Word: waywardly
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...Reagan as surrogate parent: Here comes Ronald Reagan, speaking softly but brandishing the big stick. He is Big Daddy come to rescue his wayward children, and will not hesitate if necessary to spank the Soviet boys on the bloc. He projects a Freudian father image, comforting in times of confidence crises and national malaises...
Power struggle in a wayward revolution
...floundering President Abolhassan Banisadr. Not only did his candidates make a dismal showing in the second round of parliamentary elections; he also lost a battle in his power struggle with the clergy-dominated Islamic Republic Party. As the President and the mullahs jockeyed for control of Iran's wayward revolution, the faction-ridden and economically strapped regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini slipped ever closer to chaos...
...A.B.T. dancing has been inspired or even precise; the company's relentless touring schedule alone would preclude that. The corps is capable of disciplined ensemble work and, on other occasions, some ragged footwork and wayward arms. The star system provides Americans with standard-setting performances, but not even Chase can always find a way to make virtuosos like Makarova, Gregory and Gelsey Kirkland flourish in harmony-or even appear in the same city. At curtain time, there was the usual clutter of telegrams. One began, "Rosalynn and I." A message from Baryshnikov, who was in Paris, burbled...
...performance is the sum of all the subtle, wayward bits of life that Sellers invented, that keep audiences caring about this poor befogged man. In one scene, like the child he is, he carefully avoids stepping on cracks to keep bad luck at bay. The doctor tells him to keep his weight off his injured leg, and like some solemn, obedient stork, he then and there lifts it off the floor. Or, submitting to a telephone interview, after the President has quoted him in a speech, he catches sight of a TV exercise class and begins aping the movements...