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.

Richie is a clumsy, pompous dimwit who attempts to make himself out as being much higher in social status than he actually is, and is both deranged and desperate, as well as being obsessed with sex.

She feels embarrassed by her mother's clumsy attempts to bond with her, but she learns to accept her mother and her own identity by the end of the film.

After her return from London, there were claims of an affair with her cousin Colonel Thomas Howard, and at the end of 1657 and the start of 1658, concerted attempts were made by the King, encouraged by Sir Edward Hyde, to separate her son from her ; a clumsy attempt at kidnapping was obstructed by the Earl of Castlehaven, the rulers of the Spanish Netherlands and the burghers of Brussels, but eventually, her son was transferred into the care of a Cambridge-educated tutor named Thomas Ross.

This is usually compounded by clumsy attempts at retractions, after realising the insulting interpretations of his remarks.

After noticing Galen's constant grasping of the amulet during his clumsy attempts at magic tricks, King Casiodorus guesses that he is not a real wizard and complains that his attack may have angered the dragon instead of killing it, as his own brother and predecessor once did.

Colonna warned in his report that the Italian government's brutal and clumsy attempts to crush unlawfulness only made the problem worse by alienating the populace.

For all its clumsy exposition, unlikely coincidences and feeble attempts at humor, this latest installment, with its striking jacket art showing a beautiful desert landscape, is as certain to please Goodkind's legions of fans as previous books in the series.

Burns ' BOI field agents made visits to the offices of newspapers around the country who had presented the BOI's actions in a negative light ; their clumsy attempts to intimidate newspaper editors caused a backlash in public opinion and Congress.

" Harty later admitted that he was not greatly in sympathy with opera as a genre: " Opera seems to me a form of art in which clumsy attempts are made at defining the indefinable suggestions of music.

Hastings suspects that it is something to do with Allerton and, when his clumsy attempts to persuade Judith to give Allerton up merely antagonise her, he plans Allerton's murder.

Hayes was so clumsy, however, that he evoked laughter with his awkward attempts at shooting and dribbling.

As fast and clumsy as the material is, there's an undeniable tunefulness at work, particularly in irresistible singalongs like " No Brains " and " Room for One ," and the sprightly single " Lock It Up " even attempts some naïve vocal harmonies as they sneer at the upper classes ”.

The offended waiter attempts to deny that he is clumsy, but in the process, he trips over a chair which causes him to fall out of the window into an open-roof truck filled with rat traps, thus proving that he is highly clumsy.

After two clumsy attempts had been made to poison him at Pérez's table, he was killed by bravos on the night of Easter Monday 1578.

However, his clumsy attempts to break up in English ( of which he does not have a fluent command ) merely results in their spending the night together.

Clouseau is so clueless and clumsy that while several theft attempts are made at a fancy-dress party, he looks everywhere but the right place.

If she moved gracefully, she was clumsy at it.

She wrote that it was because of the letters he wrote complaining about his life, but an addendum to Eric & Us by Venables reveals that he may have lost sympathy through an incident which was at best a clumsy seduction.

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.

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Letterman feigned clumsy disinterest, measuring the wrong amounts, throwing raw eggs at the band, gulping down bottles of wine, eating half a stick of butter, and generally wreaking havoc.

Clymer's clumsy attempt at traveling in disguise, and his efforts to intimidate local officials, only increased tensions.

In the San Francisco Chronicle, Mick LaSalle stated, " If I were paranoid I might suspect a conspiracy at work in the promoting of this movie-to suck in audiences with a catchy hook and then give them something much more clumsy and pedestrian.

During World War I, the United States developed several types of body armor, including the chrome nickel steel Brewster Body Shield, which consisted of a breastplate and a headpiece and could withstand Lewis Gun bullets at, but was clumsy and heavy at.

Pollard appeared in episode # 2-30 of The Andy Griffith Show which originally aired on April 30, 1962, as Barney Fife's clumsy young cousin, Virgil, who stops by for a visit and manages to wreak havoc at the courthouse.

Max, much to his own dismay, takes after his father at times, whether it be mannerisms ( including Goofy's trademark laugh ) or occasionally being clumsy.

While Goofy is still clumsy, he works hard to be a good father towards Max, at one time reprimanding him to take personal responsibility by telling him of one of their ancestors, Eliot Goof, an FBI agent with a never-give-up attitude ( a clear pun on Eliot Ness ).

Often billing himself as the world's worst juggler, Allen refined and advanced the mix of his clumsy juggling and the comic routines such as standard jokes and one-liners with humor directed at his own poor juggling abilities.

A typical metalworker's anvil, with horn at one end and flat face at the other, is a standard prop for cartoon gags, as the epitome of a heavy and clumsy object that is perfect for dropping onto a villain.

At first Sue finds Dundee less legendary than she had been led to believe, being unimpressed by his uncouth behaviour and clumsy advances towards her ; however, she is later amazed when in the Outback, she witnesses " Mick " ( as Dundee is called ) subduing a Wild Asian Water Buffalo, taking part in an Aboriginal tribal dance ceremony, killing snakes with his hands, and ( at her request ) scaring tourists from their sport of shooting kangaroos.

To modern scholars, the products seem clumsy – inscriptions do not translate to anything legible, for one – but at the time there was little with which to compare them.

It is astounding how clumsy Prussians are at this sort of thing.

: Ms. Hamada is the strict teacher of the fashion design and sewing lab classes at Yazagaku that has no qualms about detaining a student after school for inattentive or clumsy handiwork -- a trap that Mikako often instigates when she is upset for one reason or another.

Strangely enough, Mikako is not sent packing by Ms. Hamada's abrasive personality or having her handiwork harshly appraised and even goes so far as to identify clumsy textile handiwork that would instigate an after-school detention at Ms. Hamada's hands.

But it was 20 minutes later, and already the whole world had seen it ... My attempt to connect my perfectly justified horror at an ugly and corrupting movie to the religious faith and ethnic identity of certain executives was hopelessly clumsy ... accusing a Christian of adoring money above all else does not engage any history of ugly stereotypes.

Boyish boastfulness which is at the same time coarse and clumsy .... “ If we are not as talented as you, Monsieur Zola, to make up for it we believe in God .”

However, the basic concept — four teenagers ( Freddie, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy ) and a cowardly, clumsy Great Dane dog ( Scooby-Doo ) solving supernatural-related mysteries — was always in place.

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

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.

Mencken used the word " chautauqua " ( lower case ) to refer more generally to a herd of clumsy writers: " When they essay to be jocose, the result is usually simply an elephantine whimsicality, by the chautauqua out of the Atlantic Monthly.

At the public consultation meeting held on 12 April 2012, an international consultant informed ICTA that their proposal was clumsy and they do not have a case for re-delegation, because their proposed model is inappropriate and will need to reach an amicable settlement with the current sponsoring organization " Internet Direct Ltd ".

) ( genitive case, but a clumsy and not widely used construction at that, since genitive possession is much better expressed with an adjectival possessive pronoun: ' Ko je videl svoj odsev v ogledalu ...')

In the case of the clumsy friend, she will most likely understand that the speaker is not truly offering a compliment.

Significantly, referring to oneself using an honorific, or dropping an honorific when it is required is a serious faux pas, in either case coming across as clumsy or arrogant.