Sentences with phrase «flailing at»

If you must, indulge your primal scream while flailing at the punching bag in the basement.

The survival games that followed Don't Starve filled their servers with desperate lummoxes all flailing at trees and rocks and each other.

At first they were a relief — no flailing at thin air waiting for a combo to end long after my opponent had bit the dust (in Dynasty Warriors every second not spent hitting something feels like an eternity).

Mom sees the pup flailing at the end of the leash and scoops him up in her arms to calm him so the boys can pet him.

The MCU certainly wasn't in any danger of flailing at the time of this movie, but after releasing two mediocre movies, the franchise needed another spark.

At first they were a relief — no flailing at thin air waiting for a combo to end long after my opponent had bit the dust (in Dynasty Warriors every second not spent hitting something feels like an eternity).

Gordon was up next, and he too struck out on three pitches, flailing at the last strike.

Liverpool flailed at the goal for the final two minutes of regulation and five minutes of stoppage time, but Palace's frantic defending was better than Liverpool's frantic attacking.

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.

You'll see it in the WBC, and you'll see hitters flail at it.

In a summer where several tentpoles have flailed at the box office, maybe there's room for a little movie with more genuine imagination and heart.

«Let them yell and spit and fight and flail at each other while you hold them back and they can't get at each other.»

While traveling on a weekend holiday somewhere south of Incheon, I witnessed my new Korean friends yank some live octopi out of water tanks then begin to chew tenderly on the head while the octopus flailed at their wrists for mercy.

It's also very forgiving considering many times I half - heartedly flailed at a fast serve and fired back a killer return, when in reality the serve should have hit me in the chest.

No matter how recklessly you flail at the knobs, Panoramical somehow always answers back with a composition that is at least musically arousing.

Although, when a hornet got caught in the kitchen skylight, it was me who stood on a chair to ineffectively flail at it.

«Having flailed at the American Law Institute for a few pages,» he writes at one point, «let me get back on track.»

Not exact matches

They distract big companies and their management at a time when legacy brands are flailing.

Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations in October, Mr. Dimon said the bank did the federal government «a favor» by rescuing the flailing firm in 2008.

At first this moved me to anger but over time that has moved to sympathy and love... atheists are a people lost within themselves and this anger seems to be the desperate flailings of a people trying to find something to fill the hole in their soul where God should be.

Flailing away at natural forces will get us nothing but wasted money and inattention to real human need.

My family and friends are trying to help, trying to cover me or yank me out even as we all flail our arms at the copious colony.

To prevail in battle one must know WHO the enemy is and WHY they fight, and not flail mindlessly away at their symptoms.

Let these religious idiots flail away at each other.

Fire Kent and take on a bunch of coaching salaries at a bad time, or let Kent flail for a few years and dig the program even deeper into oblivion.

Instead, we got a farce that saw the Friars» «Rainbow Coalition» backcourt brick on 24 of 33 shots, and Orange hero Coleman flail a roundhouse rabbit punch at an opponent which — like the teams» combined.403 shooting — missed everything.

You'd see Mkhi and Nelson drawn back into wing back roles to support our flailing defence and then you'd be looking at getting the ball forward to only a forward 3.

Pedro 2015 flails around, arms raised, sneering at the ref.

Abulage with the excellent food from the Ch √ cents teau de la Caze and angling advice from everyone, the visitor flailed away at the famed French trout stream to no avail.

They got a good - not - great player at great - not - good money, and they'll probably flail around in his prime years.

Back at the circle, one of the players has scaled a few feet up the wall and is flailing a broom wildly with one hand and coming up short with each swing.

The 25 year old had a decent season at the Turin club but was unable to prevent a calamitous season that saw the Old Lady of Italian football go through three managers and finish in seventh spot and flail disastrously in the Champions League where they finished in third spot before falling to Fulham in the Europa League.

At first glance this seems like it could be a decent proposal: the game happens so quickly that it's unrealistic to expect that the referees can look at every flailing limb on every athlete at every seconAt first glance this seems like it could be a decent proposal: the game happens so quickly that it's unrealistic to expect that the referees can look at every flailing limb on every athlete at every seconat every flailing limb on every athlete at every seconat every second.

Watching Pittsburgh flail about from coach to coach has been very frustrating because, in the long - term, they seem very well - positioned to do well if they find the right man (and honestly, athletic director Steve Pedersen has never done a particularly good job of «finding the right man,» whether at Pitt or Nebraska).

At 22, he is at a great age to recruit and he would add class and intelligence to our flailing midfielAt 22, he is at a great age to recruit and he would add class and intelligence to our flailing midfielat a great age to recruit and he would add class and intelligence to our flailing midfield.

he had excess talent whilst at Madrid and was still unable to win the CL and only had one liga title and Copa del Ray to show for having a squad worth quarter of a billion.Pep took charge of a flailing and out of sort Barca, straight from managing a b side and turned them to one of the best club ever seen and you sit on your fat ass and pontificate about challenges... i doubt if you even know the definition of challenge

Our dreams of a Premiership title appear to lie in ruins, and disappointment has reared its ugly head, yet again, making Gooners fall out, one with the other, with harsh words as we each flail about trying to find reasons and rationalise the dire performance at Old trafford.

Hey, at least hippie moms have super soft skin as we flail through this mom life.

Yes, that man whose ankles just got nicked by a flailing basket is probably glaring at you and your preschooler, but the majority of people in there are just getting on with their shopping.

At the start of the feeding, he will be somewhat tight in positioning (we usually have to hold their flailing hands out of the way to get them latched on!).

Sophie is initially distressed by Henry's crying, so Dad does the hardest part of this process — reassuring her and keeping her out of reach of Henry's flailing feet at the same time as he tends to Henry: «That's right, Sophie.

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.

Weeks of little to no sleep doing 40 minite breastfeeding sessions with a supplemental nutrition system which my son would flail his arms at and knock off my nipple every two minutes, then having to hand express and then pump for 20 min to get less then half a mL of breastmilk each time, and then having to wash everything before you get 30 min of sleep before then next feed can really take a serious toll on one's mental health.

I sipped at it, flailing for breath in between drinks.

Trying to rouse your baby for a Jamboree class is like attempting to wake the dead, their floppy limbs flail around in the baby carrier and their head threatening to roll off their body (well, at least it feels that way).

He would latch perfectly sometimes, including at his first pediatrician's appointment, yet more often than not he'd be flailing and scratching, getting a horribly painful, shallow latch.

Fortunately, most who read your posts laugh at your desperate flailing attempts to twist the truth.

Recent conversations about mental health in the university — depression, loneliness, suicide — have largely flailed to consider in any holistic way the distance imposed on families within such systems, as life - partners live apart for months and often years at a time, with one spouse shouldering the burden of childcare alone while the other manages the psychological pain of loneliness and distance from the children and partner.

«It's always sad and unfortunate to watch a flailing candidate at work.