| 单词 | flail |
| 例句 | I flailed like an ostrich trying to catch its balance. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z My sister screamed hysterically and flailed her arms as her owlish eyes searched wildly about the kitchen. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They stand in line, facing me, while I flail about. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Dark shapes like mushrooms spontaneously arising, arms flailing, signaling me what to do. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Sigurd went about his business as though he didn’t have a flailing child attached to him. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z She came up flailing at me, and I hit her and pushed her again and hit her again. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z His arms were still flailing about, and he wasn’t to know I was about to put out my hand. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Shadows flitted across the walls within, thrashing movement, the silhouettes of flailing limbs—was there a person in there? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The man with the red beard was laughing as she flailed in his arms. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It made no difference, Hooper went on screaming and flailing about hysterically. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z On the other hand, it means flailing around in the water again. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Declaration flailed her arms at me, her gloves flapping around her fist. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a good plan, but when I tried to actually get my arm out of the mummy bag, I flailed around like a fish out of water, and nearly dislocated my shoulder. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z But the sheepherder merely chucked all these iridescent artifacts into a great gleaming pile and flailed away some more with his shovel. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He opened his eyes just as Dana Matherson was being lifted away, arms flailing, a stunned expression on his pug face. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Staggering away, the scribe felt his heel snag on the rough ground, and he began to topple over backward, arms flailing wildly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Movement everywhere: a myriad arms, rising and falling, hands flailing, backs bending and straightening in a relentless rhythm. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z And when the ball meandered down from about a mile above his head, he flailed at it as if it were a bumblebee. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Rahel, standing on the car seat, had grown out of the Plymouth window like the loose, flailing horn of a car-shaped herbivore. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In a final act of desperation, Anya flailed her arms and legs, hoping she would catch it in a vulnerable spot and shut it up for five seconds so she could regain her sanity. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Sooner than Piper expected, Percy broke the surface, gasping and flailing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Occasionally her teeth would press against the on switch, and the doomed thing would flail its arms, whispering one of its five recorded messages of goodwill. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The manticore howled, turning in circles with his tail flailing as Annabeth hung on for dear life. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Ben was tackled by one of the forwards who flailed at him with both his fists and his feet. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Khanum Rezaei found her way to the center of the circle, where she danced with her headscarf in hand, flicking and flailing it around to the beat. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z But every time she entered that world of light, she was overwhelmed with images, memories, history, until she was flailing through the endless fragments of time, fighting off headache and vertigo and nausea. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Miss Rachel flailed relentlessly at a heaving tangle of lily pads, bed sheet, legs and arms, and twining ivy. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Kretzsky flailed his arms at the commander, who pointed back at the boat. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I remain committed to my eyes-on-the-shoes strategy, so I’m not sure but believe he’s released his grip on my arm so he can accompany the ranting in Spanish with flailing hand gestures. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Laleh laughed and tried to copy her, though my sister’s flailing was somewhat more violent. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z She maybe balanced for about three and a half seconds, shooting the camera a big smile before flailing off the surfboard a second later. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z He’s flailing around in the waves but managing to keep his head above water. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The flood nearly swept my feet out from under me, but I kept flailing, frantically reaching down to feel the bottom of the creek. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The newchild was turning under his cover, flailing his arms, and beginning to whimper. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z My arms flailed around, and I sank into the hot, smelly water. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, they dragged me out flailing and crying and took me back to what they called “home.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z For a moment, the three of them and the weasel were a pile of sprawling bodies and flailing limbs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He tried throwing it, jabbing it, everything but flailing with it, and it didn’t work. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z In the two-mile and the three-mile trials, the sophomores had gotten off the line badly, flailing at the water inefficiently, as if overexcited and flustered, and letting the older boys get out ahead of them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z My brain registers the voice before my body does; my arms keep flailing, and it takes a moment before they stop. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z As she darted past him, he grabbed her dress, and she started flailing. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Then, as the hot pains invaded her body, she shouted and thrashed and flailed, shrieking and kicking. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Cynthia would wail and flail overdramatic fists in the air, all leading up to the big finish, Cynthia planting her face flat on the desk. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Every unpinned arm flailed away at every visible assailant. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Others, less fortunate, fell directly into the boat, where they started a racket of flapping and flailing and splashing. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z As he spoke, Spoon Man whistled like the wind and burbled thunder from his lips, flailing his arms to capture the fury of the tempest. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I crashed out the door, ducked under her flailing, twig-sized arms, and took off running. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He flailed about with the feather duster and went straight to bed, as if doing so would hasten the morning’s arrival. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He flailed back against the evergreens, and the jugs appeared to spring out of the snow. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z David runs in a tight circle, flailing his arms, his mouth wide in another ear-piercing howl. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I can’t blame him, because when he tried to calm her down a few hours ago, Amá kicked and flailed her arms until she gave him a black eye. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She flew back at him with both fists flailing and bloodied his mouth with a solid punch before he was able to grab her wrists and hold her still. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Flora’s heart, the lonely, many-armed squid of it, flipped and flailed inside of her. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z I flailed my arms wildly, trying to stroke toward the sandy shore. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He moved into it and I heard him flail around. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat right down on Alex’s chest and stayed there, ostensibly holding him captive, while Alex flailed his legs and arms around helplessly. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z For perhaps ten seconds they crouched tike that while the flailing fire sent smoke and sparks and waves of inconstant tight over the top of the mountain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He flailed at his oars, George noted, “like a bewildered crab.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I’ve never seen him this way, wild-eyed and flailing, like a cornered animal. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I flailed my arms about, consumed by images of quicksand from old Tarzan movies and episodes of Gilligan’s Island. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z While Antaeus cursed and flailed, I scrambled around the chains, swinging and cutting like I was some kind of crazed monkey. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Mrs. Kurtz danced off, and I snaked through the flailing bodies. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I stumble, flailing and trying to regain my balance before any part of me comes between the huge steel wheels and the track. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The world was spinning around me, so maybe the alcohol in my blood would prevent my survival instinct from kicking in, and I could drown peacefully without all that unnecessary flailing and screaming. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The blow launched Kin backwards, and as the blacksmith flailed for balance, Sigurd charged after him. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I wondered if she had flailed and jerked toward the surface at the last second, or did she go without fighting, embracing the rock, letting it soak up all the pain she felt? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Bast flailed his hands franticly at Chronicler’s head.“Quiet!” he hissed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He flailed around so much that the noise woke his father, who came to his room and asked, “What is it, son? Nightmares?” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Once Lee had held him in his lap, clasping his still flailing fists to his sides, until after a long time he relaxed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Thorn was flailing beside Seven in the water, but where was Valley? Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z My hands flail and splash, trying to keep my head above water. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Stick flailed his arms and tried to pull away, but he was in pain. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z I watch the same ant flailing its four legs in the half inch of water. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He sets off, his right arm swinging, his splayed feet flailing in the shallow surf, following the curve of the causeway to the mountain. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The arrow she had nocked slipped and fell, flailing like a downed bird, to the ground at her feet. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Mr. Abram Vole struggled to shield his wife and son with his body as the tail flailed out a second time. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I’m in the audience, flailing my arms like an idiot, signaling for Tanisha to let loose. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Then someone threw a small stone at her, and her childhood fled, flailing its thin arms. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Her arms flailed wildly, but somehow Tally kept her footing, shooting across the compound and over the rabbit pen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It pulled taut just as the mob reached it, and they went sprawling over it and into the mud, a tangled heap of flailing limbs. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Two men grabbed the woman and, as gently as they could, stopped her flailing. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Her hips were free—now, look out!—here she came, her skirts tearing on the rough edges of the boards, arms flailing—and they were all in a heap on the ground. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z At last milady flailed away with her hand brake on, and the kind of a day I had built lay in ruins. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s just Flaca and her four girls, running after us, bags flailing, their eyes wild with fear. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z A horrible flailing monster of a noise comes out of me and then the whole disgusting night wants to come out of me too. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Loose tracks flail the train from side to side. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I flailed my arms, willing them to seize something that wasn’t plunging downward. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Jackson and another heavyweight were flailing each other in a lumpy, crooked ring in the middle of the hall. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The citadel’s sickening lurch, the helpless silk-on-mesarthium glide down the seraph’s slick palm, flailing wildly for something to hold on to and finding nothing, and then...falling. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z My opponent flailed the air about the Ethiopians throwing rocks and spears at Italian airplanes, “proving” that compulsory military training was needed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He found himself flailing like a turtle on its back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Often the sea wind made its single traffic light flail from side to side or caused the town’s electrical power to flicker out and stay out for days. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She tried to stop him, but he caught her, drawing her flailing body into his arms. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The second guard moves to pull her up, but she flails at him and kicks him in the shin with the heel of her shoe. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “Stop resisting,” the officer warned as he cuffed my left wrist and roughly pinned down my flailing right arm. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Another knight goes down—horse flailing, pitching, and then disappearing beneath the parchment-thin layer of water. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Then I realized they were his own arms—a hundred flailing, fighting arms. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The more she flailed, the deeper she sank. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z Alex contorted his body and managed to stay down, flailing madly with his legs to propel himself sideways. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z And then my flailing arms struck something solid. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z She kicked and flailed while Caul held a sharpened icicle to her throat and shouted, “Stay back or I drive this through her jugular!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Aunt Tuti started flailing her arms, and my mom kept shaking her head while watching Abuela happily chat with a couple. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z A mob of ragged boys raced by, screeching and flailing at each other with sticks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Thomas flailed his arms and legs, knocking away the horrible metallic arms as he kicked at the pulsating blubber of the Grievers’ bodies—he only wanted to be stung, not taken like Dave. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z My arms are flailing and I’m grinning and laughing so hard my stomach aches. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Any boy with grubby fingers can flail about. Only you can open it. You are Anansesem—act like it.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Trey is flailing, trying to shove them away. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She flailed around in the water almost as much as I did. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z That way, they’d have plenty of room to flap and flail their arms. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The air turned thick; sudden gusts caught the cedars at the edge of the fields and flailed their tops and branches. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He pulled her off balance, and she flailed her arms. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Roy Lee leapt to his feet and flailed ineffectually at his attacker. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Arms flailing the air, I zoomed out and up. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They found Florida flailing in a patch of briars on the far side of the stream. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Our players looked like five Davids flailing against Goliath. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z My eyes wander over to a small chest sitting under my desk, flail of the 200,000 Notes I received for capturing Day. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I notice he happily waves preemptively at the woman “gardening,” and she flails her arms back at the happiness of it all. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z It flapped its gray wings in the red mud, twisting and flailing. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z For a moment he fought against it, as if he could strike at the vision with his hands, his flailing legs, but soon he was overcome by a sudden and intense peace. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Next the beast knocked over a jar of apple butter, but the skin lid was tied on tightly, and, flail away at it as he might with his awkward paw, he could not dislodge it. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I decide not to tell him that I ended up being sent back to tadpole after almost drowning another camper while I flailed around in the deep end. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z We linked hands and raced off toward the turnstiles, leaving behind us a wake of tripped and flailing normals. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Ellie’s hands were a blur as she banged on the drums so hard, her red mane flailing like flames all around her. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The man punches Mark and Mark punches back, barely feeling where he’s been hit.Then they’re in a tangle, squirming, arms flailing, kicking. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He cried and flailed his free hand while the woman descended the tree, laughing at her startled partner. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I offer to take a bunk, but they make me keep to the floor mattress since I flail around so much when I’m sleeping. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He flailed his arms like a windmill but stayed on his feet. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The living are flailing their arms and legs, trying to swim or gain purchase on the ground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Luxa and Henry wanted him to leap so they could laugh at him flailing around in the air. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z By this time I couldn’t help seeing the humor in the whole twisted situation, and I started to wave at the onlookers and my mom started laughing at my dad flailing around on the street. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z They fell over each other, all elbows and heads and knees and flailing straps. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The horse flails, and the knight is up to his cobalt-cloaked chest in water. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z But despite his yells, the paper seemed to be able to escape the soldiers' flailing arms. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The crew were flailing away with their axes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The DJ is playing James Brown, and everyone is going wild, flailing their arms and screaming the lyrics. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She flailed in the light, choking on it as she tried to return to herself. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z She threw her limbs around, hitting Jule in the face with the back of a flailing hand. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Right now, with her head bopping and her limbs flailing, she almost looks like one of those one-man bands, but without instruments. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The ugly creature was on its back with its arms and legs flailing, but unable to move because of the weight of the stone on his chest. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She jumped and flailed, smacking Seth across the cheek with the back of her hand. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He turns back to the window and starts flailing his arms too. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Hobbies, hobbies,” he flailed his hands, as if he were juggling, “things you like to do after school.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z When it was time to order, I flailed at her with my catastrophic French. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z And the most unexpected person of all comes flying toward me, her arms flailing as she shrieks, “SURPRISE!” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Not just “watching,” but flishing and flailing and swirling the air currents! The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z I set one foot at the centre of the shell, the other clear of the flailing flippers. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I flail around, trying to use vines and trunks to right myself. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Gum Baby scrambled across my lap and flailed at my chest with both sticky hands. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Someone jumped, or was thrown, from one of the towers, screaming and flailing his arms. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He flailed his arms in an exaggerated air drumming motion. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Throwing his arms out, Thomas flailed, reaching and grabbing to stop his plunge to the hard stone below. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z She flailed her arms and legs until Dussel finally let go of his probe and...it remained stuck in Mrs. van D.’s tooth. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “He could not hold the flail rightly and Ching would show him...” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I’m not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z "Yield or die," the knight declared, his flail whirling faster and faster. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Caught at the infield rail, they bent themselves over it, pounding and clapping and flailing their arms in Seabiscuit’s path. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z As he advanced on them flailing the branch, he shouted at the top of his voice, “Basil, Basil Stag Hare, where are you?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Too loud to hear Rowan over the chopper blades, which made the scythes’ robes flail like flags in a storm as they crossed the lawn. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z On the track, while other riders flailed and winced and scratched their way around, the Iceman “sat chilly,” as loose as water, his legs and hands supple and still. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The new uglies screamed in unison, scattering away from the flailing body plummeting toward them. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The father thrashed and flailed, clawing to peel the paper from his face. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z They squirmed, kicked, flailed their sharp little fists, and gnashed their teeth; Harry spent ten whole minutes trying to squash a particularly fat one into a pot. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z I flail around for a moment, only working the web more tightly around me, and then I catch a glimpse of it in the moonlight. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I was afraid he might smush her with the car, but instead he got out and dragged her back, legs flailing, and threw her into the car. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He went completely under, came up, went under again, and came up flailing and floundering with such wildness that for a few sincerely mortifying moments I thought he was drowning. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The creature topples over, a flailing arm sending a pyramid of golden apples spilling to the dirt. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The horse begins to panic, flailing and bucking. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Boss is falling, madly flailing his arms and legs and screaming. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Sierra flailed along the ground till she found her phone. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Turn around, flailing my arms, find the keg bobbing next to me. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes she woke up flailing and helpless, and she saw, in front of her and behind her and all around her, an utter hopelessness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They flailed at their oars, digging them too deep in the water or too shallow, out of time with one another, angry and desperate to catch up, losing all semblance of form. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I began to use the heavy-soled boots like clubs, flailing at the man. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He flailed for something to grab on to, knowing that once he went down he was not like to come back up. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I turn back to rabid Bryce, flailing around on the shoulder of the road. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Gram said, “Oh!” and flailed at the water. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z We might see the thresher with his flail lay on the monstrous blows, which was strange to behold. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z He glanced over his shoulder at the ancient tree, which was still flailing its branches threateningly. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z At the next clearing I saw someone almost in the middle of the river; flailing in the water. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Fists flailing like battering rams, Hugo sent imps sailing in wild cartwheels. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I kicked and flailed and thrashed my way to the surface, gasping for air, and reached out to Dad. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I met Mr. Fleming at the end of the driveway, where I was dolefully flailing about in the drainage ditch looking for water striders. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Pop's body, Nan's glazed irises, Darin's flailing limbs all flash before my eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The sight of a tree at night flail of glowing Clabbert pustules, while decorative, attracted too many Muggles wishing to ask why their neighbours still had their Christmas lights up in June. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Fear and spit filled her mouth, and her arms flailed. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z "Is that your wolf, boy?" a skinny youth called, unlimbering a stone flail. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z With a wild swing of the shovel he knocked over the bucket, and commenced flailing and hacking at the snakes in a blind, slobbering fury. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I called, then lost my grip on the wet stone steps and fell flailing and tumbling into the dark. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I can see him now—wailing and flailing his scrawny arms worse than a white girl in a horror movie. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She’s near the windows now, twisting, banging feet, hands flailing on the floor. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He fell back into the stream with a splash and a shout, flailing wildly with his knife as his head went under. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It rolled away into the grass, leaving a flailing stump, which immediately stopped bleeding and began to swell like a balloon. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z As we walked toward the frozen pond, we saw them flailing their arms and squealing as they cast their bodies across the surface, half squatting to steady themselves. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I'm another thirty feet in the air when I hear the crack and look down to see Cato flailing as he and a branch go down. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It flailed briefly and died with its tongue protruding from its mouth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It yowled and landed on the other mother’s head, claws flailing, teeth bared, fierce and angry. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z And into this darkness slowly swam the other Dr. Meescham's giant squid, moving sadly along, flailing its eight lonely and enormous arms. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z He slithers up to a note, hits it, flails, recovers, oozes in the direction of another note. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I circle around, my arms flailing over my head, but just as quickly I’m disgusted that I’m mimicking Claire’s nervous gestures. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He flailed on the grass, but his cries were swallowed up by the storm. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Yes, the symptoms of mono include reacting to things that aren’t there, screaming for no reason at all, and flailing on the ground like you’re about to be ax murdered.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Folks were parking on the grass, and Tidings was beside himself, running to their car windows, flailing his arms and trying to direct them to the back lot. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Thomas moved forward, but Alby’s legs kicked and flailed out, making it impossible to get any closer. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Captain Stewart opened up on him, and his head snapped back and his arms flailed for a moment even after I knew he was dead. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Chris’s arm flailed the air, his accusing finger pointed here, no, there; it pointed everywhere. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z My body tightened up and I flailed around, trying to get loose. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I caught a glimpse of his face in the moonlight, caked in mud and distorted with fury, then I reached for his flailing arms and held on tight. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Aloe had shaken his head and picked his daughter up, locking her flailing limbs against his body. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Bodies spinning and arms flailing and knives being tossed aside and punches and grunts. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Then a noise reached him through the unformed nothingness that surrounded him: the small soft thumpings of something that flapped, flailed, and struggled. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Reporters had been kept at a distance from the action, but their telephoto lenses had captured almost the entire attack—“the flailing clubs, the stampeding horses, the jeering crowd and the stricken, fleeing blacks.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z As the freshmen of 1933 flailed at their oars in the first few days, Tom Bolles and Al Ulbrickson strode up and down Old Nero’s walkway in gray flannel suits and fedoras. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Nice one,” said Ron appreciatively, lifting Dobby into the air so that his flailing limbs no longer made contact with Kreacher. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He reconnected her circuits and Hygeia began to spin, hollering and flailing her arms. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I shout, flailing my arms like a windmill. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The flowers grew and grew, until he could see only her shoulders above them and her flailing arms high above those bobbing, snapping heads. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl clung to her desperately, but she stopped flailing while Stella made sure the girl’s head stayed above water. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Elbows bent, hands on shoulders, she flailed her arms like a bird in an eternal, grotesquely futile effort to fly. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z I get so excited that my legs start kicking and my arms start flailing and I look like some kind of crazy human helicopter. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z And flail the air and tremble and scream. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z My arms flail out at him, wanting to make him take it back. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Jorge was on him at once, flailing away, hitting anything he could reach. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Wriggling and flailing, it unraveled itself from their bodies, and they were able to pull free. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Even though my arms and legs flail out and I drool a little as I laugh, it is the first time in my entire life that I feel like I’m part of the group. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Mrs. Walton calls out, flailing her little arms like a helpless newborn bird. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Connor is still calling out, still flailing in the back seat, and I hear the tears in his voice as Mom circles the car and hastily tries to readjust his buckles. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He struggled with his unseen opponent, twisting, flailing his legs, and throwing himself from one side to the other. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Abuela asked from the other side of the room as Aunt Tuti flailed her arms around like she was painting the air. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The two of us fell to the ground, fists flailing and legs thrashing, every kid in Euclid Parkway instantly clustered in a tight knot around us, their hollers fueled by excitement and grade school bloodlust. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He struggled to escape, twisting and flailing like Nero when he didn’t want to be held. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Her little arms and legs flailed helplessly, but I couldn’t watch her anymore. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z And just like that, I was starting to flail, tossed without warning into deep water, drowning and desperate. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Frost, the man Jack, whoever he was, was forced away from them, pulled back until he was spread-eagled, arms and legs wide and flailing, against the side of the chamber wall. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z They dragged her toward cabin five, while the other campers made way to avoid her flailing feet. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z She screamed and flailed, toppling sideways off the mound. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Her flailing arm knocked over my mother’s drink. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She kicks and bucks, so he drags her, thrashing and flailing, to their bedroom. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z His eyes opened wide in their dark pits, and his thin, skeletal arms flailed the air before him as if he were striking at the furies of hell. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My flailing arm knocks over a tray somewhere. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Frank flailed backward like he was falling off a bar stool. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z For a few wild minutes, she flailed at the door, pounding it with her fists, scratching at it until her fingernails were bloody. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Blue Eyes flailed for him, trying to reach around and get hold of him, then bent forward sharply and tumbled him over her back. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z When he did, he simply looked down at me, smiled, and continued to jump up and down, flailing his arms and legs out with each hop. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Finn beat them off as best as he could, but they tore at her arms and dress, their black tongues flapping and flailing. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Into the flailing darkness, their haircuts turned inside out. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I saw what she was pointing at: not a flailing girl in the water but a fat thread of woven hemp trailing up from it, barely visible in all the chaos. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I scream until tears come from my eyes, my arms flailing. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He climbed a tree, dropped back to peer into my face, then climbed another tree, holding on to the trunk with his feet while his arms flailed in the air. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Jason tumbled backward over the edge, his arms flailing, screaming as he fell. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And then he was being pulled away by Minho and Newt, his arms still flailing even when they only hit air. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He flailed his arms, but she pinned them under the tray. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She continued to kick and flail and howl and weep. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z They beat it out with flails, he and the woman together. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The only thing he could do was leave it on the grass, flailing about, and go away for a bit. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z From his pocket he took a shoelace and tied the ends of the sticks loosely together to make a flail. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hands flailed at the air to steady herself. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The giant was flailing his arms, struggling to get back into the water. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z So many of his arms were flailing that it was useless to cut any one of them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z It flailed awkwardly and crashed to the sidewalk, hellhound and serpent twisting and thrashing. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He planted it right in her midsection; she yelped and jolted backward, flailed to grab hold of her partner. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z His hoofs flailed at the three who were ending the hunt with slashes and blood-letting bites. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Ess turned immediately into a flurry of water and flailing arms and screams, a shouting, choking disaster. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He looked like a starfish, with his legs splayed and his elbows flailing. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z We just watch her—Blanche of Castile, Queen Mother of France—flailing and sinking into the crescent bay. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Through the flailing fists and legs, I could see the man, struggling and small. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Alex shouts as Henry laughs at his own idiotic prank, and his indignant flailing startles a loud gobble out of Cornbread, which in turn startles a very unmanly scream out of Alex. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Its single functioning arm flailed wildly while its tail and legs thrashed about. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Charles Howard saw Pollard go down, staring in horror as Fair Knightess’s flailing legs rolled skyward over him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He used to laugh at me, flailing in front of him. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Ghost was twisting and snapping, legs flailing in the air, but he could not break free. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She flailed wildly, and the sky rocked back and forth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The next moment, Hooper began to slither forward wildly, flailing out with his arms to try and keep balance. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He flailed with his arms, trying to find something to hold on to. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Sure enough, there was the little thief, flailing in the water a short distance away. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Mom paces as she talks, flails her arms for emphasis as if Dad can see her, clenching her cell phone like it’s a kitchen sponge after a messy spaghetti dinner. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z She flailed against their touch, but they overpowered her with ease, the way those white men always knew how to do. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But Chaol only gaped at the flailing assassin, his face pale as death. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Tussling, the toddlers slapped and kicked at each other, grabbing toy-sticks, flailing with their small fists. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm sure I screamed as I broke water, flailing toward the edge of the hole. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked behind the other boys, and tried not to hear the stifled laughs, tried not to see the flailing swings. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Benny is shaking his head, and starting to flail. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I gasped for breath again and flailed blindly, knocking my head against the wall again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Here’s what happens when you jump feetfirst and arms flailing off of a thirty-foot cliff into the Pacific Ocean. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He squawked like a dying seagull as he flailed through the air, landing facedown. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z There was also footage of about six white officers subduing a flailing black inmate in an office. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Gasping for breath, I flailed around until my feet touched bottom. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes you can hear shouts and the crash of glass from within, and see a man being ejected by two wrestler-sized waiters, his nose bleeding, his arms flailing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The pastor’s words were magnified by his flailing arms. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Besieged by fierce sparrows, rat sentries leaped in panic from the top of the ramparts; those who stayed were dealt with by Jess Squirrel who swung a heavy iron chain around like a deadly flail. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z His arms flailed wildly, and his eyes were stretched wide open. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A few feet from her, the corpuscule staggered backward, flailing its long arms. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He flailed his hands and even stamped once with his long, narrow, elegantly shoed foot on the plush carpet. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Cocker became known for his presence onstage, where he frequently flailed his arms wildly. Joe Cocker, rock and blues star, dies at 70 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z One person’s crisis can be another’s opportunity, and women have continued to push forward even as the rest of the movie world has flailed. For the First Time Ever, I’m Optimistic About Women in the Movie World 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Piazza offers a persuasive portrait of decline, but it is the crumbling beauty and flailing hopes of Rose that resonate. Review: In ‘The Wannabe,’ Drugs, Money and Aspirations to Join the Gotti Circle 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Filled with gags and characters recycled from the first “Hangover,” the sequel is grindingly repetitive and features scene after similar scene of characters staring at one another stupidly, flailing about wildly and asking what happened. Arts & Leisure: In Defense of the Slow and the Boring 2011-06-03T13:29:50Z For a reported $9 million, Trump became the owner of the New Jersey Generals, a flailing team in the fledgling United States Football League. And then there was the time Donald Trump bought a football team . . . 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z The beauty of Newhart's "NCIS" role, though, is that he doesn't have to yell or flail his arms to alert us to the fact that this is a change of pace for him. New leaf for Bob Newhart 2011-01-17T14:57:23Z “F.Y.I. flailing about wildly IS dancing,” she wrote in her newsletter. Dance Class Is in Session: Flail, Get Weird, Unlock Yourself 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z It is a twitching, flailing nightmare of narcissism, and Mr. Katz’s set of mirrors deepens the chill by reflecting it at angles oblique and acute. Review: Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance Offers New and Old 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Placidly photographed and lacking in urgency, “Survival” shows us the living flailing at fate and the dead just flailing. | 'Survival of the Dead': More Zombies From George A. Romero 2010-05-27T23:30:00Z The arms flail, the shoulders hunch; the extended leg bends and dangles like a broken oar. It’s hard to look like a swan when you’re doing a wolf turn 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z If one of the Seven gods is known for being responsible for music and choreography, he or she neglected to bless this reception hall or the couple, who kick off the bash with ritualistic flailing. A "House of the Dragon" wedding celebration turns into a crime scene, mainly due to the dancing 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z The fashion industry here isn’t broken or flailing or boring. Marc Jacobs marks a poetic end to a fashion season of reassuring upheaval 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z It was an intoxicating spectacle of flailing limbs adorned in bright fabrics. Ukrainian Dance at the Soyuzivka Resort in the Catskills 2012-08-24T22:48:11Z Wurtzel saw that she had been trying, all her life, to solve the wrong problem—and that those flailing attempts to make sense of herself constituted her life. The Chaotic, Beautiful Larks of Elizabeth Wurtzel 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z It’s mostly a season of flailing for her. Girls Star Allison Williams on the Show’s Second Season 2013-01-04T15:00:44Z Hence those herky-jerky robots, including three pairs of disembodied legs kicking and flailing above the stage. Two Turntables and a Keytar: The Night Herbie Hancock Rocked the Grammys 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z His arms flailing as he shouted from the stage, Giuliani promised a national television audience that Trump “will do for America” what he himself had accomplished for New York as mayor. What happened to ‘America’s Mayor’? How Rudy Giuliani became Trump’s attack dog. 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z In the final section of the book, Don is flailing around, both aghast at Emily's imminent death and trying to camouflage his feelings. This Is Paradise by Will Eaves - review 2012-02-10T22:05:01Z Chase, Aykroyd and Belushi flailed around for years in bad comedies and worse dramas before Chase finally hit it big with the National Lampoon movies and Aykroyd struck gold with Trading Places. ‘She was our Michelle Obama’: how Gilda Radner changed comedy for ever 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Newly natural, I’m still flailing at recreating YouTube styles and decided to stop by Curlfest in Prospect Park in Brooklyn last Saturday for help. At Curlfest, a Celebration of Natural Hair and Black Beauty 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z And my noisy flailing about as I tried to keep my balance while standing up in the boat. Learning to Fly-Fish, in Chile 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Their flailing attempts to adjust to the unimaginable is palpable and poignant. Movie Honors the African Soldiers France Tried to Forget 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Ross, from Miami, was the headliner, and someday theses will be written on his style evolution, culminating in this appearance: mid-90s-Versace-esque shirt unzippered; belly and breasts dangling; arms flailing as if in reverie. Music Review: Axis of Hip-Hop Brings a Crowd to the Stage 2011-06-06T14:32:30Z Hunt, like Liddy, is a middle-aged man struggling with a flailing career, but he is also navigating a dysfunctional marriage. ‘White House Plumbers’ Revisits the Fringes of Watergate 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Her arms flailed and one struck me in the nose, sending tears to my eyes. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z Having swum out too far in its own murky waters, the show frantically kicks and flails its way to an open-ended conclusion that doesn’t quite feel like it was worth all the trouble. Review | Netflix’s relentless ‘Ozark’ gets drunk on an ice-chest full of redneck cliches 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z But as he depicts his flailing attempts to help his son prepare a crucial middle school project on Latino heroes, he clearly counts himself among the “morons” of his play’s title. Review: John Leguizamo Turns Nutty Professor in ‘Latin History for Morons’ 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z But when they remove their shoes and dance apart under a new synchronized spell, the work’s pacing gradually flails. Bebe Miller Introduces Two Choreographers in Gibney Series 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z It starts flailing toward an old Hollywood happy ending of revenge and redemption, forcing Gekko to commit a lapse repellent to his nature — a good deed — in his stab at reconstituting his family. Oliver Stone's New Wall Street: Greed Is God 2010-09-23T08:25:00Z Making art almost always requires failure—you’ve got to flail for a while, to swing and miss, miss, miss. Why Artists Need Oddball Residencies 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Onstage, he is in perpetual motion: He flails limbs, seesaws shoulders, writhes on his back. Gay Rapper Le1f is Embraced by his World and the Mainstream 2014-05-02T22:56:37Z Snowballing drums and flailing guitar propel such lines as “it got me all fired up,” which leads inevitably to a round of “whoa-ohs.” Review | Japandroids deliver songs of fire and decay. With full-on audience participation. 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z “Ultimately you are watching the flailing of the leadership class that loathes the country it governs,” he recently told his viewers. Fox News host Tucker Carlson is loudly ignoring impeachment. It ‘is not only dumb, it’s boring.’ 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z The hyperactive Donnie is almost never still, and Mr. Mendel practically flails himself into pieces when Donnie ecstatically hits on the grand plan to move to Florida and open his own dealership. | 'Cattywampus': ?Cattywampus? at Incubator Arts Project - Review 2012-01-12T23:37:24Z The Jets are flailing after their 39-year-old would-be savior tore his Achilles’ tendon minutes into the season. When Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Collide With Prime-Time TV 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z Johnson flailed around a bit, but kept his wits. A Show That Laughs at Boris Johnson, and May Have Aided His Rise 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z In the band’s world of sound, characters are mostly flawed and sometimes flailing, but never handled with malice or pity; they’re celebrated for their imperfections. Review: Kindness Remains Intact on Belle and Sebastian's Latest Album 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Wallace has the kind of gravitas you expect as this complex, flailing icon. Review | Willy Loman still dreams big in Miller’s ‘Salesman’ at Ford’s 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Later, on the lawn of his waterfront home, they put on inflatable sumo wrestler suits and bumped bellies until Ms. Close was flailing like a turtle on its back. Glenn Close Returns to Broadway in ‘A Delicate Balance’ 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z As well as union issues, the ongoing restructuring of flailing Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., which owns half the project, has contributed to delays. NZ may lose Hobbit filming to offshore location 2010-10-20T18:20:00Z But they don't fight "like girls" — no flailing, no hair-pulling, no shoe soles slapped across faces. "Bottoms" takes a swing at the meaning of ugly, reclaiming it for us average, untalented people 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z The overvalued company was flailing behind its positive messages. "WeWork had all of the bad red flags": How a visionary sales pitch turned into yoga-babble 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z As Mary ineffectually attempts to convey “Legends of the Fall” by making flailing waterfall-like motions in the general vicinity of her midsection, the two youngest girls provide a stream of mortifying guesses. ‘Eligible,’ Curtis Sittenfeld’s Update of Jane Austen 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z He never finds out why, but that spirit of questioning, flailing and just letting rip makes every song crackle. New Albums From Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires, Sleaford Mods and Owen Pallett 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Another is flailing about for a body in the stagnant waters of the Albert Square dating scene, as in the case of Carol and Masood. The month in soap: Alice the spy nanny and the state of the Platt DNA 2013-06-01T05:00:21Z The book in question needed a new title, the first task I needed to perform for my shiny new publisher, and I was flailing. David Bowman and the Furry-Girl School of American Fiction 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Like windup toys, we obediently point in whatever direction the fearmongers tell us to and run, screaming and flailing our arms while demanding that someone do something about it. 9 senseless social panics that did lasting damage to America 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z Our boat driver, Angelo Amimba, 21, proved the luckiest fisherman, catching several over a few minutes as we flailed around with our poles catching nothing. Latin America 2011 : Suriname, South America?s Hidden Treasure 2011-09-16T18:55:00Z She is a muse who works very hard, racing around and flailing like someone possessed through much of the performance’s 90 minutes. Miguel Gutierrez and Tere O’Connor Works at American Realness 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z One jumped in with a cry, skinny legs flailing. The Wonder Women of Botswana Safari 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Still the band keeps flailing its instruments – only audible, if it all, to the fans still crammed closest to the stage. Pitchfork Day 2: Sleigh Bells, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wild Flag 2012-07-15T06:26:00Z I grew up alongside Britney Spears, and my arms still flail instantly into a dorky approximation of her choreography whenever I hear her music. Watching Britney Spears, as a Girl and a Woman 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z At the end of his first day at Nickel Academy, Elwood falls asleep to a bone-chilling sound that we know will soon flail his tender hopes. Review | In Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys,’ an idealistic black teen learns a harsh reality 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z When I tripped on my oversized heel and tumbled backward onto fresh powder, I flailed for a minute like a potato bug on its back. At L.L. Bean’s flagship store, learn to snowshoe against the backdrop of a Maine winter 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z She was near death: starving, gasping, flailing and crying out. Modern Love: Appreciating a Difficult Mother 2010-03-12T18:40:00Z Everyone’s flailing, everyone behaves badly, and everyone is, if not likable, at least understandable. | 'The Normal Heart': Raw Anguish of the Plague Years 2011-04-28T02:30:28Z About halfway between Guayaquil and Montañita, we passed San Pablo Beach, a fishing village with roadside eating spots whose proprietors, eager for business, flailed at every car that passed by. Three Sides of Ecuador 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z The Staple Singers flailed somewhat in the 1970s, recording some inept disco tracks. Books of The Times: ‘I’ll Take You There,’ by Greg Kot 2014-02-20T13:00:01Z She walks out some hours later with a traumatized expression on her face, after flailing in a sea of incomprehensible bureaucratese, unable to extract a single coherent thought from her notes. Get a Job, Kid 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z It’s not like she’s flailing off at the mouth and saying dumb stuff. Here's The Real Reason Why Taraji P. Henson Almost Turned Down 'Empire' 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z She would often stumble trying to explain her feelings, flailing for words, or burst into tears of anger when met with a task that used to be easy. Not dead but gone: how a concussion changed my girlfriend's personality forever 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Luke Treadaway powers himself into another acting realm as Christopher: with his concentrated face and flailing limbs, he is steadily intelligent but physically shaken, mentally agile and emotionally inflexible. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; Playing the Games: Taking Part/After the Party – review 2012-08-04T23:06:09Z True to his character study, he fails and flails his way through Sin City's poolside cabanas, blackjack tables and clubs until everyone winds up in jail. Kevin Hart finds character close to home in 'Think Like a Man Too' 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z These doctors and parents are talking about something different: providing the drugs without pretense to students who are flailing for reasons related to their schools and their environment, not their brain chemistry. Motherlode Blog: Pills for the Struggling Student 2012-10-09T19:17:00Z I wrote dreams: I dreamed of someone standing on a cloud in the sky, flailing his arms, yelling, “I don’t believe in anything! Do people drown in the sky like they do in the sea?” A Brief History of Death 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z These characters, both old guard and new, are defining the rules as they go along, and it seems right that the speech of these flailing souls should be so circumlocutious. | 'The New York Idea': Love in City of Intemperate Mores 2011-01-27T03:01:13Z What from afar looks like wild flailing, however, is actually a tightly controlled technique. Kid Millions? New Solo Album Has Maximum Drumming 2010-06-22T21:32:00Z But I couldn’t get my tail to stay behind me — it wanted to drag me straight down or kick out in front, so I’d flop on my back, flailing. The Last Mermaid Show 2013-07-05T13:25:59Z In Mr. Frayn’s first act, we watch the actors flail through a late-night dress rehearsal so richly stocked in disaster that, according to theater lore, it should augur a smashing premiere. Review: Michael Frayn’s ‘Noises Off’ Returns to Broadway 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Cut to Presley in his final performance in Indianapolis, less than two months before he died, slobbering into the microphone and flailing around like a beached whale. Shake, rattle and Rolls: across America in the shadow of Elvis 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z I think I saw Denise Lewis flailing around as if she was trying to fend off a gigantic wave of invisible wasps. Your Face Sounds Familiar – the worst show ever? 2013-07-01T11:07:19Z Later in the film, Nellie’s hair is cut into a more recognizably period finger-wave bob as she tries to rehabilitate her flailing career by fitting in with high society. ‘Babylon’ and the Case of the Missing Bob Haircut 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Absent that tension, actors are flailing in a void, giving of themselves to a camera-view that hardly knows what to take. Advice for Robert Downey, Jr. 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Picture a schoolyard of kindergartners lining up from recess, limbs flailing, bodies in motion, all jockeying for position. What the Caribou Taught Me About Being Together, and Apart 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z It's really been something to watch staunchly decorous institutions like the New York Times flail to grasp the profound repulsiveness emanating from the current administration. Your rage is justified, and it's not "vituperative" 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z On Wednesday night he hurtled onstage with legs pumping, arms flailing and hair aswirl. Review: Iggy Pop and his ‘Post Pop Depression Tour’ 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z It’s Perry, now in his eleventyseventh mediocre sitcom in the post-Chandler years, who flails about in the pilot episode as this modern-day Oscar. ‘The Odd Couple’: Not nearly odd enough by today’s standards 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z "Resistance" undeniably flails at times to find its tone, alternating between the gentle Marcel's playful interactions with the children and the nail-biting tension of the Nazi regime. The lifesaving, silent power of the Marcel Marceau Nazi-era drama "Resistance" 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Everyone remembers the scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” when the birds attack the blond woman in the bedroom: blood drips, flesh tears, hands flail. Attacked by birds and Hitchcock, Tippi Hedren sought out big cats 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Powerful winds had the palm trees flailing all over the place, and the heat reached nearly 90 degrees at times. Searching for the ‘Vibe Shift’ at Coachella 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z I watched siblings pull their flailing parents away from tangled mountains of once-pristine collections of books, records, and antique toys blighted by time and inattention. I clean out hoarder houses. Some jobs are even harder than the rest 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z A teenage boy flailed and punched a wall. A tale of two losses: from hopeful to heartbroken in the World Cup semi-finals. 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z The unidentified Chinese woman allegedly became so enraged by the delay that she began flailing her arms and deliberately coughed on a flight attendant. Thai Airways passenger forcibly restrained after intentionally coughing on crew member during delay: report 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z In general, your body wants to be more in control than it is; it is always on point, eager to run a rescue mission, to overbalance, overcompensate, throw out a flailing arm. Broken collarbone? Just roll with it 2013-06-02T17:00:00Z A male dancer appeared a few times, in traditional costumes, with flailing limbs and explosive moves. Music Review: A Malian Singer Sets Her West African Message to a Dance Beat 2011-07-31T22:06:14Z Gray used his guitar as both instrument and weapon, while Garside flailed and thrashed around him in a tangle of limbs and microphone leads. Hidden treasures: Daisy Chainsaw – Eleventeen 2013-02-27T11:13:23Z The tonal shift is jarring but typical of this endearing muddle, which flails in search of an identity. ‘Are You Here,’ a Comedy Directed by Matthew Weiner 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Heads down, arms flailing, they unleash a four-minute tsunami of percussion and hair. BBC Sound of 2013: Haim 2013-01-04T07:16:24Z It's just been an immersion process, where every day I do some work, if it's studying a score or flailing my arms while standing in front of a mirror, whatever it takes. Michael Feinstein is keeping the standards alive 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z This enervating film runs only 81 minutes, but it feels endless as Greer and the actors flail trying to get the comic timing to spark. The 18 most memorable movies of 2018 — for better and for worse 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z I cracked a large, freckled brown egg into my narrowest glass jar as my left hand coiled around Arthur to restrain his flailing, outstretched arms. How homemade mayonnaise saved my postpartum sanity 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z She bit her teeth but to her credit, didn't flail me for it. Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z I knew it would be off-putting to just see a guy with a lazy eye flailing his arms around like E.T. fleeing the CIA. How I friended Oprah Winfrey and Stephen Colbert: Zach Anner on comedy and cerebral palsy (“The sexiest of the palsies”) 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z In its scenes that focus on Stanley, “Kalamity” offers a clinical portrait of a pathetic man-child in full flail with nothing under the blustering surface. | 'Kalamity': Young Men Are Adrift; A Girlfriend Is Missing 2010-10-21T23:12:00Z Better comes across like a rougher, less pleased-with-itself Vampire Weekend, and stuffs tons of ideas into its 205 itchy, skittery seconds, not least the percussive flail, which is every bit as brilliant as it sounds. This week's new single reviews 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z “I started to think about it in terms of dance — there’s not that big of a difference between flailing and performing,” she said. ‘The Fits’: It’s All in the Footwork for a Girl Who Boxes, Then Dances 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z The rest of the set was defined by eccentricity and whimsy, along with occasional moments where they forgot about bearded earnestness and flailed viscerally. British Sea Power ? review 2011-01-14T23:01:00Z At their Manchester concert last year, she was a force of nature and owned the stage, her long dreadlocks flailing about as she invited women in the audience to get up and dance with her. Ari Up obituary 2010-10-21T17:49:00Z The cows fight back, and the video concludes with the child flailing for help and getting pulled to safety. 2 TV Shows, 4 Books and 7 Viral Videos for Your Long Weekend 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z In another essay, Knapp uses his own flailing attempts to imitate Roger Federer on his neighborhood tennis courts to deconstruct his journey from aspiring reader and writer to literary Reader and Writer. When It Comes to Writing, Cheston Knapp Is His Own Harshest Critic 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Charades is a mainstay of festive gaming, and there’s something inherently hilarious about watching your aunt Margaret flailing wildly as she attempts to mime The Silence of the Lambs after three sherries. Let's roll: the best board games for Christmas 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z On the podium, though, sitting in his conductor’s chair with his arms flailing, he seemed inspired. Music Review: In ?Wozzeck? at the Met, the Night Belonged to Levine 2011-04-07T12:58:54Z “I was picturing, like battle wounds, and botched —” she made some flailing hand gestures, which cracked everyone up further. Sleater-Kinney Asked St. Vincent for a Creative Spark. The Trio Blew Up. 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Hair is flailed, and Sykes's angry growl suggests either a deep-seated existential rage, or pesky bout of constipation. Bring Me the Horizon – review 2013-04-03T17:45:54Z The change has left small food companies and their social media managers flailing. Food Businesses Lose Faith in Instagram After Algorithm Changes 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z He couldn’t move his limbs, except for his legs, which he was able to kick, and his left arm, which he could flail. Father's Day, every day, with my disabled son 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z At several points, he actually falls down — crashes to the ground and flails there, a tap dancer disarmed by being horizontal. Review: Dorrance Dance, Where Tap and Computers Intersect 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z A divisive – some would say unapologetically horrible – figure, Brown screamed and flailed at his team of talented outsiders until they were able to reach their full potential. Last Chance U: you won't see a better drama all summer 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z And that pretty much sums up how enlightening this show is, flailing to provoke us and getting our attention, then fumbling for anything to say once it gets it. TV Tonight: Bristol Palin: Life’s a Tripp 2012-06-19T14:33:44Z Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage. Motherlode Blog: Anne Lamott Answers Your Questions 2012-04-19T20:55:22Z While this crisis might be over, Colbert warns that any minute the tube men could rise up and flail us to death with their noodley arms. Sexy teenage vampire Stephen Colbert’s Halloween warning: “A marauding orange monster is on the loose and it’s not Donald Trump” 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z Roars and rumbles send the group charging repeatedly through what looks like the same narrow passageway and stinky puddle, screaming and flailing and rifling through emotional baggage. 'As Above/So Below' Stars Perdita Weeks 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z They dance, writhe, flail and wrestle up a storm, vigorously beating up on both themselves and on one another. Review: In ‘Big Love,’ Fleeing Tradition Becomes a Messy Escape 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z When he flails his arms, she says “quiet hands”. ‘For five years we dreaded every meal’: my infant son’s struggle with food 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Josh has been flailing for a few episodes: panic attacks, manic episodes, living in squalor in an empty house. ‘Transparent’ Season 2 Finale: It’s a Boy 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z But when it doesn't work, it really doesn't work and you're marooned for an endless hour with an unfunny character flailing around without a script. Summer TV season high on comedy shows but sadly short on actual comedy 2012-05-29T17:33:08Z But Wilson, chiming in with a wry “aca-ward” and “aca-believe it,” has such great delivery that allows the joke to soar when it could so easily flail. Pitch Perfect: Back to School Isn't Usually This Much Fun 2012-09-27T14:00:21Z Instead, the distributor ended up with two flailing, bloody stumps. The fall of “Divergent”: The final film will bow on TV — here’s why it matters 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z It’s the flailing of a man at war with his own vulnerability, which only emerges again after he appears to be gone, and in the form of a letter. "Stranger Things 3" gives us a meaner Hopper, and we're not loving it 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z These moments are marvelous; so is the way he suddenly coheres these apparently random flailing movements into synchronized duos or quartets. Dance Review: Setting the Bar Very High And Leaping Toward It 2010-11-19T22:31:00Z “I didn’t want to flail on the gas too hard.” Plenty of Plot Twists for Two ‘Mindy Project’ Writers 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z He started at a flailing firm named Adchemy; quit with two engineers to found a start-up; sold the start-up to Twitter but went himself to work for Facebook, where he lasted two years. What It Is Actually Like to Be in the Engine Room of the Start-Up Economy 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z When she talks of what she's never done, or can't remember doing, the two other performers dance in yearning, sinking sympathy; when her mood turns angry, she herself kicks and flails in frustrated anguish. State of Flux: Forgetting Natasha 2011-08-18T14:52:26Z In his most successful performances, he is besieged by quotidian problems; he is blessed with impeccable comic timing but at his funniest when he’s flailing and frustrated. Paul Rudd, the One-Man Double Act 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Partly because few metal fans these days have hair long enough to flail – whether through choice or otherwise – and because fewer bands make the kind of music that makes audiences violently bang their heads. The Sword – review 2013-01-10T17:16:20Z His arm gestures and cues still seem loose and flailing. Review: Verdi’s ‘Simon Boccanegra’ at the Met, and a Question of Career Timing 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z "The actors, flailing under Vicky Featherstone's wooden direction, do much striding around and drinking of wine. I certainly felt like doing the latter by the time this turgid evening ended." Morgan play attracts tepid reviews 2014-02-06T12:02:44Z “Her initial number, in which she sings of selling the worst pies in London, while pounding dough and making as many purposefully flailing gestures as a pinwheel, is a triumph.” Angela Lansbury wins the lifetime achievement Tony. Read her Times reviews over the decades. 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z In the film, Christian Bale plays Dr. Michael Burry, a partly blind stock market investor with a penchant for gratingly loud music, flailing on his drum kit and working alone. Actors of ‘The Big Short’ Talk About the Debt Crisis, in Beverly Hills 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Andrews' own solos worked straightforward variations on clearly stated themes, growing in force and intensity, often finishing with him flailing his body in seeming exhaustion. Trombone Shorty no mere blowhard 2011-04-05T14:44:00Z His brooding presence dominates a world in which perky popular dances and conventional unison fragment into flailing, contorted violence. Paul Taylor’s Canon: Flippant, Savage, Idyllic 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z As the temperature rises, Don and his wife, Claire, are failing and flailing. ‘Summerlong’: A story for adults about adults gone wild 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Blusteringly self-important, he flails through life, naïve and directionless and pontificating nonetheless. Review: ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,’ Uneven Yet a Powerful Draw 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z While “The Jungle Book” celebrates a $60.8 million weekend and a $191.5 million domestic total, “The Huntsman” sequel is flailing in second place. 'Huntsman' Bombs at Box Office While 'Jungle Book' Reigns 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Yang flails rather than fights, which suggests that there is something inadequate about the Asian-American legacy for him. Wesley Yang and the Search for Asian-American Visibility 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z The two credited screenwriters, Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, consistently flail in most of their attempts at humor. Going for funny without sacrificing sexy “Baywatch” beaches itself 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Or are we really just looking for a guy flailing his arms, conjuring sound like a god might the weather, a clash of symbols over the clash of cymbals? Perspective | If conductor Marin Alsop’s done it, it’s probably because someone told her she couldn’t 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Your legs flail in their newfound weightless oblivion. Hitting my stack: How yoga helped me understand my trans identity 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z She seemed perplexed, before handing off the flailing ribbon and plastering on a smile. Melania Trump is busier than you think, but as quiet as ever 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z In flailing notes to hospital officials, he changed his desired program, switched interview dates and asked to extend at least one deadline to accommodate his research. My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z None of this was accomplished by flailing "innovation", and this, I think, is the real poetic miracle of the sonnets. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z One little boy standing next to a percussionist flailing away at drums reacted by smiling and dancing. Review: Man-Made and Natural Music Merge on a Steamy Sunday 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z As the toddler flailed about, literally kicking and screaming on the terminal carpet, Neanderdad simply put his headphones into his ears and turned up the music. Motherlode: Dad Travels for Work 2011-03-23T21:48:09Z But in the moment of making music he leaps into action, arms flailing, his face aglow. In Praise of Bernstein as Conductor: Movement That Mesmerized 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Best debut: Katie Jarvis gave one of the year's most indelible performances as a flailing teen in the British drama "Fish Tank" — all the more remarkable considering that she'd never acted before. From 'Easy A' to 'You Again': Highs and lows of the movie year 2010-12-30T23:51:32Z I'm biased, since they used "Drumming Song" by Florence + the Machine, a song I can't get enough of already, and one that screams for flailing bodies to accompany it. Finally! The best 3 dancers advance to the "SYTYCD" finals 2010-08-06T12:01:00Z More Jungle Fever arrived and the chair-dancing continued, with patrons flailing their hands and singing their hearts out. Where the Party Never Sleeps 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z They roll around, legs flailing like broken lolly sticks. Nick Grimshaw: Meet BBC's It-boy 2012-07-11T09:00:00Z Where are the nuances inherent in trying, failing, flailing at communicating with each other online? Trolls and clapbacks: Are they the trolls, or am I? 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z “Why are you telling me this now?” she said, arms flailing, pitch rising. Lady Antebellum Tries to Expand Its Base Overseas 2010-06-11T22:48:00Z The prof is beside himself with happiness and sudden success, and in the last drawing kicks one leg high in the air while he madly flails at his instrument. Looking at the Field: Remembering James Stevenson 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Holden McNeely, a bespectacled comic who looks like a preppy hedge fund analyst down on his luck, flails, all arms and legs. On Comedy: The Comedy of Murderfist and The Birthday Boys 2013-12-10T22:37:39Z For all the ringing guitar riffs and choruses sung in unison etched into our collective memory, there's something about Australian music that still flails an antipodean flag. November's best music from across the MAP 2012-11-15T09:00:00Z Fans might find fault with this episode, dubbed “Paradise Lost,” because it’s never that much fun to see strong characters climb up into their heads and flail about. 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: Angels and demons 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z But the bigger issue is the flailing theatricality of Harvard’s performance. Deaf West sets out to tame 'Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo' 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Sometimes flailing like toddlers at bath time, other times evoking priestesses at worship, the all-female ensemble was shaky in the shallows. Moves After Dark program presents 4 female-led dance groups in unconventional spaces 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Fox News Channel and CNN aired the president’s full address, after which CNN’s Anderson Cooper said Trump was “like an obese turtle on his back, flailing in the hot sun realizing his time was over.” Networks cut away from Trump’s White House address 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z The more I watched Andrew Cuomo flail awkwardly at showing affection for his daughters, the more acutely I missed my father. Pater Familiar: Watching Andrew Cuomo's pandemic briefings finally let me grieve my father 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z These two goals are often in conflict with each other, putting Schumer in a familiar position: It’s unclear whether he’s landing punches or just flailing about. ‘He’s not that kind of fighter.’ Can play-by-the-rules Chuck Schumer win on Trump’s turf? 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z He's also a compulsive gambler who is flailing in a faltering marriage. Battle of the Sexes Serves Up a Winning Portrait of Billie Jean King 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z At first he flails, failing to sell any of the encyclopedias he’s supposed to peddle. The Twisted Power of White Voice in “Sorry to Bother You” and “BlacKkKlansman” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Those signs of Ms. Thomas’s early days — or any young girl’s — were more evocative than intermittent movement passages that ranged from a frenzy of flailing limbs to social dancing. Review: ‘Welcome Home,’ a 1970s Flashback on Governors Island 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z But what happens when their family flailing inspires her art? Ten books to read in August 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z I was jumping from train to train and I hit the side of one and I was flailing, trying to get my legs up. ‘It’s Not for Wimps’: 8 Stuntwomen Reflect on Their Careers 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z No matter, because she flails it about well enough to fell evil creatures and terrible men, some of whom are considerate enough to more or less walk into the pointy end. Even a magical sword can't help "Cursed," a retelling of the Arthurian legend that needs honing 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z She performs like a punk banshee, in a fevered state, fearless, cursing, flailing, falling from the stage in 1977, fracturing several vertebrae and requiring 22 stitches. Patti Smith, an accidental rock legend, has finally become the artist she always wanted to be 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Broadcast is flailing around as it tries to compete against cable and new content-delivery platforms, binge watching is all the rage, time-shifting is becoming the default way of watching shows. Fall TV: What can replace ‘Breaking Bad,’ other faves? 2013-09-04T21:22:47Z Ms. Hale-McGill danced around the stage and flailed her arms in the air as she sang. In New Orleans, Spreading the Gospel Through Song and Community 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z When adults are asked to “run like a girl,” they break into a wimpy jog, all hair tosses and flailing arms. Do Advertising's Viral Video Pitches to Women Have Staying Power? 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z She was shattering during the prioress’s death scene, when this lifelong nun flails about with fear and fury and cries out that God has abandoned her. Review: ‘Dialogues of the Carmelites,’ Under Will Crutchfield, Finds Beauty Anew 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z There's just something about a flailing defense of a championship that takes a bit of the shine off said championship. Sports' Biggest Chumps 2010-03-03T22:05:00Z She’s interested in the dance that trips, flails, mindlessly repeats, that happens not on a stage but in a shower stall, or in a car stuck in traffic. Dancing with Claire Denis 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z And sometimes his shtick—the wailing, the flailing, the accents—can seem too big, a possible form of job fatigue. Jon Stewart’s Big Announcement 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Our football club’s flailing regime, In hopes that a change might redeem Its poor image, took aim At that godawful name. Style Invitational Week 1400: Back on track 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z The Kit Kat Club, the setting for Sally’s flailing bid for stardom, may be a dim and murky dive. Emma Stone Takes Over in ‘Cabaret’ 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z And then Jean, arms violently flailing, began to spin around and around like a top, just like in kung fu movies. The Would-Be Prince of Port-au-Prince 2011-07-17T04:45:24Z They launch into their performance, arms flailing, blissfully absorbed in the rumba-rooted grooves. Staff Benda Bilili at Glastonbury 2010 2010-06-27T19:51:00Z They are oddly specific celebrations of near-term nostalgia in which music made to help teen-agers flail their way to adulthood provides an opportunity for adults to succumb to the histrionics of teendom again. The Rise of Emo Nostalgia 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z For a while, I flailed around like an egg noodle with those big gloves on my hands. Marlen Esparza is my idol 2012-08-06T01:00:00Z After all, a complex novel takes years to compose, and, more important, there’s no parallel between Dee’s hyper-competent billionaire and the one flailing around in the White House. What happens when a billionaire takes over a small New England town 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z They are familiar tales and yet utterly distinctive from one another, with startling details that suggest the perversity of flailing souls who misread their own intentions. ‘Lucy Barton’ Review: Laura Linney Finds Her Perfect Match 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z At the same time I saw two or three men holding a small, slight man who was shouting at me, flailing his arms, trying to rush at me, attempting to slug me. The summer afternoon Frank Sinatra tried to beat me up 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z “Ushio was doing this action painting — this 80-year-old guy was flailing himself against his canvas,” recalled Heinzerling, who was working at the time as an assistant at a television network on history documentaries. | Forty Years of Love and Art and Chaos 2013-08-15T20:15:20Z Right now, we flail around, treating Eurovision as an excuse for another feeble reality show. Tom Ewing 2010-05-27T21:44:00Z It was just exceedingly awkward and I felt bad for him because you hate to see someone on a human level sort of flail before your eyes. Katie Couric vs. Big Food: She’s a “strong feminist,” but not an “activist” 2014-05-06T22:59:00Z We’re meant to see that Harry wants to save Cora from herself because he’s an equally lost soul, flailing in his marriage and turning to a bartender for sessions in ritual humiliation. Review: Jessica Biel in ‘The Sinner,’ a Whydunit 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z She used to mostly flail around in private, but since then, the Toronto-based Ms. Maslany has been taking the party to the “Orphan Black” set and home. Tatiana Maslany Plays Many Characters in ‘Orphan Black’ 2014-04-17T12:00:01Z We're all digging in the dark and flailing our way through life. "Lorelei" star Jena Malone: Lower-income stereotypes have always been "stigmatized but romanticized" 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z My upper body was now leaning to the right, my right hand flailing, and I could no longer reach the comforting stability of the deck. Severed 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z The person they go to for comfort is fed up with watching the troubled person flail. Cruel can be kind: Scientific study explains why we dish out tough love 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Some in the New York press reported punches or “arms flailing about.” ‘He’s not that kind of fighter.’ Can play-by-the-rules Chuck Schumer win on Trump’s turf? 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z As ever, her sound was idiosyncratic and personal, and her characterization was more kittenish than fiery and jealous during a first act that lumbered and flailed at times. Music Review: ?Tosca,? With Tinkering, Cooler Tempers and a Fill-In Tenor 2011-01-11T22:13:44Z When the child-king is shown striding as King of Lower Egypt, beautifully gilded and crowned and carrying a royal crook and flail, he looks proud but gentle, even a bit uncertain. Exhibition Review: King Tut Reigns at the Discovery Center and the Met 2010-04-22T22:18:00Z I fell into this trap myself, once portraying a barn owl hunting over a dusk hayfield as a symbol of the change from day to night, part feathered shuttle, part winged flail. Richard Mabey: in defence of nature writing 2013-07-18T13:00:02Z Many claimed that the move was a “desperate bid” to rescue McCrory’s flailing campaign, but it wasn’t exactly. The great compromise that wasn’t: North Carolina’s HB 2 deal was doomed from the start 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z It was the second play she took after Legally Blonde, though, that really pushed Smith, flailing and panicking, out of her depth. From slappers to Hedda Gabler: the irresistible rise of Sheridan Smith 2013-03-18T18:12:48Z Zinnie Harris's outstanding The Panel features a table of undiluted men flailing around as they debate the shortcomings of a series of women candidates. Women, Power and Politics; Through a Glass Darkly 2010-06-19T23:15:00Z Cause mass flailing of hair and writhing of torsos. New band of the day ? No 770: Trash Talk 2010-04-21T15:09:00Z I didn’t know it at the time, but this was the artist’s process at its best, its most generative, flailing and welcoming. Day 28: How I Lost My Head on New Year’s Eve 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z The book’s flailing heroine, Cass, an emerging playwright, flees New York after a disastrous opening night. Working in TV, Jen Silverman Wrote a Novel. About Theater. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z “When I got to the critical-care unit, Maria was lying slightly elevated in bed, eyes wild, arms flailing, and speaking Spanish excitedly,” recounts Sharp. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z No matter what encouragement she received from Paul and from others, she flailed. The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z The set is full of the topless flailing you've come to expect, although it's becoming difficult to tell whether he's touching his crotch because of his raw, on-stage sexual tenacity or just readjusting himself. SXSW music festival: Iggy Pop, Haim and The-Dream 2013-03-14T15:15:59Z The character is not an unredeemable sociopath but an angry, flailing youth with no impulse control. Review: ‘Standing Tall,’ a Boy’s Encounter With the Law 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Dressed in red beret and black jacket, arms flailing in description – and frequently interrupted by locals who fist-bumped or hugged him – Mario started with Chicano Park Takeover. Beyond Comic-Con: San Diego's beaches and Pacific views are its real stars 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The answer: Straight over the top, into an ether where “Something Rotten!” flails like a parachutist in a windstorm. Review: ‘Something Rotten!,’ an Over-the-Top Take on Shakespeare 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Even unbuttoned, though, his characters most often flail and fail at connection. Pulse by Julian Barnes ? review 2011-01-02T00:03:03Z I can just flail around for a whole decade. “I’m the parent who wants their kids to have sex”: Mary Louise Parker talks poetry, nudity, one-night stands and her brilliant new book 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Finding a wounded pigeon flailing in the lane, she takes it home to nurse. Field Notes from a Hidden City by Esther Woolfson – review 2013-02-02T15:30:01Z Bodies flail and slam into one another on cue with the first note of the first song. This chaotic duo sounds like nothing and everything you’ve ever heard 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z "A definite upgrade from the flailing behemoth on view in February," said The Washington Post. What might be next for the 'Spider-Man' musical? 2011-06-16T05:16:06Z She uses her entire body to interpret lyrics, and there were moments on Tuesday when she flailed around the stage as though wrestling with a song in her effort to inhabit its essence. Music Review: Barb Jungr Interprets Dylan at Metropolitan Room - Review 2011-10-19T23:01:02Z Though Silverstein’s mother encouraged his early knack for drawing, his father made it clear that he was expected to join the flailing family business. The Giving Tree at Fifty: Sadder Than I Remembered 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Her flailing son has secrets of his own. From Blood and Phlegm to Alcohol and Defenestration, Novels of Heartache 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z “A person looking at him might think he was just flailing about,” the guitarist Barry Oliver said in the magazine Guitar Player. Richie Havens, Guitarist and Singer, Dies at 72 2013-04-23T02:06:59Z As the bit sort of flailed, Obama could have likely turned the tables: Where will Colbert be come January, if Trump doesn’t win? We’ll pick a president, but the search continues for a perfect late-night host 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z I was flailing in a newfound weightless oblivion. Hitting my stack: How yoga helped me understand my trans identity 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z In a terrible year at the box office, American Sniper soared when other Oscar contenders flailed because it advertised itself as a war movie, not a prestige film. Why "American Sniper" Was the Only Oscar Movie That Made Big Money 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Roach was interested in the campaign that year, and in Ms. Palin in particular, because she was a surprise pick for vice president and was seen as a fix for a flailing Republican Party. ?Game Change? on HBO, With Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin 2012-03-04T23:12:46Z Often the emotional content is — if I may use the adjective — blurred, suggesting a flailing state of confusion about to boil into rage. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Ghosts,’ ‘Blurred Lines’ and ‘The Pass’ in London 2014-02-04T18:25:15Z Agitated, they run in circles; hop up and down in place; and stretch their arms as their legs flail haphazardly. Review: Who Will Save the World? This Dance Leaves It to the Kids 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z The dancing is a chaotic stew of flailing limbs. ‘Annie’ Remake Stars Quvenzhané Wallis 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z One time he overdosed, flailing around on the floor, and the worried kids were told that their father had suffered a heart attack. David Talbot on “Tavis Smiley” 2012-05-21T19:31:00Z She retreated and now flails, yet her enthusiasm for the process remains boundless. Biograph asks: Are we ever going to do any real acting? 2011-03-08T17:45:21Z As in real life, where we've watched successive administrations run out of money and credibility, so we've seen the characters in the show flail and suffocate in their analogue world of diminishing opportunity. The Thick of It: the agony of tight spaces 2012-08-26T19:00:00Z BURNABY, British Columbia — The football players strutted down a 40-yard strip of synthetic turf, yelling, jumping and flailing their arms to whip the fans into a frenzy. Capturing Football’s Snaps, Crackles and Pops in Madden NFL 2014-01-28T22:55:42Z While his family flailed, he lived on the college campuses where he taught, places his son refers to as “that green world that wasn’t ours.” Books of The Times: With No Father Around, a Youth and His Fists Fend for Themselves 2011-02-22T18:14:55Z If you imagine yourself fabulously clothed and everyone else around you sees you flailing in a diaper, for better or worse that is part of the construct of yourself. Six Seasons and a Board Game? Community's Touching (Possible) Goodbye 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z An all-black figure flails menacingly; a red figure is more playful; a white figure is relatively serene. Bridging the differences between people 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Even at her character’s most tormented, Ms. Piper is never merely flailing. Review: A Blistering Billie Piper Unravels Brilliantly in ‘Yerma’ 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Noah has no discernible offensive skills; he's a garbage man, flailing around his elbows, sharp as box cutters, to pick up loose balls and rebounds for his points. NBA: Derrick Rose Helps Make the Bulls a Title Favorite 2011-04-15T09:20:00Z He would curse and flail and break at least one vital piece in a fit of rage, but he always managed to improvise and finish the job. How Do You Know When It’s Time to Break Up? 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z She rejects Alexandria’s comforts but does so as an icy, Machiavellian counterpoint to Sasha’s flailing disintegration, glad-handing the locals while she plots against them, or at least in defiance of their rules. 'The Walking Dead' Recap: Don't Mess with Carol 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z A few came in with fists flailing: the Boston Globe referred to it as "moronic ramblings". "Nevermind" 30 years on — how Nirvana’s second album tilted the world on its axis 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Several feet of it got caught on the first lady’s scissors, flailing in the breeze. Melania Trump is busier than you think, but as quiet as ever 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Jack and Melody—a failed antiques dealer and a Westchester would-be supermom, respectively—start to flail. Novels of White Status Anxiety 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z But inside the Kodak Theater, surrounded by people who were just happy to be there, the show and its two moderately, unsurprisingly flailing hosts were the least of it. Film: Oscars? Red Carpet (Parallel Universe) 2011-03-02T12:42:49Z The crumpled imperfection, bordering on the messy, meant that this man in a hurry had clothes with raw finishes and a messenger bag with flailing straps shoved under the arm. Special Report: Radical Surgery on Regular Menswear 2010-06-28T11:14:00Z Beneath the surface gloss, the mood is spiked and bitter, and as the monologue unfolds the man looks more and more like someone flailing at sea. The Age of Monologues 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z To be sure, the show does not showcase the Britney of old: Once a fluid, natural dancer, Ms. Spears can appear stiff, even robotic, today, relying on flailing arms and flashy sets. Is Britney Spears Ready to Stand on Her Own? 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Marty flails and swoons, about to fade into oblivion, while George rescues Lorraine again—this is perhaps overkill—and kisses her. Happy “Back to the Future” Day 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z With the asymmetric, twisting, flailing impetus of Petronio's signature style dialled right up, they often appear to be battling the elements: they're hurled across the stage in whirling, lop-sided turns or jagged leaps. Stephen Petronio Company ? review 2010-10-07T21:45:00Z At particularly dramatic moments, Gardner practically levitated off the podium, sometimes gripping his baton with both hands and flailing it as if wielding a weapon. ‘Gerontius,’ where have you been? Seattle Symphony brings seldom-heard piece to vibrant life 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Ms. Maye broke with tradition in “One for My Baby” by making it the monologue of a tough, combative barfly flailing into the night. Review: Marilyn Maye’s Tribute to Frank Sinatra 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z The star of HBO's "The Leftovers" spends the video dancing, jumping, kicking and flailing her arms while moving around a fancy venue. Spike Jonze debuts wild perfume ad starring Margaret Qualley 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z And Mr. Birney is excellent as ever, turning in a precise portrait of a middle-aged man trying to mask his flailing ego under a bright veneer of competence and good cheer. Theater Review: ‘Core Values,’ by Steven Levenson, at Ars Nova 2013-05-07T02:00:01Z Garfield bounces across the screen with the energy of a child on a trampoline; his downright kinetic performance is a flutter and flush of gestures, limbs jerking and flailing in all directions. How Jonathan Larson Taught Me to Become a Better Critic 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z When the whole edifice collapses, the frenzied quartet finds itself flailing against seething and surging batteries of percussion. Seattle Symphony strikes somber note with pairing of ‘4’33,’ ‘My Beautiful Scream’ 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z In “Crawling,” two men, arms flailing, struggle under a burning, biblical sun. Review | For Dana Schutz, a new show after her controversial painting of Emmett Till 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z He says that selections like “Gabriel” and “Five Star,” both world premieres, are engrossing looks at “flailing youth befuddled and intimidated by a forbiddingly complex world.” ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: New York Via Park City or Berlin 2014-04-16T19:13:45Z Apart from the loss of foliage, the technique weakens branches, causes them to flail in a gale and break apart. An arborist muses on a 35-year career high in the branches 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z The two banter and alternately confront and avoid the flailing state of their marriage, before the scene cuts at the therapist’s door. Fifteen minutes of prestige: how Hollywood went long on short content 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z He was skilled, nonchalant, big hands unfazed by the flailing creature. Past Into Present: 4 Journeys That Changed Us 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z While Ahmad, legs unnaturally contorted behind him flailed for help, Israeli settlers, police and emergency technicians stood by and watched. Both sides of the knife: When we speak about Palestinian violence, we ought to do so in the context of “the ongoing and daily oppression faced by some 4 million people” 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Twigs flailed her arms and body in time with the changing tempo. FKA Twigs debut short, slow & mesmerizing | Concert review 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z In March, the Sundance Channel debuted "All on the Line," in which cameras follow Elle magazine creative director and veteran stylist Joe Zee while he attempts to revamp a flailing fashion business. TV, all gussied up 2011-05-19T20:06:04Z Even the most disorienting novel is a reminder that you are more than a frayed nerve ending flailing across the Internet—that you, a somewhat coherent person, exist. The Best Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Through Lenore's calculated maneuvering, the petty shenanigans of the well-meaning mortals around her are revealed as nothing but useless flailing against an indifferent tide. "Hung": A parable for crass times 2010-06-19T23:01:00Z The recent flailing among Republicans looking to unseat Barack Obama suggests nothing so much as the maneuvers of a desperate casting director. The Ides of March: Ladies and Gentlemen, President George Clooney 2011-10-06T08:00:00Z Ms. Hanao is warm and appealing, while Ms. Smart doesn’t quite find her footing, though, admittedly, her character is supposed to be flailing. Movie Review: Motley Group Vents in ‘Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club’ 2014-03-14T22:19:49Z There’s lots of yelling and flailing, but it all ends with a whimper. Saturday Night Live: Jim Carrey, Mike Pence and a very pesky fly 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z In this version, everyone seems to be flailing interchangeably, in the same stale vacuum, for all eternity. Review: ‘The Present’: Even in Russia, It’s Hard to Turn 40 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z They stand beside their cart, shading their eyes and gazing back at us as we hopelessly flail away. The Sadness (And Salvation) Of New England Patriots Owner Robert Kraft 2012-09-06T14:00:00Z Exercise is prescribed, but when she joins an aqua aerobics class, she flails embarrassingly. Movie Review: ?Late Bloomers,? With William Hurt and Isabella Rossellini 2012-04-12T21:52:54Z What initially looks like indiscriminate wavering or flailing reveals itself to be a deliberate, even dogged, excavation of off-balance states. Review: A Choreographer Who Excavates Misalignment 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Kyra, 10, lets her limbs flail wildly about to her delight. In Pennsylvania, a tubing and snowboarding destination for families 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z As I got in the water, a girl in a black one-piece approached, flailing, spinning, kicking off the bottom, not really swimming. The Swimmer: Manhattan Edition 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z When teachers tried to direct him from one activity to the next, he often reacted with flailing limbs or by pushing them away with his arms or legs. We have autism all wrong: The radical new approach we need to understand and treat it 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z In many ways, Dinklage’s own story is unsurprising: an actor who flailed for years, worked steadily for some more years, then got a great role and became famous. Peter Dinklage Was Smart to Say No 2012-03-31T23:17:15Z Better yet, the novel doesn’t flail at the end, the sinkhole of many writers, novice and veteran. ‘Sweetbitter’: Stephanie Danler’s delicious debut novel 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z It is powerful to have as the chorus a single pregnant woman – performed with terrific flailing anger and desperation by Lucy Ellinson. The Effect; The Seagull; The Trojan Women – review 2012-11-18T00:06:26Z The singer frequently crashed into Gill, bouncing off his mate only to scamper around, a flailing limbo contestant trapped in a prison of someone else's design. Gang of Four turn back the clock with vital, aggressive show 2011-02-12T11:21:00Z Yet the divide between commerce and compassion is made abundantly clear, as is the deserved torment of these sailors, flailing in an inferno of moral retribution. Review: ‘The Vast Machine’ of Slavery and Injustice, at the Axis Theater 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The flailing legacy of Christopher Columbus suffered two pernicious blows in Denver in 2020. How the Denver Art Museum Kicked Columbus Out the Door 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Will my feet hurt or my hands freeze or — let’s be honest; this is my main concern — given a shot to ski with a pro, will I flail? In the Colorado Rockies, going to extremes with legendary skier Chris Davenport 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z But it flailed in its efforts to find a sustainable financial model, and it suffered through the rocky tenures of several chief executives who were unable to balance its ledgers. ‘A slow-motion disaster’: Journalism museum in talks about possible building sale 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Sivan does his spring-jointed runway walk — his throbbing flail — throughout. Troye Sivan Is a New Kind of Pop Star: Here, Queer and Used to It 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z In one particularly funny scene she flails around her living room, laptop nearby, spanking herself and talking dirty out loud . . . to nobody. Women come first, sexposition second in TV’s recent depictions of female pleasure 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z With voices raised and arms flailing, each standing senior monk argued moral doctrine to the disciple seated at his feet. A breathtaking Himalayan journey to ‘the rooftop of the world’ 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Designers are now seen as commodities, brought in to revive flailing houses and to be disposed of when a fresher name comes along. | Style: Dirty Pretty Things 2012-11-30T05:03:15Z Instead, the movie finally goes sleepwalking — first mildly, when a roommate on the road finds Matt flailing, clothed, in the shower. Sleepwalk With Me: His American Life 2012-08-24T04:21:10Z Whatever the effects and the production values, these movies have been flailing, unfunny fiascoes since “Scary Movie 2” wasted 83 minutes of our time way back in 2001. ‘Scary Movie 5’: Plenty of pop-culture references, nary a laugh 2013-04-12T17:33:46Z Ms. De Laâge’s Sarah is less a monster than a flailing, desperately insecure and angry teenager putting on a show. Review: ‘Breathe,’ the Story of a Scary Teenage Romance 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z “The Invisible Man” is Universal’s latest attempt to remake its classic monster properties, an effort that flailed spectacularly with 2017’s “The Mummy” starring Tom Cruise. Box Office: 'Invisible Man' Emerges With $29 Million Opening Weekend 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z But there’s still more to come: When he reaches the car, Mr. DiCaprio flails his body in a circle, opening the door with his foot, failing to get on the seat. ‘American Hustle’ and ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ as Brutal Comedies 2014-01-24T21:39:56Z She created a comic persona – wild hair, flailing cigarette holder, splayed feet, absurd costume, loud, cackling laugh – when in fact she was a housewife from Ohio. Phyllis Diller 2012-08-21T17:39:18Z By the time he’s flailing underwater without an oxygen tank, struggling against violent surges as breath and time run out, you can almost feel the life leaving his body. Review: ‘Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation’ With Tom Cruise and Plenty of Stunts 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z There is no scene in The Shallows as good as that sequence in The Birds where Melanie is attacked in the attic, flailing haplessly against her avian attackers, the only sound her own desperate breathing. Why The Shallows is better than The Birds 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z The pigeons and their metal support rods roll around in the bowl, the rods flailing like disabled legs, trying fruitlessly to escape. 'Deer Rear' and other unnerving looks at the nature of trickery 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z “But the frequency of the mind is slowed, less prone to flailing.” Tim Hecker Helped Popularize Ambient Music. He’s (Sort of) Sorry. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Instead of hunching over his guitar, bending at the waist as he normally does, Young turned his instrument into a machine gun, his legs splayed, straw hair flailing. Concert review: Neil Young at United Center 2012-10-12T06:14:00Z These are hinted at in the trailer – all confetti and swimming pools and manically flailing flappers – and 3D is bound to bring them alive. The Great Gatsby trailer shows Baz Luhrmann putting 3D to good use 2012-05-23T14:20:42Z I was ready for an episode centered on Jason flailing and wriggling his way out of an impossible situation. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 8: Priorities and Principles 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z The gestures flail, failing to generate any evocative friction. New and unimproved: the spectacle of Julian Schnabel 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Both of them, in sort of a flailing, wild, highly subjective way. Iggy Pop Is Fine With Being the Godfather of Punk 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The sisterly advice was more to do with Bejo's roving arms, a tendency to flail when she spoke. Bérénice Bejo: 'The Artist was a gift. But I thought I was really good' 2013-05-25T18:00:02Z Pattinson may have the male model good looks and the serious new movie, but it's Radcliffe, bravely flailing around in a bow tie, who seems the more evolved performer. Edward Cullen is killing Robert Pattinson 2011-04-21T19:22:00Z Tom ultimately apologizes, but not before Mike, unprepared at a news conference, finds himself flailing when asked if the White House supports Tom James’s comments. 'Veep' Recap: Selina Wants a Girls' Night at the White House 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z So: in the near future, Earth faces an extraterrestrial invasion force of wildly flailing metallic octopus things. Edge of Tomorrow review – Tom Cruise in born again blockbuster 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z The uneducated Fikret, a teenager who illegally sells roses in traffic, aspires to a steady job but flails briefly as a busboy. Movie Review: ‘Koprudekiler’ (‘Men on the Bridge’), a Drama Set in Istanbul 2012-06-19T22:23:59Z Soon, Susie is giggling in the school’s corridors, peeking into its dark corners and dancing, flailing, twisting under Madame Blanc’s strict watch. Review: ‘Suspiria’ Is a Gaudy Freakout of Female Violence 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z While chain stores like Barnes & Noble have flailed in recent years, independent bookshops have been enjoying a comeback. The Bronx Loses Its Only Bookstore 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Tolkien's books, had been delayed by union issues and the ongoing restructuring of flailing Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., which owns half the project. Jackson to start shooting 'The Hobbit' in February 2010-10-16T03:12:00Z He's as vivid as a boozy politician on the rise in Julius Caesar as he is pallid as the flailing figure who courts both Cleopatra and his own destruction. Are the RSC ensemble's glory days over? 2011-02-01T17:32:55Z In 2001 he produced a bronze sculpture to honor victims of the World Trade Center attacks in the form of a naked woman on her back with upward flailing arms and legs. Art Review: ?Eric Fischl: Portraits? at Mary Boone Gallery 2012-03-01T23:52:35Z It's music's biggest night, but its eternally flailing combination of staid industry awards gala and "Whoooooooo, let's put on a show!" always makes for compelling train wreck theater. Grammy's 10 greatest moments 2011-02-14T14:01:00Z While battling drugs and depression at home, Cobain was a tattered rag doll onstage, hurling himself into drum sets, flailing off speaker stacks and writhing in waves of guitar feedback as if possessed. Nirvana Concerts Could Be Beautiful Wrecks 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z According to evidence shared at trial, Mornyang became disruptive several hours into the 14-hour flight, and began to flail her arms and yell obscenities including racial slurs. United Airlines passenger facing up to 21 years for drunkenly assaulting flight attendant 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z In a show crowded with genius, Ms. Shawkat always manages to stand out, partly because you can always see her working the angles even when comically flailing. Review: ‘Duck Butter’ and the 24-Hour ‘for Real’ Relationship 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Think of it like martial arts: avoid flailing. Seven things I wish I'd known before my divorce: an optimistic guide to the future 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z It’s uncomfortable for everyone; we are in an era of flailing discomfort, and there’s an argument to be made that the court of public opinion is a bad venue. Perspective | Chris Hardwick is back. So is Ryan Seacrest. So, no, #MeToo isn’t going ‘too far.’ 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z But the way he flailed about was so musical, and it went perfectly with what he was portraying. Richie Havens, Guitarist and Singer, Dies at 72 2013-04-23T02:06:59Z But it rang in my ears for other reasons as the curtain fell on this intermittently funny but mostly flailing attempt to excavate new meanings from the consideration of a celebrated text. 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z The program hasn’t even tried to explain the nuances; to anyone not already a fan, the hockey it shows will still seem to be just random flailing by guys with bent sticks. ‘Road to the NHL Winter Classic,’ on Epix 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z I was flailing; my back hurt from arching around to look at her. What it took to finally confront my family about race and politics 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The Emmys are a seriously flawed institution: Great shows get snubbed while flailing ones clean up, and this year is no exception. How Women Are Doing on TV, According to the Emmys 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Ah, sweet memories of indie discos and uncoordinated flailing. Readers recommend: songs about dance styles ? results 2011-07-28T15:08:29Z Like young Nucky, flailing and grasping under the ocean waters, Boardwalk Empire went for the shiny gold. REVIEW: Boardwalk Empire Watch: Golden Boy 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z But while the flailing and the goofing has been meticulously choreographed, it grows ponderous, and your indulgent smiles tend to get more perfunctory once you realize that this is all there is to the show. ‘The Cardinals’ at the Public Theater 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z At 68, both his parents dead, he finds himself baffled, even flailing for the first time in his life. In ‘Forest Dark,’ Nicole Krauss Plays With Divided Selves 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Others clucked over the irony of Condé Nast both hiring and firing a young Black woman in its flailing attempts to align with a renewed push for diversity. Inside the Teen Vogue mess — which is really a Condé Nast mess 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Thomas is sublime as this fragrant but poisonous powder puff, whose flailing helplessness allows her to manipulate Carla into making all the funeral arrangements, even though her own marriage is in crisis. | 'Relatively Speaking': ?Relatively Speaking? at Brooks Atkinson Theater ? Review 2011-10-21T02:01:14Z The British rock singer, famous for flailing his arms during performances, lost a long battle with lung cancer, said his label, Sony Music Entertainment, in a statement. Joe Cocker, raspy-voiced British singer, dies at 70 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Still he flails and he yells: “This is huge! All must go!” Style Invitational Week 1300: Botch office sensations 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z There will be fewer flailing candidates fighting for a moment, no network trying to brand the occasion with a Pavlovian sound that reminds you of their great programming. The secret history of the presidential debate buzzer 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Fist pumps, waving arms and synchronized — or not — flailing limbs, seem to be popular. The Hottest Song at the Club? ‘The White Lotus’ Dance Remix 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z Once the shiny Noel Coward patter drains away, Vivian embraces someone flailed by life, and that willingness to bear another’s pain transforms her, filling her with a kind of love she’s never experienced before. Review | In Elizabeth Gilbert’s ‘City of Girls,’ a young woman discovers the joys of sex 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z But they said they believed police testimony that he resisted arrest by flailing his arms. Madonna fan guilty in NYC resisting arrest trial 2012-11-10T03:00:10Z Their 40-minute set included "It's Tricky" to a sea of flailing arms, and "It's Like That." Pearl Jam closes 2-day Made In America festival 2012-09-03T10:01:04Z As with Bond's plays, the Q&A audience were left flailing around for a glimmer of hope. Edward Bond: 'The most obscene thing I've seen recently is Slumdog Millionaire' 2010-04-30T13:43:00Z In what he calls his “most famous dance,” “To a Hero Slain,” he looks merely wooden and ridiculous, his maroon smock flapping, his comical sword flailing. Review: ‘Paul Swan Is Dead and Gone,’ but First, He’s Dévastaté 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z But the halftime show still flailed through the 1990s, trying to merge the rock stadium concert, the Las Vegas revue, the drill-team competition and the oldies medley, mixing the boffo and the surreal. Coldplay and Beyoncé Hope to Match Past Spectacles at Super Bowl Halftime Show 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Ms. Levine strives with her underwritten role as a flailing rag doll with a dream. Review: In ‘The Transfiguration,’ Coping With Bullies and Craving Blood 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Face red with passion and arms flailing, Henry delivered his speech, peppered with Biblical references and homages to the Greek and Roman classics. On a Virginia driving tour, tracing patriot Patrick Henry’s path to history 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z With long, flailing limbs and a face molten with anguish, Mr. Driver explodes into view with an outsize fury that makes everyone and everything around him seem Lilliputian. Review: Adam Driver Heats Up a Wobbly ‘Burn This’ 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Hair, where it hasn't fallen victim to the middle-aged curse of the sensible haircut, is flailed. Pearl Jam – review 2012-06-21T10:58:21Z As talent left, the magazine started to flail. National Lampoon: the magazine that became a comedy empire 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z She must have has a gift for using power once, but we mostly see her flail at her staff to save her from herself. TV Weekend: Veep 2012-04-20T15:31:24Z Too often, it flails so wildly to be noticed that little else registers. Pearl Jam and Green Day Are Still Going Strong. But Can They Evolve? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Or maybe she won't care at all that when we now picture Gwyneth on the slopes, we imagine her flailing and wailing, out of control, a danger to herself and others. Gwyneth Paltrow is a human after all? 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z The most radical, who saw God’s flail in worsening weather, sometimes took matters into their own hands and abandoned Europe altogether to build on some distant shore their shining city on a hill. Climate Change and Human History 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Barnes & Noble flailed, in part, because it contested Amazon’s turf, investing heavily in e-commerce and losing more than $1 billion on the Nook, a competitor to the Kindle. Can Britain’s Top Bookseller Save Barnes & Noble? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z He’s out in the back garden after school kicking the ball around for hours, some nights I have to drag him inside flailing in protest. Yes, I know my kid is average 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z It’s a flailing, stumbling dance — twisting and swerving, intercepting itself at odd junctures — but also intensely focused, each moment both a necessity and a surprise. Dia:Beacon Celebrates Steve Paxton’s Choreography 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z In a recent episode Charlie was flailing on the far side of Dean Martin drunk, staggering so much his brother put a biking helmet on his head. The TV Watch: Where Alcoholism Drinks in the Laughs 2010-12-02T23:21:00Z For the actors, there was yacht training and flailing swim tests that left them commiserating over margaritas and wondering what they’d gotten themselves into. Sea Zombies! How ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Overhauled Itself 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z He flails his arms and kicks his legs against my waist, studying passersby. Miseries of a stay-at-home dad 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Ghost Light Theatricals’ production of Nathaniel Porter’s ambitious but misguided Shakespeare adaptation flails in an attempt to simulate the chaotic energy of a punk-rock show, but ends up looking merely sloppy. Iago and spouse can’t carry punk ‘Othello’ 2014-03-18T23:08:32Z For her final, flailing dance, she dons a bubble dress made of plastic bottles and crashes flat on her back. Dance Review: ‘Voices of Strength,’ Modern African Dance 2012-09-20T21:57:32Z It is fitting, then, that these cinematic dinosaurs were given the opportunity to flail the horse that is rock nostalgia in spite of a majority lack of interest. Rock'n'roll suicide: is TV's bromance with rock nostalgia finally over? 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z And always the beady-eyed Lenin statue flailing a hand in silent oratory, a broken ideology embalmed in stone. Explorer: Deep Into the Dream World of Kyrgyzstan 2014-05-09T19:07:12Z Without hesitation, she will jiggle her trunk sideways, hands flailing at her sides, deadpan. Doing ‘The Washing Machine’ With My 84-Year-Old Mother 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Nemec recognizes this, to some degree, by only mentioning a central figure from the anime who is basically a flailing, flouncing mess of childish squeaks and quirks. "Cowboy Bebop" is an off-key adaptation that captures the jazzy color but not soul of the original 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z Often “old sperm” simply flail and perish around an egg they are trying to fertilise. The foul reign of the biological clock | Moira Weigel 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z In a glassed-in studio, the group Try Slaughter flailed at instruments like a grunge band, with its singer swigging from a bottle of whiskey, although the speakers broadcast Dux Content’s set instead. Review: PC Music and Sophie in a High-Concept Extravaganza at BRIC House 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z Soon, I had five new passengers, transforming my one-man kayak into a semibuoyant mass of flailing arms and laughter. Journeys: Ban Tham Lod in Northern Thailand 2011-10-07T18:55:00Z That makes for a movie that is both intimate and disinterested, as if Jasmine were a flailing insect in a barren terrarium. Blue Jasmine: A Woody Allen Woman Under the Influence 2013-07-25T15:03:54Z Absent that tension, actors are flailing in a void, giving of themselves to a camera-view that hardly knows what to take. Advice for Robert Downey, Jr. 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z After decades, awardscasts are still flailing around to find that magic formula: the Oscars next month is going with Seth MacFarlane, because what the hell. Golden Girls: Fey and Poehler Make Hosting the Globes Look Easy 2013-01-14T13:03:57Z Wendell Pierce, as Willy, is wrenching as he flails and fails to avoid his fate instead of slumping into it from the start. Review: In a New ‘Salesman,’ the Lomans Look Like All of Us 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z “You want to flail your arms around and not have a take ruined by the sound of clothing.” Getting the Joker’s Laugh Just Right 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z They flail and float on a stage covered in dirt and strewn with trash: water bottles, crumpled plastic cups, discarded clothes. How Does Time Pass at This Rave? With Hypnotic Precision. 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z As the company's 62-year-old artistic director Dominique Mercy launches into a flailing, scything routine, the vast edifice of scarlet blossoms behind him begins to creep across the stage. Der Fensterputzer; Bamboo Blues – review 2012-06-23T23:05:59Z I think it's possible that in a lot of these marriages, the wives are flailing and the husbands think, "Well, this is something to amuse my wife." Did "Real Housewives" kill Russell Armstrong? 2011-08-17T19:30:00Z Lotto’s mother and wife have spent years loathing each other, which, if nothing else, gives Lotto material for his chosen career once he quits flailing about as an actor and becomes a celebrated playwright. Review: Lauren Groff’s ‘Fates and Furies’ Features a Wife Who’s Full of Surprises 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z Ashton Kutcher plays Colt, a star high school quarterback turned flailing semipro, who returns to his family’s financially struggling Colorado homestead. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘The Big Lebowski’ and ‘Elvis Lives!’ 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z But the book’s hopes that blockchain technology, by recording an NFT’s ownership history, will help African countries reclaim looted antiquities, or shore up a flailing democracy, sound like a joke. Will the Internet Democratize Art or Destroy It? 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z The large ensemble, choreographed into flailing friskiness by Stephen Mears, is serviceable. Review: That ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Close-Up, Finely Focused 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z He nervously shuffles around the stage or gets worked into a frenzy — huffing and flailing with explosive bravado, seamlessly accompanied by Carpio’s percussion. ‘Medicine’ Review: One Dose Reality, Two Doses Absurdity 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z We saw the Mexican from Sweden lying face down on the shore, flailing and kicking. Beach holiday tragedy 2011-08-05T22:01:58Z His performance is all flailing limbs and coiled attitude, evoking a whole type in a few brief flourishes. Comics Select Their Audiences as Carefully as Their Jokes 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z The stomach drops, as if you’ve been shoved backward from a skyscraper and are flailing through space. On a Shockingly Casual Case of Sexual Assault 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Of course, in a novel, Eugenides has more time to detail and develop the contrasts between first and third worlds, between successful people and those who are rootless or flailing. The anxious, disappointing world of Jeffrey Eugenides 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Later, flailing in his attempts to defuse the C4 belt, Nick wonders, "What did they do in The Hurt Locker?" 30:Minutes or Less: Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari in a Go-Nowhere Fargo 2011-08-11T21:05:00Z Her youngest hopped sporadically to the beat of the song “Bop!” surrounded by a group of flailing toddlers. If you’re 7 years old, JoJo Siwa is the most famous person in the world 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Their capture proves anticlimactic, as does the follow-up, which largely involves the sad-sack villains flailing about and looking quizzically at one another. Review: ‘Kidnapping Mr. Heineken’ Revisits a 1983 Dutch Crime 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Parker put a world of flailing fury into that impressive scene. Eleanor Parker: More Than Just the Sound of Music Baroness 2013-12-11T03:11:54Z It’s not every day, but most days she starts flailing her arms and legs, screaming “no, no, no!” until the entire process is over. 6 steps to dealing with a toddler’s morning tantrums 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z My wife was mimicking the way I play my percussion with my arms flailing and everything. Eiffel Tower becomes musical tool for New York composer 2013-06-07T16:59:41Z “Nothing, nothing. She wasn’t that kind of person. Is someone that elegant going to go flailing their emotions on her sleeve? She’s going to hold on to it.” For L’Wren Scott, Her Identity Was by Design 2014-03-19T20:42:30Z Painstakingly committing the tiniest details of scores to memory, Mitropoulos seemed not to direct music but to emanate and embody it, fists flailing and feet flying. A Monkish Conductor Who Expressed His Faith Through Music 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Some of the fish were still flailing and gasping. T Magazine: France Nouveau 2011-11-17T17:04:21Z Suddenly, an eider flopped out of the bushes in a tumble of flailing wings and aggrieved squawks. Polar bears just might outlive us all 2012-12-30T16:00:00Z But in “I Like This,” nothing stays one way for long, and soon the dancers flail about, floating through space, as Ms. Lake puts it, on “a special planet” that is “wrapped in clouds.” Dance Review: Changing Ideas Drive Some Celestial Searches 2011-04-08T20:54:47Z Happily, for those flailing for the handrails, the songs are often colour-coded, with zigzagging neon tubes playing off against squares of light. Atoms for Peace – review 2013-07-27T23:05:19Z Erskine's Maya is an explosion of unrestrained feelings and flailing, rubbery limbs capped by an embarrassing homegrown bowl cut. "PEN15" returns for another swim into the messiness of seventh grade 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z I couldn’t imagine anybody was going to throw me on stage to humiliate me or let me flail, because that wouldn’t make for a very good show. Please Welcome Tracy Letts to the Stage. Now, Say Goodbye. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The rock singer, known for flailing his arms on stage during performances, lost a long battle with lung cancer, his record label, Sony Music, said in a statement. British soul singer Joe Cocker dies at 70 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z She flailed her arms and spouted premonitions about the daughter of a local meteorologist. “Death doesn’t come like it does in the movies:” What my mother’s last days taught me about our right to die 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z She was seen flailing her hands frenetically, skipping around the ballroom and wandering aimlessless through the lobby, the newspaper said in its online editions. Family, fans mourn Whitney Houston with tears, prayers 2012-02-13T01:53:33Z Still, despite the general flailing quality of my workout, I sweated, got breathless, and achieved a mental state of honed motivation. My father won’t read this, and that’s OK with me 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z It's supposed to be a sitcom, but there was a lot of flailing, with neither enough situation or comedy to warrant the commission. Bridget Christie Minds the Gap; Our Woman in Norton Tripton: radio review 2013-03-15T07:00:05Z Within this, there is a more nuanced, and thus more mesmerizing, consideration of purpose and atonement, but because it’s subsumed by Cueto’s flailing prose and tiresome stereotypes, in the end, it doesn’t amount to much. The Problem of Wartime Guilt and Its Long Life Span 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Even in The Lighthouse, Pattinson’s gnarled, calloused performance is principally characterised by helpless, flailing defeat. How Robert Pattinson became an unlikely arthouse superstar 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Fuller frets, flails and strays as the relationship founders. ‘Leaving Before the Rains Come’: the latest chapter in a life chaotically lived 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z At the seaside outing, Mr Hunter, the company manager, conducts the choir, and the singers obey every flail of his arm, no matter how pointless. The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists ? review 2012-05-20T18:47:54Z “There are ladies who start to lose their balance and they flail. Or ladies who, when you give them a hand, they clutch.” Patricia McBride, passing on Balanchine’s torch with joy at Charlotte Ballet Here’s this guy that’s constantly flailing, just trying to keep his head above water. Dev Patel Was Not a Dickens Fan. (Don’t Tell Armando Iannucci.) 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z I guess my process is that there isn’t a lot of flailing around and throwing paint at walls and stuff. He Makes Physics Funny 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z The play, you see, memorably includes several gut-wrenching occasions when Barford’s Wheeler flips his appealingly grouchy persona to reveal a black hole of ugly, flailing, desperate narcissism. ‘Linda Vista’ Review: A Womanizer Who Devastates as He Charms 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Early on, she doesn’t act so much as flail. Review: Jonathan Franzen's Purity Examines Wealth and Identity 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Later, as head-banging metal music plays, Ms. Clark embodies a sort of demonic force, flailing her hair violently both onstage and in the audience — the female as Dionysian celebrant, or potentially destructive force of nature? | 'Young Jean Lee?s ?Untitled Feminist Show': Young Jean Lee?s ?Untitled Feminist Show? ? Review 2012-01-16T23:03:34Z “Don’t flail,” Priya Parker, the host of the Together Apart podcast, added. Amber Tamblyn Goes Dancing With Bowling Shoes 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Now it’s just about Trump — flailing, angry, always put-upon, always blameless — and Biden, the lifelong public servant trying to get his fellow Americans to act on what he desperately hopes is their better nature. Perspective | Kristen Welker saved ‘the show,’ but let’s not ever forget that TV debates need to change 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Her dishes sometimes bear the marks of someone flailing in the kitchen. Beginner’s pluck: The quick maturation of Oki Bowl DC 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z But that doesn’t erase the hour-plus that “Natural Shocks” spends flailing. Review: In ‘Natural Shocks,’ a Storm Is Coming 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Earlier in the visit Mr. Adams had explained that a joust was not merely two guys flailing randomly at each other with lances. ?Full Metal Jousting? Gear. No, It?s Not Tinfoil. 2012-02-08T21:59:44Z He trips across the stage with his upper body slumped over, arms carelessly flailing in a pantomime of a man stumbling after one too many beers. ‘Only Child’ Review: A Magnetic Performer Without a Story to Match 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Roberts told jurors Malil began flailing with the knife in the dark to protect himself, and that caused Beebe's most serious injuries. Fate of LA actor now in hands of SoCal jury 2010-09-16T10:01:00Z But I hear the word suicidal with a gruff clarity that makes my heart pick up and palpitate, floppy as a decked fish, flailing for air. Writing truthfully about my father: An act of resistance, an act of love 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Her brown hair was flailing; her teeth were bared. Flowing Hair? Tight Pants? Women Can Rock That 2011-07-21T20:30:29Z Mr. Som: When “Hi, I have a question” doesn’t work, just flail your arms and act insane. Circa Now: Shopping Etiquette: For Customers and Sales Workers, Advice on How Not to Be Rude 2014-01-24T21:08:05Z You can just barely discern the pair of disheveled drinkers making out at the bar, elbows flailing like two enraptured trolls. Stand-up comedian Doug Stanhope laughs in the face of self-destruction 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Very early on, I was flailing about, and I realized it worked best if I thought in the morning that I would try to do something healthy. Judd Apatow praises Pete Davidson sharing his grief in the dark comedy "King of Staten Island" 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z That elbow bump greeting was well intentioned, but mostly it felt like an embarrassing jerky display of flailing arms. Liza Colón-Zayas Swears by Brené Brown, ‘Hacks’ and Hugs 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Certainly, one of the “jokes” of the series is that thin Patty is flailing just as much as “Fatty Patty” did. Insatiable: how offensive is Netflix's controversial new comedy? 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z She threw one arm away from the other — tossing and releasing, flailing and returning — and hopped into one-leg kicks before sticking her tongue out and coiling it into a tunnel. Hysteria or Healing? Examining the Power of the Shaking Body 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z An acclaimed actor, he nonetheless struggles with attacks of insecurity to the point that he considered leaving projects like “Hot Fuzz” because he felt he was flailing. In ‘House of the Dragon,’ Paddy Considine Claims the Crown 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Contrasted to 21st-century parents, flailing and racked with doubt, Victorian parents basked in moral certitude. Review | Turpentine for tummy trouble? An entertaining look at Victorian-era parenting advice. 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Meredith lies down and sings and sings and sings, her arms flailing against the snow. All Hallmark Christmas movies are horror films in disguise 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z As they flailed around erratically and independently, it was possible to think of planets or satellites, especially with Mr. Rotteveel’s sci-fi looping sounds fading in and out. ‘Bluemarble’ Stars Julian Barnett and Jocelyn Tobias 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z But, unpracticed in civil engagement, they flailed and embarrassed themselves. 8 Ways a Modern Civil Rights Movement Moved the Culture 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z He barely performs tonight: instead he conducts his remarkable musicians, peering over his spectacles like an encouraging teacher, flailing his arms and occasionally dancing along. John Zorn – review 2013-07-14T15:00:01Z |
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