Miranda Hart

If taking one-self seriously as a woman means committing to a life of grooming, pumicing, pruning and polishing one's exterior for the benefit of onlookers, then I may as well leave my unwieldy rucksack to the top of a bleak Scottish hill and make my home there under a stone, where I'll fashion shoes out of mud and clothes out of leaves.

English Actress

Virginia Postrel

Cable companies aren't bad because they're parts of unwieldy media conglomerates. They're bad because they're monopolies (even where they are no longer legally exclusive) and because the government policies that made them monopolies rewarded lobbying over customer service.

American Writer

Mick Ebeling

The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.

American Producer

P. J. O'Rourke

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

American Comedian

Adriana Trigiani

No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever.

American Novelist

Martin Seligman

The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it's subjective.

American Psychologist

Mark Steyn

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Canadian Writer

Stephen Kinzer

During the Cold War, the non-aligned movement tried to become a 'third force' in world politics, but failed because it was too large and unwieldy.

American Author

Henry David Thoreau

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

Alan Ball

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

American Director

Picture 'unwieldy' items as large or awkward to help remember when to use it.

Visual Imagery

Use 'unwieldy' when something requires a lot of effort to move or handle.

Physical Effort

'Unwieldy' also applies to items hard to move because of shape, not just size.

Not Just Size

Use 'unwieldy' for large systems or structures that are difficult to understand or navigate.

Complex Systems

It describes a complicated hierarchy or process within an organization or plan.

Organizational Challenges

Metaphorically, 'unwieldy' can express the burdensome nature of emotional issues.

Emotional Weight

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 to help British air traffic controllers efficiently update flight plans. However, the technology was too unwieldy and expensive for widespread use. Over the following decades, engineers further developed this technology and experimented with alternative kinds of touchscreens.

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 we mustn't forget the whole package. The goals are an unwieldy set of indicators, goals and targets, but they also include the challenges our world faces. The fact that the SDGs are focusing attention on the fact that we face a crisis in personal rights and inclusiveness