| In addition, we get the fiery, lovable Irish minister, some cloddish humor, and an ending that tries too hard. |
| Jeppesen's Fru Von Everdingen, the rich widow who falls for the cloddish brother in Kermesse, was beautiful and stuck-up, but also vulnerable. |
| Dumb, cloddish things are announced grandly, as though they were meaningful observations about the human condition. |
| Most of the minor characters are well played, except for the crucial Miller, whom the cloddish Olek Krupa flubs. |
| Yet the publicity generated by cloddish attempts to stop the gate-crashers has done much to advertise this possible escape route. |
| Raw-boned, angular, cloddish but as strong as a mule, he towered over her in a maddening atmosphere of proprietorship. |
