Both this fragment and Melinno's ode are characterized by Bowra as possessing a " slow, cumbrous progress, quite unlike that of Sappho or Alcaeus ", but which later becomes the style of Latin poet Statius, too, in his " Silvae ".
32.
Drummond also suggested that the " somewhat cumbrous nomenclature " of fat-soluble A, water-soluble B, etc . ( Drummond himself used the expression water-soluble C ) stop in favor of vitamins A, B, C, etc ., until their nature became known.
33.
The belted plaid worn by the Highlanders he employed was too " cumbrous and unwieldy " for this work, so, together with the tailor of the regiment stationed at Inverness, Rawlinson produced a kilt which consisted of the lower half of the belted plaid worn as a " distinct garment with pleats already sewn ".
34.
Cond?s fully developed genius as a commander found little scope in the cumbrous and antiquated system of war practised by the Spanish, and though he gained a few successes, and manoeuvred with the highest possible skill against Turenne, his disastrous Franco-Spanish War, pardoned Cond?and allowed him to return to France.
35.
The Chinese leader's diplomatic legions, drawn up in vast cumbrous array, will issue reams of plans for a " Shanghai round " of negotiations, but what makes this Bush trip necessary is getting, face to face, a promise of intelligence sharing about terror groups, to be followed by arrests and extradition.
36.
That is because two high-powered political lawyers who were entrusted by their clients with details that are thought to make or break candidacies-- and to whom $ 600 an hour is considered chicken feed-- backed up by their vast, cumbrous array of counsel and law clerks, have banished the word from the vocabulary of televised debate.
37.
I conclude that in these carriages with iron wheels, though as cumbrous and uneasy as the scythed cars of the Britons, many pleasure parties make excursions from Plymouth, for a man accosted me and said that if I wanted to see the works, Mr . Johnson, or Thomson or some such name, would show them to me . ..
38.
It is unknown what all the consonant clusters are, few are attested as shown in the corpus above, but presumably are more flexible and varied than of the consonant clusters found in the Elvish languages, as the language was said to be " cumbrous and unlovely " ( Silmarillon ch . 10 ) to the elves, with Tolkien describing it as having a cacophonous quality.
39.
For instance, before it was introduced, if headquarters wished to pass any kind of information on to the man on duty in the streets it could only be done by messenger, a waste of time and a very cumbrous method compared with that in existence today . " However, it was not until 1937 that London saw telephones that were erected in Pillars in quantity.
40.
Around 1880, he vociferously opposed public high schools in Oregon, especially Portland, stating " the machinery of the schools has grown too cumbrous and expensive a system; that there are too many studies; that the high school is not a proper part of the system of public education; . . . that those who desire for their children an education beyond the common branches of the old-fashioned common school should pay for it ."
