Word: maladroit
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Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe had barely finished addressing the packed House of Commons when an avalanche of outrage and derision descended. "A catastrophe of the first order for the British people," sputtered Opposition Leader Michael Foot. "Fundamentally wrong in concept and maladroit in detail," complained a fellow Conservative M.P., Peter Tapsell. Said London's staid Financial Times: "An admission of defeat by the government." Blared the tabloid Sun: "Howe it hurts...
...Pissarro could consistently perform on a high level. They saw what the French saw; they studied in Paris; some of them even painted the flowers in Monet's garden at Giverny, with the assiduity of students doing the Roman ruins a century before. They were not trivial or maladroit. Yet charm, rather than inspiration, remained the order of the day. No wonder that Childe Hassam, William Merritt Chase, Edmund Tarbell, John Twacht-man and their colleagues have always seemed to be squeezed uncomfortably between the great Yankee realists like Eakins and Homer in the late 19th century...
...been broken. Elevator operators eye him and always say the same thing: "Basement?" On a night out in a Chinese restaurant, he opens his fortune cookie and gets the check from the next table. The trauma reaches into the intimate parts of his life. He has become such a maladroit lover that he caught a peeping Tom booing him. His wife "cut me down to once a month. I'm lucky. Two guys I know she cut out completely...
...happened, Forster, the maladroit innocent, survived to age 91. By and large, he did so happily, as this long, absorbing biography makes clear. Critic P.N. Furbank knew Forster during the author's latter years and was eventually given access to previously suppressed papers and correspondence. Much of the material concerned Forster's homosexuality, and his whole story could not have been told without it. He was one of the great English novelists of this century, but the foundations of his art rested on a buried life...
...Mounties who had been fielding the classic textbook operation: a sting by a double agent. The KGB appeared so deceived by the Mounties' ruse that one astounded Canadian official said, "One wonders-do they assign their better people here? They seem to have been incredibly crude, gauche and maladroit...