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Not Without My Daughter
- If visitors came in the morning, they began the cumbersome process of leave-taking around noontime.†
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- There was, therefore, no opportunity to object to Moody's demand that I wear a chador but as I donned the cumbersome robe I realized that it was filthy.†
- Mahtob would need a gray uniform, coat, pants, and macknaya scarf sewn up the front instead of tied, a bit more cumbersome than the roosarie, but not quite as bad as the chador I was instructed to bring Mahtob on a certain day for a mother and daughter meeting.†
Definition:
difficult to handle -- especially because of size or shape or weight
or:
not elegant or graceful in expression
or:
not elegant or graceful in expression