When being interviewed, Boris' speech is incoherent, he is a complete
bumbler. When Jeremy Corbyn speaks people might disagree with what he is saying but at least he is coherent.
Without humiliatingly releasing a captured Iranian tanker, the wild
bumbler who as Foreign Secretary extended the nightmare of Tehran hostage Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ill-equipped to free a captured British vessel.
The demand is sensible on the eve of the Tories foisting on a sceptical Britain poisonous
bumbler Alexander Boris de Piffle Johnson - a lazy, incompetent liar, uniquely unsuitable to be PM.
A faux
bumbler (ie it's all an act) he's as ruthlessly ambitious as Macbeth, without the guilt or regret.
Edward Benosa, as the handsome
bumbler Christian, is a hapless but oddly simpatico foil to the romance's principals.
He gives the impression to fools that he is a
bumbler. Yet very sharp, a very high degree of lean in, when he speaks, required.
His diaries give a vivid account of her bitter clashes with her foreign secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe - she described him as "that old
bumbler" behind his back.
In this case, I had just read Lili Loofbourow's brilliant commentary in "The Week" called "The Myth of the Male
Bumbler" --and there was Bogie bumbling to beat the band.
Brosnan's protagonist, Devereaux, a retired CIA veteran called back in for one last job, flits from Bondian superspy to headless
bumbler to noble hero to amoral sociopath with remarkably little consistency, and his web of agency allies and enemies is as tangled as a Korean soap opera, and about as easy for non-speakers to understand.
He's really bad, but he's funny, and he's got Smee (played by Steve Walls) who's a real
bumbler. They're unlikely pirates really.
One of the film's delights is how Pegg and Nick Frost, his masterfully funny co-star in all three films, have reversed personalities since "Hot Fuzz.'' Whereas Pegg was an uptight, overachieving cop there and Frost the bumbling sidekick, now it's Pegg who's the
bumbler -- scruffy and unkempt, in a long black coat and dark shades, hilariously messed up.
Here every private citizen is a panicky, incompetent
bumbler whose shooting technique is to point the gun in the direction of the threat, yank the trigger as quickly as possible until the gun stops firing, look at it in disbelief, and then throw it away.
bumbler - someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence