Sentences with phrase «flailing around»

It is not uncommon to feel like you're flailing around to no avail, drowning in your problems.

Imagine being at a restaurant and seeing someone flailing around grasping at other people.

When trying to decide between two companies, it can feel as though you're flailing around at sea between two boats, not sure which one to grab.

So a lot of tech companies are flailing around looking for ways to fix this problem.

And of course the client can then assess whether a young lawyer is flailing around and wasting time trying to strain the ocean for a few drops of plankton, by running overly broad searches or not using feedback intelligently.

One is the obvious absurdity that there's no similar automatic liability provision in the law for flailing around with your paper maps.

But apart from flailing around insulting others, I think I detect an undercurrent of deep intellectual insecurity in his remarks.

And unless I'm missing something, the ozone rational is just more flailing around also, since I don't believe we have any calibrated proxies able to accurately show what the historical ozone cover was over the areas where the tree rings were collected during all of the years each of the applicable tree rings were formed.

I suspect after a few years of flailing around WITHOUT USA MONEY, somebody might discover that CO2 isn't really driving temperature and everybody can forget about Mauna Loa (except for the beaches).

But here's my attempt, which, if only by flailing around, shows how hard this is.

It is an act of heartbreaking desperation: now all Snoop Dogg's fantasies of becoming Snoop Doig have come flailing around in swirls of paint.

If Abstract America has anything going for it, it is that it makes this clear: that art at the moment has lost its way, and is flailing around for an answer.

Add to this the fact that the camera had a mind of its own, flailing around all over the place and making you feeling motion sickness just trying to move around the game, and you've got one hell of a bad game.

That's basically the main reason I haven't picked up the Harley Quinn DLC despite having loved Arkham City: I don't want to spend the first half hour flailing around on the controls trying to remember what every button does, what the context sensitive commands are, what direction I have to press and how many times to equip which items, etc..

Natal and Move have only really made waves in the hardcore games media and news sites - which are typically read by «hobby» gamers that aren't the least bit interested in flailing around like idiots after a hard day's work.

If you did perhaps become either Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader it mostly consisted of wildly flailing around hoping you hit someone by accident.

Your character's body is flailing around the entire time, though, so you'll need to hit spacebar or shift to get him to jump toward the rings.

And the gameplay focuses more on flailing around drifting than it does intricate driving, with simple controls that make the action easy to take part in and remove any frustration you might experience from having such little control over your motor.

That said, we were disappointed both by the game's wonky physics system and the Kinect's strange lack of sensitivity, which had us constantly wishing we could just pick up on Xbox controller and play without flailing around.

Even with my brief hands - on it felt like I was basically flailing around.

Even when flailing around to the beat and stepping from side to side or crouching under an oncoming wall, this rhythm game doesn't feel much like exercise.

You knew that someone had your back and would do the best they could, now you have slightly dumb AI who do not always do what you need them to do, flailing around the battlefield.

There's motion control, but how many Wii games honestly attempt to do something genuinely creative with the Wii Remote as opposed to just flailing around, or using imprecise actions?

In flailing around with both the Genesis and Master System versions, I did not see a noticeable performance difference between the two of them.

With E3 just around the corner, it wouldn't surprise me to see this «Fusion'thingamajig given a keynote demo presentation, possibly with multiple human controllers, clad in exercise wear, flailing around on - stage and grinning insanely.

That's even more exciting than the motion sensing, as flailing around like an idiot isn't my favorite activity, though it does make the top ten.

The day we took the ferry was an extra windy day but I would not recommend this to someone who is prone to sea sickness or generally creeped out flailing around in a boat on large bodies of water.

It's a lot to remember, and getting the knack entails much flailing around like a tortoise on its back, not to mention a conscious effort to ignore apple - cheeked Norwegian children swishing past with innate poise.

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.

Imagine a couple in a pool flailing around unable to swim or even tread water.

I doubt that anything will change: the industry will keep flailing around unable to work out why no - one wants their tripe until it implodes.

You're so right Lexa — If you don't know the rules, you're not breaking them, you're just a newbie flailing around.

While Brother was swelling up Ma's belly, or flailing around in the crib, or crawling on the brown linoleum of the trailer over by Mercher's Dump, we were happy.

Unsprung weight flailing around and structure shimmies are cut dramatically.

One final option that I appreciated: The Enclave's hands - free tailgate requires you to kick under the bumper to get it to open — which I don't usually like because there's a lot of flailing around.

The 10 - year old inside me wants to run screaming and with arms joyously flailing around toward the 918.

You knew that someone had your back and would do the best they could, now you have slightly dumb AI who do not always do what you need them to do, flailing around the battlefield.

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

I tell ya, when we take these blog photos... and by we, I mean me flailing around in front of the lens contributing plenty of dialogue... Gim me bokeh!

Cropped top flailing around presenting more than I'd like to.

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.

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.

Both sides are flailing around a false narrative.

«Because of this, cosmologists have been flailing around trying to find some explanation for dark energy that sort of looks like a cosmological constant, but isn't a cosmological constant,» says Schmidt.

Cameron is not flailing around in response - he gets a big cheer for playing the «political bandwaggon» card.

«He is flailing around, a man with no plan and increasingly no future.»

Now, flailing around for an answer on energy, Cameron announces a back - of - the - envelope plan to «roll back» green levies (60 per cent of which were introduced by his own government).

«Rather than following a coherent plan, they are flailing around.

«The New York City Democrats are flailing around because they know that their candidate is a fraud and a phony who is hopelessly out of step with the hardworking taxpayers who live in this district.

Swaddling helps calm them down and stop them from flailing around in their sleep.