But by the time 1969 actually came around, what would such good-natured clunkiness matter?

On a few occasions, we noticed some clunkiness in the transmission.

Even now she would lie awake at night listening to its clunkiness.

For all its deliberate clunkiness, it has a startling spring.

Clunkiness is a problem with Hesse's art when it's badly displayed, but that's not the issue.

He was right to avoid it, and is wrong to castigate himself for eschewing clunkiness.

It is slim, and avoids the clunkiness of so many intrusive new buildings.

"You don't have the clunkiness you had with tapes."

Clunkiness does not translate literally from one language to another any more than elegance does.

Imagine the clunkiness & mechanicality of such music.

"There is a charming clunkiness to them," Ms. Fenichell said.

It is a scene of old-fashioned B-movie clunkiness.

Her back legs lost their clunkiness and became her own long, coltish legs.

Quite simply, for all its clunkiness and patchwork layout, the show aspires to be a Technicolor dream.

I am starting to go to the Independent first because the clunkiness of the Guardian website annoys me too much.

People who like to think of themselves as intelligent and informed technology users are driven crazy by the clunkiness of Windows.

In a book this slim, from a writer this experienced, such clunkiness and repetition are unforgivable.

This day, the bells of the church had a certain clunkiness to their peal, temporary as they are as a new fund-raising drive goes forward.

(Along with its dying heroine, the clunkiness of those episodes must have hurt the film's chances for release.)

But the clunkiness is director Masayuki Suo's way of stopping to make sure that he's emotionally accurate.

The clunkiness has always been due to XUL, not Gecko.

The clunkiness of a speech about the audacity of optimism is a hint about where it was weakest.

All these problems of groove and stylus are now being swept aside by digital technology, which transcends the natural clunkiness of mechanics.

Spin, however, granted the album a 5 out of 10 rating, criticizing the "clunkiness" of Ocasek's lyrics.

Another nice piece of business, despite the clunkiness of their dialogue, is the evolution of Marie and Marco's intimacy.