Certainly there would be less anxiety, fewer accidents ( it is the clumsy child who sustains the worst injuries ), and higher scholastic averages, since alert children work better.

In the opera, Salieri attempts to poison an anachronistic Shaffer but is bumped by a " clumsy oaf ", which causes him to inadvertently poison Mozart instead and spill wine on his favorite coat.

It is a sophisticated character, as opposed to the clumsy auguste.

In either case it is generally considered a " clumsy forgery " and an attempt to seek to fill the ' gap ' suggested by Colossians 4: 16.

The exposition is clumsy, the sound track corny, the denouement silly.

Ross is sweet natured man of good humor, although he is often clumsy and socially awkward.

" Golem " passed into Yiddish as goylem to mean someone who is clumsy or slow.

Some modern scholars maintain the Secret Gospel is a clumsy forgery, while others accept this text as being authentic.

Jon ( Jonathan Q. Arbuckle ) is Garfield's owner, usually depicted as an awkward clumsy geek who has trouble finding a date.

The point is that " strongly interacting particles " is a very clumsy term which does not yield itself to the formation of an adjective.

A kludge ( or kluge ) is a workaround, a quick-and-dirty solution, a clumsy, inelegant, difficult to extend, hard to maintain yet effective and quick solution to a problem, and a rough synonym to the terms " jury rig ", " Jugaad " or " jerry rig ".

* If someone cuts a shoe while scraping it to remove encrusted mud, that person is clumsy and careless.

" Watson's servant girl is clumsy and careless " and " Watson has been very wet lately and has been out in vile weather ".

The name Masaccio is a humorous version of Maso ( short for Tommaso ), meaning " clumsy " or " messy " Tom.

The dance is clumsy and shuffling.

The syndrome is named after the Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger who, in 1944, studied and described children in his practice who lacked nonverbal communication skills, demonstrated limited empathy with their peers, and were physically clumsy.

At Russell Square, Miss Sharp is introduced to the dashing and self-obsessed Captain George Osborne ( to whom Amelia has been betrothed from a very young age ) and to Amelia's brother Joseph Sedley, a clumsy and vainglorious / boastful but rich civil servant fresh from the East India Company.

This idea is often encouraged by the fraudsters who write in a clumsy and uneducated style which presents the fraudsters as naive and easily cheated by a sophisticated Westerner.

This problem per se is quite clumsy to solve in closed form.

He was the naïve butt of practical jokes and amorous scheming ( Gautier ); the prankish but innocent waif ( Banville, Verlaine, Willette ); the narcissistic dreamer clutching at the moon, which could symbolize many things, from spiritual perfection to death ( Giraud, Laforgue, Willette, Dowson ); the frail, neurasthenic, often doom-ridden soul ( Richepin, Beardsley ); the clumsy, though ardent, lover, who wins Columbine's heart, or murders her in frustration ( Margueritte ); the cynical and misogynous dandy, sometimes dressed in black ( Huysmans / Hennique, Laforgue ); the Christ-like victim of the martyrdom that is Art ( Giraud, Willette, Ensor ); the androgynous and unholy creature of corruption ( Richepin, Wedekind ); the madcap master of chaos ( the Hanlon-Lees ); the purveyor of hearty and wholesome fun ( the English pier Pierrots )— and various combinations of these.

Later on, a distinction was made between the stigmergic phenomenon, which is specific to the guidance of additional work, and the more general, non-work specific incitation, for which the term sematectonic communication was coined by E. O. Wilson, from the Greek words σῆμα sema " sign, token ", and τέκτων tecton " craftsman, builder ": " There is a need for a more general, somewhat less clumsy expression to denote the evocation of any form of behavior or physiological change by the evidences of work performed by other animals, including the special case of the guidance of additional work.

What is wrong with advertising is not only that it is an `` outrage, an assault on people's mental privacy '' or that it is a major cause for a wasteful economy of abundance or that it contains a coercive tendency ( which is closer to the point ).

Not only is this kind of duplication wasteful, but it gives the combined system the ability to take freight traffic away from the New York Central and other railroads serving the area.

Although slab stock appeared first, it soon became apparent that for the production of cushions with irregular shapes, crowned contours, or rounded edges, the cutting of slab stock is a wasteful and uneconomical process.

It is this spirit which explains some of the anomalies of American Catholic higher education, in particular the wasteful duplication apparent in some areas.

Apart, however, from the question of wasteful duplication, there is another aspect of the `` family business '' spirit in American Catholic higher education which deserves closer scrutiny.

A point inside the curve ( as at A ), is feasible but represents production inefficiency ( wasteful use of inputs ), in that output of one or both goods could increase by moving in a northeast direction to a point on the curve.

The goal of Erlang ’ s traffic theory is to determine exactly how many service-providing elements should be provided in order to satisfy users, without wasteful over-provisioning.

: Radioactive or toxic chemical sites associated with its former defense industries and test ranges are found throughout the country and pose health risks for humans and animals ; industrial pollution is severe in some cities ; because the two main rivers which flowed into the Aral Sea have been diverted for irrigation, it is drying up and leaving behind a harmful layer of chemical pesticides and natural salts ; these substances are then picked up by the wind and blown into noxious dust storms ; pollution in the Caspian Sea ; soil pollution from overuse of agricultural chemicals and salination from poor infrastructure and wasteful irrigation practices

Irrigation is extremely wasteful of water because the distribution infrastructure is old and poorly maintained.

However, because of heavy spending from the trust funds, including some wasteful foreign investment activities, the government is now facing virtual bankruptcy.

) The photonic rocket is thus wasteful when power and not mass is at a premium, or when enough mass can be saved through the use of a weaker power source that reaction mass can be included without penalty.

This reverse engineering process is wasteful in terms of human and other resources and can be minimized or eliminated using CM.

Using memory to store the same instructions repeatedly is wasteful.

Over-investment is wasteful of resources, whereas under-investment leads to reduced fitness.

Cloth diapers are most commonly made of cotton, which is generally considered an environmentally wasteful crop to grow.

The group also believes that it is wasteful, unreliable, and irrelevant to human health, because artificially induced diseases in animals are not identical to human diseases.

A concept of responsibility is in process of articulation and establishment.

An approach that has appealed to some choreographers is reminiscent of Charles Olson's statement of the process of projective verse: `` one perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception ''.

According to Katherine Litz, `` the becoming, the process of realization, is the dance ''.

The process stipulates that the choreographer sense the quality of the initial movement he has discovered and that he feel the rightness of the quality that is to follow it.

She, too, is concerned with `` the becoming, the process of realization '', but she does not think in terms of subtle variations of spatial or temporal patterns.

In its place is a passionate consciousness grasped and molded to feelings of positive or negative values even as the actions of one's life are determined by constellations of process in which one is caught.

In the case of social decay, form is displaced simply by the process of dissolution with no form at the terminus of the process.

Within institutions there is a marked decline of the process of persuasion and the substitution of a force-fear process which masquerades as the earlier one of persuasion.

The continuing modernization of these forces is a costly but necessary process.

Social process is always anchored in past predisposition ; ;

Britain in the nineteenth century is a textbook designed `` to give the sense of continuous growth, to show how economic led to social, and social to political change, how the political events reacted on the economic and social, and how new thoughts and new ideals accompanied or directed the whole complicated process ''.

Each year another grade is added to the process, until finally all 12 grades are integrated.

But it is in the process of so doing because it apparently gives priority to trying to downgrade John F. Kennedy.

In still others which are barely on the threshold of the transition into modernity, the decade can bring significant progress in launching the slow process of developing their human resources and their basic services to the point where an expanded range of developmental activities is possible.

Aid is a long-term process

It is an answer in its way, individual and highly dramatic, to the charge that the democratic process is necessarily vicious in its campaign characteristics.

But this we know: Here is a great life that in every area of American politics gives the American people occasion for pride and that has invested the democratic process with the most decent qualities of honor, decency, and self-respect.

It is but part of the whole process within the Department that goes into the making of the final recommendation to the appeal board.

It was recognized years ago that the transition from daytime to nighttime propagation conditions, and vice versa, is not an instantaneous process, but takes place over periods of time from roughly 2 hours before sunset until about 2 hours after sunset, and again from roughly 2 hours before sunrise until some 2 hours after sunrise.