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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.
McCain's somewhat ungainly slogan, "The New Patriotic Challenge," owes a debt to this.
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.
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.