How To Use Clunky In A Sentence

Perhaps I've been corrupted by Photoshop, but regardless, the GIMP just feels unusably arcane and clunky. December 29th, 2007
The clunky village line is the only wrong note in a film composed of beautifully placed ones. Times, Sunday Times
Forget clunky mobiles and oversized tablets - wearable technology is the next frontier. Times, Sunday Times
The story covers much well-worn territory, and the dialogue can be clunky. Times, Sunday Times
It is a sign of how quickly technology can evolve that those desktops, once the sign of individual liberation, now seem somewhat clunky themselves.

Some of the dialogue is clunky and dated, perhaps, and some of the plots just plain don't work, but apart from some poorly reproduced art, these collections would be cheap at twice the price.
More often than not scenes feel forced and clunky, as the characters none too subtly have to crowbar in the next crucial revelation, or narrative device.
That is one of the better moments in filmed science fiction and Darabont nails his critique of the clunky VO. Frank Darabont Hates The Blade Runner Voice-Over
Ditch the summer's clunky ethnic beads for lady-like pearls, vintage jewellery, an old-fashioned handbag, leather gloves and a flash of stocking.
Yes, once again, it was the same Ian Judge staging, an animated, fluent show that mixes up 18th-century period niceties and '50s culture - a tippling Countess languishes on her bed dialing a big, clunky, corded phone, the men at times wear britches and stockings with their buckled clodhoppers, later choosing modern-day suits. Donna Perlmutter: Postino and Figaro: Underclass Heroes Who Usher in L.A. Opera's 25th Season
Some clunky dialogue aside, it represents a return to form for Allen. Times, Sunday Times
You HATE the book, or the first sentence has glaring grammatical errors, or the whole point of the book is obtuse and lost in clunky prose. UPDATES - and Clowns With Big Signs...and stuff.
The dialogue is self-consciously clunky, the characters are stereotypes and each section is fronted with a pretentiously redundant quotation.
Well, the user interface is a bit slow and clunky and not very intuitive, considering you have to figure out how the game works on your own. The Sun
Where can you offload your clunky old computer or worn-out armchair? Times, Sunday Times
The camera was a clunky snap-in piece. Globe and Mail
Design geeks have since given this idea a clunky name: so-called skeuomorphic user interfaces. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
Gone are the towering heels of last summer, to be replaced by thick-tongued brogues, clunky flatforms and Birkenstock-style sandals.
There is a clunky, inelegant quality to these objects that is matched by the deliberately crude quality of the plywood tables and shelves on which they rest.
The prose is never clunky, extraneously verbose or bogged down with disposition; the writing is neither grand nor pedestrian and the fact that everything comes at seemingly the righ moment (i.e. perfect pace) makes for a smooth and enjoyable read. Archive 2009-01-01
The mythos upon which this movie hangs is admittedly a tad clunky from a Western standpoint - though it makes for a perfectly serviceable Eastern legend. As pilfered from my friends list
But he is bogged down by a terrible script - crammed with all that is clunky, cutesy and phoney - and surrounded by actors giving turns of pure ordure.
The storyline is a bit clunky, but it's not a documentary! Times, Sunday Times
The first generation of online Americans were technophiles who had enough money to acquire clunky desktops and snail-paced 14.4 modems.
Often, their very human needs come across as clunky impediments to economic progress.
He glosses word-bomb, which he admits is a ‘clunky construction’, at arm's length.
What is, on paper, a primarily interior experience, stumbles on film with a clunky visual style that remains merely literal instead of challengingly literary.
What works worst is using the technique as a clunky dissolve to segue between scenes.
The clunky village line is the only wrong note in a film composed of beautifully placed ones. Times, Sunday Times
It's shot in a clunky retro-futurist style, and the director declares himself influenced by Fritz Lang, filling his screen with eerie, gigantic hardware shot in mouldy, decaying, soft-focus sepia.
A clunky plot and terrible dialogue are redeemed by some breathtaking visuals. Times, Sunday Times
There are some really clunky recording devices.
The afternoon before the dance you couldn't get a hair appointment anywhere in the five towns and all the white stretch limos were rented just like it was the prom, though not the old clunky black ones. The Majesties
The north park is home to a couple of tiny ponds, traversed by bridges festooned with clunky metal turtles designed by a local artist.
It was all just a bit clunky and strange and not actually that much fun. Times, Sunday Times
This "like"- and "as"-riddled prose is strangely exhausting - and clunky when the metaphors don't work: "the bridge of her nose as straight and tall as a chopstick standing at attention. Book World: Lionel Shriver reviews Yan Lianke's 'Dream of Ding Village'
The clunky beat suddenly gives way to a choir and symphony.
I blame much of this stagnation on the label itself, a clunky portmanteau that suggests the collision rather than integration of ‘folk’ and ‘electronic’ music.
But like the vast majority of their poems, the film is earnest, naive and little bit clunky. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, with its old-fashioned approach to animation, it looks clunky in comparison to some of its competitors.
But the flipping is a little clunky and so another time, I'd make individual cakes. Beet Röesti ♥ | A Veggie Venture
Essentially it is a clunky but well-meaning attempt to humanise a well-loved figure. Times, Sunday Times
In places the dialogue is so clunky that wincing is involuntary. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of a clunky, abstract system where you get “+5 to harvesting” or “+10 to sword smithing”, representations of ore or sword pieces can get moved around the screen, showing the player in a general sense what is going on. with the right mentality, mini-games can be even more true to the world than another approach. MMOG Nation » Mini-Gaming For Fun and Profit
Which is a pity, considering how horrid, clunky and dated they all are.
The characterisation is rudimentary and the prose sometimes clunky. The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle – review
The script is clunky in places, but with a cast like this you hardly notice. Times, Sunday Times
Clogs are heavy, clunky, and fall off under duress.
At the same time, one should note that their presentation on spreadsheets produced with sundry software, is slightly primitive and ‘clunky.’
Although I still found the six-speed gearbox a bit clunky at low speeds. The Sun
She plays a pregnant girl training to become a mechanic, and the clunky boots she's wearing today are being broken in for the shoot.
Admittedly, they can be a bit clunky, lyrically. Times, Sunday Times
The desktop software that manages the scanner is clunky, and feeding a film strip requires that you insert it into a slot just right.
But I bought the Special edition of the first imac and bought an emac both of which seem pretty big and clunky, but I have been able to upgrade them to OSX Leopard and Tiger and they perform beautifully. How Apple Is Preparing for an iPod Slump - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
But I'm not blind to it's clunky bits; it goes a little Hollywood in the end, that awkward line at the end about "escalation" is pure next movie set-up that sticks out like a sore thumb. The Dark Knight
Indo-European, a term coined in the early nineteenth century, is clunky. The English Is Coming!
The thing about the Kindle is that it is quite clunky, which is perhaps an odd thing to say about a product so new on the market. AllAfrica News: Latest
Not only did he anticipate Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, and set out a finite axiomatization of arithmetic before Peano did, and the basis axiomatic set theory before Zermelo did, but also his notation and terminology were readable and suggestive, giving future logicians a better language to work in than the clunky terms of the Germans. Pragmatic inquiry
I watched her drive away in her clunky little junker, waving and wearing this frozen smile like the one on her driving licence.
Downloading a movie is still a clunky affair that can take a few hours, and only 27 % of the country's 66 million online homes have the superfast broadband connections to do it.
The girls were wearing them along with fat clunky shoes that looked like malformed elevator shoes from the seventies.
The concept of farming out large pieces of this clunky IT infrastructure is not new. Times, Sunday Times
It's disconcertingly riddled with inconsistent spellings, clunky syntax and other editing botches.
The old, noisy fans and ancient clunky light switches are gone.
But it's scuppered by clunky dialogue and a needlessly convoluted plot. Times, Sunday Times
The somewhat clunky term 'multimodal' summed it up. Times, Sunday Times
In its clunky realism and breathless romanticism, Looking at the Landscape strikes me as a real stunner, part late Balthus, but more importantly, part proto-John Currin.
The hardware design felt "clunky" -- especially the flimsy-feeling sliding of the touchscreen, needed to reveal the keyboard underneath. LinuxInsider
The clunky village line is the only wrong note in a film composed of beautifully placed ones. Times, Sunday Times
A clunky plot and terrible dialogue are redeemed by some breathtaking visuals. Times, Sunday Times
A lot of old advertising - still or moving - just looks clunky or kitsch as the years roll by.
I could easily get away with wearing some clunky shoes and hair wouldn't be a problem whatsoever.
The telephones are clunky, the colors are brown, the cars are funky jalopies.
These protective garments are generally also festooned with wands of office: besmeared stethoscopes draped around the neck, clunky paging devices clipped to the belt, and an array of well chewed ballpoint pens poking forlornly from the breast and hip pockets. Cri de coeur
The dialogue is clunky, but the low-budget action still impresses. Times, Sunday Times
But it's scuppered by clunky dialogue and a needlessly convoluted plot. Times, Sunday Times
I recall the clunky, ugly pages I wrought through those lessons — it gave me a feeling of power not dissimilar to my 1979 experiments with a TI-99 running BASIC, when I commanded the ones and zeroes to: How I stopped worrying and learned to build a Web site « The Retort
Some have been too fat, too bulky, too clunky, or too inaccurate to be a successful pretender to the throne.
Installed on a laptop, it takes the place of many pieces of antiquated and clunky video gear that were formerly needed to ensure high quality video recording.
TPM merchandise did try to reach out to the princess crowd with a few amidala dolls, but perhaps besides being clunky, it was too exotic not fitting the general princess merchandise mold with full face make-up, elaborate headpieces instead of just hair styles, and not enough gowns to wear to a ball. Lucasfilm prepping CGI animated fairy musical?
I watched her drive away in her clunky little junker, waving and wearing this frozen smile like the one on her driving licence.
On top of all this, there is some amazingly clunky dialogue that must be heard to be believed.
I watched her drive away in her clunky little junker, waving and wearing this frozen smile like the one on her driving licence.
It aspires to be like Skins, but the clunky dialogue lets it down. Times, Sunday Times
Your entire screen looks like an old 3210 - complete with a yellowy dot-matrix screen and clunky dial pad for controls. The Sun
Too many of the designs are too clunky and awkward.
“One Last Dance” is a wimpy ballad that owes its melody to Natalie Cole’s “Miss You Like Crazy”, but Alyssa’s voice has a certain clunky appeal. Gruesome Twosome: Looks 10, Musical Ability 3 Edition : Scrubbles.net
The script was clunky, but refreshingly unsentimental.
The New York Times describes it as ‘a clunky and precious literary exercise… self-important and ham-handed.’
It's just feelings and emotions and sometimes they come out awkward and clunky, but that's the beauty of it.
For her first day of school, she was wearing a short, plaid skirt, fishnet stockings, a black tank top under a see-through black shirt, and clunky black shoes.
Since free-market competition has not yet winnowed the 300-plus electronic medical records (EMR) systems to a viable number of good products, the stimulus will favor the old, clunky, entrenched products over the newer and fleeter. Digitizing Medical Records May Help, but It's Complex
I saw several comments about dowdy dresses being discouraging, but can a dress, any dress, be any dowdier than a pair of dirty jeans with frayed cuffs dragging on the floor picking up dust, with the clunky horrid dirty sports shoes? Blue Dress Painting
The clips all share a rough, choppy style, as clunky as their conversational tone. Times, Sunday Times
But he is bogged down by a terrible script - crammed with all that is clunky, cutesy and phoney - and surrounded by actors giving turns of pure ordure.
You start the game at level 1 with a beater car that looks pretty clunky and has many of the lower end parts in the game.
Stylish but clunky neo-noir thriller. Times, Sunday Times
I kept running despite my clunky boots and plaid skirt.
Rhoda had gotten her a pair of dangly earrings with tiny clunky turquoise chunks hanging from it.
Once spring and summer come to town, you need to swap your clunky boots and thick winter shoes and replace them with lighter, more breathable footwear.
Whereas it seems everyone else carries the cute, stylish phones, she seems to be dragging along with clunky looking models.
We had cedar shafts with clunky, glue on, dull as a froe broadheads! Why We Finally Stop Hunting
They have created a keyboard that's clunky, loud and heavy.
Neil made the most telling point (for me) of the whole conference by recalling his sense of excitement and wonder at reading a certain thrilling adventure novel as a child, then his surprise on returning to that same book as an adult and finding the prose quite flat and clunky (think Famous Five). Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Book Magic
No more clunky explanatory dialogue. Times, Sunday Times
With a gawky, clunky gait Magic lurches slowly across the yard.
It reflected the state of the rest of the cruiser - outdated equipment panels, clunky machinery and a thick layer of dust over half the surfaces.
I have to learn this old-fashioned clunky hardware.
I recall the clunky, ugly pages I wrought through those lessons — it gave me a feeling of power not dissimilar to my 1979 experiments with a ... 2009 September « The Retort
Why deal with that when your old clunky outdate site worked just fine. Get your Site Out of the Garage and Onto The Stage
Most unpolished is the dialogue, which is often so clunky and forced that Rudnick smears the awkward moments with passé humor.
Surprisingly, the only weak section is the clunky introduction, which is more speculative and not as strongly written as the rest.
Their slow acoustic strumming and clunky drumming are answered by sort piano crashes.
She dropped the bag in front of their dorm room, opened the door, and sent the bag inside with a hard kick from her clunky shoes.
She walked down the steps in dark blue flares, clunky black shoes, and her friend's shirt.
Opposing him and appearing only at the movie's tale end in a tacked-on action sequence is Iron Monger, who has a big, clunky, well-armed mecha battlesuit of his own. Archive 2008-05-01
Sadly and finally, after being dropped about fifty times, my clunky but much-admired mobile phone fascia has finally given up the ghost.
He speaks in lurchy, barely articulate ejaculations, set to curiously clunky music that in its effort to avoid fluid femininity slips at times into rather conventional patterns like imitative counterpoint and ostinatos.
It's also an excuse to replace some clunky old gear for something lighter, safer and cooler. The Sun
With clunky writing, the characters are simply shallow, callow and cold, when not being sappy or self-pitying.
We went to some dress shop to pick out a navy, simply cut blue dress and a pair of clunky sandals.
There was a click as his bedroom door opened and he strode into the room, wearing blue jeans, a black T-shirt, some clunky boots and a black handkerchief used as a headband.
He is convinced that every time you click "send," your message goes to a clunky government keyword sniffer that, on finding any of the naughty words it's looking for, blinks red lights at some snoozing functionary's desk. Davis Sweet: Jihad, Bomb, Nuke, Anthrax, Screw Carnivore...
When Bulworth begins his clunky, endearing rapping, there is a sense of restored idealism, and the movie will be assaulted for innocence, nuttiness, gasbagging. Warren Beatty Shampoos the Sleazy 90's
The death of Jonathan in 2 Samuel "how are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished" is one of a number of passages in which scholarship combined with literary skill to turn clunky and even tortured phraseology into paragraphs of clarity, memorability and – yes – majesty. The King James Bible reconsidered | David Edgar
After all, seeing as the rather clunky series, a quintessential bit of cornball Canadiana, was pretty bloody grim, it means the new series doesn't have a whole lot to live up to.
For some reason, people who wouldn't dream of ripping the wood windows out of a Victorian house think nothing of scrapping their postwar home's aluminum windows and substituting clunky white vinyl ones with fake muntins.
She was dressed in all black, from her clunky boots to her sheer shirt with a camisole under it.
It's clunky, difficult to control and the cel-shaded aesthetic just doesn't work for me. The Sun
The author seems unsure whether he is writing a thriller or a satire and, with his clunky prose and rudimentary plot, ends up doing neither.
Compared to some of the new 2.5G phones they look clunky, plasticky and grey.
The best we can do to describe the notion that environmental chemicals might be linked to autoimmunity is to use the clunky phrase “environmental autoimmune disease triggers,” which is analogous to saying “environmental cancer disease triggers” instead of, simply, “carcinogens.” The Autoimmune Epidemic
On many other technology fronts it always seems to be that Asia, specially regionally, is rather ahead of us in the USA if for no other reason than our clunky corporate need to control access and charge monthly fees for every possible service, but that's another story. EReader Adventures
The search can be a bit clunky and slow but the information is useful. Times, Sunday Times
But there's something nice and reassuring about old clunky things as well. Times, Sunday Times
A clunky piece of writing. Times, Sunday Times
With their lo-fi, clunky graphics, these early programs featured a strange mix of crudity and perfection: trippy, hallucinogenic animations that moved around the screen with perfect physics.
Her nose twitched slightly as she walked forward, her clunky metal heels hitting the concrete with a sharp clicking sound.
They promise to so streamline interactions between people and computers that the mouse, the trackball, the keyboard will surely someday seem quaint and clunky.
It's shot in a clunky retro-futurist style, and the director declares himself influenced by Fritz Lang, filling his screen with eerie, gigantic hardware shot in mouldy, decaying, soft-focus sepia.
Imagine embellishment so light, it was as though a spider had woven it rather than a clunky human hand. Times, Sunday Times
Say "tyrannosaur" and most people picture a clunky, heavy-set beast with huge teeth and a brutish character. New Scientist - Online News
Beware though: shimmer is not clunky glitter - you need the right ratio of pearlescence to pigment to avoid the cheap disco ball look. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
A clunky plot and terrible dialogue are redeemed by some breathtaking visuals. Times, Sunday Times
Usually, when people hear the word meditation, they think of transcending this clunky earthly plane. Women Food and God
These protective garments are generally also festooned with wands of office: besmeared stethoscopes draped around the neck, clunky paging devices clipped to the belt, and an array of well chewed ballpoint pens poking forlornly from the breast and hip pockets. Cri de coeur
This one has bits of glorious writing, but it's a bit heavy-handed and clunky over all.
I should buy a cheap pair of clunky snow boots rather than these beauties.
What is, on paper, a primarily interior experience, stumbles on film with a clunky visual style that remains merely literal instead of challengingly literary.
All of the systems more or less worked, but they were all slow, clunky, and had major usability issues.
Hugo – a musician so good, they named him bloody "Hugo" – says this bumdiddle plunky clunky bluegrass unimagining of Jay-Z's classic got the seal of approval from the big man himself, and has been doing the rounds online for over a year now. This week's new singles
Decent actors are made to look inferior as they deliver the clunky dialogue. Times, Sunday Times
Officially, he's the "special adviser for green jobs, enterprise, and innovation," a clunky title unbefitting of a man so who's especially talented at turning a phrase. Slate Magazine
The clunky, ungraceful writing is mostly to blame for this.
A few curse the memory of them as clunky, unstable, slow, unreliable and inherently unsafe.
The latter may be because I'd always prefer to read a punchy polemic against ideas I hold than a dull defence or clunky statement of them.
I showered quickly and put on a pair of short khaki cargo shorts and a green halter-top and slid on a pair of clunky sandals.
There's a winning earnestness to her book - she clearly loves her husband and child and the town she's chosen to live in - but her prose is clunky and artless.
As if on cue he bounded down the stairs, nearly tripping over the clunky shoes I'd bought him for Christmas.
A lot of old advertising - still or moving - just looks clunky or kitsch as the years roll by.
It also requires more competition, but not in the clunky way the Government originally envisaged. Times, Sunday Times
It also requires more competition, but not in the clunky way the Government originally envisaged. Times, Sunday Times
On their own bikes, wearing their unique outfits, contestants will haul clunky parcels between checkpoints.
There used to be a clunky paragraph sign known as a pilcrow ; initially it was a C with a slash drawn through it. Is This the Future of Punctuation
In short, they are a bit clunky compared with any decent lightweight road or mountain bike. Times, Sunday Times
Well, the user interface is a bit slow and clunky and not very intuitive, considering you have to figure out how the game works on your own. The Sun
In the former film, we see through the eyes of a hyperimaginative little girl as she visually transforms [via clunky superimposition] a threatening woman into a benevolent protectress.
Well, the user interface is a bit slow and clunky and not very intuitive, considering you have to figure out how the game works on your own. The Sun
This is also the talkiest of the three Flash Gordon serials, with the action often grinding to a halt in favor of clunky dialogue.
Cheryl says it is a little bit "clunky" -- access is not so fast, however, it is a growing free tool for very young children. Archive 2008-06-01
On their own bikes, wearing their unique outfits, contestants will haul clunky parcels between checkpoints.
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It's an intensely satisfying experience, only let down by some clunky dialogue and the poor story. The Sun
And the reason he bothered to do it was because otherwise you just don't get your purfling [the three - piece wood sandwich that runs along the edge of a violin] to meet up, and you have a stupid-looking clunky thing, so it was actually a very practical, workmanlike adaptation to some design thing that he wanted to do. Isolating the Violin's Song
Clunky interfaces on the cameras and buggy software used to move pictures into a computer are rapidly being improved.
Every sound is, at once, clunky and substantial.
When engineers invent new words they come up with terms like “kips” turning the clunky 4 syllable “one-thousand-pounds” into a simple one syllable catch-all. Build Blog » INTERVIEW with PAUL FAGET, structural engineer
Communication between Earth and spacecraft is clunky and reminiscent of the days when switchboard operators had to plug in telephone lines by hand to connect the people at either end. NASA Watch: June 2009 Archives
These protective garments are generally also festooned with wands of office: besmeared stethoscopes draped around the neck, clunky paging devices clipped to the belt, and an array of well chewed ballpoint pens poking forlornly from the breast and hip pockets. Cri de coeur
I pulled out clunky black shoes that had a bit of a heel.
Some of the mockney phrasing was clunky. Times, Sunday Times
We don't believe in clunky applications where task management itself becomes a task.
He wore sort of clunky shoes and a brown corduroy jacket.
This was not like the clunky old dunger without a working heater that l had to battle with on a previous occasion in the dead of winter.
A-flat sits on the black keys enough to allow you the flatten out the fingers and glide, but the F major transposition is impossibly clunky. Archive 2006-10-01
It also requires more competition, but not in the clunky way the Government originally envisaged. Times, Sunday Times

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