ungainliness

Nothing so distinct as a limp or even an ungainliness of stride.

Something that shambled and lurched with an ungainliness similar to their own.

Their first encounter is a rapturous study in ungainliness.

She would get up early so that he needn't be offended by her slowness and ungainliness.

This is not a show where the husbands' girth and ungainliness go unmentioned.

The result, unfortunately, has the ungainliness of an entrant in a three-legged race.

He was slow, precise, his body all angles with a stooped, deliberate ungainliness.

Their movements did evoke the ungainliness of dinosaurs.

The ungainliness of the body here is offset by some coiled spring within it that propels every move.

There was something monumental in his ungainliness.

Cynicism, less demanding, lops off a part chosen for its ungainliness, and displays it as the whole.

No one should witness such ungainliness and lack of coordination, at least not without purchasing tickets.)

He was much below the middle height, but his large head, which seemed to hang loosely on his body, gave him an odd ungainliness.

Shreave followed reluctantly and with an ungainliness that was almost painful to observe.

To emphasize her ungainliness, Simone is apt to be a travesti role for a man.

Mr. Folds's proud ungainliness relates to his role as a piano player.

His batting reflected the fact that, in Foot's words, "he turned ungainliness into an art form" and he was also a poor judge of a run.

You have been misled by my ungainliness.'

But for the last quarter of the production's intermissionless two hours, this ungainliness has been erased by the emotional heat on the stage.

And yet, for all their ungainliness, elephant seals keep on land some hint of their grace and power at sea.

She was conscious the whole time of her ungainliness and of the fact that she was neither one thing nor the other.

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

His ungainliness gave him enough of the air of his simile to set Rosa off laughing heartily.

He is a poet of dispossession and ungainliness as well as of landscape and animals.