• His shambling gait and socks-round-the-ankles appearance belied a tremendous rugby brain born of hard-earned experience.

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  • Freight trains will zoom to and fro, boosting the shambling economies of southern Europe.

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  • Matt is gangling and shambling - he's like a terrible mess that somehow becomes elegant by magic, he said.

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  • The rotting, cracking horror of the city around is spilling in over walls and just barely kept at bay by shambling armored stilt-walkers.

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  • Think of a tall, shambling man, awkward but energetic and sharp-eyed.

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  • Nevertheless, his story of an unnamed father and son after an unnamed Armageddon, shambling ever southwards in an unnamed country, gradually conjures a compelling and memorable dread.

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  • Observed from the press gallery, the senators in their confined space began to resemble zoo animals Levin a shambling brown bear, John Thune a loping gazelle, Jim Bunning a maddened grizzly.

    NEWYORKER: The Empty Chamber

  • Ostensibly searching for her father, Chrissy actually plans to visit her third-grade teacher (Dave Cloud), who has been corresponding with her online, and who turns out to be a shambling, desperate mess.

    NEWYORKER: The Wolf Knife

  • Decades after George A Romero scared the life out of cinemagoers with the classic zombie horror Night of the Living Dead (1968), the movie world has been plagued again with shambling corpses.

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  • Among his many books, he was proudest of those that investigated the workings of government in all its flawed, shambling efforts to balance fairness, fiscal prudence, big goals and multiple clashing interests.

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  • Google provides its employees with free food twenty-four hours a day, and Clancy, a tall, shambling man with a shock of white-blond hair, conducted most of our conversations with bits of granola bar clinging to his shirt.

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  • He did not bring books to class, never a sign of the textbook or a sheaf of notes, and his shambling discourses made us feel that we were becoming what he saw before him, an amorphous entity.

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  • When I was shambling through the dark.

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  • Hovering over this crepuscular world is the ever-present image of the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il, the diminutive, shambling, designer sunglasses-wearing despot who according to official sources combines national leadership with the roles of philosopher, writer, opera composer, film director and world-class golfer.

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  • The portrait of Gehry is a friendly one, loose and sort of shambling as filmmaking, but studded with illuminating moments Gehry's shrink talking about the architect's relationship with his family and how that relates to his creativity that an entirely disinterested observer wouldn't have gotten.

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  • But that was Cramer, agree his friends, an occasionally shambling presence who was also a keen observer, a raconteur, a baseball fan, a master of ceremonies. (He served the latter role at Pakenham's wedding.) Ward imagines him in another time, another place, holding court with some other witty friends.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • As played by the sly, exuberant Simon, Boudu is a shambling, willful, concupiscent child, a walking id and, with his Harpo-like mop of curly blond hair and repertoire of pratfalls, he rattles through the household like a Marx Brother, but one whose breakage costs money, whose insults register and sting, and whose priapic antics prove truly destructive.

    NEWYORKER: Boudu Saved from Drowning

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