ungainliness

Example Sentences

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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

Nevertheless, its pig-in-a-python ungainliness contributes to the fascination.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2020

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

She was tall beyond the average, but without ungainliness, long of limb and lightly built, and she walked with the very step of youth.

From The Truants by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)