unwieldiness

Example Sentences

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Some of the play’s unwieldiness can be attributed to the nature of the meetings themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2025

But the “women stick together” turn tightened up a show whose unwieldiness stymied its ability to efficiently deploy the usual hero, villain and loser edits without its fakery showing.

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2023

Its unwieldiness is an apt metaphor for memoirist Barbra Streisand, who has tried to control everything since she became a star at 19.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2023

But Kanneh-Mason could also be a bit of a ham, his extremities of expression sometimes tipping into an unwieldiness that, as he maintained the overall shape of a phrase, sacrificed intonation along the way.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2021

At last, after days of painful crawling, I dragged my unwieldiness to the tree-foot.

From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas