Sentences with phrase «as clumsy»

Sadly, it's also riled up the agency into investigating the matter in a manner that can be described as clumsy at best, and nefarious at worst: it's filed a First Information Report, or a complaint, with the police, accusing the journalist and the paper of a number of offences, including cheating by impersonation, and forgery.

Those who are as clumsy as I am might prefer to pick up the simply - named black iPhone 7 instead.

The story had minimal memorable moments, while pacing was more limp than a wounded camel in the first twenty hours, and then as speedy as a clumsy gazelle in the latter act.

Then, when I was a teenager, video games were as clumsy as I was.

The move to 3D gameplay was a poor decision, as clumsy controls and camera issues make playing the game more of a pain than it should be.

The user interface frequently feels like it was designed to be as clumsy as possible, hiding bits of information all over the place so that finding the relevant stats or even figuring out what's what is a chore.

They are packed with a lot of muscle and strong, dense bones, but nothing about this dog comes off as clumsy or cumbersome.

Google has finally added a self - timer to the Android 4.4 software, which is welcome, but the on - screen, overlaid, curved camera UI is just as clumsy as it was in Android 4.3.

I believe today's crop of ebook readers and apps are, in many ways, as clumsy and simplistic as those MP3 players and flip phones.

Unfortunately, it ended up as a clumsy attempt to avoid speaking about the real elephant in the room, paid ebook lending, and has led to universal condemnation of the PA's position (see comments to this Bookseller story).

Describing your character as clumsy or extroverted or unhygienic or optimistic is pointless if it does little to develop the story, and their attitudes and decisions with in it.

Cumming's attention to the set - up in the first half may frustrate readers looking for an action - adventure novel... In addition, the history of the Basque separatists is complex, and at times the way Cumming chooses to relate it comes off as clumsy — too forced and too much like an encyclopedia entry... Nevertheless, this is an exceptionally well - written addition to the genre.

If it's as slow and as clumsy as it appears on your video, Kobo will soon join RIM on the Canadian technology deathwatch.

I immediately knew I would write a funny mystery with Auntie Poldi as a protagonist and myself as a clumsy, nerdy narrator.

Instead, it left those as clumsy, web - page based (at best) beta services and focused exclusively on selling ebooks.

Jude is a giant with a talent for fighting (and a temper to match) and a love as clumsy as his body.

For the sake of argument, I can also accept that «below average» was meant as a clumsy proxy for «not good.»

The film feels achingly quirky and the third act is about as clumsy as it gets to resolve everything.

Arthur is a wonderful comic as usual, but Wayne really surprises with a great performance as a clumsy Romeo - type.

Live by Night is no exception; to this reviewer the film almost reads as a clumsy marriage between Michael Mann's Public Enemies, in overall style and milieu, and Miami Vice, if Colin Farrell's character was on the other side of the law.

It doesn't pull off the depth necessary to make us get into it as a character drama, and its stabs in those areas come across as clumsy and half - hearted.

Once you realize the premise is best ignored and actually jump into the game, you'll find gameplay that's just as clumsy as the voice acting.

He pulled off nearly the same Cinderella stunt for younger audiences with 2001's «The Princess Diaries,» with a career - making turn by a then -18-year-old Anne Hathaway as a clumsy schoolgirl who learns she is the heir to the throne of a small European country.

Steve Martin steps into the gumshoes of Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the character made famous by actor Peter Sellers, and does an admirable job as the clumsy crime fighter on the trail of a stolen diamond called The Pink Panther.

All Bick wants to do is lead a normal, law - abiding life, but Sheriff «Mean John» Simpson (Ben Johnson) is automatically suspicious, and other self - important townsmen dismiss and belittle him as a clumsy, naive hoodlum.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is the second film in the Harry Potter spin - off series, and sees Eddie Redmayne reprise his role as clumsy magical creature enthusiast Newt Scamander, and Johnny Depp returning as Gellert Grindelwald.

Perhaps there were things going on behind the scenes that contributed to the film's rather hushed promotion and subsequent release, and which may explain possible on - set awkwardness that allowed the film to come out as clumsy as it has.

As opaque as the clumsy verbal gymnastics of George W. Bush and Sarah Palin may often be, behind the contortions it's hard to avoid seeing the painful truth, which is simply that they don't know what their own words mean, and even when they know what they've been told to say they don't know how to communicate it.

There's barely a laugh to be found in this story of a law student (Scott Eastwood) who signs up for acting classes taught by a pompous blowhard (Malcolm McDowell) as a clumsy attempt to cozy up to one of the students (Laura Ashley Samuels) after becoming smitten during a chance encounter.

Human Fall Flat has some fun sandbox - type challenges, nothing too taxing so far and the controls aren't too clumsy — at least not as clumsy as Octodad was.

Sixteen years later, 9/11 remains too touchy a subject for a movie as clumsy as 9/11 to get entirely right.

The three guys, Diamantopoulos as the near - psychotic Moe, Sean Hayes (the biggest name - from WILL & GRACE) as the scatterbrained Larry, and Will Sasso (MAD TV) as the clumsy oaf Curly do a damn - near perfect job of recapturing the essence of the Stooges (no Shemp though).

Once more cast as clumsy, soft - hearted western outlaws, Conway and Knotts come to the rescue of cavalry private Tim Matheson.

Dangerous for someone as clumsy as me.

My white on white wouldn't be white for very long as clumsy as I am.

Especially, if you are as clumsy as I am.

Yes, someone as clumsy as me should probably have a giant protector case on it the size of a pillow, but let's just say they get in the way of adventure and travel, let alone the fact that they don't fit in your cross body bag.

And so Mrs. Goodhue is happy to exploit the sympathy that came out of what was widely perceived as a clumsy effort to dump one of the New York Republican Party's few older women officeholders.

Some critics have described the budget exercise as clumsy.

A 26 month old is just developing social skills, and this could even be seen as a clumsy attempt to «relate» to his brother.

Can be be as clumsy as he is strong and was party at fault for QPR's second goal.

Unfortunately for him, one moment is all it needs to hammer him as clumsy and not fit to wear the shirt.

I think even someone as clumsy as me could manage this

Itquotes Collins as saying, «I don't think God intended Genesis to teach science,» that «the evidence in favour of evolution is utterly compelling» and that «I.D. portrays the Almighty as a clumsy Creator, having to intervene at regular intervals to fix the inadequacies of His own initial plan... [which] is a very unsatisfactory image.»

THE LADYKILLERS (Grade: D): This Coen brothers remake of the classic 1955 British comedy — with Tom Hanks in the Alec Guinness role as the leader of a gang of crooks who plan a heist in the home of a dotty old woman (Irma P. Hall)-- not only misses all the wit and charm of the original, but it may stand as the clumsiest, crudest, least funny and most pandering of all their films.

You see, I have been officially dubbed by my friends and family as the clumsiest person in the world.

Not exact matches

The summer started with a reasonable (if clumsy) attempt by the government to stop incorporated individuals from taking advantage of the lower small - business tax rate, and ended with people such as Arlene Dickinson, the investor and Dragon's Den star, talking about an assault on entrepreneurship.

While it may be very clumsy to lug around like a heavy necklace, it would definitely look good at home as a movie - time centerpiece.

When, by a quirk of history, France installed Maximilian I as emperor of Mexico in 1867, Maximilian's three years of clumsy rule ended here — you can still see where he was executed.

And as his Redwood City, California - based organization has grown, Andersen himself has been subjected to an onslaught of clumsy insight requests.