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

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

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

In him, as never before in any other man, were high and low things mated, and awkwardness and ungainliness and uncouthness justified in their uses.

From Stephen Arnold Douglas by Brown, William Garrott