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It had the clunky title: "What if the Female Manager of a High-School Baseball Team read Drucker's 'Management'" .

If the OS is clunky and overstuffed, like what you'll find on the BlackBerry, you'll have a devil of a time doing everything on your device.

An added problem was the Desire Mid's squared-off outsole design at the forefoot, which made the shoe feel a bit clunky to me.

I found the rear of the shoe to be overly bulky, resulting in a clunky feel and an excess of heel slip.

The interface is clunky, but the idea of a search robot beats the hell out of an RSS feed any day.

You can get all of that wonderful Star Trek tech with none of its clunky looks.

The space saved by either of these is well worth the replacement of a clunky, old, space-hogging ladder.

He was an early cellphone user, and she would call on his big, clunky model to berate him.

I don't know how you could like this clunky wood. It's oppressive.

For some scientists, inflation is a clunky addition to the Big Bang model, a necessary complexity appended to make it fit with observations.

She did sign the legislation, but the result is a clunky collection of spreadsheets and PDFs.

But, unless you spend a lot of time learning to get good at it, the process is clunky and best used only when you absolutely must.

They developed an all-electric car, a clunky vehicle called the Flyer that was just a step above a golf cart.

Like the rest of the ComVu Web site, the page is clunky, but Mr. Lohmann promises an upgrade soon.

But until recently the technology used to run them was getting pretty clunky and outdated.

The interaction is kind of clunky, and it's hard to see all the movement, even when you zoom in, simply because there are so many lines.

This is not to say that Tim's walking is some clunky metaphor. Mr Ferris is wise enough not to teach a lesson.

Prior versions of Drupal had a clunky ordering and placement interface, but this new option is much more efficient and direct.

In spite of its sometimes clunky interface and cumbersome networking tools, credible business people can no longer afford to avoid LinkedIn.

Waiting for page loads -- especially from slow servers -- gives the impression of a clunky, old-style interface.

You don't need to turn on your TV to view menus or use a clunky separate remote to control your iPod.

It can be clunky, but shoppers will get used to it as smartphone penetration increases.

A big problem was that both TCL and Thomson focused on clunky old models made using cathode-ray tubes.

It's the first brain-wave scanner to be worn on an arm or leg, forgoing clunky headgear.

Researchers investigating the neurons in a crayfish's tail reported astonishment at how clunky and inelegant the circuit was.

The text tool is a bit clunky, but it's more than adequate for quick jobs.

At best, it's an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book.

And most would find the keyboard that shipped with the original IBM PC to be clunky, says Hill.

Homeroom Security'' is an academic book with clunky transitions, charts, and appendices.

Congress now caps visas for foreign workers, a clunky system that does not match supply too precisely with demand.

Thanks to clunky user interfaces, durability issues and limited utility, the tablet has been filed away as a niche device again and again.

Start looking at Ajax and how to turn your clunky Web interfaces into responsive Ajax applications.

It's getting unseemly. Books were once such handsome things. Suddenly they seem clunky, heavy, almost fleshy in their gross materiality.

The first integrated circuit (invented by Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments, see above) was a clunky affair.

It does look a little clunky, now, although I still prefer this over the redesign.

The technology, pioneered with the famous birth of Dolly the sheep in 1996, is still clunky and expensive.

The proprietary software used to download books from the Sony store is clunky.

Already, some sales executives are looking to leverage the iPad in sales presentations, rather than using a clunky laptop.

Plus, it'd just be neat. Once again, there are add-on devices that do this, but they're clunky and hang off the phone in unattractive ways.

A combination of high and confusing pricing, and services often criticized as clunky, have dampened users' enthusiasm.

This is not to say that Tim's walking is some clunky metaphor.

WinMo feels really clunky when you use a finger, and you otherwise have to use an annoying (and easily lost) stylus.

Google's openness comes at a cost; the phones vary widely, and some customers complain that Android phones are clunky and confusing to use.

XML is hierarchical, and modeling (and querying) graph structures in relational databases is clunky.

But today's hair transplant technology is as far removed from yesterday's as the iPhone is from the clunky 1980s car phone.

Admittedly, that androgynous waistcoat and tie shtick, based on Diane Keaton's own wardrobe of vintage menswear, looks a little clunky now.

Mike: It's about time you got a new digital camera, instead of the clunky one you've been using for years.

The current menuing system needs to be changed to something less clunky with the ribbon.

E-mail is clunky to use, and there's no dedicated headset jack for listening to music or making wired calls.

As it battled for market share in late 2007, it came under fire for its poor design and clunky user interface.

It has made software that, by comparison with Apple's, is buggy and clunky.

Researchers instead opt for more clunky but less misleading terms like traumatic mishaps.

This is using mature technology in a clunky way, but it is still mature technology.

Today, corporate workers are often running clunky old Windows XP desktops, and they're getting frustrated.

The end result is an application that doesn't feel clunky or slow, but instead is responsive, interactive, and feels faster.

Yet critics say the present version of the OLPC machine is too expensive, too clunky and too slow.

The clunky lightsaber is connected to a power pack via the tube.

The screens are too small, and the input mechanisms -- improved as they are -- are way too clunky.

But if your country's tax-collection online offering is slow, clunky or just plain dull, then tough.

TRANSPORTING large, clunky bits of equipment has always posed a challenge.

The current system, albeit relatively clunky, could be purchased for as little as $350.

And instead of putting clunky cartridges of toner into the printers, customers just pop in the sticks of ink.

The only problem was (and is) that JDBC is fairly clunky to use.

Calling Windows API functions is clunky, because VB data structures don't map nicely to C.

TRANSPORTING large, clunky bits of equipment is difficult.

Imitations desktops to-date have simply been clunky and slow imitations of the real-thing at best.

This kind of clunky, time-consuming interaction is common on the Web.

It is surely more elegant than the clunky "doing due diligence" , a corruption of "exercising due diligence" .

But these probes are clunky and need a wide tract to move through.

They highlight the government's sloth in honouring its election promises to reform Poland's clogged and clunky public administration.

We could do this with inner classes, but they are so clunky to use that sometimes it seemed the cure was worse than the disease.

The technology remains clunky in some cases, with downloads requiring dozens of text messages.

No downloads and no clunky updates mechanism.

At the risk of offense, I won't list a lot of existing online clunky sites, but surf around, and you'll find plenty.

The words we use to describe the resulting code are evocative: clunky, bloated, smelly.

If you watched, you probably also noticed how big and clunky that device is.

Then a sleek, mobile laptop displaced the clunky desktop.

The results, all too often, are clunky interfaces.

Even with Tk set up for Ruby it is somewhat clunky.

This is what makes Web applications in particular feel clunky or slow -- the lack of real interactivity.

Doesn't matter if you're clunky, you'll be hip and you'll be funky when you dance in smarty pants. Watch me now, hey!

Many users found Entourage clunky and complicated, and it couldn't directly import data from Outlook on Windows.

The Alvin is clunky, but it can carry many video cameras and monitors in its viewing hull.

Its own operating system, Symbian, which was not designed for touch, looked clunky.

Slightly clunky, but on the right track.

Projectors are too big and clunky, right?

Note how clunky this pull style sheet is.

Clunky? What's he talking about?

The zip is a #3 coil rather than the great big clunky #5 or #8 toothed jobs found in commercial bags.

And the Bluetooth technology, which BT chose because it wanted first-mover advantage[6], is "the most clunky system ever" , says Mr Merry.

The zip is a #3 coil rather than the great big clunky #5 or #8 toothed jobs found in commercial bags.

And the Bluetooth technology, which BT chose because it wanted first-mover advantage[6], is "the most clunky system ever" , says Mr Merry.

But simply bolting on TV service in this way is clunky.

And so they bring in this big, clunky analog tape recorder, and they start recording these little bleep, bleeps.

I don't want a clunky answering machine, I want the message it saves.

This boasts not only a wireless link, but also a touchscreen interface that is much slicker than the Kindle's clunky buttons.

And it is made not by a hipster-beloved company such as Apple but by clunky old Microsoft.

CNN uses dumb quotes, which look clunky and lifeless, while The New York Times uses smart quotes, which look clean and sophisticated

Clunky Clumsy in form or manner; awkward