But for the last quarter of the production's intermissionless two hours, this ungainliness has been erased by the emotional heat on the stage.
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"Lanky " means " tall " but with an added nuance of an appearance of awkwardness or ungainliness, a function of the length of the limbs.
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He strove, he said, to evoke the swannish ungainliness the birds show when, for example, they land on the water and shift their weight backward.
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"All I Wanna Do " lurches between girl-power melodrama and bratty farce, but the ungainliness is part of the film's charm.
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It tries things few other movies attempt, and its venturesomeness ( and terrific blues soundtrack ) compels me to take its ungainliness less seriously than I otherwise might.
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Dressed by O'Connor in undersize clothes that bring out the ungainliness of his height and leanness, he ingeniously folds and unfolds his limbs as though they were collapsible telescopes.
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That leads to girl-power melodrama and bratty farce, but " the ungainliness is part of the film's charm " ( A . O . Scott ).
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And instead of elegance and reserve, there's an ungainliness, a kind of adolescent tumult or comedic anguish that, like the voice in Odets'journal, is raw and unformed.
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In the rather knotty and active forms of the body, I have tried to express that, as well as the rough warmth of his frontier humanity and the ungainliness of his bony frame.
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A new taxicab entered the London fleet this week, black and functional like the traditional ones, but softly contoured and aerodynamically angled where there was once square-fronted, slab-sided ungainliness.
