clumsy

Examples of clumsiness

clumsiness
Technical failures, together with the clumsiness and indiscretion of its agents, wrecked operations with surprising frequency.
With limited time resources, it is thus evidently easier to address the more obvious issues - such as overweight or clumsiness.
Spectators have also remarked on the clumsiness of the work - not in a negative sense, but as part of its charm and inexplicable appeal.
The naturalistic explanations that people used to explain accidents were carelessness - which incurred moral condemnation - and clumsiness.
Any form of action is a form of necessary improvisation, which is of course subject to slips, mistakes, and moments of clumsiness.
This was a trait that was added to the person, not a deficit (as were carelessness and clumsiness).
Moreover, clumsiness, as part of one's character, was generally excusable behavior, as, for example, physical weakness would be.
But how do you measure your own humanity, vulnerability, loyalty, clumsiness, love of life's absurdities?
Secondly, its conspicuous clumsiness raises the spectre of music for the cinema.
Other worrying symptoms include progressive visual disturbance, weakness, clumsiness and loss of balance.
Your right to security does not give way to my clumsiness, and my right to security does not give way to your passion for target practice.
Yet, the green, transparent fibreglass chairs in the cafeteria, representing the same defiant clumsiness as the building itself, are one of the most delightful examples of furniture.
A consideration that ruled this out was his clumsiness in doing dissections, which could be attributed to his brain working faster than his hands could follow.
I am also confounded by my clumsiness.
As regards the heaviness and clumsiness of the half-crown, that is a matter of opinion.
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