The bird needs a long distance to gain momentum for take-off, and is ungainly on landing.

The feet are positioned far back on the body, near the tail, which makes the bird ungainly on land.

While it can give the impression of being an ungainly bird on the ground, the Jabiru is a powerful and graceful flier.

Ayers does concede however that, " although rather ungainly, the entrance facade at Vaux is nonetheless picturesque, in spite, or perhaps because, of its idiosyncrasies.

Another legend says that the breed resulted from the mating of a lion and a monkey, getting its nobleness and coat from the former and its ungainly walk from the latter.

However, although a local critic lauded Shostakovich for further freeing himself from formalistic tendencies in his new symphony, the work was later criticised for its ungainly structure and the jarring juxtaposition of moods.

The engineers who mothered Little Joe to maturity knew it was not much to look at, but they hoped that their ungainly rocket would prove the legitimacy of most of the ballistic capsule design concepts, thereby earning its own honor.

The Vel Satis is distinguished by its unusual height ( 13 cm higher than a Safrane ), which benefits interior space but results in proportions some viewed as being ungainly.

However, its non-centering joystick design proved to be ungainly and unreliable, alienating many consumers at the time.

Other historians argue that, as the Roman invasion fleet may have numbered as many as 1, 000 ships, mostly slow and ungainly troop transports, its commanders would have wanted to minimise the time spent at sea because of the risk of contrary winds, and that this favours the short route to Kent rather than the longer journey up the Channel to the Solent.

Designed by Dick Boak, these ABGs used the same bodies as Martin's Jumbo guitars ; measuring 16 " wide with a depth of 4 7 / 8 ", they were large enough to produce decent acoustic volume without being ungainly like other maker's attempts.

As a result of this, episodes ended up with ungainly titles like " Disco Baby / Alas, Poor Dwyer / After the War / Ticket to Ride / Itsy Bitsy: Part 1.

The design of the analog joystick, which used a weak rubber boot rather than springs to provide centering, proved to be ungainly and unreliable.

To the untrained eye, this appears to be an ungainly throw.

In Hippolytus, speeches appear verbose and ungainly as if to underscore the limitations of language.

His wife Bertha ( not to be confused with their granddaughter ), was unwilling to remain in polluted Essen in Villa Hügel, the ungainly but fireproof castle which Krupp designed.

Around July of each year, these ungainly animals migrate north from the Serengeti plains in search of fresh pasture, and return to the south around October.

Though traditionally depicted as ungainly and awkward when on the ground, the anatomy of at least some pterosaurs ( particularly pterodactyloids ) suggests that they were competent walkers and runners.

Having changed residence frequently with his family as a child, Gibson became a shy, ungainly teenager who often read science fiction.

The best friend of George Osborne, William Dobbin is tall, ungainly, and not particularly handsome.

Whether in the close confines of trench warfare, night time raiding and patrolling, or attacking across open ground, soldiers of both sides soon recognized the inherent limitations of a long and ungainly rifle and bayonet when used as a close-quarters battle weapon.

Bossuet unbent as far as he could, but his genius was by no means fitted to enter into the feelings of a child ; and the dauphin was a cross, ungainly, sullen lad.

Like his partner, Mr. Vandemar, he seems to be able to simply move from one place to another very quickly despite his ungainly appearance.

Subjective descriptors such as ungainly, full, and fine were used as a substitute for the more precise terms used today.

Cownose rays are named for their ungainly, odd-looking heads.

This combination machine, an ungainly articulation across the steep slope at the Rad Lab, provided heavy ions at GeV energies, thereby enabling development of two new fields of research: " high-energy nuclear physics ," meaning that the compound nucleus is sufficiently hot to exhibit collective dynamical effects, and heavy ion therapy, in which high-energy ions are used to irradiate tumors in cancer patients.

The original monster was a disproportionate, ungainly creature with large yellow eyes and a dog-like head.

Reportedly, " the orchestra largely ignored his ungainly gestures and followed the principal violinist instead.

Despite their ungainly appearance and habit of freezing motionless, they are sure-footed, fast and agile on the ground, and although they seldom fly during daylight hours, they are far from clumsy in the air ; flight is rapid and direct on long, broad wings.

Handling is reported to be much better than the old car, but reviews still criticise the overlight feel of the steering, complicated indicator switches and the rather ungainly styling of the sedan version.

Confused by the association of the angels with the bird, the narrator becomes angry, calling the raven a " thing of evil " and a " prophet ".

The term ' bird ' can then be replaced with a thing that cannot fly.

As both Walter and Gracie told Dallas attorney Rod Phelps during a visit, Walter wanted to shoot the thing, but Gracie suggested that her husband make a cartoon about the bird, and thus Woody was born, The story is questionable, however, since the Lantzes were not married until after Woody made his screen debut.

Thus, this bird is very likely certainly the result of a simple genetic change, perhaps just a single point mutation, affecting some part of the carotinoid metabolism-essentially the same thing that happens in albinism but in a different metabolic pathway.

No bird has such a whirling thing on its head, nor a fish on its tail.

Often bites are not intentional ; for example, if the bird slips from the owner's shoulder, it is likely to try to grab the nearest thing to hold on to, which may well be part of the owner's face.

:" Where the ' white bird ' thing came from ... We were like caged birds in that attic.

Big Bird thinks " Well, what a good thing it would be if a great big American bird went to meet that beautiful Chinese bird!

In the case of the Flintstones ' cuckoo clocks, which varied from mechanical toys to live birds announcing the time, when the hour approached 12: 00, the bird inside the clock " cuckooing " usually just ran out of steam and gave up vocally, physically, or both.

The bird kicked the younger boy, who fell and ran away as his older brother struck the bird.

" Opposing players said Goslin resembled a bird flapping its wings when he ran after a ball with his arms waving.

She put her book down on top of a bird cage and ran to meet him.

The James Whitcomb Riley was renamed the Cardinal on October 30, 1977, as the cardinal was the state bird of all six states through which it ran.

Zerzura was indeed described as a white city that was approachable through a wadi ( valley ) that ran between two mountains, and from the wadi was a road that lead to the gates of the city which had a carving of a strange bird above them.