South Africa's future may well be unspectacular neither miraculous nor catastrophic, more an ungainly muddling through.
For the Games it looks ungainly from the outside, with its steel-framed, fabric-sheathed wings of temporary seating.
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Its XPS M2010 portable computer is slick, but at 18.3 pounds it's more than a little ungainly.
It's a bit ungainly, but finally it feels like having one of those wonderful adventure books illustrated by N.
Dorsey yearns to create streamlined beauty out of giant ungainly systems that at first glance appear to be irredeemably chaotic.
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The project has the rather ungainly codename at the moment of EPS-SG - but its technology promises to be cutting-edge.
Gamification is the ungainly name for its re-emergence in the social sphere.
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But when you do look up, expecting to see some stork-legged youth gliding elegantly away it is invariably another ungainly bloater lolloping along.
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His early cartoons, used to illustrate his books of acerbic whimsy, were James Thurberesque caricatures of humanity elongated figures, often grotesque, usually absurd and ungainly looking.
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While these kinds of batteries are too ungainly to power a hearing aid or a cellphone, they could be made to store lots of electricity.
The sense of period, of ungainly English pride, is funny and acute, but the movie mislays its sense of wit as the girls grow up.
Triangular blue pacu, iridescent, fiery-finned pirupatanga and streamlined yellow dorado gather in shoals or slip effortlessly between fallen tree trunks, eyeing the ungainly human intruders warily.
The electronics giant, which has seemed so ungainly and confused during its transition to the era of mobile devices and ecosystems, is finally back in its element.
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For years, many have been predicting the death of Bluetooth, the underachieving technology that served as the slow and ungainly Stephen Baldwin to brother WiFi's Alec.
As it stands, Mr Geithner's Public-Private Investment Programme looks like an ungainly political and financial fudge and far from the market solution the government claims it is (see article).
With the ungainly title of "Managed Account Select, " Schwab has hired the investment consultant Callan Associates to compile a list of 50 money managers, differentiated by a dozen different investment styles.
But many of the objects exhibited are clunky, ungainly, garish, ugly or, stunningly uncomfortable-looking, like Kamsai Yamamoto's (for a "British Design" show, ever so slightly anomalous) knitted-wool stage costume for David Bowie.
Only when cornered is Armstrong making what is expected to be an ungainly U-turn after more than a decade of insisting that he competed clean and of hounding those who suggested otherwise.
Their very haste suggests a growing embarrassment: lumbered with this ungainly process, they too would probably like to be rid of it and to settle for some swift, simple reprimand, such as censure.
He also accounted for Gareth Hopkins, but Vettori, scything the ball in ungainly fashion predominantly to the legside, hit another six off Saeed Ajmal before he was run out in the final over.
The device, called the Dolphin, has a certain elegance and convenience to it: no lines to hook up, no ungainly five gallon jugs to tote around just plug in and witness the magic.
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The clever, albeit ungainly Remote Wrangler is a unique (and admittedly unsightly) piece of headgear that turns your average couch potato into a professional wrestler wannabe, and also creates a remote control magnet all around one's face.
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His debut album Oh Me Oh My The Way The Day Goes By The Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs Of The Christmas Spirit may have an ungainly name, but some critics are calling it a timeless and irresistible recording.
Most recently, Garry Kasparov has entered the political fray, helping to found Other Russia, a somewhat ungainly coalition of parties from the Left and the Right who have joined forces to challenge Vladimir Putin's creeping totalitarianism and offer a democratic alternative in upcoming elections.
Travel pillows sell because no one wants to use those flimsy white ones the crew tosses on seats in the economy cabin. (Not only are these pillows uncomfortable, they're sponges for other people's germs.) Even sales of the ungainly SkyRest have grown 10% to 20% almost every year since its 2002 launch, according to the manufacturer.
The Dolphin will produce 20 liters (a little over five gallons, for those who don't speak metric) of water per day at 70% humidity, which is enough for your office if you go through one of those ungainly water cooler jugs per day or less plus, without the plastic waste, and avoiding other associated costs of water jug transportation (emissions, namely).
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