Sentences with word «inelegant»

I know you can use a dongle but its a very inelegant solution.

Manhunt is gummed up with inelegant writing, enough to worry the actors (including Chris Noth as a deputy FBI director) into desperate spates of arm - waving and yelling.

As two different movies go, (the Jasmine past and the Jasmine present), «Blue Jasmine» isn't all that jarring and it's flashback structure, while a crutch, isn't as inelegant as one would think.

We used duct tape in a very inelegant solution.

In addition, the film jumps around to different storylines in very inelegant ways.

Plus, it's sold with a full - year warranty, which makes it a great option for inelegant handlers.

Writes Cooking columnist Sybil Pratt, «Winter root veggies seem drab when compared to the bright greens, reds, yellows and stripes of their summer cousins, and they're often gnarly and inelegant looking.

The film's first 20 minutes are a particularly inelegant dump of factoids, in which Sean Cullen (Scoot McNairy), a surrogate for Hastings, describes the function of each person in McMahon's entourage, even though they will prove to have little relevancy to this story as Michôd has chosen to tell it.

What you're left with is a device that is — great for reading books, quite good for reading articles and blog posts, quite good with newspapers and magazines, and good with PDFs (though it can't do magic and PDFs meant for A4 size sheets or large computer screens will look rather inelegant on the Kindle 3's 6 ″ screen).

Were it not for a few problems — the screen, the slightly inelegant design, and (yes) the lack of a headphone jack — it might have received the highest score we've ever given a phone.

«Docu - poem» is too inelegant; «masterpiece» works, although it's been used before.

It looks short, stubby, and inelegant compared with the longer, nicely proportioned XC90, which I think is still the best SUV in its class.

Another comedy of manners, where upright folks sitting around a dinner table slowly become more inelegant?

If only it weren't so inelegant - that is a lot of metal.

All told, it's pretty inelegant.

Bungee Cords: Call this old - school or most definitely inelegant, but plain ol' bungee cords are how we transported our car seat through airports.

Her fusing of fabric and plastic encourages closer inspection of the patterns» edges, revealing inelegant frays and evidence of unsteady hands in the factory.

Yes, it's Grumpy Old Presidents, in which most of the comedy comes from the supposed shock of hearing two senior citizens cursing at each other in terms Beavis and Butt - head would find inelegant.

Paranoid, I'm now stretchy - casting - on and - casting - off, though I find the look of it quite inelegant.

It's a shockingly inelegant moment, and for a hot second, it looks like the robot may have met its untimely end at the hands of a piece of fruit.

Frustration at the turgid, pedantic, Latin - filled, jargon - ridden, misspelt, ungrammatical, and inelegant writing that issues from the pens and keyboards of lawyers, law students, and those who come within their orbit (assistants can have an unfortunate tendency to replicate the bad habits of those they work with).

The world's gone blurry in Michael Mann's «Blackhat,» a surprisingly inelegant yet breathlessly up - to - the - minute thriller — as well as a newfangled «Eastern,» strategically set mostly in China, Indonesia and Malaysia — in which the FBI recruits an incarcerated hacker to help thwart an international cyber-terrorist.

[7] Although Courbet's early works emulated the sophisticated manner of Old Masters such as Rembrandt and Titian, after 1848 he adopted a boldly inelegant style inspired by popular prints, shop signs, and other work of folk artisans.

It's the one really inelegant aspect of an otherwise extremely elegant system.

That said, navigating the user interface felt cumbersome at times and the list viewing of stored titles seems somewhat inelegant.

Combat tends to feel methodical and honed, albeit a little inelegant.

They were practical, if inelegant, but did make it possible to use a third - party headset if required.

Pulse's syncing method is perhaps inelegant compared to the Google account - based system we're all hoping for.

Well I'm 6ft 185 lbs average built I'm fun out going inelegant attending school to be a mechanic always been interested in older women but never explored it just on here to see where things go hit me up don't be shy

After all that it was back into the freezing cold, where we noble warriors of New York's critical army, charged once more by star power, steeled ourselves for another year of festival scheduling nightmares, summer superhero blight, sequels, prequels, inelegant issue - oriented documentaries and cheapo horror pics, knowing that it was our solemn obligation to sift through this morass, uncover and celebrate the great performances and future classic films.

Leaders like to put structures in place, but a very structured organization can be extremely inelegant.

What you are told is what you get (admittedly, also as inelegant mantra), an extension of a lesson our mother ingrained in us as a youth that your word is your bond.

The ubiquitous cliché «under promise, over deliver» is not how we approach client engagement at at my company because its equally inelegant as it is shortsighted.

Perhaps the most cogent expression of the project of modern science is found in Francis Bacon's inelegant injunction that «we must put nature to the torture, and make her yield all her secrets.»

They might be closely supervised by a craftsman who constantly reset them to make them agree, but surely this would be an inefficient and inelegant system — if it could be seen as a «system» at all.

My big mistake, which a more mathematical person would have avoided, has been that my arrangement of a full table of the options in Creative Synthesis, the only book of mine that has it at all, is mathematically inelegant, which considerably reduces its power.

He celebrates the «practical genius» of the theoretically inelegant «American settlement,» which recognized specific commitments to separation of Church from state and to freedom of conscience, and which saw fit not to resolve the competition between the broader «providentialist» and «secularist» interpretations of those commitments.

The repast, besides pastry and dessert, consisted of upwards of forty dishes; and, amongst other triumphs of the native cuisine, were some singular, but by no means inelegant, chefs - d'oeuvre: brinjals [eggplants] boiled, and stuffed with savoury meats, but exhibiting ripe and undressed fruit, growing on the same branch, and bread - fruit, baked and seasoned with the green leaves and flowers, fresh and uninjured by the fire.

Despite feeling good, and again a minor quibble, I found the overall design of the carrier to be very simple, perhaps even inelegant.

Just a quick aside, I found the chairlift to be the most stressful part of learning to snowboard, and I'm sure if there was an award handed out for the world's most inelegant chairlift dismount, I would win it hands - down.

Horn says the package contains many other inelegant compromises whose interpretation could be tricky.

Bialy fills his book with direct quotes, allowing a number of the unsavory characters in this story to hoist themselves by their own inelegant petards.

Based on its enormous size and the width and strength of its frame, falling over would have certainly spelled death for the great but inelegant dinosaur.

It's a necessary, but inelegant part of recovery.

I spill stuff all the time - such a clumsy inelegant oaf!

Spall imbues the man with inelegant quirks that simultaneously register as harsh physical comedy and indications of his outsider stature.

Set in 2077, we learn (via some particularly inelegant voice - over exposition) that we're in a world where, in 2017, an alien race known as the Scavs attacked Earth, blowing up the moon.