Either course would have been defensible; floundering between them suggested a lack of mettle.
The story and the jokes are all over the map, as the picture flounders between subverting stereotypes and using them for easy comic effect.
He floundered between drunkenly dumping me, changing our Facebook relationship status to "open" without asking me, cajoling me into sex I didn't want, and soberly declaring his love.
Furthermore, we inferred the occurrence of many intra-chromosomal events that have interrupted syntenic linkage blocks both between flounder and medaka and between flounder and zebrafish; these interruptions may have been the result of gene loss or divergence after duplication, which can contribute to deviations from synteny.
Despite now living on a farm in Lincolnshire, Abz still has an accent that flounders somewhere between Middlesex and Jamaica.
In this case, it seems to mean messy playwriting, as "Esther's Moustache" flounders awkwardly between silly and serious moments.
But the F.D.P. has floundered, torn between supporting rescue plans for the euro and its dislike of more public debt.
As the peace process with the Palestinians floundered, relations between Israel and other Arab countries suffered, including those with its closest peace partner, Jordan.
The 3rd part however he believed dragged out, especially the long floundering scenes between the brother and sister, which was evident by his companions" question about whether they had kitchenettes in the Beverly-Wilshire.
"I did not rise to the occasion of John's troubles," Starbuck later admitted, "did not effectively love or help him, floundered stupidly between catering to him… and pursuing some coherent plan of stern-but-supportive intervention".
