unwieldiness

Example Sentences

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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

But Kanneh-Mason could also be a bit of a ham, his extremities of expression sometimes tipping into an unwieldiness that, as he maintained the overall shape of a phrase, sacrificed intonation along the way.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2021

A very large tribe falls to pieces through its own unwieldiness, because, by the nature of things, it must be either deficient in centralisation or straitened in food, or both.

From Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development by Galton, Francis, Sir