Could there be any doubt at all, too, that men had always coveted to make much finer and more delicate things than their clumsiness allowed?
His clumsiness in opening a window disturbed Mrs French.
Not so her visitor, who must confess to having been continually convicted in her presence of a kind of clumsiness and gaucherie--and that, I confess, not merely physical.
Watt’s greatest obstacle continued to be the clumsiness and inexpertness of his mechanics.
The process of erection was very tedious, owing to the clumsiness of the mechanics employed on the job.
Then its clumsiness is lost in the collective uncouthness which becomes of a tremendous grandeur.
What passes for good watermanship in an Eight is mere clumsiness in a sculling-boat, and, as a matter of fact, there are far fewer really good watermen than the casual observer imagines.
It was only her clumsiness that had prevented her from opening the French window; the lock was all right.
For some time after his arrival people watched him and wondered about him, and regarded him a little suspiciously, in spite of the substantial clumsiness of his furniture and the unwinking brightness of his windows.
The interior of Mr. Sheldon's dwelling bore no trace of that solid old-fashioned clumsiness which had distinguished his house in Fitzgeorge-street.
If your horse has not been hurt by the reason of my clumsiness of yesterday, and if it is free I should like to ride it this afternoon.
The Bishop had fetched by mail four decorators from Paris, but these gentry were not able to do everything, and far from giving any encouragement to theclumsiness of the Besancon colleagues, they made it twice as great by making fun of them.
His absence had caused his clumsiness to be forgotten.
That," said his publisher, "would be clumsy and in the case of so light a work clumsiness is death.
But even his earliest efforts were not marked with the clumsiness of mediocrity.
What characterized them was the clumsiness of too great strength--the clumsiness which the tyro betrays when he crushes butterflies with battering rams and hammers out vignettes with a war-club.
To give the poor thing a position suited to receive the dagger-stroke, she turns her round and back again with the rough clumsiness of a child handling its doll.
If the mandibles are working, the least clumsiness may render them dangerous to the carrier, who is exposed to their bite without any means of defence.
This time I shall not interfere, so that my clumsinesscannot be to blame.
The large muscles have their innings and there is a new clumsiness of body and mind.
The courts had also been instituted to avoid the clumsiness of popular jurisdiction; but thisclumsiness would be restored, if their decision was to be shaken by a further appeal to the Comitia.
It was a little task that she liked to do herself--perhaps because she did it with so extraordinary a clumsiness and ineptitude.
By some characteristic social clumsiness he had omitted to remove his overcoat in the lobby.
While Mrs. Gilson frowned; perhaps at the clumsinessand witlessness of men-folk.
Only the clumsiness of communications limit us now, and every facilitation of locomotion widens not only our potential, but our habitual range.
He repented his violence, and the clumsiness of his hands, which like those of a drunken sailor broke what he caressed.
Perhaps it was because of the clumsiness of her hands; perhaps .
There is a certain clumsiness about the great round shafts of the nave, but the carving upon the angles of the plinths and of the capitals helps to relieve this effect.
Mr. Wilson thought he detected a direct untruth, and the mixture of an uneasy conscience and clumsiness which the German Note appeared to betray prompted the sharp tone of the President's reply.
The clumsiness of such formal declarations was, as I have said, only surpassed by the regrettable impression of a juristic argument produced by our first Lusitania Note.
We must proceed very carefully, even if our care drives us into clumsiness of expression.
The veryclumsiness of the operation was safety to the subject.
But owing to the clumsiness of the instrument employed--a flinty, serrated shell--the operation has been known to last several days.
A different sort of fear that also greatly afflicted Benham was due to a certain clumsiness and insecurity he felt in giddy and unstable places.
All sorts of clumsiness and youthfulness in himself and his associates he felt she wouldn't accept, couldn't accept, that it would be wrong of her to accept.
What, a man, whose clumsinesshad so shamefully shortened their entertainment, could hope for mercy!
Thus it was not to Caesar's dilatoriness or clumsiness that they owed their escape, but to his magnanimity.
He could not get over it; laughter as of a cyclops filled his throat; it was as though the honest clumsiness of the soldier stood revealed in this naive and noisy amusement.
You will be telling me that his clumsiness was feigned; yes, but feigned clumsiness is tremendously like the real thing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clumsiness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
