heavyhanded

Example Sentences

• "Fuso also had a thing when holding things – at times they just fell off and broke, the reason why he prefered^([sic]) using china and glasses at the table and he never held newborn babies.[…]Fuso didn't consider himselft^([sic]) clumsy though, heavyhanded was a more acceptable word."
• "Jordan Bartel of the Chicago Tribune named the chapter a timeless and saw a feasible Emmy recommendation for Vincent Kartheiser, however sensed the kitchenette sink allegorism and finishing voiceover was a itty-bitty heavyhanded."
• "Its ending is heavyhanded: the main character turns and addresses the audience--and it's made clear he's talking specifically to the black audience only--and tells them to "wake up."
• "It is ironic that the usual criticism regarded as damning Lawrence is precisely that he is heavyhanded, that he labours the point, that he is overinsistent."
• "Morton's heavyhanded humour when he denies imagined accusations of coprophemia, aischrolatreia and lalochezia by saying that "you - dear reader - can decide for yourself after perusing the remaining two hundred pages" is made heavier still by the fact that nobody at Atlantic noticed that this estimate is 100 pages out."
• "The heavyhanded loyalty oath and affidavit requirements of the NDEA fellowships have received a great deal of publicity, but the real coercive effect of NDEA on graduate education has little to do with such know-nothing excrescences."