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Example sentences for: shambling
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Years of self-destructive living have taken their toll, but he remains with us--60 years old, mumbling, shambling, drunk, stoned, and addled.
You treat The Green Mile as if it's a humanist milestone on the order of To Kill a Mockingbird . But it has been more than a third of a century since Mockingbird 's Great White Father and that shambling, saintly black martyr who pays for the sex crimes of white men--and in-between came the civil-rights movement.
Next there are the semilegit crossovers between country and rock or folk--Wilco, the Old 97's, Son Volt, Iris DeMent--who adorn themselves in the trappings of country but use a studied, shambling rawness to appeal to rock fans.
It's the bleary, hangdog demeanor; the watery eyes; the shambling gait; the passiveness that borders on the stereotypically feminine.
In his shambling gait and glassy, uncertain stare he reminds me all too closely of another awesome wreck of a man who led another awesome wreck of a country: Marshall von Hindenburg at the end of his life.