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A literal translation risks less in loss of meaning, but can be clumsy.
In some, the animals' bodies are pressed into clumsy and unnaturalistic positions more suited to a human body.
However, while permanent immunity was certain, the procedure itself was ' costly, clumsy, heartbreaking and dangerous ', as one vet put it.
I am still not entirely convinced by the idea of using these rather hackneyed tunes, especially as the word-setting is sometimes rather clumsy.
Earlier pieces construct, in cheap, clumsy materials, the inaccessible landscapes viewed from a plane window or the envisaged destination of a journey.
In contrast, the text is somewhat clumsy stylistically.
Perhaps the race will come to see that strikes and wars are clumsy and wasteful ways of settling differences.
We poor clumsy men and women turned the world upside down, inside out, round and about.
He is too clumsy and comfort-loving for that.
Adding a clause is somewhat clumsy, and the two-column paradigm does not handle higher arity tuples well.
As they work in isolation from a real audience, their style often becomes clumsy and lifeless.
Such clumsy moralizing failed to convince his critics, however.
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