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  • But then considering the totality of his presidency, thought Bush the "Blunderer" might be his epitaph.

    Reese Schonfeld: George the What? 2008

  • In The Blunderer (1954) Highsmith fully established what would become her trademark theme: the blurring of fantasy and reality, usually reinforced by some sort of folie à deux, in which two very different people, almost always men, grow symbiotically obsessed with each other, ultimately to the point of madness and mutual destruction.

    This Woman Is Dangerous Dirda, Michael 2009

  • Lucinde, subtitled “Confessions of a Blunderer,” was, according to Schlegel, an attempt at “shaped, artistic chaos,” a work that was meant to be “chaotic and yet systematic.”

    Friedrich Schlegel Speight, Allen 2007

  • "This is the Blunderer," said the Fresh-Air Fiend, indicating a short, fat man who was clothed in glittering armor and bore a lance over his shoulder.

    John Dough And The Cherub Baum, L. Frank 1906

  • A sudden crash announced that the Blunderer had fallen into the middle of a delicate machine and smashed it into bits.

    John Dough And The Cherub Baum, L. Frank 1906

  • At that instant the Awkward tripped over his own toes and fell against the Blunderer, who tumbled headlong and thrust his slim lance straight through the body of John Dough.

    John Dough And The Cherub Baum, L. Frank 1906

  • "You were by your halidom, your Majesty," suggested the Blunderer.

    John Dough And The Cherub Baum, L. Frank 1906

  • The Awkward tripped up and fell flat on his face; the Unlucky got in the way of the tomahawk and received a crack on the head that laid him low; the Blunderer was kicked on the shin so violently that he howled and limped away to a safe distance.

    John Dough And The Cherub Baum, L. Frank 1906

  • John had much difficulty in keeping out of the way of the Awkward, who tripped and stumbled constantly, while the Blunderer insisted upon taking the wrong path, and the Bad-Tempered stopped twice to fight with the Disagreeable and the Thoughtless.

    John Dough And The Cherub Baum, L. Frank 1906

  • The Blunderer glanced at the scepter, the jeweled ball of which was nearly as large as his head.

    John Dough And The Cherub Baum, L. Frank 1906

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