Presumably the machinery for release-ribbons, molecular motors, tethering proteins, etc-is energetically expensive to maintain and bulky, and so an overcapacity for release would be wasteful.
They are usually held in bulky case notes, usually still hand-written, specific to the place of treatment, difficult to interpret, and sometimes hard to locate.
If dexterity is to be increased, a larger number of active joints is needed, as a consequence bulky solutions are the result.
In this case, one can obtain structures that are lighter or less bulky.
But, if anything, the public appetite for bulky biographies and glossy guides seems to have increased.
All 60 persons with thalidomide-induced limb deficiencies rejected this prosthetic arm because the devices were too bulky for them.
At more than 500 pages and 17 chapters, this is a bulky volume, and credit is certainly due to the translators.
It wore a hat, conical, like a soft clown's hat, and a bulky jerkin.