Formerly the administration was a cumbrous one, impeded by traditional obstacles; it may perhaps be said to have regarded itself as the primary object and the public which it should serve as of subordinate consideration.
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He felt that the belted plaid was " cumbrous and unwieldy ", and his solution was to separate the skirt and convert it into a distinct garment with pleats already sewn, which he himself began wearing.
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On the other hand, he is full of cumbrous repetition, he lacks precision in argument and is prone to digression, his quotations from Scripture are often inappropriate, and he is greatly influenced by Jewish exegesis.
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His style is clear, direct and remarkably free from cumbrous Latin constructions; he employed, whenever he could, the pithy and homely sayings of the peasants, and is not reluctant to point his moral with a rough humour.
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The English visitor noted the small, sturdy Norman horses " running away with our cumbrous machine, at the rate of six or seven miles an hour . " At this speed stagecoaches could compete with rail network expanded in the 19th century.
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Somewhere between the extremes of wringing our hands helplessly and dispatching almost 20, 000 troops in vast, cumbrous, publicized array, we should be able to organize and support a small revolution to knock over or buy out would-be despots.
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It was lumbered with turned work sawed in half and glued on, with panels overlaying and intersecting each other at odd angles, and with cumbrous pendants under the corners, all of which work was injurious, and much of which was ugly.
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A careful exclusion of all Gallicisms, as a reaction against the French influences of the day, is one of the marked features of his style, which is not infrequently impassioned and eloquent, though at the same time cumbrous, involved and ornate.
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Origin is the Swedish lomra, " to resound, " and loma, " to walk heavily "; Middle English picked up the imitative word ( like rumbling, crumbling, cumbrous, ponderous ) in the 14th century as lomeren.
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This week's scheduled summit in Moscow between Vladimir Putin and Bill Clinton would not be to Churchill's taste; hordes drawn up in a vast cumbrous array ( what a mouth-filling derogation of staff ) will be whispering in summiteers'ears.
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