bumbling

Fashion and the pursuit of style are, in a sense, a stumbling, bumbling journey.

A bumbling Defense secretary who lacks the competence to organize a two-car military procession.

As “The Carpool Detectives” recounts, the women sought out the help of sometimes-reluctant police officers and the victims’ family members, bumbling at times as newbie investigators.

The bumbling rocker dad is gentle, laughable even, and you very much believed his younger version was capable of snorting ants, one of those legends he alternatively denied and confirmed throughout his career.

And yet I sympathize — and even agree — with what Gonzalez was really getting at, as imperfect and bumbling as she was.