ungainliness
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John’s halting efforts to march his ungainliness into a chaotic world mimic those of anyone who grew accustomed to ordered solitude or preferred it in the first place.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2025
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
Frozen 2 doesn’t have its forebear’s ungainliness; in many ways, it’s more efficiently engineered.
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
And the children, whose inherent ungainliness, whose ungracious spirits demanded a perpetual palliation of culture and instilled deportment.
From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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