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Awkwardness See also Ineptitude. Clouseau, Inspector Jacques bungling detective who inadvertently but always gets his man. [Am. Cinema: “The Pink Panther” in Halliwell, 565–566] lanky Yankee schoolmaster who loves Katrina. [Am. Lit.: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow] tall, uncouth, awkward fellow with large feet. [Br. Lit.: Vanity Fair] bumbling, awkward dog; originally named Dippy Dawg. [Comics: “Mickey Mouse” in Horn, 492] a penniless, stupid, and oafish poet. [Fr. Lit.: The Hunchback of Notre Dame] ungainly comic strip oaf with height of six foot three. [Comics: Horn, 450] simple-minded, clumsy giant; parasite of George. [Am. Lit.: Of Mice and Men] falls off his horse every time it stops. [Br. Lit.: Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass] |
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| It's no coincidence that California's government, in the most varied and populous of states, has, for all its undeniable unwieldiness, so many avenues of public responsiveness. Sub-bass complaints persist about the unwieldiness and fractiousness of the museum's forty-odd-member board of trustees. My point, here, is that our curricula our pedagogies might be energized by the unwieldiness, the ungainliness, of both our current and our earlier historical names, and by our necessary historical revisions of those names. |
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