One reason was that Congress's cumbersomeness, which is a function of its fractiousness, is a virtue because it makes the government slow and difficult to move. From Wordnik.com. [December 2005] Reference
The phlogistic theory was destroyed by its own cumbersomeness. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
To me, I see an embedded disgust for the cumbersomeness of state standards. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
Today, the issue of Traditional Chinese's cumbersomeness is almost non-existent. From Wordnik.com. [Ma Government Seeks World Heritage Status for Traditional Characters] Reference
Saturday complained of the "cumbersomeness and long participatory process" associated with World Bank-IMF requirements. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Chris, I am not sure how much meddling from DOD there is at JPL for example but I am not sure about the associated cumbersomeness. From Wordnik.com. [Washington Post Takes Note of "Keep Mike" Effort - NASA Watch] Reference
Two antiphonals from Adelhausen are 53 cm x 37.5 cm and 49 cm x 16.5 cm. 107 We gain a sense of their weight and cumbersomeness in the life of Beli of Liebenberg. From Wordnik.com. [Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany] Reference
Trying to change American policy with all its cumbersomeness and special interests is like trying to turn around an oil tanker – hard, and takes a lot of time and room. From Wordnik.com. [Obama: Agent of Change? Well, Agent of Somethin’ « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference
But the Jews had their delights, their indulgences, their transports, notwithstanding the imperfection of their benevolence, the meagreness of their truth, and the cumbersomeness of their ceremonials. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
The bureaucracy cannot liberalize itself either culturally or politically because its existence as a class depends on its ideological monopoly, which, for all its cumbersomeness, is its sole title to power. From Wordnik.com. [2009 October] Reference
Claims like "4D" and "the next step after 17 years of Mario" are ridiculous, but this might be an actually easily playable implementation of the co-op+competition concept, after all the cumbersomeness with multiple hardware. From Wordnik.com. [E3 Post-Mortem] Reference
Fiction works quite well on the kindle but the poor treatment of footnotes, the cumbersomeness of using location numbers ~1 per sentence instead of page numbers, and the poor page/location management features are all big hurdles. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Legal Books Are Likely To Go Electronic (Pretty Soon)] Reference
The cumbersomeness of the current system, and the political inability to cope with it, reached truly embarrassing levels last year when Congress took more than 11 months to come up with an economically vital one-year patch to protect millions of taxpayers from liability to the Alternative Minimum Tax. From Wordnik.com. [The State of the Stimulus Debate] Reference
The ugly cumbersomeness of the furniture alone impressed her now. From Wordnik.com. [Night and Day] Reference
Charles Dodge - discussion on the cumbersomeness of early computer music. From Wordnik.com. [MATRIXSYNTH] Reference
Facelets has phased out most of the cumbersomeness as to writing JSP pages with JSF. From Wordnik.com. [Hottest News Articles] Reference
Also, the cumbersomeness if you get captivated in by one of these scams is considersuperior. From Wordnik.com. [London Indymedia Features] Reference
He was one of those huge, bottle-shaped boys who are always in motion in spite of their cumbersomeness. From Wordnik.com. [Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William] Reference
However, I think that an over-usage of it can lead to an unnecessary cumbersomeness of the code, without a real benefit. From Wordnik.com. [ASP.NET Forums] Reference
Everyone has several handsets despite the amusing antiquated cumbersomeness of those with a vintage of more than a few years. From Wordnik.com. [Cassandra Does Tokyo] Reference
For Humpy Dee had not allowed for the weight and cumbersomeness of his fetters; neither had he given them credit for their hampering nature. From Wordnik.com. [Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land] Reference
Owing to its cumbersomeness the old-fashioned way of handling it becomes obsolete, and new methods will have to be adopted and hydraulic machinery procured. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions]
The fact that in practice the Territorial Committee ordinarily did participate in the legislative process was largely offset by the exceeding cumbersomeness and indirectness of the system. From Wordnik.com. [The Governments of Europe] Reference
The Public Relations Officer of the Mayor and City Council, Royston King, said that the cumbersomeness of the judicial process was daunting efforts to prosecute people for littering offences. From Wordnik.com. [Stabroek News] Reference
Is it not possible that we may learn to introduce them without the present cumbersomeness of first transforming electrical vibrations to mechanical ones, which the human mechanism promptly transforms back to the electrical form?. From Wordnik.com. [As We May Think] Reference
The ordinary suitor, still left exposed to the pitfalls of the special pleader, the risks (owing to the exclusion of evidence) of a non-suit and the costly cumbersomeness of the Court of Chancery, must often have wished that the subject-matter of his litigation had perished in the flames of the great fire. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Marvell]
"The problem with Chinese is its awesome cumbersomeness. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
Most people, I suspect, will not encounter much of the cumbersomeness, simply because most people don’t have ten years’ worth of email sitting in the database. From Wordnik.com. [dustbury.com » Another sentry] Reference
Such women will have an indefeasible right to dress elegantly if they wish, but they will discard cumbersomeness and a useless and absurd circumference and length.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Grimke Sisters]
Normally I’d guess hardcover wouldn’t sell as well as the inevitable softie followup because of the obvious cumbersomeness of it - takes up too much space in your hand luggage for flying with it, too bulky to take down to the beach, too difficult for puny geeks to hold upright for the lengths of time required to finish the thing off. From Wordnik.com. [Cheeseburger Gothic » Got my advance US copies.] Reference
Manageability and cumbersomeness. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
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