeing, and Other Market Myths 2012-11-28T11:02:45Z Probably not: his son, Arthur Jr, is hands-on, occasionally maladroit and indubitably less revered. Press barons may be for good or ill, but it's the accountants you have to watch 2012-10-06T23:06:09Z And she thought of the late Mr. Thompson's timid and maladroit caresses—inspired, monotonous, stereotyped endearments, totally devoid of nervous excitation, dutifully borne by her, day after day, month after month, throughout the long years. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Suppose he should prove to be a man of low tastes, of vulgar and spendthrift habits, a maladroit and intermeddling king? Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z He proceeded honestly to pay it, but with a maladroit manner, as one unaccustomed to the currency. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z This most delicate lady was to teach him to be reckless, foolhardy, maladroit. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z His mind was narrow, maladroit, provoking, disparaging and ingenious rather than just. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z But, owing apparently to the maladroit way in which the Duc de Duras, who had charge of the memoir, presented his case, it was refused; and, at the following Easter, Mlle. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z So he yearned to make it a masterpiece, and in the meantime came to the conclusion that it was something so bungling and maladroit that it was impossible to forward it. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z His maladroit spokesmen at one point showed journalists what they said were 36 million doses of confiscated hallucinogens — which proved to be Tramadol, a common painkiller. News Analysis: Waves of Disinformation and Confusion Swamp the Truth in Libya 2011-08-24T01:18:54Z "I will," Dane said quietly, though he was once more maladroit. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z She must have been in a particularly awkward and maladroit mood, for at breakfast-time she actually managed to upset her cup of tea. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z Accordingly, from the French, one is considered “gauche” or “maladroit” when exhibiting clumsiness. Letters: A Question of Savings (2 Letters) 2011-03-14T23:30:19Z At a time when England goalkeepers are under the microscope, the match was a personal disaster for Chris Kirkland, whose maladroit hands were to blame for three of the goals. Wigan 0-4 Blackpool 2010-08-14T16:02:00Z He was maladroit enough to draw down on himself the hatred both of the philosophe party and of their arch-enemy Charles Palissot, and thus cut himself off from the possibility of academic honours. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" His resistance, like his concessions, was maladroit and inopportune. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty She hastily came to the rescue with the duster from the blackboard, which dispersed a shower of chalk over the already injured costume of her maladroit pupil. Loyal to the School My face is so maladroit that it never could keep a secret. Eyes Like the Sea For the first time since he had been my pupil, I found Guy nervous, maladroit. Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 "Oh yes, it's pretty enough: but you don't see half how pretty it is, for you can't see yourself, don't you know?" said this not altogether maladroit young practitioner. Sir Tom One must not, however, by only looking at one side of the question, allow such efforts to degenerate into maladroit blindness, which will only have the effect of spoiling the person one loves. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study For a moment the girl appears to have forgotten her purpose, or else she executes it in a manner sufficiently maladroit. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness They had already made up their minds that the balk was due to the coachman’s maladroit driving, and this further proof of his stupidity quite exhausted their patience. The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley People were guilty even of a slavish admiration of those who had the nerve to administer this wholly disproportionate reproof to the merely maladroit. The Convert Bright and early, with a plenteous breakfast, appeared our spirited Spaniards, and, as the turnkey admitted and locked them in, they burst into a fit of uproarious laughter at our maladroit adventure. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver I.—I grant that; a man must be very maladroit not to be rich, if he sticks at nothing in order to become rich. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. While priming the piece, she is even maladroit enough to spill a quantity of the powder—though evidently not from any lack of practice or dexterity. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness He must appraise all that he judges with no better instruments than two bits of colored jelly, with a bungling makeshift so maladroit that the nearest horologer's apprentice could have devised a more accurate device. Chivalry First there were maladroit attempts to bring a reconciliation; and afterwards, and more shrewdly, endeavors to gain as much as possible for their daughter from the wreck. On the Stairs The men sent by Balboa to Ada to find out the state of affairs were very maladroit in their manoeuvres, and their peculiar actions awakened the suspicions of Pedrarias. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure "I quite agree with you, a maladroit mastiff with teeth!" Lords of the North The Bishop of Durham21 stood on the side near me, but he was, as Lord Melbourne told me, remarkably maladroit, and never could tell me what was to take place. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 "This is a most maladroit arrangement of Captain Drummond's!" said the lady. Melbourne House But in the case of a maladroit man of fifty.... On the Stairs Pacing slowly in her dark garden, Enid Crofton's pulse quickened at the recollection of those maladroit, hungry kisses. What Timmy Did Mr. Sexton's rather maladroit attempt to shift the blame on to the employers only deepened the impression that trade-unionism is developing into a system of caste, in which certain occupations are reserved for certain people. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-25 The members of the Y.M.C.A. were indignant at me for putting a maladroit question. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Some would have called Mrs Trewthen a good mother; but though well meaning she was maladroit, and her intentions missed their mark. Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages The first act was maladroit, but the others made me think that "Bought and Paid For" was one of the best popular commercial Anglo-Saxon plays I had ever seen anywhere. Your United States Impressions of a first visit By this series of maladroit acts Leicester had made himself so unpopular and distrusted in Holland that the Estates of that predominant province lost no opportunity of inflicting rebuffs upon him. History of Holland But Mavis thought all these actions rather spirited and charming than maladroit and annoying. The Devil's Garden This, it will be seen, is but the emphasizing of the lead already given by the maladroit speech of Mr. Goschen. Sketches in the House (1893) Indeed, to have slain Ben in his house, when I should have appeared instead of the brother he expected, had been a maladroit achievement, contrasted with the far more notable feat of the following night. The Red Redmaynes Yet I had the sense to be silent, lest I should say something maladroit. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 Madame called him a "maladroit" on the spot. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 "I'm glad you've had a good night," she began, again ignoring his maladroit flippancy, "because I want to talk to you." Mr. Prohack There as a boy with his broken bicycle, he, the maladroit, could only fumble a feigned semblance of competence with the alien tools of his father's screwdriver and wrench. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America There were moments during coffee which reminded him of the maladroit hospitalities of the Five Towns. The Roll-Call Archange remarked to herself that he would be better natured when his mother had given him his supper; and she yawned, smiling at the maladroit creatures whom she made her sport. The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World The strife which had begun between the poet and the maladroit agents of the Great Frederick was becoming serious. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 He must appraise all that he judges with no better instruments than two bits of colored jelly, with a bungling makeshift so maladroit that the nearest horologer’s apprentice could have devised a more accurate device. Chivalry The fear of being maladroit departed from me. Sacred and Profane Love Out of which maladroit delay sprang anxieties, disappointments, shocks, catastrophes, and passing-strange destinies. Tess of the d'Urbervilles He knew of the thousands extorted through Truesdale, but made the loss less than might have resulted from a maladroit barter in real estate, for example. With the Procession But as he was closing the carriage door he was so maladroit as to drop the bouquet; only a single violet remained in his hand. Tales of Two Countries He asked a thousand pardons of Madame la Duchesse for being so maladroit. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family A learned French historian* stigmatises Decaen's conduct as "maladroit and brutal, but not dishonest." The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders And to crown the evil, imprudent and maladroit priests are indulging their vices and creating scandal. The Grip of Desire Be on your guard, Marquis, and do not openly combat such fine sentiments; to doubt a woman's sincerity on such occasions, is to do more than offend them, it is to be maladroit. Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century "Yes," said the earl, a trifle nettled, "I believe we do, but at present I find myself as maladroit as though I had been born on the Continent—in Italy, for example." The Turquoise Cup, and, the Desert We certainly do not wish to disturb the growing confidence which exists between the two countries by any maladroit or unnecessary investigations. The Double Traitor Machination, macrocosm, magisterial, magniloquent, maladroit, malfeasance, malignity, malleable, mandate, matutinal, medieval, mephitic, mercenary, mercurial, meretricious, metamorphose, meticulous, microcosm, misanthropic, misogyny, misprision, mitigate, monitor, mortuary, mundane, mutable. The Century Vocabulary Builder But it has been, it is repeated, allowed to expire, and, as will be shown, owing mainly to the culpable negligence and maladroit management of those who have had charge of British interests. Canada and the States How maladroit women are if they imagine that by their fears and their doubts of the sincerity and constancy of men, they can make any one believe they are fleeing from love, or despise it! Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century Their management had been exceedingly maladroit, as a more modest championship would without doubt have secured him the coveted nomination. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 He feared that he had been almost maladroit. December Love Merwyn was rather maladroit in accounting for his questions in regard to the results of a counter revolution, and gave the impression that he was solicitous about his property. An Original Belle Put him in a novel situation, with no rules and examples to guide him, he would be maladroit as a school-boy. Love Me Little, Love Me Long They swarmed loud, uncouth about the temple, their heads thickplotting under maladroit silk hats. Ulysses "A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender," even in controversies not necessarily maladroit. Appreciations, with an Essay on Style He could not afford to antagonize Byng; in any case, his heart was against doing so; though, like an Irishman, he had risked everything by his maladroit and ill-mannered attack a little while ago. The Judgment House Tilly's was one of them: the lightly mocking smile sat on it that Laura had come to know so well, since her maladroit handling of Bob. The Getting of Wisdom "It would be best, Miss Fountain; and, to tell the truth, I feel myself unworthy to accompany you after being so maladroit as to give you pain in thinking to amuse you." Love Me Little, Love Me Long Some would have called Mrs. Trewthen a good mother; but though well meaning she was maladroit, and her intentions missed their mark. A Changed Man; and other tales "I have been maladroit perhaps," he said, with bitterness. Saint Martin's Summer Now that the victorious Third-Estate has again overcome them and overwhelms them with numbers, they become still more maladroit, and conduct the defense much less efficiently than the attack. The French Revolution - Volume 1 That evening Camille drew Rose aside, and asked for an explanation of her "maladroit." White Lies Jane's efforts to comfort were always maladroit, yet the apparent situation so interested her that she yielded to her inclination to talk. He Fell in Love with His Wife George Herbert was maladroit in using the word "rest" in two senses. Flower of the Mind |
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