unidiomatic

This unidiomatic expression was used as the subtitle of the second volume.

Spinning can result in unidiomatic phrasing that no human writer would choose.

Yet the resultant effect sounds unidiomatic to my ears.

His "unidiomatic and erroneous" use of German had hindered the play's success.

Likewise, it would be very unusual to hear the unidiomatic "I have seen that film at fewest ten times."

(Note that this construction is very unidiomatic in this case.

But he seemed to lack an overarching conception of the work, which came across as episodic and rather unidiomatic.

By all accounts the performances were underprepared, undercast and unidiomatic.

His conducting, which generally pays attention to such matters, was bluff, unidiomatic and insensitive.

But several names are unidiomatic.

The plausible candidates for its leading roles are just too few, and verismo opera does not thrive in unidiomatic performances.

Unidiomatic constructions sound solecistic to fluent speakers, although they are often entirely comprehensible.

And the confrontations between Melena and her father seem perfunctory and unidiomatic.

The principal problem was audible in the orchestra's first notes: a thin, squeezed, raucously loud, utterly unidiomatic sound.

Which makes the curiously unidiomatic performance by George Sperdakos as Luigi, her husband, curiouser still.

Though linguistically unidiomatic, Crooks is tonally ravishing.

And he is sensible, like Mr. Domingo, who brings his own pleasurable yet slightly unidiomatic sheen to the part.

And much, much more, down to such unidiomatic hiccupings as "You are not witting to Swedish chirurgery?"

A shortcoming evident at times throughout this disc is a predilection for understatement, which in this repertoire can sound unidiomatic.

In speaking or writing English, a Gallicism often results from a direct translation from French, giving an unidiomatic expression.

If you do that, you have an extremely unnatural, unidiomatic language; you end up with phrases that no one would ever say."

Toxic comments several times on the limitations of his English, which provides a framework for reading unidiomatic moments in the novel as mimetic of real life.

Even in the central Largo, for the most part sensitively played, he risked a quite unidiomatic accelerando which, miraculously, the orchestra paralleled.

Unfortunately, the catechism was "poorly translated" by Pierson, containing an "unidiomatic, non-Algonquian sentence structure."

Yet the first half, which consisted of the complete Preludes, sounded bafflingly unidiomatic, as if Chopin was something of a novelty for him.