unwieldiness

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Some of the play’s unwieldiness can be attributed to the nature of the meetings themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2025

But the “women stick together” turn tightened up a show whose unwieldiness stymied its ability to efficiently deploy the usual hero, villain and loser edits without its fakery showing.

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2023

Its unwieldiness is an apt metaphor for memoirist Barbra Streisand, who has tried to control everything since she became a star at 19.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2023

All of which surely helps to explain the unwieldiness of “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,” a play that we might have looked back on as an early effort if only Hansberry had lived.

From New York Times • May 5, 2023

Thus John Simon, referring to Mrs. Siddons' unwieldiness in her old age, said that in a certain part she had to be helped from her knees by two attendants.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 by Various