Grey is the "must-have color for ovens, " it informed me, making a clumsy link between the appliance and the blockbuster trilogy.

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His song had the rather clumsy title of I am I...or I am Me... or Me am I - doesn't really work well in English, does it?

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It's set in the present, though that wasn't problematic for me, and fitted with a crucial plot twist that comes to feel clumsy, plus an ending that provides all-too-conventional uplift.

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He would sit next to me as I chopped, eyes fixed firmly on the floor, waiting for my knife work to prove clumsy enough for a carrot or tomato to drop.

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Which brings me around again to the Lexus system, which just four years ago seemed quite clever and now seems clumsy and naive, compared with the recent crop of systems with capacitive (touch-sensitive, iPhone-style) touch screens.

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