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unwieldiness

[ US /ənˈwiɫdinəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of being difficult to direct or control by reason of complexity
    avoiding the unwieldiness of formal legal processes
    the onset of unwieldiness and bureaucracy in large organizations
  2. trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape
    the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano

How To Use unwieldiness In A Sentence

  • The sheer size and unwieldiness of William's homemade instruments made the Herschels' style of astronomy a danger ous business. A Far-Seeing Family
  • The first study showed that birds with long bills spend proportionally more time scratching with their feet than do birds with short bills, presumably as compensation for the unwieldiness of long bills.
  • the onset of unwieldiness and bureaucracy in large organizations
  • For the record, my concerns about The Avengers have more to do with the unwieldiness of the project and those at Marvel than it does with Joss Whedon's capabilities as a filmmaker. Scott Mendelson: Why Did Paramount Sell off Distribution Rights for Avengers and Iron Man 3 to Disney for a Mere $115 Million?
  • Despite the word's unwieldiness, then, I would propose that mimesis and anti-mimesis confront each other-optically, materially, figuratively-in Triptyque through a logic of ‘photo-scotomization.’
  • The failure, if there was a failure, lay within the process, the system, the, "unwieldiness," the too fast a deadline. Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years
  • te 8 Love's Diet it5p6,5p5To what a cumbersome unwieldiness And burdenous corpulence my love had grown, THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • Lapsang Souchong (sustaining properties), manuscripts (unwieldiness) Archive 2009-09-01
  • the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano
  • Just look at those phrases: `cumbersome unwieldiness' and `burdenous corpulence ' -- the words themselves sagging and ungainly on the line. THE CALLIGRAPHER
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