Sentences with phrase «desperately flailing»

It's more like desperately flailing your limbs, mashing buttons willy - nilly.

It's as if they were desperately flailing around, trying to find the next twist or turn.

Not exact matches

I overtook people watching them flail at the wheel, desperately trying to grind some speed out of their cars, much like myself yesterday, whilst I floated by.

However, deep in the 20 - meter passing zone, Jones desperately extended the baton toward Williams, who flailed at the air but didn't get the stick until too late.

They are simply flailing around trying desperately to justify a failed philosophy that has put, and continues to put, the lives of babies at risk.

«Recchia's flailing campaign is desperately calling in lifelines from the DCCC and his puppet master Mayor de Blasio's inner circle,» Grimm spokesman Nick Iacono said.

Only Kevin Kline makes any sort of effort, but, flailing and grimacing a little too desperately, he gives the impression of a man seeking to re-enliven a party whose host has just choked to death on the cashew surprise.

Most egregious is one scene in which Violet, on the verge of vomiting, exits a car and desperately runs into a field of haystacks, lunging for the horizon and flailing her arms as the music swells.

I kept looking back in anger at choices I'd made (or let someone else make for me) that led me on the path to a life in which I was deep in debt, angry about it, and flailing around desperately for a way out.

Enemies will desperately try to pat out fire on their clothes, or will flail their arms screaming before collapsing in a smoldering heap.

If you waste your ammo, you're screwed, and as a result you spend a lot of your timing running around flailing desperately trying to make it to a door.