Hashim's unique footwork is combined with ungainliness of style but fearsome speed of shot. ❋ Unknown (2011)
In their excesses and frequent ungainliness, their refusal to submit to the expectations of ordinary discourse, works of art and literature manifest an a-temporal power that compels succeeding viewers and readers to consider them anew (sometimes to enlist them in ideological skirmishes), to regard them as representations informed by their origins in historical circumstance but not bound by them, however culturally complicit they ulimately must be. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Her mix of poise and, when she plays, slight girlish ungainliness, made for a compelling, occasionally wayward performance, at once fierce and lyrical in its intensity. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Martha rose like a whale cresting the surface of the water, seemingly ignorant of her ninth-month ungainliness. ❋ Marisa Silver (2010)
Red Smith, who watched Dean become a demigod, wrote that Dizzy remained his entire life a “big, gangling gawk, appealing in his ungainliness.” ❋ Timothy M. Gay (2010)
The lame man, for all his ungainliness, could move silently in his scuffed felt shoes on the floor tiles. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The plot's hilariously twisty, stealth elements aren't as dreadful as they could be, but there is a slight ungainliness to the action that makes some boss fights a painful chore. ❋ Unknown (2010)
She would get up early so that he needn't be offended by her slowness and ungainliness. ❋ Unknown (2010)
There was beauty in it, even in its ungainliness, and as I thought this I had a fleeting sensation of ages of darkness and loneliness and profound, urgent need. ❋ Unknown (2009)
You might laugh at the ungainliness of my hardware, but the last laugh is mine; I can watch "A Fish Called Wanda" whenever the mood strikes. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Aesthetic insulation: the surrounding vacuum of ungainliness or ugliness that preserves the perfect aesthetic heat or perfect chill of the artwork itself. ❋ Adam Roberts Project (2007)
His ungainliness gave him enough of the air of his simile to set Rosa off laughing heartily. ❋ Unknown (2007)
So far as we can reconstruct it now the prevalent note of the nineteenth century scene was weak insipidity, degenerating very easily into a distressful mean ungainliness. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
Then more mean houses, the gaunt ungainliness of the electric force station — it had a huge chimney, because no one understood how to make combustion of coal complete — and then we were in the railway station, and barely three-quarters of a mile from the center of this haunt of health and pleasure. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
Two women, separated by four feet in height, one poised to walk three steps in a glorious victory, the other glad to walk to the end of the earth as long as you were there, and me, hobbled by the ungainliness of my gender, happy to keep catching up. ❋ Unknown (2006)
