shamble

In my review, I praised the conviction of Gunn’s soupy sci-fi spectacle, writing: “Whatever this sweet, surreal sci-fi shamble is that Gunn has created, everyone here seems to believe ardently in it.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023

Drawing from Korean folktale and Chung’s expertise as a Slavic literature professor, the narratives here shamble and ooze across a porous divide between highbrow absurdism and lowbrow jump scare.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022

There is an enjoyable strain of LA neo-noirs such as Inherent Vice, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Under the Silver Lake where doofus would-be detectives shamble into morally murky conspiracies.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2020

Even as its various subplots shamble on, the novel keeps reminding us about the rising conflation of reality and fiction.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2019

A big station clock rattles off a relentless advance of seconds, and Marie-Laure sits beside her great-uncle and listens to the wasted and wretched shamble off the trains.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

His Bedouin ancestors earned great wealth pearl diving—until foreign farmed pearls tanked the market and left the local economy in shambles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Power outages have been a feature of life for years in Cuba, where the electricity generation system, composed mainly of dilapidated Soviet-era plants, is in shambles.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

Behind the scenes, Gibbard’s personal life was in shambles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

As big a shambles as it is possible to imagine - on and off the field.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

The interior of the cabin was a shambles.

From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen

Exhausted junior doctors shambled in after shifts with their sleeves pushed up.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2020

The group sometimes shambled into a free-flowing rubato right in the middle of a fast tune, but it maintained conviction, and avoided melodrama.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2018

In the title story, adman Bill Whitman — note the surname — dishes a contemplative collage of ex-wives and ex-friends, a resigned and almost free-associative appraisal of his shambled past.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2018

Meanwhile, as Kyoto shambled on, the horizon receded.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 24, 2015

And the aged lord, without a word, shambled silently away, his old velvet shoes flapping and off at his heels, coughing as he went.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

She seemed to be everything that I, a shambling, spit up-stained wreck, was not.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2024

The post, from someone claiming to work at Boeing, described the production of Boeing's 737 planes as "a rambling, shambling, disaster waiting to happen".

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2024

Eager to play live concerts since the waning days of the Beatles, McCartney conceived Wings as a back-to-basics rock ‘n’ roll band, debuting the group on 1971’s modest, shambling “Wild Life.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

In the taxonomy of horror, its undead are “fast zombies,” as opposed to the shambling hordes in old-time creature features.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023

A man stepped out of the shadows, heavyset, thick of neck, shambling.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin