Flusters

From our That Which We Call a Rose Chronicles, in which the singularness of Senator Barack H. Obama’s name flusters the unworldly, trips up the well meaning, or is exploited by his political opponents, we bring you Alexandre Batlle of Miami Beach, Fla., by way of The Smoking Gun. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"They're cute when they're about to wet themselves, aren't they?" she cackles at a fund-raiser where she flusters Raj, "space plumber" Howard and especially Leonard, whom she sexually attacks in the back of a limo. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And Will's staged payoff to one of the judges under scrutiny (actually a donation to UNICEF) so flusters special prosecutor Wendy Scott-Carr that her case falls apart, even if that canny kook Elsbeth (props again to Carrie Preston) hadn't kept diverting attention to Peter Florrick throughout the testimony, confusing the grand jurists. ❋ Unknown (2012)

June 10th, 2008 12: 03 pm ET this is seriosuly becoming a BIG problem. on a daily basis mccain makes these kinds of errors and it shows how overwhelming this campaigning is for him. by his own admission, mccain has a lack of knowledge on the most important issues facing this country today-the middle east and the economy. and these constant brain flusters are a very real and serious problem. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Its not just that Guiliani is pro-choice that flusters the GOP base. ❋ Unknown (2007)

She neither flusters nor embarrasses nor flees to the safety of a polite protest that it is too great a gift. ❋ Unknown (2007)

His gloating smile irks my sister, which then flusters her to the point where she cannot get any crumbs. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Not too much in the way of disagreement truly flusters me -- certainly, not disagreement as civil as I've always found it to be here. ❋ Steven Barnes (2008)

I like that his wife flusters him and that he married who he thought was a country miss who ends up having depths. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The game goes on and on, until he flusters me by leaning in until his shirt front brushes my bare shoulders and his breath touches my neck. ❋ Janine Latus (2007)

"Nothing flusters his feathers," Sarah said fondly. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2005)

When the breeze flusters the shrubs, revealing the undersides of the leaves at a reflective angle and shaking the tasselled pods, and the splashes of gold sway hither and thither, the character of the shrub as one of the most attractive ornaments of the beach is so truly displayed that it might be likened to the tree of the sun described by Marco ❋ Unknown (2003)

His grace had called upon the sister, who, once she had recovered from the flusters and the almost incoherent babble that had succeeded them, had been able to inform him that Beatrice had gone away to stay with their aunt and had then married Private Thomas Doyle of the army, whose father had been head groom at Mr. Craddock's estate of Leavenscourt six miles away. ❋ Balogh, Mary (1999)

I can tell just exactly when he stops paying attention to business and starts paying attention to _me_, and then all of a sudden he realizes I'm reading him, and it flusters him for the rest of the day. ❋ Alan Edward Nourse (1960)

That flusters her some more, and she was a shivern an a sweaten. ❋ Harriette Arnow (1954)

When I erupt, my sonic boom flusters and splinters quiet. ❋ Dom (N/A)

Babylon; and sometimes motherly old dears audibly express pity at his helplessness, which flusters him still more, so that he leaves his change on the counter. ❋ Thomas Burke (1915)