A clumsy child

Liquor is stupid.

Clumsy as children.

It was very clumsy of me.

Bring your cup closer. Oh, I'm so clumsy.

And when I say clumsy, I'm not exaggerating.

This is a picture of me from a very awkward stage in my life.

It was a clumsy way to introduce myself.

You're the most deliciously clumsy of women.

Juan Cole describes Erdogan's attempt to block the micro blogging service as clumsy

Well I'm ditsy, socially awkward, and terrible at talking to men that I like.

That room's private! said Hall, and the stranger shut the door clumsily and went into the bar.

China has become surprisingly maladroit in handling the US and its Asian neighbors in recent months.

To varying degrees, these governments have undermined their democratic credentials by failing to protect civil and human rights and employing heavy handed tactics against their opponents.

He lit it clumsily, and folding his arms began to smoke in a languid attitude, an attitude which his occasional glances up the yard altogether belied.

All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

(Russia has also tried heavy handed tactics on Moldova by threatening to ban the country s wine exports to Russia and to recognize the independence of the breakaway territory of Transnistria.)

Discretionary fiscal policy is often clumsy in responding to recession, given the usual lags in legislative and administrative implementation and the politics of pork and special interests surrounding spending and tax decisions.

If repeated, this pattern may erode confidence in financial markets and regulators, which could well lead to heavy handed regulation, the expansion of the state, and retrenchment from globalization.

Impolitic or not, Biden s anxieties seem to have informed several of the administration s early foreign policy decisions.

All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

In a recent letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, she wrote, We believe this approach could be a blunt and imprecise instrument of fear, rather than one of persuasion, that will take us down a dangerous path and adversely impact US manufacturers, farmers, and consumers.

It was to foil this agreement that the military branch of Hamas, run from Damascus, engaged in the provocation that brought a heavy handed response from Israel which in turn incited Hezbollah to further provocation, opening a second front.

Sometimes her efforts were heavy handed, as when she embraced AIDS victims physically as a metaphor for social inclusion sometimes they backfired, as when her shared intimacies with servants provided fodder for a flood of posthumous tell all books.