Sentence examples for Floundering about from inspiring English sources

Capello may not look much like Jim Carrey, but there was something about his relief on escaping to Italy that recalled the closing moments of The Truman Show, where the lead character eventually works out he has not been experiencing real life but floundering about in a gigantic television studio for the amusement of watching millions.

It would be good if there was more objective knowledge about this thing, so that you weren't just floundering about".

I did a lot of floundering about in my 20s.

FOR years Chile has been floundering about in search of cheap, reliable sources of fuel.

Fleming was very much the duffer of the family, floundering about and getting into trouble.

When you're floundering about wondering if you're doing it right, it just helps a lot to have the writer tell you".

In his 1937 handbook "The Backward Child," the British child psychologist Sir Cyril Burt depicted left-handers as fumblers and bunglers who "squint" and "stammer" and "flounder about like seals out of water".

Twining plants (like pole beans) and plants with tendrils (peas and cucumbers) flounder about until they find support to pull themselves up.

At the beginning of the novel, one of the heroes, Runciter, tries to connect with his "passed" wife, Ella: "Is something the matter, Mr. Runciter?" the von Vogelsang person said, observing him as he floundered about.

Instead he floundered about for six months making dramatic but poorly thought through policy decisions: to take charge of the hospitals of the nation and to tax the super-profits of the mining boom.

Craven co-wrote Elm Street III and, after the franchise floundered about in sequel land (with five follow-ups), returned to it a decade later, in 1994, with a revisionist film that poked fun at his own bastardised creation: the terrific New Nightmare.