(1) Clearly, members were unhappy with the cumbrous nature of the rulemaking process.

(2) Her treatise has the usual cumbrous apparatus of scholarly citation, though I did wonder about her methods of research.

(3) The parry of prime which was effectual enough when a heavy cut was to be stopped was too slow and cumbrous to keep pace with the nimbler thrust.

(4) Without decimals, Europe would have remained trapped in the cumbrous Roman system of numeration.

(5) If that be so he will have a choice, which will often be a choice between the old, cumbrous , costly, on the one hand, the modern, rapid, cheap, on the other.

(6) His ribs must have been tearing at their cumbrous shell.

(7) I shall hope that a more rigorous, if more cumbrous , mode of expression will always be readily available.

(8) In the Middle Ages the cumbrous but powerful crossbow was widely used in continental Europe.

(9) Still, they will not be blocking intersections or chanting beneath cumbrous papier-mache puppets.

(10) Under the cumbrous heading u2018Possible Engagements Are to be Regarded as Real Ones Because of their Consequencesu2019, Clausewitz explained further what he meant by this u2018priority of engagementsu2019.

(11) Early European settlers adopted the process, but found less cumbrous methods.

(12) He replied that the proxy bill was not unconstitutional, though its mode of operation was u2018inconvenient, cumbrous and liable to fraud and abuse.u2019

(13) It was anti-futuristic, so cumbrous and mechanical that even the acronym seemed dated.

(14) It was his role to give the villains their orders for the night, haggle over the prices and keep a candle burning in the dissecting room waiting for the cumbrous sacks to arrive.

(15) Against such a view as his, it can be argued that touring something as cumbrous and labor-intensive as opera is an expensive business.

(16) At the heart of this strange embedded narrative lies a cumbrous allegory.

(17) On the one hand, victims of crime could now bring their cases to the attention of the authorities through bills of indictment instead of through the cumbrous and difficult procedure of appeal.

(18) The subordinate forms in a period are often nested one within the other, like Chinese boxes; in its most complex forms it can be cumbrous and hard to follow.

(19) He moves softly and cumbrously , not unlike a bear who has been taught to walk upright.

(20) Over time, its descendants became ever more adept at swimming and paid for their aquatic prowess with increasing cumbrousness on land.

(21) Slowly and cumbrously it made its way along the line until it reached the end of the section at Attack Creek.

(22) Not a small part of this new cumbrousness is due to the loss of distinctions between words, the misuse of words, and other abuses of language.

(23) In them the movement is, as a rule, only swift when compared with the normal pace of armies, and the cumbrousness and elaboration of the military machine lessen the feeling of personal adventure.

(24) The first thing I noticed on the drive up was the full buttery moon cumbrously suspended over the Manhattan skyline, pregnant with hope.

(25) We want to be lifted above the cumbrousness of the mortal body - above the pains of the mortal body - above the death of the mortal body.

(26) So one kind of knew what to expect from this cumbrously titled opus.

(27) The higher self craves freedom from the cumbrousness , the limitations, the pains and disabilities of the body.

(28) U2018Numerals, in the rare cases in which they appear at all, are cumbrously written out or, in late times, expressed in Roman style.u2019