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Recent Examples of klutzWhile one side of the frame shows Pia racing to meet her mother at the bank, conveying her struggle as a hapless klutz, the other half displays a henna ceremony interstitial, elegantly establishing the beauty of tradition and community.—Courtney Howard, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025 Join for hilarious segments like kids on the naughty list, Christmas klutzes, and those hilariously fed up with the festivities.—Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2024 Gender-flipping a few genre tropes — like showing the guy as the klutz and having the girl chase him down to proclaim her love — no longer passes for subversive.—Courtney Howard, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025 While one side of the frame shows Pia racing to meet her mother at the bank, conveying her struggle as a hapless klutz, the other half displays a henna ceremony interstitial, elegantly establishing the beauty of tradition and community.—Courtney Howard, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025 Playing Dawn Summers, Trachtenberg joined the show in 2000, as Buffy's younger sister, who was at times bratty, sulky, and a bit of a klutz — but nonetheless offered a new and exciting sibling dynamic for the show to explore.—Shania Russell, EW.com, 26 Feb. 2025 Join for hilarious segments like kids on the naughty list, Christmas klutzes, and those hilariously fed up with the festivities.—Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2024 On-the-go photographers, field workers, and hopeless klutzes will want to give this tough drive a strong second look.—John Burek, PCMAG, 10 July 2024 In the beginning, Black’s Po was a klutz who trained himself to earn the title of Dragon Warrior, a name given to his region’s greatest martial artist.—Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
Over nearly two centuries, the herbivore has been imagined as a spike-nosed lummox, inappropriate kangaroo and now, at last, a stiff-tailed, mostly quadrupedal animal.
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Gemma Tarlach,
Discover Magazine,
20 Apr. 2017
Fraser was everywhere in the 1990s and early 2000s: a sweetly handsome, blue-eyed lummox whose starring roles established him as a perpetual naif.
So, grab your dirty pet, a clean towel and get ready to rub a dub dub, your pup in a tub!
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Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
10 May 2025
Localization is an art, not a science, and just like there are plenty of dubs that are just as good if not better than the original, there are also shows and movies with initially terrible localization.
Here, the blurring is visual: Sometimes Leonard floats into the past looking like Gere, who wears the character without a shred of self-protection as the lens gawks at his raw skin.
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Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Dec. 2024
The Esprit's shape, arguably more avant-garde despite its age, consistently pegs the gawk meter.
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