Among his many books, he was proudest of those that investigated the workings of government in all its flawed, shambling efforts to balance fairness, fiscal prudence, big goals and multiple clashing interests.
And for all that Mr Cameron appears to be impatient to see Mr Brown installed as prime minister, he knows him to be a formidable adversary, very different from the shambling political zombie poor John Major had become.
That led to shambling parades through the city centre.
Justice Rehnquist's tenacity and industry thus enabled him to set his stamp on a large body of law.He showed, too surprisingly for a big, shambling man who liked boaters and loud ties a capacity to be subtle, even invisible, in the making of argument.
Drawing upon his strengths as a drag star and singer, Mac gave an audacious and compelling performance as the good-hearted prostitute Shen Te in Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan, directed with shambling charm by Lear deBessonet for the Brooklyn-based Foundry Theatre.
The super-tousled hair, the mildly shambling gait, were the same as ever.
In my opinion there is nothing more character-building than shambling to the departmental office, the morning after an all-nighter, with four thousand words and bloodshot eyes.
The presenter's harshest critics have accused him of using his faux-naif, shambling persona to trick subjects into humiliating or degrading themselves.
Bryan Cranston, as Gosling's seedy mentor, has a raspy, shambling touch of Peter Falk, while Albert Brooks and Ron Perlman are a mesmerisingly foul pair of plug-ugly hoods, resembling ancient primal gods of sleaze.
Primal Scream's 1986 B-side "Velocity Girl" appeared on that year's NME C86 cassette, unwillingly bracketing them with the twee indie "shambling" scene.
Three days after tobacco prohibition, most of the major cities would be on fire, and nicotine addicts would be shambling through the streets mugging tourists for half-smoked Marlboros, red-eyed and shuddering from cold-turkey tremors, mass irritability taken to its logical conclusion of total social breakdown.
