a big, heavy man who tends to be a bit leaden-footed
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After a promising opening game, Capriati now appears to look leaden-footed.
They were leaden-footed and meek in the challenge and it looked as if they were running on empty, such was the lack of urgency in the team.
He seems even more leaden-footed than his predecessor, letting a fancy metropolitan elite from London dance round him.
A shift-up of the gears took Huckerby clear of two leaden-footed defenders.
As it poured down it seemed to drain Irish limbs; for half of this game they looked exhausted, leaden-footed, red-faced, blistering in the heat.
A half-time alteration was blatantly required and made when Murray, leaden-footed at left-back, gave way to Maloney.
Having celebrated his graduation with a vigorous, table-top dance, why does the hero turn into a leaden-footed klutz?
The City defence seemed to be peopled by leaden-footed men of enormous girth.
He was pained that the last FA Cup-tie at Maine Road was a shuffling, leaden-footed business.
Leaden-footed and clearly pained by movement, her lack of mobility was accentuated by the booming baseline shots and the predatory instincts of Williams.