Sentences with phrase «lurching from»

Friends might find the constant lurching from one thing to the next a little tiring, but they at least find comfort in your consistency.

Unfortunately we have a bad government, which is lurching from crisis to crisis unable to give the strong leadership our country desperately needs.»

Given this individual inconstancy, it is no surprise that the Supreme Court as a whole is lurching from one approach to another without anything to stop it.

That said, both Smith and Moorhead are impressed by chief exec Des Hudson who arrived at Chancery Lane in 2006 to knock some shape into what was seen to be an organisation lurching from crisis to crisis — for example, a bruising encounter with the then Lord Irvine over its campaign against the Access to Justice Bill («irresponsible scaremongering») and the bitter recriminations following the departure of Kamlesh Bahl, the first Asian woman to become vice-president, who resigned following bullying allegations.

The whole history of science is about lurching from failed hypothesis to the next, hopefully improving understanding with each iteration.

I mean, is it their fault that they are doomed to roam the earth, lurching from brain to brain in a murderous rampage?

Instead of the lightening quick and perfectly balanced controls of something like Super Meat Boy, Joshua awkwardly stumbles around his environment catching on corners and lurching from platform to platform.

Here the novel speeds up, jumping ahead several years with every chapter and lurching from one melodramatic occurrence to another.

Although not a surprise - the company has been lurching from crisis to crisis for several months - the announcement marks the beginning of what might be the final chapter in the Swedish manufacturer's history.

Now the lurch is gone and the car feels smoother while driving and the lurching from a stop is gone.

Mistress America is a far more energetic ride, lurching from scene to disconnected scene without too much fear of coherence, and cramming in a year's worth of emotional development into a timeline that only spans a few weeks.

With Herzog's boozy direction and Mark Isham's gloomy jazz score, the film takes on the same hilariously sordid rhythm as the increasingly messy Terence, lurching from languid to leery to hyperactive and back.

However, in the past year there's been a healthy return to form with two mesmerising, blistering turns in Matthew Vaughn's Kick - Ass, where he plays a softly spoken (shock) masked avenger, and in Werner Herzog's delirious Bad Lieutenant, where he plays a New Orleans cop who starts out as a cocky, sharp - suited, wisecracking law enforcer and spirals — via his crack and painkiller addiction — into a depraved sinner, lurching from one unruly scenario to the next.

As Publishers Weekly says about the book, «Sutter describes his lurching from one good time to the next: he carries whiskey in a flask, and once it's mixed into his 7Up, anything is possible.

But you could sometimes feel the work lurching from somber observation to would - be wackiness in that uncontrolled manner that Pauline Kael used to call «opportunistic.»

For all its fickle tonal shifts, lurching from forced farce to dramatic pathos, it's still hard to get too angry about.

The fourth campaign was wildly uneven, lurching from inspired installments involving that one - eyed governor and those two dead girls to frustrating go - nowhere episodes on the slow crawl to Terminus, a hoped - for safe haven where the living could find refuge from the not - so - living.

A pretty uneven film, lurching from comedy to violence to sentiment, but it's best when it sticks in the realm of flat - out farce.

Another great benefit is that this system would give the MTA a stable and continuing source of cash for the foreseeable future — enabling it to make long - term plans and investments instead of lurching from crisis to crisis every five years.

Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats seem to be lurching from doing almost nothing to pledging all - minority shortlists.

«The US embassy in London wrote off Gordon Brown within a year of his arrival in No 10 after concluding that an «abysmal track record» had left him lurching from «political disaster to disaster», according to cables released by WikiLeaks.

Lurching from a customs union to a default WTO trading regime will wreak havoc on every link in the food supply chain.

But surely that must swing back in our favour again soon, as we seem to be lurching from the sublime to the ridiculous, week by week.

In a way I feel that the Gunners are a golden goose for the football media because, in the last 10 years at least, we have been arguably the most entertaining team in the Premier League while also lurching from crisis to disaster and then pulling things out of the fire.

Chelsea's billionaire owner Roman Abramovich is believed to be keeping his finger OFF the trigger despite the club lurching from one crisis to another.

As the government lurched from one muddle to the next, they promised clearer rules and a more transparent process.

OPINION: Kalgoorlie has had a few wild rides over the years thanks to its reliance on two metals that can lurch from one extreme to another in a matter for days.

Jannard's posts tend to lurch from unabashed self - congratulation to dubious product claims to open disdain for competitors and even some customers.

The Republican rout on Tuesday was wide and deep in what was bound to be seen as a sharp rebuke to Obama, who has lurched from crisis to crisis and whose unpopularity made him unwelcome to Democratic candidates in many contested states.

The PP could try to partner the liberal Ciudadanos in a minority administration, which would have to lurch from one parliamentary vote to another.

Most start - ups are short of cash in the launch stages and then lurch from one crisis to another as they struggle to keep afloat.

As Greece lurches from one crisis deadline to another to try to save its beleaguered economy and banking system, cash continues to flee the country.

«Meanwhile,» he adds, «it will continue to lurch from crisis to crisis.»

Its interesting that you lurch from admiration to revulsion of our country, and that you keep coming back for more.

From appearing to defend «mild paedophilia» to mocking a woman when she complained about being propositioned in a lift, Dawkins has lurched from one controversy to the next in recent years.

So great was my need for fiery fare that I suddenly lurched from my beach chair, spilling my half - finished Mai Tai.

Things lurch from bad to worse at Fratton Park and it seems there is a very real possibility that the south coast club could go under or at the very least be put into administration which would incur a relegation confirming ten point penalty.

Arsenal have already proved me wrong this season, though, because I thought it was going to be a season that lurched from crisis to disaster judging on the opening three EPL games.

The South - West club knew that a match against one of the two teams beneath them represented a fine opportunity to win some much - needed points and improve a season that has lurched from disappointment to disaster.

The German international has not had the best of times since his move back to the club he began his career with and he may well be amenable to a new challenge as he sees his side lurch from one crisis to another.

Louis van Gaal has seen his defence lurch from poor showing to the next and is clearly keen to resolve the problem in January and a move for the Italian international could be a wise one to consider.

Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Mönchengladbach have failed to capitalize on various spells in the Champions League while traditional giants such as Hamburg, Cologne, Bremen and Stuttgart lurch from one crisis to the next.

For the past 13 years we've lurched from one manager to the next, from one philosophy to another, with no clear plan or idea about what kind of club we want to be.

If public schools are in crisis, it may well be because school reform lurches from cause to cause, from standardized testing to differentiated classrooms, from all - inclusive public schools to charter schools and everything in between.

One can't help but empathise with them as they lurch from one catastrophe to the next.

Labour's constitutional shambles lurches from one disaster to the next.

Yemen continues to lurch from crisis to crisis.

House and Senate Democratic leaders unveiled their «Better Deal» economic agenda last summer, but the message has failed to gain much traction as Capitol Hill lurches from one Trump - related crisis to another.

The consequences of this lack of deliberate policy thinking was disastrous as we lurched from one crisis to another.»

In that case, the democracy has little legitamacy and each party just lurches from one humiliation to another, and is far more concerned with damage limitation than policy.