stumbling

Slapstick, for Beckett, who greatly admired Buster Keaton, wasn’t just good fun but a metaphor for our stumbling lives.

His stumbling through his remarks about Trump’s supporters are just the latest example of words getting the better of him — despite his swift clarification.

Dr Bloomer, who has been involved in academic research on foetal abnormalities, said the main stumbling block is funding earlier screening.

We had first encountered the new influx of Vietnamese migrants earlier this year, stumbling on one of their camps near Dunkirk.

But this may be the first season in which politics joins that list of possible stumbling blocks, even if they don’t say so.