It was my kind of clumsy attempt to put the content back into abstract painting. (brooklynrail.org)
Similarly, as an inhouse lawyer, I was never impressed by clumsy attempts at corporate hospitality where I was invited to events that had little professional or personal interest, simply because I was in a particular position with an external legal budget. (intelligentchallenge.com)
Here he has built them a shrine, or two, in fact - piles of driftwood and cut - up traffic cones meant to look like clumsy attempts at flames. (theguardian.com)