Word: flounderers
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...contrast, is not the sort of movie that will ever win an award. A pleasant though unpretentious British domestic comedy, the film concerns itself with a furniture designer who throws up his job and decides to pack up his family and emigrate to Australia. His plan begins to flounder when the family cat runs away and when, three days before the sailing, his teen-age daughter falls desperately in love. None of this, of course, has any great dramatic value, but it is frequently fun to watch. As the furniture designer, Jack Hawkins shows some talent as a comedian, even...
...half a dozen simple sentences, unrehearsed and devoid of speechwriters' polish, the President of the U.S. raised the conference from the legalese in which it was beginning to flounder, and seized the world's imagination with a rough-hewn plan to free mankind of the fear of surprise attack...
...Flounder. Having made the bill's defeat a probability by the way they wrote it, the Republicans proceeded to make defeat a certainty by the way they handled it. Sorely stung by the sorry past performances of Senate G.O.P. leaders, the Administration this time largely ignored them, banking heavily on an intensive public-relations campaign, e.g., full-page newspaper ads. Result: the Senate Republicans were even more ineffective than usual. G.O.P. Leader Bill Knowland uttered hardly a word during the debate. Pennsylvania's aging (75) G.O.P. Senator Ed Martin, nominally in charge of the bill as ranking Republican...
...flounder in the realm of truisms and vague calls to action. It is in specific articles that the justification for the aims of i.e. must be sought. It is by analyzing a substantial group that we may determine whether Mr. Raditsa has done more than put together a miscellaneous assortment of writings, whether he has in fact created an organ which will express a distinct and significant element of thought at the University. Two issues do not provide sufficient material to form any judgment. Nevertheless even in the current issue the articles forcibly direct our attention to the problem...
...flounder's eyes pop out of its head and seem to walk around, as nervous and irritable as two monkeys on an organ-grinder's string...