gaucheness

I think Andrew Collins suffers from a kind of gaucheness that some find annoying.

Word Magazine - Comments Colin H 2009

Ferguson has to see Rio Ferdinand as more of a squad player and Phil Jones, despite all the interest taken in him, is a youngster still to learn the trade of centre-half, which is why Ferguson is inclined to play safe and put him elsewhere in the lineup so that any gaucheness or mistakes are more likely to be covered by team-mates.

Manchester United's Sir Alex Ferguson has more to focus on than Barça | Kevin McCarra 2011

There was none of the gaucheness that a stereotype of the scholar might throw up.

X Factor-style search for 10 academics from generation think 2011

That gaucheness, he believed, set the establishment against him and, though Waters explains that Trueman shared the blame for his outlaw image, one cannot help wonder how he might have flourished had he been given the sympathetic treatment at last afforded him by his club when the unsung Ronnie Burnet became captain in 1958.

Fred Trueman: the good, the bad and the grouchy | Rob Bagchi 2011

What makes the Jack Flash sequences arguably escapist is not just their gaucheness but the vicarious thrill of his anti-establishment rebellion.

Essay Rant Thingy Hal Duncan 2009

There was none of the gaucheness that a stereotype of the scholar might throw up.

X Factor-style search for 10 academics from generation think 2011

"The gaucheness with which both Facebookand now Google Buzz have gone about such a noble, selfless pursuit of their future is quite staggering."

Google Buzz fuels rising privacy, security concerns 2010

And when it comes down to it, the charge of gaucheness may be an aesthetic rather than moral judgement, and founded on a fairly accurate assessment of bad craft -- that a grandiose register is not just gratuitous, but is in fact counter-productive, harmful to the work.

Pretentiousness Hal Duncan 2008

The charge of gaucheness can, of course, be dismissed as missing the point in fiction where this is a crucial feature of the narrative voice, where the elevated register is an intentional technique for representing character.

Pretentiousness Hal Duncan 2008

And when it comes down to it, the charge of gaucheness may be an aesthetic rather than moral judgement, and founded on a fairly accurate assessment of bad craft -- that a grandiose register is not just gratuitous, but is in fact counter-productive, harmful to the work.

Archive 2008-04-01 Hal Duncan 2008