Sentences with phrase «clumsy ways»

I sense a whole new funny word meme on obvious / clumsy ways to use monopoly.

From then on it's an emotional tug - of - war between the parents (albeit one hidden behind a façade of reason) as they attempt to win over their children in clumsy ways.

He argues that evolution's «clumsy ways» can take the blame away from God for all the «misery, cruelty, and destruction» in the natural world.

CEO Reed Hastings even apologized for the clumsy way he handled that situation, writing in a September blog post, «I messed up.»

But banning corporate political speech seems a clumsy way to solve the problem — as I suggested yesterday (and as the Court suggested), it's both overinclusive and underinclusive in what it restricts.

Going to great lengths to sell a man something he does not want is a clumsy way of trying to get money — it is much simpler and just as honest to knock the fellow on the head and take the money away from him.

I've always been kind of clumsy that way.

and his death is done in a clumsy way, the to long eye locking they do feels awkward and out of place considering they JUST MET.

A scene in which Milo's vaguely hilarious food allergy comes into play is curiously never resolved, two of Milo's hacker pals from the old days are so similar in appearance and voice to one another that I was abstractedly surprised to see them on the screen together at the end of the film, the reveal of a secret molestation is abused in an insulting and clumsy way, and a stock blue - collar cop character is introduced as the worst kind of deus ex machina: the late - in - the - game triumph of a heretofore marginalized comic foil (see: Barnard Hughes in The Lost Boys).

It's nothing more than a clumsy way of introducing a little romance into Jenny's life as a hardworking single mom.

Generating some laughs through its eccentric characters played by Keith, Landau and Pleasence, the amiable western spoof never caught fire and stumbled along in a clumsy way until it became almost unbearable.

After several experiments I decide that the least clumsy way to get in is to fall bum - first into the seat and then swing my legs in.

It's a somewhat clumsy way to get to good looking documentation.

That's an expensive and clumsy way to read comics; the paradigm has shifted, but the manga publishers haven't responded.

Books with footnotes had numbers the Reader allowed me to read by highlighting the number and shifting to another page, then back to the text, in a somewhat clumsy way.

Cut - scenes and progression milestones for the leader interrupt the flow of everyone else's game in a clumsy way, and the matchmaking and networking seem finicky; in my experience, it's much quicker to find competitive than co-op games, and they're much more reliable.

Also, they perform in a clumsy way, and they are simple in their design and construction: almost all of them are hand - crafted.»

It's hard for me to understand how I ever put up with WordPress and the clumsy way that pages are built before I used Layers.

Yes, this is a very common use of a «reading down» provision used in lots of contracts, albeit worded in an unusually clumsy way.

In its own clumsy way, it is an effort to use the tribute format not for the standard (and, for the reasons I offer in the essay, perilous) encomium, but to engage in useful and critical reflections about a particular judge and about American legal culture more generally.

[12] The defence trial strategy was also to suggest that this was an unreasonably clumsy way for the appellant to commit the offence.

It's not impossible, it's just a clumsy way of doing things.

One of the Pebble's critical feedback includes a clumsy way to navigate through all of the functionalities and features of the device.

Not exact matches

Others are clumsy to use and offer little in the way of compelling features.

«Planned markets are sick markets, markets that are always in crisis, because their most - important social function — facilitating selection between competing pools of capital on the basis of what way of doing things in the real world works best in practice, distinguishing between real capital formers and fools — has been disrupted by the planner's clumsy interference.

Or, and this image doesn't contradict that one, in that big, bumbling, clumsy, childish way Americans always act when not restrained by European experience.

Zip disks: a clumsy and expensive way of storing five percent of what my $ 20 flash drive now holds.

If this avoidance of personal pronouns is found to be clumsy or fails to give a proper sense of God as a being who is related to us in a personal way, then certainly one is free to speak of God both as male and as female so long as these usages are understood to be metaphorical and not to be claiming gender for God, and so long as the male and female references are relatively balanced.

Whitehead could think of no more graceful way to effect transition to the body of his text than the clumsy words, «But there must be «balance», and...» (PR 278.32).

One other person is always more than enough, when you believe that that person will listen to you until you run out of things to say, when you trust that that person will wait for as long as it takes for you to understand why you are the way you are, when you realize that that person will always impute the best of motives to your actions, however clumsy you feel inside.

When I began blogging in mid 2011 I saw it as a way of flexing my writing muscle, which had gotten stiff and clumsy out of disuse.

Another way of escaping the perpetual depression of competing with my peer group was to return to nature, or Central Park, where all clumsy boys are equal.

a good indication of the harshness of the tackle is the commentary on MOTD where whoever it was just saw a clumsy tackle and nothing more... the elbowing in the face of mustafi (twice) was actually way more violent and went unpunished... though i hate the blaming the ref mentality of wenger the guy yesterady was worse than poor

He's clumsy, prone to falling over, getting way out of position.

Some fans here will never be satisfied so coq was poor because he made a clumsy tackle.I know the agenda, is we need a another DM but we now have the most DMs in epl coq, flamini, arteta, beilik.I noticed sczn is way better than Ospina If we have to buy then it must be a wc striker any other will be a bonus

He may be clumsy, but tell him the right way to do it.

As the authors of that paper put it: «Clumsy solutions are creative, flexible mixes of four ways of organizing, perceiving and justifying that satisfy the adherents to some ways of life more than other courses of actions, while leaving no actor worse off.

He accused her of being «clumsy» in the way she slammed the brakes on the project two weeks after winning power — but admits it came as no surprise.

«One idea was that ankylosaurs were simply clumsy, tripping over themselves or rolling down hills and ending up dying that way,» he says.

Actual sex is more often clumsy, messy — and of course, magical in its own way.

It's not sleek at all, it's not stylish, it's way oversized, it looks clumsy and it really isn't what the fashion people would describe as attractive.

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.

I've recently purchased nude shoes that were way too light for my skin tone, and heels that are way to high for my clumsy self.

Unfortunately, I've passed up on the off - shoulder trend because I think I am way too clumsy for this!

I'm way too clumsy and would somehow manage to have the other shirts at my knees.

At times, the newfound softness verged on clumsy, especially when stripes gave way to blotchy flowers.

My process to get here was serendipitous and, in many ways, suited me — a little clumsy with some luck and another lesson for my controlling tendencies to relax.

I'm a little clumsy in a cute way and I'd like to meet my other half

The best way to describe myself is that I am a smart open - minded, talented yet goofy and clumsy individual that is a hard worker and very optimistic.

You have to move around the house at walk speed (no way to run, Shift just doesn't exist here as RUN key, and possessing all those lights is just too clumsy as way