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

But a sourness in tone keeps the proceedings from achieving the series’ signature black wit, adding to the film’s ungainliness.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 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

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

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2019

Yet this ungainliness is occasionally redeemed by exquisite blossoms, of pale, pure hues, cropping out directly from the substance of the plant, without any pretence of a stem.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various