Word: cumbrously
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...imposition on the rather credulous, a vast and cumbrous monkeyshine surely there can be no course embalmed in any catalogue that is so very trivial, so sadly and wholly useless as this. Its lectures may be amusing and sometimes even instructive, but the laboratory is the exhalation that kills...
Deploring, polling, and circulating petitions have been the immemorial prerogatives of the collegiate journalist. To damn with faint praise a now more fashionable than to deplore; to poll has become both cumbrous and prosaic; but to sent out a petition, preferably one raising some great and starting issue, can still be relied upon to achieve the sweet thrill of fame. And so the Brown Herald, oppressed by the taedium vitae, thought it might be a good thing to count heads on one of our more perplexing problems. Accordingly the Brown student body, and all owners of college printing presses, were...
...humor lies largely in the excellent situations developed. The quips are obvious, occasionally cumbrous, and, except when Jean Dixon handles them rather unconvincing. But the authors were quick to realize that the real wit lay in their subject, in their caustic satire. If at times this becomes rather broad and slapstick, they may be excused by the fact that as a rule they stick to their knitting and produce what is a very necessary douche for America's most chronic, most virulent ailment...
...himself cannot enter his own City of London. The Awful Man is Sir William Phené Neal, Lord Mayor of London. Sir Phené Neal is also Chief Magistrate of the City of London. In his great stiff robes, in his flowing full-bottomed wig, and adorned with his cumbrous, jingling golden chains of office, Sir Phené Neal personified last week British Justice - the world's quickest, most impressive, best...
...scenery and costuming is done with a taste and lavishness that is seldom found in productions of this kind. The chorus, unfortunately, does not equal its environment. As a rule the dancing is cumbrous and at time faulty in execution which seems inexcusable, and a great many of the girls appear to have good friends in the front row which detracts from the effect of the thing...