Sentences with phrase «flailing for»

Too many of the nation's malls have been flailing for years, but there now appears to be consensus in the development sphere that the best way forward is to transform many of them into major mixed - use and walkable communities that will serve as a base camp for residents, businesses, and visitors.

What is clear is that an app that's essentially been flailing for years finally has a north star: corporate collaboration.

When you are a drowning man, you mistake flailing for swimming.

The Ibis, loaded to its gunwales with a cargo of indentured servants, is in the grip of a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal; among the dozens flailing for survival are Neel, the pampered raja who has been convicted of embezzlement; Paulette, the French orphan masquerading as a deck hand; and Deeti, the widowed poppy grower fleeing her homeland with her lover, Kalua.

Her story is all about flailing for meaning and understanding in a world where she doesn't even understand herself.

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

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.

After the whole ordeal he wails and flails for fifteen minutes before falling asleep.

The script flails for new ideas as it begins to drown, some compelling (Zoe's final form is a trip) and others not (Doremus and Greenberg are unable to mine even a mote of drama from a drug that simulates falling in love for the first time).

When he buys one after it has been flailed for a year by colleagues?

Not exact matches

John Sipher, a former CIA clandestine services officer, said it was difficult to see a reason why, «other than that they are flailing and looking for any and every excuse to muddy the waters and divert attention.»

Pressfield's «no holds barred» approach to presenting explanations and solutions for the flailing creative process is both brilliant and practical.

On Friday, for example, Jim Cramer took the board to task on CNBC, demanding, «When will someone finally be held accountable for this kind of sub-par performance and why do corporate boards tolerate these mistakes, keeping the flailing CEOs of these two companies [McDonald's and UPS] around for still more earnings seasons?»

In most major U.S. cities, and many around the world, there's an alternative to standing on a street corner flailing an arm for a taxi.

Initial optimism about the prospects for tax reform gave way to doubt as the new administration flailed through several attempts to repeal Obamacare.

Yahoo's flailing business will make it difficult to get top dollar for the company.

James Dolan surprised many casual observers of the flailing newspaper trade when he suggested he might bid on the for - sale New York Daily News — and offer a dollar.

excuse my irreverence, pun intended, but religeon is the last flailing of an ignorant giant amoeba that, were it to have his way, would engulf all of humanity and suck it into a moldering morass of excrement and self - serving inane logic that proclaims the existence of Santa Claus for adults... G o d.

Trust me, it's far more work trying to justify a delusion and rationalizing why what you believe isn't consistent with what you see in the real world than having one answer for all the questions you people flail about trying to answer and be able to rely on simple logic and facts to conclude there is no god.

This lack of purpose has been one of the most important factors behind the activities Finkelstein attacks, rather like a cancer charity flailing around for something to do the day after science discovers a cure for cancer.

Clearly you are flailing in a sad attempt to garner some «points» for christianity by just stating that you are right and everyone else is wrong....

Atheist Terry Eagleton wrote a review for the London Review of Books entitled «Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching» that began with the memorable quote: «Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.»

Why a garden for the anguish of Gethsemane, the arrest, the torture, the trial, the flailing, Peter in the courtyard, the horrible hours of the night and the early morning, the obscene events of the next day?

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.

Well, for one, it's been too damn hot to work on other healthy practices, such as my (flailing) fitness regime or my practice of kindness.

Okay, it wasn't always a horrible experience, but one thing was guaranteed, the evenings always ended with a group of us shivering on a New York City street in the wee hours flailing our arms for cabs.

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.

But for us, it was nothing but weak grounders or flailing strikeouts.

(3) this team is rotting from the inside out and it's going to take some unprecedented moves on the part of this board and the fans to facilitate the necessary changes... this club must rid itself of it's absentee billionaire landlord before we become just another sporting wasteland in this man's collection of flailing clubs... when this is done it will expose just what exactly has been going on behind the scenes and I'm afraid of what will be uncovered because if Wenger's business model is as antiquated as his football philosophy it could look an awful lot like and old Monty Python sketch in the backroom... we need to replace the owner with someone who actually cares about this club and isn't afraid to wear their emotions on his or her sleeves or spend their own money to achieve greatness... this new owner needs to find someone who represents the same sort of cutting edge that Wenger represented in his early years then pair that individual with someone who knows how to conduct transfers in the modern era... then and only then will we find a way to escape the malaise that has permeated our once storied club for way too many years

Self - inflicted Wounds: the basis for the fan's distrust of this flailing organization by Vieira Lynn

I wrote that one possible solution for the flailing Thunder is to bring Carmelo Anthony off the bench — not because of anything he's doing wrong as a starter, but because it will refocus the offense around Russell Westbrook and Paul George and improve spacing (not to mention to bolster bench units).

Brian «the Bones» Bonemarte was flailing his long arms around all night keeping the ball up in the air... They have a new challenge next week in their first Flag Football game of the Summer and with Jeff «QB1» Nault out for the rest of the summer with a non-all sports series injury who will step up as QB2?

A puncture did for Lance Stroll's car as well as the flailing rubber caused some suspension damage which needed repairing, all of which meant that he and his ace co-drivers of Robin Frijns, Felix Rosenqvist and Dani Juncadella only finished 15th.

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

Why do players get booked for fairly innocuous hand ball when so many bad tackles and flailing arms go unpunished?

Milan weren't finished as Gattuso Gennaro flailing his men forward for all three points.

Though it feels trite to chide the former Everton man for his flailing physicality and lack of an all - round game, it is surely fair to consider his place in the squad as «under threat» by the new acquisitions.

Why wouldn't women be afraid of their ability to labor independently and successfully when the only behaviour that is modeled for them is of the «good» passive woman who does what the doctor tells her and the «bad» hippy woman who screams and flails about uncontrolably?

As a baby develops motor control, she learns along the way that her hands and fingers can also be used for nonverbal communication (think about how an older baby will sometimes flail about or push an object away when he or she is unhappy or having a tantrum).

He did cry, flail, and sit up for about 45 minutes but i just kept laying him back down in my arms and comforting him.

For first - time parents, learning how to survive in The Land Logic Forgot can be quite a challenge — you never know what's going to flip your kid's switch from the «cute and funny» setting to «cyclone of sobs, screams, and flailing limbs.»

But don't try flipping that around and saying that just because we adults don't think a toy car is anything to be flailing around on the supermarket floor for, doesn't mean that it's not important to a child.

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.

Thinking about your own sleep habits is important (if you're prone to flailing around during an exciting dream, for instance, then maybe your kid is better off in a bassinet).

Then I couldn't go back to sleep because I was listening to Lydia flail about in the bed (calling for Nora) and I was just plain old uncomfortable.

Like you, we kind of flailed around without a plan for awhile.

Then, when faced with 50 - 50 coparenting they either drop the ball or flail around for a long time.

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).

When legs are kicking, mouths are screaming, and arms are flailing, it's meltdown mode, and no time to try to reason with them or work on problem - solving strategies for the next time a conflict arises.

A more subtle way to know that your baby is hungry than waiting for them to cry is that when they see food they kick their legs, flails their arms, and / or open their mouth!