And so much unlike his younger brother, Eric was maladroit at handling simple home economics tasks. |
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A single maladroit quip or an unscripted dramatic moment on the campaign trail could spell the difference between victory and defeat. |
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Clinton's maladroit staffing decisions contributed to the political turmoil of his initial years in the White House. |
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In the 1930s and in the 1960s, all sorts of maladroit, stodgy unions did quite well. |
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The Germans also launched a maladroit effort to entice Mexico into the war, exposed by the Zimmermann telegraph affair. |
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But her long harsh sentence is cockeyed, as is Peter Beattie's very disappointing and uncharacteristically maladroit response. |
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This has been an extremely clumsy maladroit approach on the part of the US economic team. |
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Perhaps I'm too cynical, but only commercial reasons spring to my mind when I try to justify this maladroit wraparound device. |
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If Lott's original words are not enough to disqualify him as Senate leader, then his maladroit grasp of public relations should be. |
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So, these vines are actually moving these people, explaining their maladroit walking patterns. |
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Allen, of course, hotly denies this, arguing that his lusty, maladroit, cowardly, witty and nebbish persona is a comic archetype. |
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But what is impressive is the way that their dialogue, often callow and maladroit, is callow and maladroit in precisely the right way. |
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Measured against other degenerate cultures, we are still, in some respects, at the stage of a touchingly maladroit infancy. |
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The results included muddled avant-garde theatrical staging techniques and insensitive and maladroit portraits of African Americans. |
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We agree that the formula was maladroit and that a « Ministry of National Identity » would not make any sense. |
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Padlin stared helplessly at his drawing, at his maladroit strokes. |
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Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a dynamite presentation to a big audience, but seems awkward in groups and maladroit at small talk? |
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That can hardly be achieved by an accumulation of bellicose manifestos and more or less maladroit pressure. |
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The governor has been criticized for his maladroit handling of the budget crisis. |
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