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Example sentences for: flailing

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By the end of his book, Walsh has unwittingly painted himself as Ahab without a whale, flailing after targets large and small in his attempt to vindicate his effort.
He described all his work as "documents"--that is, not the poems, essays, polemics they seem to be, and certainly not "art," but mere records of his flailing attempts to reach the elusive substance of Truth.
The crackdown on Chechnya has swelled the popularity of Boris Yeltsin's flailing administration, but the Russian system remains robustly pluralistic.
Bush, who gets high marks for his positivism and inclusiveness, may succeed in the 2000 presidential race, because he can steer clear of the flailing Republicans in Washington.
In fact, as early as in the second edition of his classic, in 1957, he was worried that parents might be flailing.