| I spent a lot of time watching my feet, making sure to throw off of my left foot rather than resorting to my old flat-footed infielder peg. |
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| Parents with flat-footed children sometimes say their children are clumsier than other kids. |
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| And the uninspired direction from Shawn Levy feels particularly flat-footed. |
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| It feels as if all the ligaments in my body are going to snap at any moment and my feet are so flat-footed it's like walking on glass. |
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| As a child I was supremely flat-footed in the outdoors, which, combined with my fear of falling over, made me a third wheel on outings of all kinds. |
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| Unfortunately, the tone mandated by the flat-footed New Yorker style drains his story of any emotional connection to events unfolding in the narrative. |
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| Giggs left Taylor flat-footed with a peach of a free kick after 61 minutes. |
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| Unfortunately when the time came for him to join the army, he was rejected due to the fact that he was flat-footed. |
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| There, so taken, caught in the act, flat-footed, we are obliged to make our stand. |
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| Murray is fine as long as his character isn't waxing poetic, and Laura Teasdale provides some very welcome comic relief as the flat-footed maid Cathleen. |
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| He feared that the Bureau would be caught flat-footed if the government decided to introduce the service in the House of Commons. |
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| Mr. Al Babin: No. The interesting part of it is that sometimes I refer to myself as a longhaired, flat-footed civvy. |
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| A inswinging free-kick from Francisco Yeste found the home defence flat-footed and Del Horno was on hand to head the ball in at the far post. |
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| In some cases, politicians are caught somewhat flat-footed and have to catch up. |
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| Bursting into space behind the much-feared Italian rearguard, he rounded a flat-footed Dino Zoff and stroked the ball home. |
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| A grandmother trots past flat-footed, the baby jogging on her back stealing the look of me. |
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| The plashy fens of the pathogen are a fertile habitat for flat-footed doom-mongers. |
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| Obama's offensive caught the Romney camp completely by surprise and left them flat-footed and slack jawed. |
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| In contrast, the A. afarensis bone resembled that of the flat-footed apes, making it improbable that its foot had an arch like our own. |
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| Most feature anomalously crude draftsmanship, scabby surfaces and flat-footed figuration. |
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| The Livingston defence were caught flat-footed, allowing the Croatian to home in on goal before slotting the ball past the advancing McKenzie. |
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| If a novel was riddled with the flat-footed cliches that plague so many science books, the critics would skewer it. |
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| Why has the government been so flat-footed and so indifferent to those who have lost their jobs? |
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| But if that incentive is not in place when carbon markets come in, we risk being caught flat-footed. |
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| Hold for two seconds, then return to a flat-footed stance. |
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| The very discovery of the website on which the futures exchange was prototyped seemed to have caught its inventors flat-footed and their masters by surprise. |
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| South American powerhouse Argentina pulverized flat-footed defenders to defeat Japan tonight for their sixth straight win over the Asian Cup holders. |
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| This time it made the area, where Gerrard, on the penalty spot, guided a periscopic header into the top-right, past a dismally flat-footed Dida. |
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| He says Europeans are already regulating against prophylactic antibiotics, and if the same measures are implemented in Canada the poultry industry will be caught flat-footed. |
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| The Fijians took the lead when Roy Krishna weaved his way past three flat-footed New Zealand defenders and struck a shot past Jacob Spoonley in the eighth minute. |
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| It is obvious that the Etat-Major gave to our two protagonists this routine mission, what is more on a aqueous and uninteresting planet, in order to put these two flat-footed away for the longest time possible. |
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| He spoke with a backwoods twang and walked in the long-striding, flat-footed, cautious manner of a plowman. |
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| In business one always tries to know what one's competitors are doing in order to stay one step ahead, but here the custodians of Canada's relations with the United States were caught flat-footed and asleep. |
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| Following some foraging early work, the 14-year-old sensation collected the ball 45 yards from goal, turned brilliantly and ghosted past four flat-footed Korean defenders with a stunning burst of speed. |
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| Unfortunately, the flat-footed version that opened last night under Mr. Edelstein's direction, from his own freehanded adaptation, seldom conveys the urgency of the play's genesis. |
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| It is unfortunate that the Conservative government seems to have been caught off guard, flat-footed and, in some respects, dumbfounded by some of the protectionist developments south of the border. |
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