Sentence examples for tottering around from inspiring English sources
Even if Waley's Japanese noblemen sound a little like early-20th-century Cambridge undergraduates, one contemporary Japanese writer famously declared that the Englishman had breathed life into a work that had been tottering around like a headless corpse.
Because, you know, you see yourself tottering around, dropping china, having to go to bed at eight, but somehow something of your self remains, and you have written it".
It's also ferociously funny, though most of the humour does, finally, come from the sight of the 2ft marionettes tottering around, gracelessly getting drunk, having inventive sex, attempting to walk through doorways, even wrestling panthers (played by kittens).
This room is usually the hallowed space where the writers share their ideas and hone jokes for America's best-known political satire, but right now Noah has his arms outspread and is tottering around as if he's about to fall over.
A bit of a task when you're struggling to hit 5ft 2ins and tottering around in 4ins heels.
The crowd was packed with uptown teen girls whose moms have editorial connections, buyers, spray-tanned mother and daughter duos, her past and present retail employees, and groups of first year FIT students tottering around in sky-high platforms.
This is bringing fate-tempting up to new levels, then forcing it to totter around on stilts.
They don't demand much in return — just to be as rich as possible and to totter around on stiletto heels.
Ramona Singer, of "The Real Housewives of New York City," who tottered around in a slinky red dress blowing kisses to paparazzi, has been married for 20 years, her publicist told us.
In a quick succession of brief scenes, we see how the baby, as it grows up to be able to totter around on its own, earns the jealousy of his handsome father, a member of Mussolini's militia, while his beautiful mother is torn between love for husband and child.
It continues to teeter-totter around like it was just brained in the face by a cast-iron skillet.
