Yet it is proving to be a clumsy solution to a complex problem.
Another tells of a clumsy wizard who caused a rainbow to collapse into the Lago di Carezza, a lake which still glows a luminous green to this day.
But the devil is more likely to be found in the execution details, and good strategic choices executed in a clumsy manner are not a recipe for success.
There were some kettle bells lying around, like cannonballs with handles attached, and a clumsy-looking thing called a Thomas Inch dumbbell.
On Tuesday, Miller -- who succeeded Shulman as IRS commissioner last November -- admitted he helped engineer a clumsy public disclosure of the controversy through a planted question at an American Bar Association event on May 10.
Stops along the way include downtown restaurants and clubs, a Fulton Market cooking class (a clumsy scene), Ellis Island (a borderline-manipulative scene about a borderline-manipulative strategy) and an unlikely, though entertaining, Jet Ski interlude on the Hudson River.
Yet the fact remained that in a clumsy, inarticulate way, Twitter was taking a stand.
There was a clumsy early attempt to gag the sites when a senior minister pulled them up for hosting "objectionable content".
But it does this in such a clumsy and potentially harmful way by imposing a low uniform ceiling that it is worse than no rule at all.
His life was threatened twice, first by a doped-up expatriate and then by a clumsy donkey that Davidson, fearful of falling into a ravine, punched in the nose.
Then there was the time in the early 1980s when he prospected for gold in the jungles of Mexico, where his life was threatened first by a doped-up expatriate then by a clumsy donkey that Davidson, fearful of falling into a ravine, punched in the nose.
In a clumsy way, Wick had identified the problem with Mexicans: how would they fit into a system that drew a sharp distinction between blacks and whites?
But a clumsy apartheid-era law, the Aliens Control Act, has prevented this, as have a suspicious attitude towards foreigners and an impossibly bureaucratic immigration process.
But Beckett made a clumsy boo-boo the other night when he got defensive about his off-day habits following a poor start in a loss to Cleveland at Fenway Park.
First he flew into a clumsy challenge on Callum Woods, for which he was fortunate not to be booked, then, having flashed a low shot across goal, he was on the receiving end of a crack on the shin from the Pars player he had up-ended.
"At school, if a kid is a little clumsy or not talking like the others, all of a sudden they are referred to speech therapy or early intervention, " says Michel Cohen, a pediatrician who runs Tribeca Pediatrics in New York.
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Instead, you are now a clumsy oaf who is just getting in the way.
Interrupt someone explaining why they love a certain restaurant to point out a clumsy turn-of-phrase?
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Messi escaped the attentions of Arjen Robben, but was halted by a clumsy challenge by Chelsea's Spanish defender.
One thing he will discover: Setting interest rates is a clumsy, blunderbuss, hit-or-miss way to conduct monetary policy.
It was better to backtrack, every move elegantly reversed, than to climb in a clumsy or scrappy way.
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Goalscorer McGowan was fortunate to escape without even a yellow card for reacting angrily to a clumsy Sproule challenge.
In the past radiation was a clumsy and undiscriminating weapon, killing cancer cells and healthy cells in one sweep.
Why is Israel's prime minister getting off to such a clumsy, quarrelsome start?
The 100-point rating system is a clumsy and useless tool for examining wine.
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Worse was to come for Chelsea as Lampard was given his marching orders for a clumsy challenge on Fernando.
Scholes was sent off in the second half after he picked up a second yellow card following a clumsy tackle.
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Brunt then picked up a yellow card for a clumsy tackle which means he will miss the qualifier against Slovenia.
His re-election plan has been in doubt since a clumsy attempt to sack Pakistan's chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, in March.
Moments earlier, Uruguay's Martin Caceres was sent off after a second yellow card for a clumsy foul on Newcastle's Jonas Gutierrez.
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