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maladroit
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England made plenty of mistakes against France on Saturday, knocking the ball forward at crucial moments, failing to control the ball at the base of the scrum, giving away penalties through sheer maladroitness, missing kicks at goal in the first half - but they never allowed missing the target of error-free rugby to erode their desire, their implacable focus on the task at hand, and their composure.
It was a stunning piece of political maladroitness to contrive that, in the middle of an unpopular and ill-conceived war, the Opposition leader could not campaign on it.
Cooley argues that O'Neill "created a role that helped to establish the careers of Charles Gilpin, and Paul Robeson, yet approached his black portraits with insensitivity and maladroitness, perpetuating pejorative images of black life" (55).
 
 
 
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