ungainliness

Example Sentences

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The addition of songs, however beguiling, thus winds up emphasizing the play’s ungainliness by adding another unintegrated element and stretching the run time.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2023

Whatever the psychological ungainliness of living as a multicultural character, Rakotondrainy visualizes it gracefully.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2021

Giving comedian Ayo Edebiri ample screen time in the balance helps to mitigate some of the subplot's situational ungainliness; besides, this subplot adds some perspective to Emily's personal conundrum.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2021

Frozen 2 doesn’t have its forebear’s ungainliness; in many ways, it’s more efficiently engineered.

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2019

There is the same exaggeration, the same petulant ill-nature, the same obscurity of phrase and ungainliness of verse, and the same general insincerity.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George