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These used to look fine with fur-trimmed jackets, but they look quite different with mini-ball-dresses or virtual underwear, and they looked grotesque on tiny Oksana Baiul in her pink swan-queen outfit at Lillehammer, Norway, in 1994--the too-direct reference to traditional ballet suddenly made her skates look ungainly.
You couldn’t miss Piazza Venezia if you tried — and many do try, because of its endless traffic jams and the arguably ungainly white marble Vittorio Emanuele Monument.
Critics slam her voice as "false and ungainly" (Jonathan Levi, the Los Angeles Times ) and complain that her diary is tainted by ideas and language that sound awkwardly mature.
Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which relocates King Lear on an Iowa farm, has been adapted into "an ungainly, undigested assembly of 'women's issues' " (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Critics call its screenplay soap-operatic: The Lear figure (Jason Robards) molests his daughters (Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Jennifer Jason Leigh), who babble in lengthy pop-psych disquisitions.
However, once the speakers get to the middle and upper octaves, their limitations become more apparent; hence, the steely pianos, smeared cymbals, ungainly dynamics, and the rest.