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  • Thumpingly, clunkingly and pontificatingly pompously so.

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • Huge great gig-lamps with clunkingly heavy frames and they were all wearing them, from John Sessions as a doleful Geoffrey Howe to Michael Maloney as a quietly manipulative John Major.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • Huge great gig-lamps with clunkingly heavy frames and they were all wearing them, from John Sessions as a doleful Geoffrey Howe to Michael Maloney as a quietly manipulative John Major.

    The glasses of time 2009

  • But well written, with a way of utilizing plottish elements without making them clunkingly essential to the work...

    Recently read (or reread) Lemon Hound 2008

  • Some became our favourites because they were so very clunkingly bad.

    Slush and Punishment: Love Potion No. K12 Editorial Anonymous 2008

  • But well written, with a way of utilizing plottish elements without making them clunkingly essential to the work...

    Archive 2008-01-01 Lemon Hound 2008

  • Stone takes a clunkingly Oedipal approach to the whole business: Bush Sr or 'Poppy' is the domineering father whom Junior can never truly please.

    History now 2008

  • But well written, with a way of utilizing plottish elements without making them clunkingly essential to the work...

    Friday Round up Lemon Hound 2008

  • But well written, with a way of utilizing plottish elements without making them clunkingly essential to the work...

    Archive 2008-01-01 Lemon Hound 2008

  • By comparison, Germany's SPD is clunkingly old-fashioned.

    Right? Left? Center! 2007

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