cumbersomeness

The ugly cumbersomeness of the furniture alone impressed her now.

One reason is the cumbersomeness of the typical Web checkout process.

He frowned, slightly nettled at the cumbersomeness of the manual procedure.

Even by the lofty standards of cumbersomeness built into state housing regulation generally, these procedures go a step further.

Protectionist causes often get bogged down in the cumbersomeness of the detailed legislative process.

"The problem with Chinese is its awesome cumbersomeness.

If an underwater fight, or a quick need to escape, develops, agility and lack of cumbersomeness could be vital.

This fact represents a profound threat to the democratic process; zealots are usually impatient with democracy's cumbersomeness and interminable bickering.

Aside from the cumbersomeness of the tax-collection process, the biggest problem the I.R.S. faces is a budget squeeze.

Libel laws in Britain are stricter than those in the United States, but gossip columnists have felt protected by the sheer cumbersomeness of the law.

Perhaps it was a weapon, but the designer had been forced to camouflage it as a leg brace and, hence, could not avoid cumbersomeness in its handling.

The sensuality that came so easily to Mr. Arau throughout "Like Water for Chocolate" disappears with the cumbersomeness of putting this scene together.

Certainly, in its execution of the attack the Fifth Army had displayed a cumbersomeness and excess of caution that would never have been countenanced by most of Hitler's captains.

Various naming conventions have developed in different online communities to refer to prospective couples, likely due to the ambiguity and cumbersomeness of the "Character 1 and Character 2" format.

Many instead choose to use alternatives such as SharePoint and Gmail where they can, although higher ups maintain that its cumbersomeness is a necessary result of securing all its information.

I did not write all the passages of the Treaty, or even the smallest part of it, but you will not escape the cumbersomeness that at times characterises all of these texts.

In addition, it pinpoints something that Jensen himself has not yet managed as an artist, what he calls Ryder's "ability to embed his vision in the paint without the cumbersomeness of the self."

The bureaucracy cannot liberalize itself either culturally or politically because its existence as a class depends on its monopoly of an ideology - which, for all its cumbersomeness, is its sole title to ownership.

If the novel has a weakness, it is in the management of this intricate plot of betrayal and error and secrecy; yet the very cumbersomeness of truth is one of the lessons of "Reading in the Dark."

In practice, there has been considerable disappointment with the new system of planning, partly because of the lack of guidelines provided by central government and partly because of the slowness and cumbersomeness of the new procedures (Barrass 1979; Shaw and Williams 1982a).

The results obtained also give the lie to the ever more recurrent criticism of the alleged cumbersomeness of the co-decision procedure and instead confirm how profitable legislative collaboration between Council and European Parliament can strengthen democracy in Union decision-making without damaging the timescale of the action to be undertaken.

And what about the excessive cumbersomeness and slowness of the financial cycles, when we know that the French government budget serves as an administrative staging post and generally seems to be in no hurry to channel the funds towards the ultimate recipient, who is often left in a precarious situation as a result?

Some families avoid the cumbersomeness of this by deferring part or all of the father's equal leave from paid work until after breastfeeding is complete at three months to a year; they sometimes report that bonding is more difficult to accomplish at that stage and additional effort ends up being required in that sense.