The word
"flailing" means to move or swing around wildly and in an uncontrolled manner. It often describes someone who is struggling or trying to gain balance.
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We could hear her but it took a lot of
flailing around in the icy water and debris to find her.
You quickly forget the arms
flailing about in front of you are not your own.
Given that Windows 10 Mobile is kind of
flailing in the wind right now, this probably isn't the best time to be jumping into the ecosystem.
When was the last time you honestly and sincerely looked in the bible for meaningful answers to your life instead
of flailing around at all the bigotry that you see?
Yamantaka, for example, the most powerful of the «eight dreadful deities» in tantric lore, was pictured with
flailing arms in an aura of red flames and smoke.
If you must, indulge your primal scream while
flailing at the punching bag in the basement.
When I set out to defend the Bible, almost without fail, the discussion quickly degenerates into a full - blown argument, complete
with flailing arms, red faces, flying spittle, and bulging blood veins.
Her story is all about
flailing for meaning and understanding in a world where she doesn't even understand herself.
The steel industry still has other headwinds to contend with, including a rising U.S. dollar, which has hurt domestic companies» ability to compete on the global stage, as well
as flailing demand in China, which accounted for close to half of world consumption in 2014.
They aren't just
flailing away at the challenge the way Protective and West Coast Life are.
Also easy to use, baby simply zips into the sack and then the «wings» are folded over to keep little arms
from flailing around.
If there is a person out there who is lawyer - shopping, they are not doing it
by flailing about in an app store.
Swaddling: swaddling can help babies feel cozy and snug as well as prevent them from
flailing limbs.
It's not something that's immediately obvious (you'll NEVER see it any magazines) but it can mean the difference between success and
just flailing around on an exercise ball.
She treats life like a game and at the ripe old age of 11, still loves to roll over on her back and wriggle around with all 4
legs flailing away.
As nerve - wracking as that may sound, I feel sure that our boy is our boy, and I am determined to not let my anxiety
flail wildly around about that.
Hoops is, after all, just competing against your opponent for grabs, and V - Ball rarely feels like a game type you're truly in control of, more often than
not flailing for victory.
Teixeira is capable of playing either on the wing or up front, just behind the main striker, and certainly has the ability to kick start Chelsea's
flailing campaign.
«These continued
flailing attempts by DeFrancisco and the state Republicans to gain relevance are getting increasingly desperate.
While flailing helplessly in the maelstrom of marital discord at home, Gabriela found no comfort at school.
Together we explore the foundation of handstand — from where you look, to where you place your hands, to how to get your feet off the floor
without flailing around.
They're less likely to stick by you when you
start flailing about blaming everyone but yourself.
I could be
seen flailing about with my seat, bag and stroller while trying to balance a coffee on top of it all.
Plus if a hippo's doing sign language, he's bound to break everything in my house with his giant
flailing body.
Barry Egan desperately
flails against the oppression of his overbearing family circle.
So he will stick in a bunch of recognizable icons and a bunch of obvious in - joke references and will call back on the older movies semi incessantly, but he does not really get why or how those things functioned the way they did in their original contexts, and he kind of
flails when it comes to improvising something new.
The air being quickly let out of the tires is a continual feeling throughout «Vacation,» which is peppered with able performers
left flailing with the material given to them.
If he is going to start
flailing over a «hot - button» issue, I'd like for him to explain his anti-semitic rhetoric in Nixon's oval office.
* I am
still flailing after yesterday's news that Red has been nominated as a finalist in the DABWAHA (Dear Author Bitchery Writing Award for Hellagood Authors) YA category.
Earlier in the week, S&P Global also sounded alarm bells, placing Sunac's corporate credit rating under CreditWatch negative given the Wanda acquisition, and an earlier $ 2 billion investment
into flailing Chinese tech firm LeEco.
This month's OPM reviews the greatly anticipated Italian stealth simulator, FIFA's ugly sister, the epitome of the PlayStation fighting genre, a game where you ferociously
make flailing arm movements at your TV to cater for your «virtual pet» (yeah right, you crazy man) and many more.
One by one, characters and situations introduced in those opening scenes suddenly become important, as Ford
flails through one tactic after another.
The idea is less about
flailing uncontrollably and is more about delivering deliberate motions, even allowing users to hook their punches to control their direction.
Not fun with a screaming
baby flailing his limbs on the bed while you try to get the thing arranged.
So
after flailing about for a year, Michael went online and searched for the right resources about selling art online.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is
now flailing about, hoping to find a path of least resistance out of the hydrofracking thicket into which he plunged himself headlong.
Fellaini is a mid-table player where the only class attribute he has is dominance in the air and
flailing elbows that he continually gets away with.
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.
But even when the film
begins flailing (literally so in an irritating Joan Cusack's case) through a Depression - set Nancy Drew adventure, the story never loses sight of its social conviction, even connecting Kit's fearsomeness to the heroes of youth fiction — from Robin Hood to the cow that jumped over the moon — and recognizing that hers is a high - wire show of moral exactitude every child should look up to.
Government appear content to leave vulnerable
families flailing in limbo at the expense of children's life chances and wellbeing.
It seems to be the last
flailing efforts of the hyper - conservatives in the current state govt.
Worst of all, an absent - minded John wanders into a Trump rally — it's the summer of 2016 — as the
film flails for topicality.
At other times, however, Last Flag Flying
flails instead of enthralling its viewers.
Don't Rely on the Same Old Arguments and 7 Ways to
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There is a tendency to think that drowning
people flail wildly and scream for help, but Mario Vittone, writing for Soundings magazine, explains that that's not the case.
However, now that I've had some more time with the game, it's clear that Nintendo has really implemented the controls into the game allowing for
random flailing and deep play.
But looking at the rhetoric of McCain and his supporters today, all I can see is the
last flailing gasps of that strain of conservatism that exploded in the anti-communist 1940's and»50s, came to power with Nixon and Reagan and stayed with us through the dark years of Bush the Second.