bumbling

That episode appeared to be part of an inconsistent, somewhat bumbling effort to keep Mr. Wu boxed up and harmless.

Research your subject to the point where you are an expert -- or at least not a bumbling idiot.

He was the embodiment of pure intellect, the bumbling professor with the German accent, a comic cliche in a thousand films.

The supposed resemblance of the bumbling slapstick character to Spain's Prime Minister Zapatero has been a running joke in Spain for years.

If I were a banker, I would be laughing discreetly at the bumbling and misdirected efforts of governments to change my behaviour.

There may be a more prosaic explanation: bumbling governance in a secretive region with opaque leadership.

So I read him unchallenging things, like the misadventures of the bumbling Mullah Nasruddin and his donkey.

Less than a decade ago, Germany was a bumbling behemoth beset by chronic unemployment and pathetic growth.

That marks a modest improvement on the bumbling which has marred the court's forays into other parts of Africa.

Search is on for this bumbling robber who police say spent 6 minutes searching for his gun before he held up a convenience store.

This suggests that an apology is not cheap talk at all: it represents a choice to appear loveable but bumbling.

There's too much continuity with the bumbling and mishandling by the previous administration. Not enough discontinuity.

Joining the football team turned this bumbling boy into a good athlete.

My boyfriend tried to reason with me. Those men were bumbling tourists.

To most British voters, Ronald Reagan was a bumbling actor with primitive instincts and dangerous powers.

He later became a teacher at the same art school, where he met some of his closest friends (including a bumbling chap named Charles Brown).

Sinking -stomach because I walk out of the classroom an hour later convinced that I was even more stuttering and bumbling than usual.

Foxgloves in all the shades of the pink palette were providing a great source of nectar for the bumbling bees.

Its foreign and defence ministries displayed a bumbling incompetence that actively encouraged the Argentine folly.

All bumbling conjurers , clumsy squires, no-talent bards, and cowardly thieves in the land will be pre-emotively put to death.

Alfred Vicary is the brilliant but bumbling professor Churchill has tapped to protect the operation.

Like bumbling burglars who leave fingerprints at a crime scene, cooking oils leave their own clues.

He instead blamed his bumbling and at times incomprehensible performance on an overdose of cold medicine.

Yes, it's ludicrously broad and often very stupid, but Atkinson keeps the character endearingly bumbling rather than obnoxious.

The old lady kept bumbling on about something, but nobody could understand her.

Originally nostalgia is a game of the bumbling miss.

His bumbling caused many a headache to city officials in Otoh Gunga, especially Captain Tarpals.

The bumbling waiter spilled water on a customer.

It's not that federal police are singularly incompetent or bumbling[2] buffoons .

Escalate the conflict with each turn. For example, a bumbling handyman's attempt at a minor repair results in an entire house collapsing.

He has often been portrayed as Holmes' rather bumbling assistant.

I'm a father who makes bumbling attempts at motherly things.

In the 1970s, the CEO was a bumbling bureaucrat who couldn't even build a car that would stay in one piece.

What is she bumbling on about?

Atkinson, 56, says he believes he is too old to play the bumbling character.

Ten years ago, Matthew Lewis was cast as the bumbling, plump Hogwarts student Neville Longbottom.

Cartoon-like character: Atkinson last played the bumbling character in Mr Bean's Holiday in 2007