inelegance

"You have a certain inelegance of expression, my lady."

You will forgive me if I occasionally digress from the point, or express myself with a certain inelegance.

In the act there was the inelegance of one whose feelings are nipped and wishes defeated.

Like elegance, inelegance can become a pose, too.

There is a certain inelegance to the arrangement, but - picky, picky.

The names were the only inelegance.

Last night, they repeated their stylistic inelegance, but also duplicated their rewarding result.

Sean flopped into his couch with customary inelegance.

Believing that the film simply intended to shock viewers with its taboo subject matter, he felt offended by the story's "sheer inelegance".

"Inelegance was forced on us.

"Same here," Chameleon said, flashing Trent a breathtaking smile that more than made up for the inelegance of her speech.

They bowed, demonstrating a peculiarly orcish form of inelegance.

Bach's cantatas have a wonderful inelegance.

She felt nothing for its demise, except perhaps disgust at the rolls of blubber, and the absurd inelegance of her distress.

Still, many theorists have grown dissatisfied with the inelegance and dubious ontology behind possible-worlds semantics.

For the first time his soul revolted against the dull inelegance of Capel Street.

This is why I have persisted in using the label cultural-ideological, risking the sin of inelegance for the possibility of clarity.

Inelegance is not the only problem: the 17 keV neutrino does not fit happily into the big bang.

Copernicus' system used only uniform circular motions, correcting what was seen by many as the chief inelegance in Ptolemy's system.

But the film's formal inelegance is a sign of its seriousness, and also of the complexity of its chosen subject.

The book reflects its subject not just in its energy and drive but also in its inelegance and sprawl.

It is detailed, concrete and enables even the most unimaginative writer to eliminate gross bias without gross inelegance.

An inexplicable misfeature; gratuitous inelegance.

Of pride, indeed, there was, perhaps, scarcely enough; his indifference to a confusion of rank, bordered too much on inelegance of mind.

In 1998, it was also referred to as the "duct tape that holds the Internet together", in reference to its ubiquity and perceived inelegance.