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In chatty yet carefully measured tunes with nearly as many hooks as words, McRae illuminates the accumulated humiliations and misunderstandings against which every couple flails.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Men wore black, rhythmically beating their chests in mourning or using flails to strike their backs.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2023

Blusteringly self-important, he flails through life, naïve and directionless and pontificating nonetheless.

From New York Times • May 5, 2023

But the drama flails in its final stages.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2023

I notice he happily waves preemptively at the woman “gardening,” and she flails her arms back at the happiness of it all.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali