Word: flailing
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...rejection. Her self-discovery is at once unnerving and beautiful, taking the reader to "a pond lost in some godforsaken village, in a place where the honking of cars and the whistling of trains is something mysterious, exotic.... A place where a man whips his wife with a flail if she dares lend a few baskets of grain or a few bricks to relatives in need. A strip of land somewhere in [her] country, in the 1980s...
Kreshtool begins his lessons with exercises designed to loosen people up. The students flail about wildly, walk like gorillas, and walk backwards in a Michael Jackson moonwalk manner...
...There is a rumor to the fact that I take off a lot of clothing on stage," Demay says. "I really get into it. We like to flail our arms, hit each other, hit audience members, throw things, jump into the crowd. There are no rules...
What can explain these striking reversals of all reasonable expectations? The truth is that Bush, even as he tried to flail free of Reagan's absentminded embrace, remained the prisoner of his predecessor. Reaganism without Reagan is not an easy thing to sustain, and Bush's improvements just made things worse. This is evident in the three main areas of his failure...
...poor and indigent scholars." And last week's St. Andrew's Day (Nov. 30), the final great red-letter day of the school's anniversary year, was celebrated in typically Etonian style, with a staging of the annual Wall Game, a notorious blood sport in which 20 savage nobles flail and scramble in the mud in what is fittingly known as a "bully." Punching is forbidden, but applying "steady pressure" with one's fist upon a face is warmly encouraged. The poet Shelley was once used as a ball. No goal has been scored since before World...