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Not without its playfulness and deadpan jokes, the uprooted Malay setting serves for a far more morose, empty and searching film, one whose suffusion with the dripping evening heat, lumberingly slow bodily movement, and general languor serve out the dance between the immigrants in a kind of humid, sorrowful slow motion.

GreenCine Daily: I Don't Want to Sleep Alone. 2007

On the industry's calendar, Thanksgiving to New Year's Day is Daffy's time: his perennially thwarted schemes are always about getting bystanders to agree with his preposterously idealized self-image, and that's when each year's lumberingly noble Academy Award contenders crowd marquees, striving to turn artistic prestige into both an end in itself and a means of attracting audiences.

The Big Shill 2005

On the industry's calendar, Thanksgiving to New Year's Day is Daffy's time: his perennially thwarted schemes are always about getting bystanders to agree with his preposterously idealized self-image, and that's when each year's lumberingly noble Academy Award contenders crowd marquees, striving to turn artistic prestige into both an end in itself and a means of attracting audiences.

The Big Shill 2005

Hassim was down, crushed and dead, sprawled like a broken toy with shattered limbs awry, and the red pulsing Thing was lurching toward Kane like a thick cloud of blood in the air, that continually changed its shape and form, and yet somehow _trod_ lumberingly as if on monstrous legs!

People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

I didn't get going again until lunchtime, when I ate lunch and pranced (somewhat lumberingly, but pranced nonetheless) out of the house to (a) post my Ebay sale, and (b) attend my antenatal class.

A mixed day ailbhe 2004

Then a large old man, with a long and venerable white beard, perhaps the only real working-man present, rose lumberingly and said — “I move that Comrade Gregory be elected Thursday,” and sat lumberingly down again.

The Man Who Was Thursday Gilbert Keith 2003

Darren was woken from his uncomfortable sleep by the metallic grind of a freight train rolling lumberingly past and slicing his left hand off.

Quite Ugly One Morning Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1996

He was a giant zombie, slouching lumberingly along, barely sentient, barely conscious.

Quite Ugly One Morning Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1996

I watched the driver lumberingly maneuver the immaculate tank around until he could back it in right beside me.

Twilight Nancy Pickard 1995

It lifted its left foot-tentacle-tread, and hopped lumberingly into the box.

Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990