flail

Lawrence’s Grace needs help and the more she flails, the worse she makes things.

Shout it as loud as a Will Smith home run, ball soaring, arms flailing, blue immortality awaiting.

By the end of the month, Adams faced reality and dropped his flailing bid for re-election.

Many of the tales of their early endeavors — including a 1936 test that ended with an oxygen line catching fire, creating, essentially, a flailing flame thrower — are now told in hyperbole, MacDonald noted.

“Hal and Harper are just flailing,” says Raiff, who initially insisted to friends the show was not autobiographical, saying, “This is not my life.”