Stimulating and boring, ungainly and eloquent, monstrous and exquisite, all by turns, it overwhelms and bewilders; but, nevertheless, it still commands our interest and inspires our respect.
Ever since the bitter fight over ratifying Jay's Treaty, public opinion was more polarized, and Adams, the ungainly intellectual, could find no support from the idolizing masses.
His figure was a little ungainly, as in the days when my knuckles had taken such liberties with it, but it looked as if it would always be light and young.