He banged his head on a hard surface, probably the door frame, and he staggered drunk- enly until she pushed him against a wall by placing both palms flat against his chest.

He staggered around for a moment like a man drunk, then he stood still, staring up at me, his face pale and his hair, almost white, standing up in a thick brush.

The man had been always clean shaven; that man had lined up his shoes at night, every night, even when staggering drunk.

Lithe as a boy he was, not staggering drunk at all.

Almost everybody there was staggering drunk by nightfall and the ugliness threshold was low.

Apparently taking up Tony's challenge, Christopher roars into the parking lot of the Bada Bing in his Hummer H2, staggering drunk, looking for Tony.

The writers - most in their 30's - did not evoke, say, memories of Norman Mailer in his heyday, staggering drunk onto a stage, cursing his college audiences along with the establishment.

I suspect he's drowned somewhere, that, staggering drunk about the town, he fell into one of the canals or, worse yet, into the lagoon.

He was staggering drunk, but still pretty funny.

Two hours later he was staggering drunk.