ungainliness

Example Sentences

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He uses the word “representation” here — the representation of ordinary American ungainliness.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2021

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

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2021

This also means "Nora From Queens" has time to smooth out its relative ungainliness; all of its episodes are funny, but some are noticeably tighter than others.

From Salon • Jan. 22, 2020

And yet Heller’s third film after two nearly perfect early outings, the acerbic high-school comedy Diary of a Teenage Girl and the rueful true-crime drama Can You Ever Forgive Me?, comes by its ungainliness honestly.

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2019

After his recovery he gained much in flesh, and entirely lost that ungainliness of aspect which once led a friend to compare him to a geometrical line, "length without breadth or thickness."

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward