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“Bunker’s” issue isn’t its politics so much as how to present them: In unwieldily combining satire, family drama and finally thriller, it ill serves all three.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

I was secretly addicted as the anxiety carousel wheeled unwieldily.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2019

There is a calm upon the mighty sea, Yet are its depths alive and full of being, Enormous bulks that move unwieldily; Yet, pore we on it, they are past our seeing!—

From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald

Meanwhile, Sir Huddlestone has hoisted himself unwieldily on the Nob.

From Boys and girls from Thackeray by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

It was nearly the last of April, and she wanted a well-heated elderly mansion, preferably Colonial, not too unwieldily large, with as many rose-trees around it as her discretionary powers would stand.

From The Rose-Garden Husband by Margaret Widdemer


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