Sentence examples for doddering from inspiring English sources

You are in a minority here in America and, I imagine, everywhere else where people do not have the economic mentality of a prissy, doddering rentier.DAVID SCHIERChicagoSIR It is refreshing to hear a voice of reason during this mania of equity levitation.

He later died of his injuries.Since then the fire has found all sorts of fuel, from the Arab street's desire for democracy to its revulsion at doddering kleptocrats.

Though I'd like to blame some fellas in hi-vis with wheelie bins of jewels, I could actually see the villain I wanted to speak to at the end of the road, doddering off at about 2mph: a 90-year-old with thick wax in his ears, whose main daytime occupation these days is wandering into people's gardens and pilfering.

Hackman declared this week that he doesn't want to play grandfathers or doddering old men, and says he won't miss movie-making.

The greatest picaresque since Cervantes and Diderot is thrown away in doddering schtick.

Clint Eastwood, chairless but still determined to nail his role as doddering uncle, presented the best-director awards to Kenny Leon ("A Raisin in the Sun," which also won best revival of a play) and Darko Tresnjak ("A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder"), who thanked his mother, a skydiver in the Second World War.

The city's population of doddering countesses and hapless roues has declined to its lowest level since long before the fall of the Serenissima, two hundred years ago.

When he finally emerged, with his wife, Sue, by his side, he looked bewildered and doddering behind oversized glasses.

February 6 2015 July 12 201515 It's hard to imagine that the powerful statesman Winston Churchill was, at the age of seventy-two, avuncularlar old man, doddering around with a paintbrush or a cigar, chuckling about the old days (six years earlier) when he became Prime Minister of England during the Second World War.

Unskilled workers from Italy, Greece, Japan, the doddering Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Spanish-speaking New Mexico were hired for their muscles and their willingness to risk their lives.

I could have done without his reprisal of "Make my day," but, in general, he was folksy, Will Rogersish, eccentric, maybe, but less doddering than mock-doddering.