Of all ungraceful beings, they are the most ungraceful; and of all accomplishments, dancing is the one in which they shine least.
This ungraceful practice can be tolerated only for a moment when the mud is very deep.
A series of badly arched lancets in the choir are ungraceful and not in keeping with the other constructive details.
What triforium there is is squat and ugly, with ungraceful openings, and the high-altar is a modern work in the pseudo-classic style, quite unworthy as a work of art.
Two ungraceful towers flank a classical portico, one of which is possessed of the usual ludicrous clock-face.
So ungraceful a view of the sacred core of this modern democratic organisation will need whatever evidence can be cited to keep it in countenance.
The word has by usage come to have an altogetherungraceful air of disapproval.
Try not to swing your arms and beungraceful in walking.
She is doing two of the most ungraceful things: putting her arm akimbo and crossing her legs!
Altogether, his head would look well in a picture, though his ordinary and ungraceful dress, and quick, bustling manner, rather destroy the effect of it in society.
It rains hard to-day, and their white dresses cling to them with a ludicrously ungraceful effect.
The women have a more pleasing expression, but the timid furtive look, the ungainly gait, and the ungraceful contour of their abaká skirts, detract from the moderate beauty that they possess in their youth.
The lower part of the garment on the left side bulges out so far that it makes the woman's figure ungraceful in appearance.
Ringlets were buried under mob-caps and old woollen-hoods, and smothered in bad straw hats and superannuated felt jockeys, tied down in the same ungraceful manner as those of the men.
Also avoid ungraceful position and awkward attitude, but cultivate grace and beauty in herself.
Shy men and shy races are ungraceful and undemonstrative, because, as regards society at large, they are comparatively unsociable.
Sylvia looked at this ungracefulattitude with strong disapproval.
It had two rows of formal, short andungraceful windows, that being a point in orthodoxy at the period of its erection.
It would be much more comfortable, as even a stout lady could not look much more ungraceful than she does now, besides materially lessening the danger.
Nothing could be more ungraceful or more unwomanly than for women to ride like men; and for short women or "little girls," it would be most objectionable.
The extremelyungraceful and unpleasant motion known as the "double rise" is attributable to two distinct causes.
Annihilation of the instinctive forces of the horse, in order to substitute for them forces transmitted by the rider, and to give ease and beauty of motion to the ungraceful animal.
On my knees I beg-- And down the ungraceful wretch dropped on his knees.
Excuse me, my dear, this seeming levity; but those we do not love, appear in every thing ungraceful to us.
If, however, any should admit the truth, but regret the tone of what I have said, lean only pray them to consider how much less harm is done in the world by ungraceful boldness, than by untimely fear.
The simple and touching devoutness of many of Bishop Ken's lyrical effusions has been unregarded, because of the ungraceful contrivances, and heavy movement of his narrative.
Round his waist he wore a dhotee of coarse muslin, tight above, so as to form the kummerbund, or waistband, but thence falling in loose and not ungraceful folds down the legs to the ankles.
The man, watching, wondered if this marvelous creamy yellow animal could get into an ungraceful position.
She simply couldn't get into an ungraceful attitude.
An ungraceful manner of speaking, awkward motions, and a disagreeable address, are great clogs to the ablest man of business, as the opposite qualifications are of infinite advantage to him.
I am told that you speak very quick, and not distinctly; this is a most ungraceful and disagreeable trick, which you know I have told you of a thousand times; pray attend carefully to the correction of it.
