Sentence examples for out of one's depth from inspiring English sources

Being out of one's depth is an inevitable fate for a Henry Green character.

Among other useful lessons, he demonstrated that it was normal, even desirable, to feel always somewhat out of one's depth.

Foer's detractors will seize upon this project as yet another example of his characteristic blend of whimsy and hubris – the same artifice-dazzled unawareness of being out of one's depth that birthed his 9/11 fable Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

I couldn't watch this without remembering the man getting decapitated by a pane of glass in Damien Omen 2. Yet this filmhas its own trance-like logic and conveys a child's loneliness, vulnerability, fear of abandonment, and fear of being out of one's depth.

Besides, you don't need A-levels or a degree to know what it is like to share a house with a weirdo, or to feel out of one's depth at work, or to enjoy the sight of a bully getting his or her just desserts.

That show also had a popular host who was replaced for one series by a dimwitted out-of-his-depth clunker.

I am out of my depth in more ways than one.

What matters is which candidate has the depth and dexterity to get us out of one of the stickiest and scariest situations America has ever faced.

I am out of my depth.

Being so out of their depth on home turf, one imagines, would not go down too well.

One minute, whales moan and cry out to one another from the depths of the ocean.