We may be blundering forward, but we are not blundering alone.
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What the military is effective at, they argue, is blundering
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But after a while, blundering along just isn't funny anymore.
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A "blundering" FCA has been "weak, toothless and anaemic", lawmakers said.
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Few historians pay attention any more to the blundering generation interpretation.
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Saudi Arabia's blundering airstrikes have triggered the Qaeda backlash in Yemen.
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Surviving one mystery is straightforward, and blundering through five isn't impossible.
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Or were they really as blundering and incompetent as they appeared?
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A "blundering generation" of politicians had stumbled into a needless war.
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On July 2, 1863, his blundering nearly ended the United States.
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This is unsettling because it means that Trump isn't just blundering.
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"Luigi really helps with that," Tanabe says of the game's blundering lead.
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Blundering in the dark, he remembered the girl with the dog phobia.
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Thus continues the generals' blundering campaign to keep control of the country.
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What ensued next was a blundering sequence, one mimicking comedy, but not funny.
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President George W. Bush was blamed by many for the blundering federal response.
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His was a life of prodigious work and self-sacrifice but also profound blundering.
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There are only blundering T-Rexes, stomping and roaring and scratching up the court.
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The phrase mainly conjures up images of beefy young men blundering about the world.
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So is his blundering attack on the parents of a Muslim soldier killed in action.
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But it's also a story of massive blundering on the part of the Republican establishment.
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Come to think of it, Sawyer is not the only blundering bodyguard in the Greys' employ.
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Desperate survivors blundering into Inuit tents, their faces black and the flesh gone from their gums.
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It was Gervais at his boorish worst, blundering across the line that separates misanthropy and vanity.
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It is this kind of blundering that lies at the nub of the unfolding natural disaster.
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Then again, maybe the FSB would send blundering dopes for this kind of work, who knows?
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In Syria, Trump's increasingly aggressive posture risks blundering into a war he's clearly not interested in fighting.
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That's in part tactical blundering, but in part it represents a real institutional weakness among moderate Republicans.
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Trump returns to his comfort zone on the campaign trail to bounce back from his blundering summer
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Otherwise, we risk blundering into more crashes that we'll only understand after the worst has already happened.
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Now, though, it's just the guest who arrives late to the party, blundering in loudly and clumsily.
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She's often unbearable, but her blundering attempts at sophistication and seduction are redeemed by her unassailable innocence.
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Blundering into shutdowns is evidence that individual members of both parties have yet to learn the difference.
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Reluctance to come clean could reflect blundering, stubbornness, or simply blindness to the extent of the problem.
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Retracing his steps with fictional simulations, Hyden further plays into the role of a blundering but likable fool.
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Never mind that Trump was heedlessly blundering into monetary policy that is the province of the Federal Reserve.
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Second, to avoid blundering into a costly war, the United States needs to immediately halt the reckless rhetoric.
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The tiny but clever hedgehog pounces on the big nose of the blundering tiger, blinding him into submission.
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But the true art of the news fail is how it reveals the blundering humanity beneath it all.
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But blundering into another war would do more harm to American democracy than 10,000 raving Oval Office tweets.
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The cow isn't just a pre-hamburger, it's a big, blundering alien in a new landscape, yearning for freedom.
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" / "No." non-jokes and pointless, underlining asides like Phil saying something blundering, then adding, "Why did I say that?
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Why not push the narrative that Trump is not just a blundering fool but might be an actual traitor?
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But neuroscientists have been blundering around with blurry brain maps, which sometimes aren't very detailed, or omit important functions.
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Trump's long, blundering summer of 2019 included, among other things:Stoking tensions with Iran, stirring fears of a possible conflict.
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The sailors were released after 24 hours, and a Defense Department inquiry concluded that Navy blundering was to blame.
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Shawn, by contrast, held to the liberal view of his country as a benign if sometimes tragically blundering power.
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And his blundering overtures to the tormented Istvan provide the play with one of its more bizarrely poignant scenes.
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The restaurant, the apartments: These blundering bits of immersive theater did little, if anything, to enrich Mr. Khrzhanovsky's films.
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"[Hitler] didn't even sink to using chemical weapons," he said, blundering over the millions of Jews murdered with poison gas.
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For many on the left, the disappointments with de Blasio came long before his blundering tour through Iowa in 2016.
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Mr. Page doesn't affect a prophetic grandiosity — he is just an ordinary guy blundering along with the rest of us.
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So "big ag" — the only farmers with the capital to survive over the long term — profits from the blundering crisis.
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His concise, point-by-point evisceration of a failed economic model and aggressive, blundering foreign policy was entirely understandable to voters.
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But that is a 4D chess explanation, which does not fit the blundering political maneuvering that we've seen from House Republicans.
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The more the show depicts Nick blundering his way into ever greater complicity in Gilead, the more his character interests me.
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The plot of Abe's Oddysee, and to some extent its sequel Abe's Exoddus, is equal parts brilliant allegory and blundering fumble.
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By blundering into the conflict, she suggested, Trump put the Indian prime minister on the defensive before his Hindu nationalist constituency.
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By blundering into the conflict, she suggested, Trump put the Indian prime minister on the defensive before his Hindu nationalist constituency.
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What is clear is that the Middle East, convulsed by Mr Obama's blundering predecessor, is even more wretched after his tumultuous reticence.
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"It could lose her votes on the left from folks who are tired of us blundering into any more wars," he said.
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"But to be safely thus…" Yet he misses the real threats against him, blundering to his doom as accusations of treason proliferate.
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In his blundering way, he revealed the true logic of the case against legal abortion: If it's murder, then murder has consequences.
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On the potential of the U.K. leaving the European Union, Trump should learn from Obama's blundering intervention of a few weeks ago.
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"Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie" opens with Edina Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders) and her bestie, Patsy Stone (Joanna Lumley), blundering into a fashion show.
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Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., despite his capacity for blundering, has retained an instinct for one-on-one bond-building.
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His initial reaction to the crisis has been roundly condemned as blundering and slow, as he attempted to downplay the virus' danger.
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During the 22016 campaign, it was routine to warn that Trump's blundering ignorance on trade matters would end up tanking the global economy.
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I spend my mornings with Siri blundering around my apartment, as I struggle to divide my attention between my digital and physical lives.
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"We are failing to learn from the lessons of history as we find ourselves blundering headfirst towards a second cold war," Perry said.
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It's been a solid 12 years since Bridget Jones last graced our screens, but the intervening decade hasn't made her any less blundering.
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But there is a lot of damage a praise-seeking president can do short of blundering us into World War III via Twitter.
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To reduce the risk of blundering into a war that could badly damage South Korea and devastate North Korea, US leadership is essential.
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After all, the FBI was aware of Page's (rather blundering) contact with Russian spies back in 2013 and monitored that contact in 2014.
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Each episode will feature a new group of celebrities, wending down the roads of their latest publicity tours, blundering endearingly through their freestyles.
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Embarrassment is obviously an uncomfortable sensation — and embarrassment at the blundering and misbehavior of the leader of the free world is no exception.
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"You can end up blundering your way into a much bigger conflict ... the real risk is always unintended escalation through miscalculation," she said.
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When I think of the zippy, blundering changes in my body and brain at that age, it's a wonder I read at all.
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A vibrant network of North American energy markets is taking shape, but it remains fragile—especially with populists blundering about in positions of power.
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Mattar and her family had every right to resent us, for blundering into their home with a video camera and soldiers and filming them.
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Their insidious actions have largely flown under the radar, as the country rightly frets over Trump's racial demagoguery and his blundering toward nuclear war.
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But by blundering into what some consider an abuse of presidential power, Mr Vizcarra has thrown into question the rules of Peru's political game.
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Kersh's transformation from a woman to a blundering, massive monster — part IT, part Hansel and Gretel gingerbread-dwelling witch, part troll-under-the-bridge.
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Americans' perceptions of their own interest in the region have guided them, despite occasional blundering and backtracking, to maintain generally consistent approaches and policies.
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Nicholas Kristof President Trump is scary in many ways, but perhaps the most frightening nightmare is of him blundering into a new Korean war.
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Each read the other's blundering and dissembling as intentional, deepening suspicions among hard-liners that the other side was laying the groundwork for war.
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It correctly criticised blundering state intervention in the 1960s and 1970s, and pointed out that many big firms were efficient and many concentrated industries competitive.
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Rather, in the usual way of political sex scandals, it is because of the blundering way he, or his retainers, tried to cover it up.
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If John F. Kennedy's blundering imperilment of world peace was buried under hagiography, there will be a similar forgetting spread over Obama's foreign policy setbacks.
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In one of the most dangerous moments in the Cold War, in 1983, US-Moscow tensions nearly led to the two rivals blundering into nuclear war.
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Blundering into a situation where he was effectively held captive, plus his inability to smooth over differences, doesn't bode well for the Man Who Knows Nothing.
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But the court filings that are publicly available suggest that El Chapo is well and truly screwed, in no small part due to his own blundering.
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Japanese developers tended to treat Western religions with the same blundering, outsider enthusiasm which which, say, American comics writers import ninja and samurai into their work.
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Given what we know of Trump it's certainly plausible that his claims to detailed knowledge of tax law are idle boasts and he was simply blundering.
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At the same time, while his blundering and uncouth behavior seems to have put a fairly low ceiling on his approval ratings, Democrats have reason to worry.
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"You know, caricaturish people, horrible dialogue, stupid and obvious moves, blundering historical context," Egan said, when I asked her what about her manuscript had so revolted her.
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The blundering lack of an effective testing program in the US is an unconscionable failure and has led (and will lead) to more transmission of COVID-19.
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But Putin may also think of himself as the chief ideologist of the illiberal world, a counter to what he sees as the hypocritical and blundering West.
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We don't know how human societies are ultimately going to respond to climate change, whether they will manage to change course or continue blundering ahead into catastrophe.
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Let's not forget that Giuliani has often made blundering statements to the media (like the admission that the Trump ban on immigrants was actually a ban on Muslims).
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We don't necessarily need to reconcile the version of ourselves who spends years backing and blundering and property-damaging towards adulthood with the person we wind up becoming.
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And all six movies about the blundering Inspector Clouseau, starring Peter Sellers and directed by Blake Edwards (who also did much of the writing), are out from Shout!
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As recently as January, people were declaring that we had finally reached the point of no return, with Trump blundering his way into a disastrous war with Iran.
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They blame a small group of bad bankers for blundering into a trap that would further damage Deutsche Bank's name and guarantee years of political and prosecutorial scrutiny.
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To assemble a majority, Mr Mattarella may need to involve the inexperienced M1613S which, despite a campaign marked by blundering and controversy, remains the most popular party in Italy.
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Most of all, it would paint Kim as a well-meaning, blundering dictator who, despite U.S. threats of total destruction, is doing his best to survive and seek peace.
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"I hope these students do not believe that their principal error was unwittingly blundering over a line into apparent anti-Semitism and upsetting the Jewish community," Steinberg told BuzzFeed News.
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Adi: So the real question is, what can the CES-style tech industry bring to the table, that isn't just blundering in and adding Wi-Fi and Alexa to everything?
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All the data is transmitted back to firefighters, who can use the intel to plan a much more strategic attack on the building, rather than blundering around looking for people.
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The most disturbing thing about Burn After Reading, though, is how it resembles every day in Trump's Washington, where the line between blundering idiocy and malevolent conspiracy is increasingly blurred.
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"And I also hope that Germany and China can make a contribution towards ensuring that the world does not end up blundering into a spiral of trade conflicts," she added.
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Nonetheless, Hadley's many fans will welcome this solid addition to her continuing narrative of how brainy women and blundering men negotiate the slippery class and sex wars of modern-day Britain.
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Yet characteristically, Trump failed to take advantage of the opening and stepped on his own story by blundering into a riff about how former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein efficiently dispatched terrorists.
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Trump has had a hard time governing not only because of his own ignorance and blundering, but because there's nothing holding the Republican Party together other than hatred of the Democrats.
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Dealing with both Xi and Trump would have been a tough enough problem for any Singaporean leader, but thanks to his earlier blundering, he now needs to tread with particular care.
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It's easy to fall into an ideological reaction to big government introducing stifling a new regulation, and de Blasio's blundering image doesn't help in doing an honest analysis of this idea.
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Modern life, it argues, has become so complicated, the effects of our actions so far-reaching and unpredictable, that it's impossible to live a good life on the first blundering try.
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But I do worry that they're blundering, and I hope against hope that after Democratic voters pick their presidential nominee, Democratic lawmakers will concentrate their energies on getting that person elected.
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If what happened is as alleged, then it was a bizarrely naive, arrogant and blundering plot that exposes the likely brash and short lifespan of the current de facto Saudi administration.
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Together, the trends cast a harsh light on safety procedures and blundering responses to some incidents involving tourists, even in cases where the victims seem to have died from natural causes.
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And both have made me question the path I'm blundering down myself, toward a hazy "someday" of thinking seriously about children; whenever I eventually arrive, will I finally know what I want?
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The theory has been that two nuclear nations had to exercise greater caution before entering into a conflict, as controlling escalation or blundering into a strategic nuclear engagement was always a possibility.
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I oppose the Trump refugee freeze because I think the United States has a particular moral obligation to help people in Iraq and Syria given our own blundering actions in the region.
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He has bumbled his way from one government post to another, accused of making a hash of each, and becoming a byword for haplessness in a golden age of political blundering in Britain.
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She has essentially been blundering her way blindfolded through the most delicate and critical negotiations that Britain has faced since the Second World War, and now she has blown up her political career.
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America is blundering into a new Russia election-meddling hall of mirrors that's already doing Moscow's work: tearing fresh political divides and threatening to again tarnish democracy's most sacred moment, a national election.
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When historians wrote that a "blundering generation" of leaders suffering from "war psychosis" marched unnecessarily to war, they could just as easily have been writing about Europe's leaders in the fall of 1914.
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This entailed blundering around annoying strangers and having Paul wander into a shallow pond, but also a segment in which Paul at least appears to drive a vehicle around his Calabasas estate while blindfolded.
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But just as Mija and Okja hit a dead end and Mirando's men come blundering in, they're rescued by the forces of the Animal Liberation Front, who've come to attempt to save the day.
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It would have been easy to overdo Richard's grouchiness, Rachel's volatility or Sadie's blithe, oversharing sense of entitlement, or to turn Charlie and Cynthia into cartoons of blundering dadness and high-flying helicopter maternalism.
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Instead, it testifies to the vitality of an archetype embodied in different ways by Toby, Gilliam and the Man of La Mancha himself: the fool who mistakes his blundering errand for a sacred quest.
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Perhaps a better comparison, and of greater concern in these centenary years remembering the first world war, would be a reincarnation of Kaiser Wilhelm Trump, blundering us all into another war "to end all wars".
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Any one of Hillary Clinton's unforeseen troubles could account for that: including her late fainting fit, James Comey's blundering or an illicit Russian social-media campaign that suggested she was in league with the devil.
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Combine this scenario's inevitable economic consequences with the optics of the president's blundering and solipsistic response, and the coronavirus seems very likely to doom Trump's re-election effort, no matter where he casts the blame.
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The show has two sources of humor, then — the parlor comedy of mother putting down son, and the physical, farcical comedy of Mr. Ranganathan blundering across Sri Lanka, gamely enduring the trials she has arranged.
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"The bill getting to his desk is an indication that we're listening to our constituents, and we're telling him blundering into another war would be a bad idea," Kaine told a news conference after the vote.
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Russia's denials of wrongdoing have at times caused incredulous laughter in the West and some of the world's media have cast the GRU, which helped annex the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, as blundering amateurs.
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Anticipating neo-expressionism by allowing color to become dissociated from line, Twombly's self-imposed blundering here is far more elegant and earnest than Julian Schnabel's bombastic combinations of scribbled words and abstract marks would ever be.
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Commonly known as the "blundering generation" interpretation, it held that the sectional conflict arose not from a fundamental disagreement over slavery but from the squabbling of politicians whose demagoguery and fanaticism eventually undermined the political system.
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Croft said she has gone from being primarily concerned about the lifting of the blockade to increasingly worried about Gulf countries blundering their way into a military conflict due to unintended escalation or miscalculation this summer.
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He is angry that the United States, under both Republicans and Democrats, keeps blundering into wars that seem only to make enemies of what should be natural allies, like Russia, in the fight against Islamist militancy.
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The blundering Saudi efforts to challenge Iran have so far backfired in Qatar, Lebanon and, most tragically, Yemen, so Trump should listen carefully to what the Saudi crown prince says — and then do the opposite. 4.
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"The bill getting to his desk is an indication that we're listening to our constituents, and we're telling him blundering into another war would be a bad idea," Kaine told a news conference after the vote.
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Russia's denials of wrongdoing have at times caused incredulous laughter in the West and some of the world's media have cast the GRU, which helped annex the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, as blundering amateurs.
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She pulls a Batman on two blundering guards—one of whom, I swear to god, audibly says, "The only thing in the kitchen that you'll put your cock in is the liver," just before Ayra rides up.
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Six months later, having taken his beloved club from 11th in the Championship to 14th and with his blundering side showing little sign of improvement, Pearce was summoned into the boardroom and given the Alan Sugar treatment.
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Yet a group of blundering men in the Trump administration posture as moral leaders, and the result is that women in places like Haiti will suffer fistulas, prolapses and agonizing deaths in childbirth or from cervical cancer.
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Power move History may see his conduct not as the act of a blundering neophyte unaware of constitutional norms, but of a President who found a way to amass more power and avoid accountability for doing so.
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He fails almost perpetually, blundering his way from one situation to the next until someone — usually a more competent woman, including but not limited to Ygritte, Melisandre, Sansa, Arya, and Daenerys — bails him out of his latest problem.
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To be a Son is to be defined by your failures, and to have those failures loom larger than any success; it's a blundering kind of energy that tends toward the Lawful — a doofus, say, or a galoot.
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While the first three will surely add some ferocity to animoji's otherwise gentle menagerie—and serve as a welcome tool for chewing out blundering friends and colleagues via cartoon animal—it's the last one that caught our eye.
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The portrait that emerges from the interviews is of a president openly contemptuous of Washington's foreign-policy establishment, which he said was obsessed with preserving presidential credibility, even at the cost of blundering into ill-advised military adventures.
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Despite 22011 years of theater roles, she's best known for having played the lovably blundering Aunt Jackie in the blue-collar '2150s sitcom "Roseanne," a part that made her famous and, in the fashion of hit TV, familiar.
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Partly out of institutional habit, partly out of amour propre, and partly out of fear of seeing its power slip, the United States has had its own issues with nationalism, even before Trump came blundering onto the scene.
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It features no religious zealots or sexual predators or dementedly ambitious overachievers, just a few souls blundering into a future whose contours they can never quite make out, looking for love and doing the best that they can. ♦
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Too weak to stand up to his own attorney general thanks to earlier blunders, and too politically insecure to stand up to far-right state attorneys general, Trump is now blundering into a policy that's both cruel and unpopular.
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These works don't tell the story of Watergate straight through but, instead, describe the experience of blundering through the scandal in a state of perpetual confusion, not knowing which parts of the story were important or what the overall story was.
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I'm honestly not sure myself, but the idea that these people were rank amateurs who were blundering into all sorts of dicey waters because they didn't know what the hell they were (are?) doing makes a decent amount of sense.
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Grab, Southeast Asia's top ride-hailing company, has hit a roadblock in its efforts to improve its mapping and routing service after running into trouble with OpenStreetMap, the world's largest collaborative mapping community, through a series of blundering edits in Thailand.
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The stories have the key elements that ought to ignite their respective muses: The too-fast, knee-jerk response of blundering officials to social media posts, and the silencing of free speech by nongovernmental, but still-powerful, means of Discourse Policing.
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Her double-backtrack dance in pursuit of a "pay-for" for Medicare for All, her blundering attempts to clarify her claims of Native American ancestry—these are the sorts of things that politicians leashed to stolid, tired, Beltway political consultants do.
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" The former mayor continues to pitch himself as a sensible leader who would end the erratic Trump presidency, focusing this time on whether the president can lead the military without blundering into disasters and ignoring expert advice. "Arrogance. Ignorance. Chaos. Enough.
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That same mix of blundering and bluster marked Trump's campaign and the first several months of his presidency, but it's especially striking this time out because this time the people at the center of this fiasco have recently lost loved ones in combat.
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During his short stint at the podium, Spicey's faced a lot of criticism — and mockery from SNL — for blundering his briefings, dodging cameras and reporters (one time by hiding in a bush), and snapping at reporters when he didn't like their questions.
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Although he could do little about a blundering overtake from Red Bull's Max Verstappen in China that led him to finish eighth, his first mistake was in the next race, in Azerbaijan, with his own clumsy pass on Valtteri Bottas of Mercedes.
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The title character of this 1969 feature is one of the most popular figures in Japanese cinema — a blundering but sweet drifter played by Kiyoshi Atsumi in 48 features (said to be a record for an actor making appearances in one role).
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Israel is no longer seen as the weak and passive actor threatened with a second Holocaust and forced into a pre-emptive attack, but as a confident strategist taking advantage of Egypt and Syria's blundering brinkmanship to fulfill a long-planned expansion.
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As in a game, the pair start with a simple, clear mission (find and stop a gung-ho corporal from blundering into a German trap and wiping out a thousand men) with clear stakes (Blake's brother is in the at-risk battalion).
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When Cop Car debuted at Sundance, audiences and critics raved about its similarity to Joel and Ethan Coen's classic 1984 debut feature Blood Simple, in that both are set in small-town Middle America, and both are about people blundering into problems they can't solve.
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"Playing with fire is blundering into the politics of Northern Ireland with a policy that is sometimes clueless, sometimes delinquent, with a can of petrol and a box of matches," said Chris Patten, a Conservative member of the House of Lords, who introduced the amendment.
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He bears a striking physical resemblance to Cunanan, but he hasn't been directed in a way that suggests the profoundly ambiguous core — admittedly, an oxymoron — of this man who could be both a smooth, adept dissembler and, as a killer, such a blundering, bloody improviser.
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At least that's according to Apple, which kicked off its annual developers conference Monday morning with a clever video depicting a future in which all of the world's mobile apps go down, thanks to a blundering IT employee who accidentally unplugs the master server.
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It's fun to imagine the ship of industry is piloted by CEOs with pioneering instincts, but it seems more likely that people don't know what they're doing, and we're all just sort of blundering around, and some of us fail our way into achievement.
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We wanted more to tell a story, and we thought our form of content on YouTube is quite blundering and humorous, and we thought having three guys trying to do stunts and just getting injured and hurt all the time would be funny as a premise.
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Should they defend the post-Reagan economic order against Trump's blustering, blundering assault — defend the benefits of "neoliberalism" and free trade and global openness, warn against the sclerosis that protectionism and industrial policy often bring, champion the innovative culture of Silicon Valley against its populist despisers?
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As a very small child, hanging round the fire and the mysterious sweat lodges, he had heard the stories of four of these old-timers—including his maternal step-grandfather, White Man Runs Him—and relived the massacre of the blundering blue-uniformed soldiers through their ancient eyes.
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Here are some of the most important lessons I've learned while blundering my way through the process... The marketing process for a book doesn't start on the day it's released — if you're on top of things, it should already have been ticking away for several months by then.
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We all took a bunch of mushrooms, and each smoked a joint to ourselves of the strongest weed we could find, because we were all fucking idiots, and ended up blundering around the city center causing havoc—stepping in front of trams, throwing up into canals, walking directly into oncoming cyclists.
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Mutual distrust between the US and the Soviet Union nearly resulted in war, even as it became increasingly obvious the initial incident had been a mistake: Each read the other's blundering and dissembling as intentional, deepening suspicions among hard-liners that the other side was laying the groundwork for war.
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" Wheeler, who is half-American, said she was protesting on behalf of her American family members who she said have had their lives "dismantled by his really degrading policies and I'm also horrified at the way we seem to be blundering into a future where our great British values don't count anymore.
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And even I, a fan of the program, will admit there are moments when it seems to tilt slightly too far toward painting Joe as a sort of blundering, unwitting fool: someone who does evil things but who has been so horribly warped by an abusive childhood that he doesn't know any better.
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"But in a time of widespread misinformation, fearmongering, and white-supremacist propaganda related to immigration and to our border, in a time when adults and children are dying in US immigration cages, we believe that a novel blundering so badly in its depiction of marginalized, oppressed people should not be lifted up."
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While other reality television shows like "Love Island" and "The Bachelorette" revel in outlandish personalities blundering into screaming fights and drunken hookups, the Japan-based "Terrace House" focuses on the opposite: the quiet growth of a friendship during the making of a snowman or the awkward silences of a long car ride.
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Cedergren is well cast as Asger, with his long, bony features and the dew of sweat that forms on his upper lip; our hero is not very nice, let alone noble, and his efforts to save Iben and her children are, we come to realize, a blundering bid to redeem his own private wrongs.
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It took about four minutes for people to reverse-google the photo and discover that it was a picture Wohl took at an event earlier in 2018, While it's unclear if Wohl will ever face any real criminal charges for his blundering attempt at a psyop, his punishment at the hands of his peers seems like justice.
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At the geostrategic level, the fears expressed by seasoned national security hands from both Republican and Democratic administrations include the possibility of his recklessly blundering the United States into a major war, encouraging nuclear proliferation in Asia, or making dangerously subversive deals with dictators like Vladimir Putin of Russia, Bashir Assad of Syria, or China's Xi Jinping.
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Or he could provide evidence to suggest he was guilty of the arguably lesser, or at least more explicable in a blundering political amateur, offence of obstructing justice by leaning on and sacking Mr Comey in a bid to cover up the sordid, but not treasonous, sorts of collusion between his advisers and Russians that have already come to light.
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Eugene's novel pivots around an inquiry as to how the histories of Singleton, Meg and Rake were entangled back in Vietnam — an inquiry that italicizes the essential role that memory (or its erasure) plays in an individual's sense of self, and the sort of historical amnesia that can come to afflict a nation blundering deeper and deeper into a pointless war.
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Read more:Facebook blames a &apostechnical issue&apos for the vulgar translation of Xi Jinping&aposs nameTrump has &aposemboldened&apos and &aposenabled&apos authoritarians like Putin as they seek to become presidents for lifeChina economic growth slows to ~30-year low as Trump&aposs trade war bitesTrump&aposs blundering attempts to strong arm Iran follow the same pattern as the China trade-war mess
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"In a time of widespread misinformation, fear-mongering, and white-supremacist propaganda related to immigration and to our border, in a time when adults and children are dying in U.S. immigration cages, we believe that a novel blundering so badly in its depiction of marginalized, oppressed people should not be lifted up," the letter said, shining a light on the ideological nature of the attacks.
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That is bad for America—and the world May 13th 2017 The impulsiveness and shallowness of America's president threaten the economy as well as the rule of law Jul 1st 2017 Washington is paralysed, and the man in the Oval Office is making a bad situation worse Aug 5th 2017 There are no good options to curb Kim Jong Un. But blundering into war would be the worst Aug 19th 2017 After Charlottesville.
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Look forward to more of the same in 2017: the patter of rakes against faces growing into a cacophony, thudding across the world—blundering stupidity as the only form of political action from every social sector, the birth of a hideous new evil tearing itself free from the world in a storm of blood, and all because a few Netflix addicts can't admit that they're not as smart as they think they are.
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I am not the first to point this out: Jeet Heer of The New Republic has been a frequent "Burn After Reading" booster, and he devoted a short essay to the movie in 2017, comparing the attempts of its chucklehead antiheroes, Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt) and Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) to sell what they think are state secrets to the Russians to the blundering, "if it's what you say I love it" way that Donald Trump Jr. and his cronies tried to hook up with Russian dirt-peddlers in 2016.
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Biden should continue reaching out to independent and moderate Republican voters but move beyond mere bromides of bipartisanship to reassure progressives that he will aggressively battle against the obstruction and Supreme Court-packing abuses of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellLawmakers run into major speed bumps on spending bills Budowsky: Donald, Boris, Bibi — The right in retreat Hillicon Valley: Zuckerberg to meet with lawmakers | Big tech defends efforts against online extremism | Trump attends secretive Silicon Valley fundraiser | Omar urges Twitter to take action against Trump tweet MORE (R-Ky.) and Republicans in Washington— who act like intimidated poodles of Trump shamefully backing his blundering incompetence, crony capitalist corruption and bitterly divisive attacks against fellow Americans.
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