Example sentences for: lumbering

How can you use “lumbering” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The drama is spelled out in that lumbering bible, Das Kapital , where in the deepening crises of capitalism, and the sharpening knives of the class struggle, the end of days arrives, as Marx put it in the penultimate chapter of Volume I, when the capitalist "integument" bursts asunder, and the new society, nurtured in the womb of the old, steps forth as social labor, cooperative labor, communal harmony (the transit workers and Giuliani) in a mutual embrace.

  • Volpes ( volpe fox) were cunning, Orsinos ( orso bear) lumbering, Manzos ( manzo bullock) taciturn, Botolinos ( botolo snapping cur) irascible, Cagnas ( cagna bitch) surly, and Buffas ( buffa Sicilian dialect for toad) detestable.

  • A smartie will talk his cheese into going to the rubbidy and dudding some pervy old mug into lumbering her.

  • This "lumbering and clumsy" alliance, incapable of "managing such brush fires as Kosovo," could "lose the Kosovo war in a month against the ruin of a rump state," warned columnist Charles Krauthammer.

  • Critics bemoan the absence of songs in this latest film depiction of the romance between British widow Anna Leonowens and King Mongkut of Siam, familiar to most viewers through the musical The King and I . Critics contend that leads Jodie Foster and Chow Yun-Fat have weak chemistry and that the film is "a luxuriant, lumbering behemoth … pleasant, occasionally amusing--and often dull" (Andy Seiler, USA Today ). Roger Ebert gives a surprisingly harsh review: "It is an exotic escapist entertainment for matinee ladies, who can fantasize about sex with that intriguing bald monster and indulge their harem fantasies" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). Jay Carr of the Boston Globe dissents from the pack, calling the film "a lot more than The King and I minus Rodgers's and Hammerstein's music.


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