flail

It is probably enough of a thrill to watch Daryl dispatch with zombies and despots using a medieval flail, or Carol stalk around centuries-old French villages like a commando.

Governments sit and watch, he says, as tiny warriors flail in the face of the corporate army.

Trump continues to flail about, claiming that Harris is responsible for every bad and dangerous thing on planet Earth, except for climate change because Trump doesn’t believe in it.

It cultivates urgency, but only in a directionless flail.

For a few hours at least, novels with protagonists like these allow me, one of so many busy bees in New York City’s go-go honeycomb, to flail vicariously, a smug literary tourist among the lonely-hearts and lost souls.