Sentences with phrase «people flail»

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.

Remember to keep those elbows tucked, most people flail them out to the sides like chicken wings; having them tucked puts less stress on your shoulders.

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.

Orderly networks give way to disorderly new webs, as if the brain were a drowning person flailing and grabbing onto whatever it can for support.

Not exact matches

No amount of bureaucratic gymnastics will hide the problem permeating Afghan security forces and the contours of the flailing campaign against the Taliban from the American people.

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.

A couple of people I admire from afar emailed me this week and with all of my responses, I slobbered and flailed and generally made a fool of myself.

God silently watches the people's flailing, but he also somehow defines the people's origin.

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.

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.

Just as we saw with the shadowy outside groups that are pouring in outside money to prop up Mr. Stringer's flailing candidacy, this ad is another sign that that establishment is getting nervous that an independent voice fighting for the people's interest will soon be in the comptroller's office.

«It's also no surprise that one of her top advisers is now steering my opponent's flailing campaign... just further proof that he's completely out - of - touch with the people of this district and that he'll be just another puppet for Mayor de Blasio, Speaker [Mark]- Viverito, and the rest of the City's left - wing establishment,» Mr. Grimm stated.

Healthy people are relaxed and still during dream sleep, while people suffering from RBD live out their dreams so that while sleeping, they flail, kick and shout.

In this case, the prospect of flailing one's leg around and barely breaking a sweat sounds a lot more appealing to many people than getting under a barbell and lifting at the limits of one's ability.

You know that stereotypical arms flailing, eyes popping, mouth gaping, body wracking skier wipeout that makes people wince and look away?

I ran up the street screaming, waving and flailing my arms and legs like a deranged person and Greetje never turned and ran in the other direction.

Mildred flails around, insults people, alienates them.

Movies like this are the desparate flailing about of immature people making immature movies.

Last time I got into an Elise — nine years ago — I looked like a person who had landed in a barrel bottom first, limbs flailing.

The idea is this: race around an arena littered with giant swords, shields and flails with three other people, and spin your giant chunk of metal around while factoring in weight, momentum and reach.

A synchronised dance move, with waving arms, becomes another arm flailing — news footage of a girl at a barred window trying to attract help, in a 1979 fire at a Woolworths department store in Manchester that killed 10 people.

Get the people whipped into some flailing frenzy.

Satellites nowadays keep a laser bead on these powerful storms, but back when sailors were responsible for snitching on them, one could flail about in the middle of the ocean without many people noticing.

I'd think their complaints that people continue to flail in paralysis by analysis when the case for action is stronger than ever would be more worth paying attention to than any perceived megalomaniacal neuroses you imagine they might have.

For these people the state of being fired is so scary, so traumatic, so overwhelming, that all they can do is panic and flail around to find another job, more or less like the old one, so that they can go back to clocking in and clocking out and paying their bills on the appointed days each month.

Amazon's new delivery drone can react to people waving or flailing their arms around.

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

And then I came across one fragment of a sentence from columnist Tabatha Southey in the Grope and Flail, June 1, 2013: ``... it explains almost every left - wing protest I've attended — the ones with lots of people and no good chants, where half the attendees think that the crowd should march to another location and the rest are still trying to get their candles lit.»