Like the restaurant's long menu, cumbrous name and odd location, it's another example of everything verging on overconceptualization.
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No other consoles do this (apart from some cumbrous streaming solutions), and now it feels like they're missing something.
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After a few hours have passed, you've become an expert in the world, and all without cumbrous tutorials or invasive fairies whispering tips in your ear.
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A new screen-sharing mode sounds handy but a little cumbrous — you have to plug it into a PC and then plug the PC into a display.
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We could probably lower the cost of prescription drugs significantly by making the approval process less cumbrous and expensive, and maybe by tweaking a few intellectual-property procedures.
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If I had to choose, I'd go with the Union Street again, since it's not so much larger that it becomes cumbrous, but the extra space may make the difference between having to pack a second bag or not.
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Cumbrous compounds are formed as the names of objects and a character of tedious and time-wasting polysyllabism is given to the language.
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By the early 20th century, mints were using electrical power to drive rolls, the advantage being that each pair of rolls could be driven independently without the intervention of cumbrous shafting.
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11, p. 86–87. Wordsworth's poetry conveys what is interesting in the commonest events and objects. It probes the feelings shared by all. It "disdains" the artificial, the unnatural, the ostentatious, the "cumbrous ornaments of style",Hazlitt 1930, vol.
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The Budgerow ("Bajra") of Rabindranath Tagore's family, named the "Padma" A budgerow, late 18th century, drawing by Frans Balthazar Solvyns Budgerows were 'large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boats, used for journeys on the Ganges'. The term is an Anglicisation of the Hindi word bajrā.
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Drummond also suggested that the "somewhat cumbrous nomenclature" of fat-soluble A, water-soluble B, etc. (Drummond himself used the expression water-soluble C) stop in favor of vitamins A, B, C, etc., until their nature became known. The word vitamine survived, without its final "e".
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Paris Nights is the best of Knut's collections of verse. Here > the cumbrous imagery and "excessive noise and crash"[...] are absent. In > this book Knut displays his mastery of craftsmanship and poetic > diction.Temira Pachmuss, A Russian Cultural Revival: A Critical Anthology of > émigré Literature Before 1939 (University of Tennessee Press, 1981: ), pp.
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After brief employment in the Record Office, he obtained, in 1836, an appointment to the antiquities department of the British Museum. The appointment was due to his knowledge of Chinese, which was unusual at that time. He soon broadened his research to Egyptian. When the cumbrous department came to be divided, he was appointed to head the Egyptian and Assyrian branch.
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The > body of the carriage rests upon large thongs of leather, fastened to heavy > blocks of wood, instead of springs, and the whole is drawn by seven > horses.One of the horses was ridden by the postilion. John Carr, The > Stranger in France, or, A tour from Devonshire to Paris London 1803:32. The English visitor noted the small, sturdy Norman horses "running away with our cumbrous machine, at the rate of six or seven miles an hour".
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Despite the spread of firearms, use of the bow persisted throughout the 18th century due to its superior build quality and ease of handling. Bows were widely used by the rebels during the Indian rebellion of 1857. The matchlock, a cumbrous and no doubt ineffective weapon, was left mainly to the infantry while pistols seem to have been rare. Mughal field artillery, although expensive, proved an effective tool against hostile war elephants and its use led to several decisive victories.
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Parkes was constantly engaged in protracted official inquiries connected with hygiene. He was a member of General Henry Eyre's "Pack Committee", which substituted the valise equipment for the cumbrous knapsack. In 1863 he was appointed by the crown to the General Medical Council, in succession to Sir Charles Hastings. He was a member of the council of the Royal Society, where he was elected a Fellow in 1861; and he was elected to the senate of the University of London.
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The publication of the series was undertaken by the British Government in accordance with a scheme submitted in 1857 by the Master of the Rolls, then Sir John Romilly. A previous undertaking of the same kind, the Monumenta Historica Britannica, had failed after the publication of the first volume (1036 folio pages, London, 1848). The principal editor, Henry Petrie had died, and its form was cumbrous. Representations were made by Joseph Stevenson, and the scheme of 1857 was the direct outcome of this appeal.
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Mason wears a large cumbrous > bonnet. Her eyes are downcast to such an extent that they appear to be shut. > Blake often draws Urizen's eyes in this way to signify the blindness of his > rational and materialist ‘Single vision.’ See for example plates 1, 9 and 22 > of The Book of Urizen and plate 11 of For Children: The Gates of Paradise > where Urizenic 'Aged Ignorance,’ wearing large spectacles, blindly clips the > wings of a child thus preventing its imaginative flight in the morning > sunrise.
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The feudal system in England gradually became more and more complex until eventually the process became cumbrous and services difficult to enforce. As a result, the statute of Quia Emptores was passed in 1290 to replace subinfeudation with substitution, so the subordinate tenant transferred their tenure rather than creating a new subordinate tenure. As tenancies came to an end, the number of layers in the feudal pyramid was reduced. The Tenures Abolition Act 1660 abolished knight service, converting all free tenures to socage tenure.
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Lovecraft himself was displeased with the novel, calling it a "cumbrous, creaking bit of self-conscious antiquarianism".H. P. Lovecraft, letter to R. H. Barlow, March 19, 1934; cited in Joshi and Schultz, p. 34. He made little effort to publish the work, leaving it to be published posthumously in Weird Tales by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Writing in the New York Times, reviewer William Poster described Ward as "a good story in the New England witchcraft tradition, well seasoned with alchemy, vampirism, ancient documents and mummy-stealing".
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He next obtained an appointment as master-at-arms in Albert, which with Wilberforce and Soudan sailed on the Niger expedition of 1841. On the voyage out he was wounded by a poisoned arrow in a conflict with the natives at the Cape de Verde Isles. Duncan held a conspicuous position in all the treaties made with the native chiefs. He was selected to march at the head of his party, in the cumbrous uniform of a Lifeguard, when the heat was fearful even to the natives themselves.
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After the cumbrous army had passed through Metz it encountered an isolated corps of the enemy near the village of Mars-la- Tour, which was commanded by the brilliant leader Constantin von Alvensleben, and promptly attacked the French. At almost every moment of the day victory was in Bazaine's hands. Two corps of the Germans fought all day for bare existence. But Bazaine had no confidence in his generals or his troops, and contented himself with inflicting severe losses on the most aggressive portions of the German army.
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Cunningham published several poems anonymously, often combining topography with political themes. Their style was characterised by Ebenezer Rhodes as "elegant and tasteful in expression…but cold in feeling. His lines, though generally graceful, and not unfrequently polished to excellence, are occasionally cumbrous and sluggish from an excess of epithet…As a poet he had many beauties, checkered with a considerable proportion of defect."Eliot, p.48 Their procession of allegorical abstractions and Latinate poeticisms was complained of as hindering his meaning. “Everything is buried in gloom and obscurity.
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Publication continued every Friday morning. In 1893 tentative moves were made to introduce an alternative title Mount Barker Courier and Southern Advertiser, but somehow the "less cumbrous title" never made it to the front page. The newspaper later absorbed another publication, printed by Lancelot Ramsay Thomson, the Mannum Mercury and Farmer's Journal (30 March 1912 - 2 March 1917). Dumas, who was for four years Member for Mount Barker, died on 19 February 1935, and his family kept it running until May 1938, when it was taken over by T. H. Monger, previously owner of the Tasmanian King Island News.
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Lovecraft regarded the short story as "rather middling—not as bad as the worst, but full of cheap and cumbrous touches". Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright first rejected the story, and only accepted it after writer Donald Wandrei, a friend of Lovecraft's, falsely claimed that Lovecraft was thinking of submitting it elsewhere.S.T. Joshi, More Annotated Lovecraft, p. 173. The published story was regarded by Robert E. Howard (the creator of Conan) as "a masterpiece, which I am sure will live as one of the highest achievements of literature.... Mr. Lovecraft holds a unique position in the literary world; he has grasped, to all intents, the worlds outside our paltry ken".
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Small Greek letters (other than "ε", "ι", "π", "φ", "ψ", "χ", and "θ") represent classes (e.g., "α", "β", "γ", "δ", etc.) (PM 1962:188): : x ε α :: "The use of single letter in place of symbols such as ẑ(φz) or ẑ(φ ! z) is practically almost indispensable, since otherwise the notation rapidly becomes intolerably cumbrous. Thus ' x ε α' will mean ' x is a member of the class α'". (PM 1962:188) :α ∪ –α = V ::The union of a set and its inverse is the universal (completed) set.See the ten postulates of Huntington, in particular postulates IIa and IIb at PM 1962:205 and discussion at page 206.
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Formerly the administration was a cumbrous one, impeded by traditional obstacles; it may perhaps be said to have regarded itself as the primary object and the public which it should serve as of subordinate consideration. This state of things is now past, thanks to the energy of the reigning pope, which overcame all obstacles. Now, anyone who has business with the vicariate knows exactly to which department, which official, he must go in order to have the matter in question speedily settled. It is to be expected that in the course of time the third department owing to the test of practical working may undergo slight changes, as it is not probable that all ordinances will prove capable of permanent execution.
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Sales of the cheap second edition of The Columbiad were encouraging, and the newspaper publicity given to the poem was greater than that generated by many successful novels, but reviews were from the first mixed. James Dennie's Port Folio, a Federalist paper which could hardly be expected to support a renegade from that party, pronounced The Columbiad "as a whole…devoid of interest", though Dennie later admitted the article had been an "obnoxious criticism". Others praised it to the skies, comparing it favourably with Homer, Virgil and Milton, but Francis Jeffrey in the Edinburgh Review found the plot incoherent and the style cumbrous and inflated. British critics also objected to Barlow's taste for coining neologisms, such as crass and utilize.
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In British usage, a chiffonier is similar to a sideboard, but differentiated by its smaller size and by the enclosure of the whole of the front by doors. It was one of the many curious developments of the mixed taste, at once cumbrous and bizarre, which prevailed in furniture during the Empire period in England. The earliest chiffoniers date from that time; they are usually of rosewood – the favorite timber of that moment; their furniture (the technical name for knobs, handles, and escutcheons) was most commonly of brass, and there was very often a raised shelf with a pierced brass gallery at the back. The doors were well panelled and often edged with brass-beading, while the feet were pads or claws, or, in the choicer examples, sphinxes in gilded bronze.
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By 1879 there were 80 mines in operation in Larut, owned by 40 firms, with an average of nearly 86 men per mine. The largest mine of all in the country was owned by the Kong Loon Kongsi, in Kamunting, directed by Chung Keng QueeThe Malayan Tin Industry to 1914: With Special Reference to the States of Perak, Selangor, Negri, Sembilan, and Pahang By Lin Ken Wong Published by Published for the Association for Asian Studies by the University of Arizona Press, 1965; p. 270 whom Doyle in Mining In Larut describes as: > "an enterprising Chinese gentleman whose appreciation of European appliances > is envinced by a centrifugal pump and engine, in supersession of the > cumbrous and comparatively useless, Chinese water-wheel."Journal of the > Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.
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The political use of the grain supply along with gladiatorial games and other entertainments gave rise to the saying "Bread and circuses" from one of the bitter satires of Juvenal (60-140 A.D) as if the population of the city did nothing but live off free grain and go to entertainments (circus races were actually held on average only 17 days a year and gladiatorial shows 5–7 days in a year). The machinery of the Annona civilis became more complex over time.Southern, Pat, The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine (2004), pg. 326 With the devaluation of currency in the course of the third century, the army was paid in rationed supplies (annonae) as well as in specie from the later third century, through a cumbrous administration of collection and redistribution.
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1(2) did not disapply s. 1(b) in this case. Finally, as to (iii), the Court decided that Nisshin's argument could only succeed if it could be inferred from the existence of the underlying trustee relationship (by which the charterer was trustee for Cleaves of Nisshin's promise to pay the commission) that it was the mutual intention of Owners and Charterers that the broker beneficiary should not be entitled to avail himself of the facility of direct action by CRTPA. The Court found that inference “entirely unsustainable”: it did not follow from the underlying trustee relationship that the parties had intended that Cleaves would not have been able to benefit from the (relatively) new statutory right under CRTPA instead of using the “cumbrous fiction” of the earlier trust-based route.
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Arvid Horn, President of the Privy Council Chancellery There was no room in the Swedish republican constitution for a constitutional monarch in the modern sense of the word. The crowned puppet who possessed two casting votes in the Privy Council, of which he was the nominal president, and who was allowed to create peers once in his life, at his coronation, was rather a state decoration than a sovereignty. At first this cumbrous and complicated instrument of government worked tolerably well under the firm but cautious control of the Chancery President, Count Arvid Horn. In his anxiety to avoid embroiling his country abroad, Horn reversed the traditional policy of Sweden by keeping France at a distance and drawing Sweden nearer to the Kingdom of Great Britain, for whose liberal institutions he professed the highest admiration.
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The kilt first appeared as the great kilt, the ' or belted plaid, during the 16th century, and is Gaelic in origin. The ' or great kilt was a full-length garment whose upper half could be worn as a cloak draped over the shoulder, or brought up over the head. A version of the ' (philibeg), or small kilt (also known as the walking kilt), similar to the modern kilt was invented by an English Quaker from Lancashire named Thomas Rawlinson some time in the 1720s. He felt that the belted plaid was "cumbrous and unwieldy", and his solution was to separate the skirt and convert it into a distinct garment with pleats already sewn, which he himself began wearing.. Thomson also references Culloden Papers p 103, and the Edinburgh Magazine of 1785 in which a letter from Evan Baillie of Oberiachan states this.
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In general it proved that an alliance, to be effective, must be clearly defined as to its objects, and that in the long run the treaty in which these objects are defined must – to quote Otto von Bismarck's somewhat cynical dictum – "be reinforced by the interests" of the parties concerned. Yet the "moral alliance" of Europe, as Count Karl Nesselrode called it, though it failed to secure the permanent harmony of the powers, was an effective instrument for peace during the years immediately following the downfall of Napoleon; and it set the precedent for those periodical meetings of the representatives of the powers, for the discussion and settlement of questions of international importance, which, though cumbrous and inefficient for constructive work, contributed much to the preservation of the general peace during much of the nineteenth century.
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The belted plaid worn by the Highlanders he employed was too "cumbrous and unwieldy" for this work, so, together with the tailor of the regiment stationed at Inverness, Rawlinson produced a kilt which consisted of the lower half of the belted plaid worn as a "distinct garment with pleats already sewn". He wore it himself, as did his business partner, whose clansmen then followed suit. It has been suggested that there is evidence of Highlanders wearing only the bottom part of the belted plaid before this, possibly as early as the 1690s, but Rawlinson's is the earliest documented example with sewn-in pleats, a distinctive feature of the kilt worn today. The tailored kilt was adopted by the Highland regiments of the British Army, and the military kilt and its formalised accessories passed into civilian usage during the early 19th century and have remained popular ever since.
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As part of his investigations of powered flight, George Cayley was concerned about the low power-to-weight ratio of steam engines, complaining that "the steam engine has hither proved too weighty and cumbrous for most purposes of locomotion." He took up development of a new engine design starting in 1807, and quickly settled on a gunpowder engines as the preferred solution, noting "Being in want of a simple & light first mover on a small scale for the purpose of some preparatory experiments on aerial navigation, I constructed one in which the force of gunpowder & the heat evolved by its explosion, acting upon a quantity of common air, was employed." His notebooks show a design of considerable improvement over those of Huygens and similar. In Cayley's design, two cylinders were arranged one over the other, the lower acting as a combustion chamber, and the upper containing a piston.
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Jews and heretics are to be abhorred, and players who draw people's minds away to worldly pleasure; dances and tournaments are also condemned, and he has a word of blame for the women's vanity and proneness to gossip. He is never dry, always vivid and graphic, mingling with his exhortations a variety of anecdotes, jests, and the wild etymologies of the Middle Ages, making extensive use of the allegorical interpretation of the Old Testament and of his strong feeling for nature. His German sermons, of which seventy-one have been preserved, are among the most powerful in the language, and form the chief monuments of Middle High German prose. His style is clear, direct and remarkably free from cumbrous Latin constructions; he employed, whenever he could, the pithy and homely sayings of the peasants, and is not reluctant to point his moral with a rough humour.
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Dedication page from the Birds of India > The want of brief, but comprehensive Manual of the Natural History of India > has been long felt by all interested in such inquiries. At the present, it > is necessary to search through voluminous transactions of learned Societies, > and scientific Journals, to obtain any general acquaintance with what has > been already ascertained regarding the Fauna of India, and, excepting to a > few more favorably placed, even these are inaccessible. The issue of a > Manual, which should comprise all available information in sufficient detail > for the discrimination and identification of such objects of Natural History > as might be met with, without being rendered cumbrous by minutiae of > synonymy or of history, has therefore long been considered a desideratum. > To meet this want it is proposed to publish a series of such Manuals for > all the Vertebrated Animals of India, containing characters of all the > classes, orders, families, and genera, and descriptions of all the species > of all Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes, found in India.
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The P&DR; was not planned, or authorised, as a passenger railway. However Kendall reports an extract from a "chronicle in diary form compiled by one William Bray, sometime Rector of Tavistock"; approaching King's Tor he found that > Some huts, one a blacksmith's shop now presented themselves, and before this > stood a vehicle not much unlike a rude kind of vis-a-vis with an awning. > This I had observed passing on with some degree of rapidity before us. I > conclude that in these carriages with iron wheels, though as cumbrous and > uneasy as the scythed cars of the Britons, many pleasure parties make > excursions from Plymouth, for a man accosted me and said that if I wanted to > see the works, Mr. Johnson, or Thomson or some such name, would show them to > me ... This seems to be a non sequitur, and it may be that the carriage was simply a stone wagon equipped with boards as seats for the Engineer to view the works on the line.
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