ungainliness
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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
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
Moments like that help me understand why “God Said This” received the Yale Drama Series Prize last year despite its ungainliness.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2019
Her regal fingers touch for the evil of ungainliness, and, behold, we are restored.
From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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