flailing

More screaming and flailing from the floor of the House will not, as Boehner said, "reflect the will of the American people."

John Boehner: firebrand or statesman? Jonathan Capehart 2010

But try anyway, your hysterical flailing is quite amusing.

Think Progress » Rep. Steve King and Glenn Beck agree: Voting for health reform on Sunday is ‘an affront to God.’ 2010

Nah, this is just more desperate flailing from a desperate clueless campaign.

Easter Lemming Liberal News 2008

John McCain -- flailing about for an economic policy -- has seemed bolder, or perhaps just noisier, on this front.

Whoa! - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

Uliassutai Karakoram Blake shouted in English, flailing his arms out and thrusting his head a few inches from the face of the startled young Chinese.

Hawaii Michener, James 1959

All the otherwise fast people would either drown from laughing at me in the water, or would be too busy gossiping about the whatever a newbie triathelete is called flailing around on the swim, and then I'd smoke 'em on the bike, with enough cushion for the run.

Misinformation: Simple Bikes Can Do Amazing Things BikeSnobNYC 2009

Sharpe landed heavily, fell, and he came up with the sword flailing at the man he had wounded.

Sharpe's Honour Cornwell, Bernard 1985

In one exchange, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) pressed BP on why it seemed to be "flailing" to deal with a spill only 2 percent as large as what it had said it could handle in its license application.

Oil spill investigators find critical problems in blowout preventer 2010

Grand Central publisher and executive vice president Jamie Raab said she liked to call him "The Professor" because Pockell knew so much about so many subjects and would become visibly animated in discussion, his hands "flailing" everywhere.

Les Pockell Dead: Long-Time Editor And Anthologist Dies At 68 2010

Yes so that ` s-- and I was sort of the one kind of flailing in the back.

CNN Transcript Jan 5, 2010 2010