Word: cumbrous
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...century's greatest composers, and since he outlived all major contenders for the title except Stravinsky, during recent years he reigned in almost solitary splendor. Yet, compared to such contemporaries as Richard Strauss and Debussy, to say nothing of Alban Berg and Prokofiev, Sibelius often sounded cumbrous and provincial. No major composer stood more stubbornly aside from the 20th century's musical revolutions or responded less to the shifting winds of musical development...
...rich and penetrating fantasy of life in the Nile delta in the last hours of King Farouk. In Revolution and Roses he has moved on in time to the period when an Egyptian army clique led by General Naguib and Colonel Nasser turn out Farouk and take on the cumbrous business of governing a country that had "never had any real independence since...
...Eden pleaded that faced with Israel's sudden action the British and French had to act too swiftly for "the inevitably cumbrous processes" of the U.N. But the British had known of the Israelis' in tentions earlier, with France doing most of the dirty work in linking the three nations in conspiracy (TIME...
Though the plotless play is overlong and sometimes cumbrous and clumsy, these weaknesses-as not often in O'Neill -have their value. The repetitions, for example, are in character, as coming from broken-willed people with a neurotic need for the solace or savagery of words. The plotlessness is the measure of their impotence. The play's language-merely straightforward and blunt, except where the self-dramatizing old actor and the word-conscious young writer empurple it -has in the theater far more trenchancy than the half-poetized prose so frequent in O'Neill. Even the lengthiness...
...leave the West helpless during the first vital hours, while the Reds could be atom-bombing at will. John Foster Dulles put forward a compromise solution that won unanimous approval. In effect, it established that the statesmen have final authority, and generals were bound to consult them, but no cumbrous machinery of confining rules was laid down. After all, said Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak: "If an atomic bomb knocks out the telephone, I don't think we can wait for the service to be re-established before we make a decision...