| 单词 | grasping |
| 例句 | The first thing her father had done on his ascension wgs to expel his own father’s grasping, lowborn mistress from easterly Rock. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Her mind worked furiously, grasping for anything she knew about Mithras. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But it was not a grasping of a thin and burdensome recollection; this was different. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z He sat back in the seat, his hands grasping his knees, his knuckles bloodless. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I shivered in the warm sun, seeing my memories anew through his eyes, only now grasping the danger. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Good man,” he says, grasping it firmly and clapping me on the shoulder with his other hand. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I searched her face closely and found her expression entirely lacking in the grasping quality that Minerva Goodacre had displayed. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I see my hands grasping the wheel, and I feel strong arms wrenching my legs. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Wes nodded but then stood there silent, as if grasping for an emotion that was just out of reach. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He sat back, his huge hands grasping his knees. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Because he has spent his life grasping at her and coming up with nothing. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z His wrists began to ache from grasping each rung too tightly. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “For me especially,” Alice said reaching across Bull and grasping her daughter’s hand. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, on a soft summer evening, I stood next to Bud, grasping the reins while Shawn held the halter steady, and stepped into the saddle. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Let me hold you once,” he said, grasping both of Shin’s hands tightly. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “What if it does not end in the way you hoped for? You would only appear to be a grasping fool. And even worse, you would be ... you would be false.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed like a few seconds passed before light filled the van and the cop in the back pushed each of them out, grasping them by their clothing to direct them toward the exit. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z But it bristled with Lawrence’s self-confidence and his manner of intuitively grasping possibilities well ahead of realities—in this case, the production of sustained resonant proton beams with a million volts of kinetic energy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z One of the gravestones flipped over, revealing a grasping corpse; a headstone turned around, flowers replaced by a grinning skull. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The emperor’s face was frozen in a glare, and his arms were locked in an empty grip, as if even in his final moments he was grasping. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He grips the iron railing with his left hand and lunges forward with his right, grasping the sleeve of Alec’s shirt before he’s swept out of reach. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He fell to the ground, grasping at my pants as I tried to back away for a good, clean swing at him. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The man bent down and inspected the locket, grasping it perhaps he was Talented at solving mysteries. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z His little feet resting upon a velvet pouffe, he was sitting well back in a comfortable winged armchair, one hand grasping a small glass of wine, the other searching through a box of crystalized pineapple. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “And you could not tell Hamlet of your discovery, for he was immediately sent away,” said Horatio, grasping the situation at once. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Straight to the door he came, irked with himself to think a visitor had been kept there waiting, and took her right hand, grasping with his left her tall bronze-bladed spear. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Though the weather was chill enough to turn their breath white, their clothing was drenched with sweat and nearly ripped to shreds by the grasping brambles. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z This is the essential context for grasping Washington’s motives for leaving public office in 1796. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z When he held them up to his face he saw that they were scratched and bruised—and the veins were swollen as though he had been grasping hard at something for a long time. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Heavily disoriented, I staggered to my feet, grasping onto a bedpost to keep from falling. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Bruno, still grasping part of the sandwich in one paw, followed after me. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z It was a good chance to send an arrow into the young bull, who lay on his back with his teeth still grasping the other’s neck. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z By the large round door at the top of the steps from the wide yard stood Mrs. Cotton and Rosie, and Nibs in front of them grasping a hay-fork. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Part consultants and part teachers, computing supervisors had to be top-notch computers themselves, capable of grasping the needs of the engineer and clearly explaining the requirements to her subordinates. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The mate saw one of the oldest trees in the grove topple, groaning, branches grasping at its neighbors as if they could stop it from falling. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “As hard as ...” I made an inarticulate grasping gesture. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I did as he asked, grasping onto the wall to steady myself. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z By grasping it as high up as he could and throwing his whole weight on it, Stuart was able to turn on the light. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z She imagined Muskrat finally pulling to the very bottom and grasping that bit of earth in its tiny paws. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Roz frantically clawed at the ground, grasping for anything she could hold on to, but the flow only carried her faster toward the edge. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I realized I was grasping my hands together. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Esperanza knelt in front of him and reached out, grasping his shoulder. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Then, as quietly as she could, grasping both sides, she pulled herself up and into the kitchen. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I moved automatically, grasping the thin ankles as he raised the white man by the armpits and backed from beneath the stairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He dashed to the right, ducking under the shadowy giant’s grasping hands, and burst through the nearest doorway. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There was a scrabbling sound from the roof outside the arches, and he ran to the windowsill to see the first pair of hands grasping the edge of the pantiles and pulling up. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Cable’s pendant seemed to grow heavier and heavier, wound around her neck as tightly as the vines, brush, and roots grasping the railroad tracks. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The sign showed a woman in a light blue one-piece bathing suit, apparently grasping a towline from a speeding motorboat. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z At that age, fairy tales were dark, simple things, their hidden metaphors worn down so that they fit comfortably in a child’s grasping hands. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Her eyes were the yellow of crookneck squash, and the nails of her grasping hands had been broken down, her fingers covered with dirt. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “You’ll be staying in my room,” the maid said to her, grasping one handle of Ana’s trunk and helping Ash to lift it off the footboard. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I can see his legs kicking, hear him gripping, grasping, trying to cling on, stay in the stall. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z The church deacons stood properly at the foot of the gangway, their hands grasping the lapels of their dark suits, their hats lifting in unison as soon as Mrs. Buckminster appeared on deck. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z His hand reached out on its own, his fingers grasping for the key chain. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z On the fog comes, silent and steady and flat, except for the grasping tendrils. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I am no longer grasping great handfuls of time. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I had difficulty grasping it, my hand was trembling so much. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z ‘Here is the dream-catcher,’ he said, grasping the pole in one hand. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat up, grasping my knees in the dark as the thought struck home. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They were moving wildly—a dozen black-bristled appendages roughly the size of his own arms and with pincers for grasping prey and dragging it toward...its mouth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He lies in a cloud of dust, wheezing and grasping his throat. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The orange sun slid through their bent, grasping teeth. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The next time I used the subway I'd always be sure to enter with my hands grasping my lapels and I'd keep them there until I left the train. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not going anywhere!” she says, not grasping the bigger picture. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She knew it was Percy, suffocating, desperately grasping for a chance at life. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He stretched out the hand still grasping his wand and just managed to close his fingers over the small, struggling Snitch. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z She imagined them fighting, her mother grasping the front of her father’s shirt in a tight knot as women often did to cheating husbands. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z While he descended the three floors, piece by piece, in clumsy, grasping hand grips, Sheed traversed the debris, nimble as always. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Look here,” said his father, grasping him roughly by one arm, “look at your brother.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I bucked against the crowd’s grasping fingers, growling and kicking like an animal. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z With great relief, Helmuth finishes his final thesis, turns it in, and on the last day of school, Herr Meins stands in front of the class, grasping the graded papers. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z If I found the twins so fascinating, I think it was because there was something a tiny bit inexplicable about them, something I was often on the verge of grasping but never quite did. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Fingers grasping my hair, pulling my head back, the twinkle of stainless steel. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But it was so like her to try, to make this doomed, grasping, well-meaning effort. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z When I walked through the back door, the first thing I saw was Mother grasping a butter knife, which she was using to pry my father’s ears from his skull. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I was climbing a low, crumbly hill and had been about to support myself by grasping a scrawny, almost vine-like tree with splayed leaves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He thinks, grasping for thought and reason again, of birth, and wonders, without fear, in a moment of perfect postcoital clarity, whether what he sees is some kind of illusion. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Annabeth’s mind split into two different levels: one carrying on the conversation, the other madly grasping for a scheme to survive. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z His mind had a hard time grasping names of places, or remembering countries or rulers, how the world was organized. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It was difficult to find it there, difficult for fingers accustomed to grasping the handle of a broadax to pick up an object as tiny as a needle. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Dark but living, living but friendly, friendly but not grasping. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z She saw two men with their hands grasping the same spearshaft, each determined to hold on. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The tree’s roots, thickly twisted and fanning out like huge, grasping fingers, snaked out from its base. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She paused, and her hands gripped the wooden arms of the chair, grasping them so tightly her knuckles first reddened, then went white. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Root spun sharply, grasping her by the shoulders. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z As the eagle flew above the firepit, Loki found himself falling, still grasping his spear, and he tumbled onto the grass. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I toppled over a pile of beams, grasping onto the edge of the pulley in an effort to regain my balance. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Hero ... cursed blade ...” When my vision came back into focus, I saw Kronos grasping his sword. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The hollow tumbled away from us, grasping at empty space as it fell. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He swam the fingers of one hand around in the air, clumsy in his grasping. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Velia looked at her twin sister for validation, not grasping the full meaning of what I was getting at. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I am no longer grasping great handfuls of time. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Ambudrones began to descend from above, grasping his victims and spiriting them away to the nearest revival center. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He rushed forward, threw himself on Gaily, grasping with his fingers like claws. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z This task was made easy for Mushie, of course, by his long arms and grasping toes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She tried not to show how flustered she felt, or how much she liked the feel of his big, warm, blunt fingers loosely grasping hers. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The dense undergrowth came up to his shins, grasping at his ankles with every step. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The young man waited like stone, his gloved right hand grasping the chain that led the bear. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z And the film said that the baby’s translucent fingers could move, that we should imagine them clinging for life, grasping for a chance, this miracle of life. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew there was a word, but the pain kept him from grasping it. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z They call to her all at once, grasping here and there for parts of her, hatching blue flames in her brain. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Tendai suddenly snaked out his foot and tripped the Wart- hog, who was grasping him by the arm. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Thanks a million,” she said grasping my hand for a split second, and was gone. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat with him for a shorter and shorter time each day as my fear took over and the grasping whiteness of the garden blinded me. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He moaned & rolled upon the Dirt, grasping at himself as if he believed he should soon slip away; he tore at his Side. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Taran drowsed with one hand on the iron brooch, the other grasping his sword. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z “I know it has. You, Jason,” she said, grasping at him again. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The sergeant gave a grunting cry and fell clumsily, grasping his leg, trying to breathe, trying to call out. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z "They're leaving any moment! Come on!" she shouted, grasping Miss Honey's hand. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z I turn off the Midway toward my block and fall to my knees, grasping my stomach, and vomit in the dirt. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The figure, dimly seen in lamplight, pulled one oar free of the lock and suspended it above my hands, prepared to do violence to my grasping fingers. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Hilly,” Celia says, grasping Hilly’s arm, “I’ve been trying to talk to you all night. I think there’s been some kind of mis- communication between us and I just think if I explained...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He lowered his hands, grasping the edges of the pulpit. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z And with that he took down the lamp and blew it out, and grasping a candle in either hand he led them out of the room. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The rods on the right wall seemed to reach like stretched-out arms for their home, grasping for those little holes that would serve as their resting place for the night. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He pulled himself along by grasping shoulders, clothes, hair, anything to keep upright. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I reach out for that peace right now, that strength, but it feels like grasping at air. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Except for grasping the glass, he hasn’t moved a muscle. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z But then a trio of bombs shook the building, raining chips of concrete on our heads, and suddenly Horace was pushing past me, grasping for the ladder. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z By 1505 then the relationship between experience and philosophy needed to be rethought, but Achillini was incapable of grasping the problem. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She was terrified, grasping for anything that could save her camp. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z His mother stood behind him, her hands grasping the handles of the chair and her head down close to his left ear. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z It was while she sat there that the flower, which she had been grasping in her hand, suddenly withered. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Dylan’s knees push off—he flies backward, then swings forward, his hands grasping the rope lower. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z My mind seizes on her words like a prisoner grasping for pardon. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Over the water, spray struck her face, hands, and feet Tally knelt, grasping the edge of the board with wet hands, flying as low as she dared. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The pitchfork’s tines bent and stretched like claws, grasping Håkon around the neck and yanking him to a stop. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Without flinching, he brushed aside the grasping branches and ignored the thorns that scraped his arms and face. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The complexity of a society’s technology has little to do with its level of social complexity—something that we, in our era of rapidly changing, seemingly overwhelming technology, have trouble grasping. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z On the deck of the ship the crew lined up, ten hearty men bared to the waist, each grasping the rope, and began a rhythmical march from one end of the ship to the other. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z With Beck draping an arm over Athans’s shoulders and Burleson grasping the Texan’s climbing harness tightly from behind, they shuffled carefully down the mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Fists are flying, feet kicking, fingers grasping hair and yanking. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Frank edged closer and closer, grasping his walking stick firmly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It seems like the simulation is grasping at any fears it can find within him, and it hasn’t found much. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The king was wheeling his palfrey around in anxious circles while hands reached past the line of gold cloaks, grasping for him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Hodor was leaning forward, grasping at rocks and trees with his hands as he climbed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I looked into his eyes, abruptly grasping that this was every bit as new to him as it was to me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Her hand flew to her bosom, grasping at the old brooch that fastened her shawl, and her face went bleak. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Poppy was grasping the pencil in her fist and making a wild scribble. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I remembered Miss Lilian descending the very same stairs, dressed in gray, one thin hand grasping the rail, her head high, her eyes scornful. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Tyrion put his heel on the grasping fingers and felt a satisfying crunch. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A tentacle whips toward him but misses, grasping one of his trailing pages instead, crumbling it. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I proceeded blindly through the crowded space, patting the space around me, grasping at edges. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “We have to go,” I said, still grasping the little seed. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The fingers grasping the chaplain’s arm were hurting him, and he tried in vain to squirm loose. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z But he was grasping at straws—it was merely coincidence. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He sat nude on the lowest limb of the tree and balanced himself with both hands grasping the bough directly above. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z There were five houses alight, the flames grasping for a sixth. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Men and women run here and there, seemingly aimless, while shamblers walk the street leisurely, grasping for whoever gets close. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Sailing past three of the tallest peaks, and just over the outstretched arms of the grasping demons, they reached the ground and landed with a sudden jolt. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z He leapt forward, his fingers curled into claws, grasping for Otto’s neck. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Then, grasping the two side ropes for balance, she carefully stepped onto the rope bridge and began to walk. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z "Was I right?" he says, still grasping me close. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The stranger twisted about impatiently and, grasping the back of my tunic, hoisted me up behind him. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Even at night, the petals were spread like grasping fingers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Taran stumbled down the riverbank and leaped to a boulder, feverishly grasping for his weapon. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z He was pulling me back, and my hands, grasping for something to hold, slid backward over the smooth floor. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The dementors — tall, hooded creatures whose faces were concealed — were gliding slowly toward the chair in the center of the room, each grasping one of the man’s arms with their dead and rotten-looking hands. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Mrs. Frisby did what she was told, first grasping the precious packages of medicine tightly between her teeth. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z It was proud, haughty, impatient with less brilliant minds, grasping in its search for knowledge the way a conqueror grasps for power. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z So I crawl away to the farthest corner and stay there, my eyes glued on him, my hand grasping the knife—ready, if he stirs, to spring at him again. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well done,” stated the Duke of Definition, dismounting and grasping Milo’s hand warmly. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z “We could be next,” Stella’s mother said, grasping his arm. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But the idea of not talking to them here was so preposterous to him that he had a hard time grasping the concept. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Storm surf surged up around his legs, grasping and eager to take him under. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z In his chariot drawn by coal-black steeds he rose up through a chasm in the earth, and grasping the maiden by the wrist set her beside him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z At least from the outside, it seemed he was grasping for an option that avoided the risk of a longer sentence, and the lifelong stigma of conviction. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z A few neighbors were already racing out of their homes, grasping buckets and rushing toward the Spencers’. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Sliding partway, grasping tree roots to keep from falling, she stumbled down the treacherous path to the bottom. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I reached behind me, grasping onto the cast-iron base to anchor myself. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Now we’re standing up again, grasping at each other’s collars and lapels, both blocking and landing blows. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Their hands were clenched into fists or open like claws, as if they were grasping at something, and their faces were expressionless masks, their eyes glazed with frost, staring at nothing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My feet slowed the closer I came, watching as a few of the older boys threw more logs into the fire’s grasping fingers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z But this house and this life were what she had, and there was no point in perpetually grasping for something other. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z But soon he sits in the back of the boat, grasping an oar. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z She, too, invited me to go with them tonight, and I agreed now, grasping at anything to distract myself. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She raised her left hand and held it in front of the moon, so that her forefinger and thumb seemed to be grasping it. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z She lets go of me for a second before grasping my cheeks and pulling me in through her front door. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Thomas quickly gathered his thoughts, grasping for the right words inside the swirling cloud of frustration, confusion and anger in his mind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Slowly, she manipulated herself down the long flights of stairs, two crutches under her left arm, the right hand grasping the banister. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Though the man grasping her arm was tall and fit, she could see nothing of the features concealed beneath his hood. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Poor, dead boys in army uniforms from every era, their pale skin even whiter in death, clung to bridges and passenger cars, their grasping fingers reaching out for the memory of life. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z In the grand scheme of the country’s blind, grasping fight against threats seen and unseen, there would be mistakes made. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I listened intensely, aware of the form and movement of sentences and grasping the now subtle rhythmical differences between progressions of sound that questioned and those that made a statement. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Before my disbelieving eyes, the particles weave together, coalescing into large, manlike shapes with grasping hands and holes for eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z My mom’s hands shake as she steps behind my dad, grasping the back of his chair for support. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z She slashed down hard, and Needle's castle-forged steel bit into the grasping fingers between the knuckles. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He dangled there for a minute, grasping the edge, staring down into the water, until he spotted a big board floating underneath. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z In the firelight, the thrones cast evil-looking shadows, like grasping hands. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I pretend to watch her do sets of squats while grasping huge weights. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I picture my hand stroking Teddy’s hair, grasping a bow poised above my cello, interlaced with Adam’s. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And just as I caught sight of the glasses I remembered grasping Rinehart's girl's hand. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Her feet touching the side of the stone tower and her hands grasping the rope, Violet closed her eyes and began to climb. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z A single, skeletal hand shot out of the ground, grasping at the air. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Few axes had ever swung in that black wood, where even the moonlight could not penetrate the ancient tangle of root and thorn and grasping limb. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The stone man staggered forward, his hands outstretched and grasping. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Twenty-five years seemed to have lapsed between his handing me the letter and my grasping its message. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, no, Professor, see —” “Harry, Harry, Harry,” said Lockhart, reaching out and grasping his shoulder. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z He howled and rolled to the side, grasping at the bloody wound. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was far from foolproof—and to be brutally honest with herself, it was more like a desperate grasping at straws than a plan. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The window frame sprang free, and still grasping it by the bars, he tumbled backward off the box. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come,” he said, grasping her arm and trying to pull her into the dancing. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard a warning being issued to Peanut Abbott and he felt the hands of his teammates grasping his shoulders and asking him if he was all right. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Still grasping it Ged was pulled back as the breakers streamed back from the shoal, so that he was in deep water and saved, till the next wave, from battering on the rocks. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Only a few twisted shapes of metal remained, rising above the trees like skeletal fingers grasping at the air. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z At the last moment, when disaster seemed positive, he pulled his hands from his pockets and broke his fall by grasping the golden pole. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Robert stood up, grasping one of the bedposts to steady himself. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “I’m probably better up here,” he said, grasping Mom’s hand, which she violently shook off. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing I could see of him was one long arm still grasping his prey. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Sophie, crouching underneath the blanket, felt strong fingers grasping hold of her, and then she was lifted up from her bed, blanket and all, and whisked out of the window. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I study the boy—the gray-tipped hair, the way he’s standing so comfortably in our hall, how his right hand opens and closes as if used to grasping something by habit. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z The Muscogees called the squatters a name that, in their language, means “people greedily grasping after the land.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I reached out and clung for life with my good left hand like a claw, grasping at moving legs to raise myself from the dirt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This is a family, he reminds me, grasping it with both hands. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Ordinarily, Root would have blown his top at this point, but he knew that Cudgeon was grasping at straws, desperately trying to save his career. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Starry is grasping a chunk of the wet, heavy material and struggling to pull it back out. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He swings back around and throws his arms around Mom’s neck, grasping her in a tight hug as she laughs and embraces him back. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Your fickle hands, much like your tiny brain, have trouble grasping things,” Darkness said to Seed Collector. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I sighed, grasping on to the idea like a life raft. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I force myself forward, trying to ignore the maw of grasping air at my back. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z A few crates away from Bennie, grasping her arm in pain. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z One thing they did mention was the grasping hand of the landlords. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I jumped, grasping a low, sticky pine branch beside me for balance. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “Mr. Huffer already has his grasping hands on it,” she said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It was a stretch — I was grasping at straws to conjure up a story that didn’t exist. Muhammad Ali’s hometown heartbreak: I went looking for Ali’s Louisville, and it wasn’t there 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z For the scripture-skeptical, such wordplay only fuels a suspicion that believers are incapable of engaging with their texts without grasping for rationalization. The Book of Mormon: the Great American Bible 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z In grasping that joy, Mr. Oldman partakes of it and passes it along to the audience. Review: ‘Darkest Hour,’ or the Great Man Theory of History (and Acting) 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z It is possible to savor the crags and shadows of Mr. Neeson’s performance without quite grasping why Mr. Landesman thinks the story is worthy of such somber, serious and sustained attention. Review: In ‘Mark Felt,’ Liam Neeson Is the Man Known as Deep Throat 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z The Man in Black is a seeker, in other words, looking for the same deeper sense of purpose and meaning that most of our principal characters are grasping to find. ‘Westworld,’ Season 1, Episode 5: The Search for Meaning 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Pitt's character remains youthful by bathing in the blood of virgins, and Pitt provides a certain poignancy as the ugly, old crone grasping at beauty. Ingrid Pitt obituary 2010-11-24T14:40:00Z She might stand as still as a statue and then wilt gradually, with her long black mane veiling her face, or arch backward, grasping at strands of hair with slender fingers. Eiko: A Dancer’s Urgent Body in a Sacred Space 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Not that he doesn’t try, grasping for childhood anecdotes like the time in second grade that he mispronounced Niger and spurred a classroom lecture on civil rights. ‘Distances’ Review: Fumblingly Picking at the Knot of Race 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Trust me: You will keep your hands firmly grasping the controller. Game On: 'Gears of War 3' ends trilogy on glorious note 2011-09-21T18:26:03Z Mr. Powers suggested will power as a much underestimated remedy for those who find themselves grasping for too much information. All That Logging in Makes Dropping Out Much More Difficult 2011-03-16T21:23:15Z But there was always something creepy and grasping about Flora’s Nativephilia, her desperation to convince people of her Indigenous heritage. Review | ‘The Sentence’ is among Louise Erdrich’s most magical novels 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z This being Hollinghurst, there's something as grasping as worshipful about Paul as he sets out to possess the memories Cecil left behind. Alan Hollinghurst bears beautiful 'Stranger's Child' 2011-10-19T23:15:05Z “The Sun Still Burns Here,” which opened Tuesday at the Joyce Theater, is set in a dark, decaying world; it seems to be grasping at a sinister sort of romanticism. Review: Perfume Genius and Kate Wallich in a World of Angst 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z In his early books, Updike wrote of sexual adventure as an antidote to death, a way of "grasping at life." In 'The Violet Hour,' Katie Roiphe looks at five great writers shuffling off this mortal coil 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Soon after he interviews for a high-end job in the world’s tallest building — an ugly metallic behemoth that looks like a twisty trunk of an African elephant grasping a baseball — violence happens. Review: In ‘Skyscraper,’ Dwayne Johnson Scales a Tower of Clichés 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z To that end, he was “grasping, relentless” and “oblivious to social graces in the pursuit of his goals.” In His First Book, Ronan Farrow Laments the Decline of Diplomacy 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Hymnlike at the outset, resting on a slow drift of chords, it soon unraveled into shapelessness, with Mr. Stanko briefly grasping at abstractions, unsupported by his band. Music Review: The Tomasz Stanko Quintet Performs at Birdland 2010-04-14T21:27:00Z Mr. Matthews gives a ripe comic performance as the grasping Spettigue. | 'Where?s Charley?': A Few Wacky Victorians in Love 2011-03-18T22:54:37Z Americans, grasping at ghost stories as fast as their multitudinous anxieties will let them, have made hits of scare-TV.. Forget Halloween. TV shows have thrills and chills all year-round 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The blond tries running through a glade, but her feet become entangled in grasping tree roots — or, as she describes it, “woolly yarn.” Lars von Trier's Melancholia: The End of the World as He Knows It 2011-11-10T18:07:51Z Because when we are grasping with these existential questions the worst thing we can do is stay in our comfort zone. Forget the fights over housework: How couples who both work make it work 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s so wacky and disjointed and at the same time kind of wonderful to be home with our loved ones and really grasping time. The Show’s Delayed, but They’re Still Keeping ‘Company’ 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Even if the bountiful Helen is a little too good to be true, Pinero paints a vivid picture of the grasping nastiness of these callous Midlands burghers. The Thunderbolt 2010-09-06T21:00:00Z White is better than McFeely in grasping Grant’s commitment to justice, which turned him against Lincoln’s virulently racist successor, Andrew Johnson, but a little of McFeely’s alertness to ambition would have enriched this story. Ulysses S. Grant: New Biography of ‘A Nobody From Nowhere’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z “Inspiring Beauty” was first exhibited at the Chicago History Museum, and that setting should tip you off to the social context that is crucial to grasping the relevance of Ebony Fashion Fair. Review | When black models walking the runway was about more than just the clothes 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z “Shock is a thing to get over, which is its own piece of grieving,” she says, “grasping at what felt like vapor.” Poet Elizabeth Alexander’s memoir of love, loss, art and glorious food 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Then you'll repeat the same six delicate motions that introduce arrow to bow hundreds of times, finally grasping your weapon in a single hand so as to keep hold of make-believe reins. Next Time You're in ... Hong Kong 2010-04-29T14:25:00Z We’re all just grasping… What do you want your book to accomplish? The age of atheism: “If God exists, why is anybody unhappy?” 2014-02-15T15:45:00Z On the wall hung a mural depicting a group of male companions, casually dressed in boxer shorts; in the lower corner was an image of one hand gently grasping another. How Gay Art Survives in Beijing, as Censors Tighten Grip 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z In between, there are suggestions of interpersonal drama — her escaping, him grasping or bowing in supplication — but they spend most of the second half stuck to each other. Review: At City Ballet, Getting Back to Showing New Work, Live 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z “A lot of people are grasping,” she said. For Two Los Angeles Artists, the Spiritual Is Political 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z But our mistake in viewing Greg as an adorable dullard eager to play "boar on the floor" is in neglecting to see that he's been grasping for money and power all this time. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z At the time, I recall people of no particular religious bent grasping for the same word to describe Ramirez: “Satanic.” Could the Night Stalker have terrorized Los Angeles today? 2013-06-09T18:00:00Z Social media and media in general is a really good way to see other people, not the mistakes of anxiety, depression, whatever, but just people behaving badly and people grasping unnecessarily. Moby is happily boring now: "I look at the desperation that I had ... I don't glorify the past" 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z “James was always a good partner and immediately grasping what we were after,” Jupiter said. Bringing a (Jurassic) World of Star Power to Theme Park Queues 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z He posed the extremities so they appear to protrude from his house, grasping at the 12-footer as if it were a doll. Huge skeletons are just part of how we live now 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Images echo, including the memorable sight of pairs of men grasping and wrestling for the crown in body language that speaks volumes about their dangerous differences and similarities. Review: ‘DruidShakespeare: The History Plays’ Is Complete With a Crown Fit for Many Kings 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z I wasn’t grasping the idea of yellow and orange undertones, so she found a mascara applicator and brushed two streaks on a tissue, the closest I could get to a live test. To sample is human. But our beloved lipstick testers and cheese cubes aren’t coming back anytime soon. 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z With the immense challenge of grasping the global consequences of climate change, Humboldt’s interdisciplinary approach is more relevant than ever. Man of the world 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z A profusion of green, as tall as a doorway, this unique specimen boasts grasping tendrils and a wide Venus-flytrap mouth bristling with teeth. Despite exotic botany, Constellation’s ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ is an old chestnut 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z “The myriad entities with financial interests in preserving the NEA cloyingly call themselves the ‘arts community,’ a clever branding that other grasping factions should emulate,” he writes, cloyingly. Perspective | It’s not an attack on the arts, it’s an attack on communities 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z As in, grasping on your own that family dynamics are . . . dynamic. Carolyn Hax: Teen wants more independence, but Mom wants household chores done first “It’s grasping something that we don’t have forever,” Ms. Mays said. On a Once-Hidden Estate, a Sculpture Show With Deep Emotional Resonance 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Rather, given that this story provides Iwegbuna's point of view, the accentuation is on his difficulty in grasping the American centrality of individuality as opposed to community. "Little America" is a joyful roadtrip through the American dream in Apple TV+'s best series yet 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z What these provocations do suggest is that we are grasping for a punishment that seeks to mend a more psychic, public wound — a type of harm we are still processing ourselves. Louis C.K. Slithers Back, Whether We’re Ready or Not 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z They were all grasping at this psychological failure that had somehow led to this problem. Wait, men fake orgasms? 2013-04-13T22:00:00Z He said that meeting Mr. Yahia was important in terms of grasping that a version of the events in the film had actually happened and to comprehend the lasting psychological and emotional scars. Stepping Into the Shoes of a Psychopath 2011-07-22T13:00:00Z In her sweaty nightmares, “he’s a dark figure behind me, his hands grasping and clawing at my hair.” Pushed From the Clock Tower, Buried in the Yard 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z “I wanted to write a story about a Black woman who fails a lot and is sort of grasping for human connection and making mistakes,” Leilani, now 29, said. Raven Leilani, a Flâneur Who Is Going Places 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z We cover over that depression by pursuing something we think will make us whole and by grasping hold of beliefs that give us a sense of mastery, but the problem is symptoms. Christians should abandon Christianity 2013-04-21T16:00:00Z The 16 grasping nitwits who began grovelling for Lord Sugar's favour at the outset were loathsome even by the formidable standards established by the franchise, and this isn't the week they suddenly grow more likable. TV highlights 22/05/2013 2013-05-22T06:00:04Z And biographically, it encompasses a volatile mix of raw talent and rawer ambition, incessant work, grasping parents, a tormented marriage, economic struggle, debilitating illness and some Othello-like paranoia. Art Review: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, a French Artist of Multiple Passions 2014-03-27T22:29:43Z Its inspired and single-minded purpose is to chronicle any grasping attempts by music writers to characterize Mr. Casey, the talky, confrontational lead vocalist and lyricist of the Detroit postpunk band Protomartyr. The Playlist: Britney Spears Puts on a Show and Tove Lo Plays it Cool 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z But there were too many moments on Wednesday that seemed to be grasping for old-fashioned passion to convince me that Mr. Kaufmann’s tendency toward coolness was entirely intentional. Review: Jonas Kaufmann Sings an ‘Otello’ for the Ages 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Nor is your daughter’s stepping up to demand that he behave, nor is her grasping, apparently, that a boor’s companionship is optional. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When your son-in-law does his Don Rickles act, is it okay to heckle? 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Which makes it difficult for them to keep grasping at the power that keeps slipping away despite their most desperate efforts. Perspective | Harvey Weinstein embodies a culture whose power is on the wane 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z She’s fully grasping the destructiveness of her marriage and finally doing something about it. ‘House of Cards’ Season 3 Finale Recap: This Office Has One Chair 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z A case could also be made that this year the organization was grasping for straws in the entire musical/comedy category. Kate Hudson in, Spike Lee out and more Golden Globe chaos 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z But these nominations seem to be grasping at straws. Why we love the Golden Globes: The wacky upsets and weirdo nominations that make the most fun ceremony of the season 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z This grasping duo infuses a mostly self-serious musical with some appealing comic vulgarity in their number “Master of the House.” Theater Review: ‘Les Misérables’ Returns to Broadway 2014-03-24T02:00:01Z Mr. Abraham, much like the rest of us, is grasping for answers. Kyle Abraham Debuts ‘The Watershed’ at New York Live Arts 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z The toddler Connors, grasping his racket with his trademark double fisted grip, would quickly learn how to fire them back just as hard. The Outsider: My Autobiograpgy by Jimmy Connors – review 2013-05-27T06:30:01Z The other characters — especially Auden’s parents — are similarly underwritten, so the film is left grasping for conflict or clear stakes. ‘Along for the Ride’ Review: Becoming a Kid Again 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Obviously, it's pretty scary, grasping just how barmy our Great Leader was during the scant months he inhabited Number 10. The Brown Years; Desert Island Discs; Craig Brown's Lost Diaries 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z A lot of us have been in Denise's seat, devouring our feelings and grasping at reliable goodness despite some disaster waiting for us at home, sitting in our kitchen. "Master of None" returns for an unexpected third season with "Moments in Love" 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z The process of grasping the meaning of this work equally involves looking, reading and feeling but its subject is one of the most urgent of our time. In Cameron Rowland’s ‘91020000,’ Disquieting Sculptures 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In Douglas’s case, he leans forward, as if forever grasping the prow of a Viking ship, breasting the waves and building up an appetite for experience. Kirk Douglas, a Hundred Years Old 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Incomprehensible, from income, earnings + prehens, grasping, as in “The candidate’s tax plan is incomprehensible.” Style Invitational: Give it to us straight 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Apparently grasping his message, coaches declined to recruit Grant. The Unseen Student Victims of the “Varsity Blues” College-Admissions Scandal 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z "The mother is grasping and clawing to find a way not to lose her money-maker, and hide the fact that she is an abusive monster." Ariel Winter's mom sues actor for defamation 2012-12-10T22:43:07Z It represents less a celebration of great acting than the Academy’s grasping attempt to be in tune with popular tastes, keeping with its desperate effort to keep this ratings-losing ship afloat. Bridesmaids' Melissa McCarthy: Hilarious Performance, Not Oscar Worthy 2012-01-25T18:38:22Z He was grasping, trying everything to turn himself around, from wearing his socks higher to changing his delivery, which he had not tinkered with since he was 8. T Magazine: Little Big Man 2011-03-11T18:01:47Z This was done by lightly grasping the salt in an upturned palm, then letting it shower down with a flowing wag of the wrist. The Single Most Important Ingredient 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Like all of us, I’m grasping for connection in a time of uncertainty. What the Caribou Taught Me About Being Together, and Apart 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z The dialogue is quite good, with a texture combining dry wit and chewy passion, and the moments of quietness within the exchanges are fantastic: awkward pauses, anxious lulls, mute grasping to gather thoughts and courage. “Wanderlust,” Reviewed: Toni Collette in a Self-Help Soap Opera 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The word eclecticism has been used so much for the last 30 years that it has become meaningless — a sad, grasping pile of obstruents and sibilants, like a dying fire’s last pops and hisses. Mixing It Up at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville 2010-03-29T21:46:00Z I would report to you the books they were carrying, but the only readers in the bunch were grasping Kindles. A Critic’s Tour of Literary Manhattan 2012-12-14T17:13:34Z When the characters reach out, grasping for human interaction even as this great murderous conspiracy swirls furiously around them, the show is at its strongest. Have you been watching … Orphan Black, season two? 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Like young Nucky, flailing and grasping under the ocean waters, Boardwalk Empire went for the shiny gold. REVIEW: Boardwalk Empire Watch: Golden Boy 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z It is not a grasping or anxious place. Village Vanguard Celebrates Its 80th, Adding Poetry and Comedy to Jazz 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z As this pandemic drags on, we’re simultaneously grasping for some sense of normalcy and a little bit of control over our lives while still trying to adjust to so many changes. Perspective | How quarantine decluttering can increase productivity, lower stress and save you money 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, theater leaders are grasping for signs of hope, or at least faith. A Crisis in America’s Theaters Leaves Prestigious Stages Dark 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z If “Dreaming in French” often seems like elegant grasping, there are few writers whom I’d rather grasp along with. Books of The Times: ?Dreaming in French,? by Alice Kaplan 2012-04-03T21:57:00Z At midday recently, chattering children poured out of the red two-story building, each grasping a plastic-foam lunch container in one hand and a water bottle in the other. Afghanistan National Institute of Music Students to Tour U.S. 2013-02-01T21:18:01Z After my father’s death, I found myself grasping for every memory of him, every cologne-scented hint of his being. The Mystery of the Holiday Fruitcake, Solved! 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z He reveals, to the community group but also to Michelle, a preternatural genius at grasping interests and motives, at seeking common cause, and at recognizing—and acting upon—the human factor. The Authentic Joy of “Southside with You” 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Am I just grasping for anything to distract me, or is it time to pull the trigger because it's what I want? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Look before you leap and then look again afterward 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Avoid touching your neck, crossing your arms over your chest or grasping the elbow of your opposite arm hanging at your side. Studied: The Right Stance Can Be Reassuring — Studied 2013-05-03T23:12:24Z First appearing in that company’s production in 1953, Ms. Lewis — now portraying the title character, the grasping Regina Giddens — drew wide acclaim. Brenda Lewis, Versatile American Soprano, Is Dead at 96 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z “I’m grasping at the moments as they come,” Jackson said. Slime is everywhere. It’s everywhere. Slime is everywhere. 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z It feels as though the show’s creators are still grasping for ways to develop their now-older characters in believable, interesting ways — to “dress” them appropriately for their time and place. Middle Age Doesn’t Happen ‘Just Like That’ 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z With my hands grasping the webbing above my head, I continued to make my way down the rungs, foot after foot, hand after hand. Severed 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z The vast building is decorated with original tiled floors, huge green doors and a stained-glass window shaped like a cloud that depicts a hand grasping lightning bolts. An Electric Temple of Culture Fires Up 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z He admitted that in the past the the Arts Council had tried to promote diversity "without grasping how complex it is" and said they "can and must do better". Tackle arts diversity or 'face cuts' 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Whether Alm's hunter — his head entirely covered in some kind of deer-skull mask — intends to kill or coddle the little varmint he's grasping is ambiguous. 'Frozen!' at Vermillion — polar bears, scrunched-up deer and other critters 2012-10-17T18:32:12Z Tywin handed down a death sentence for Tyrion after Oberyn had met his own bloody end, but while I’m perhaps grasping at straws, it seems hard to accept that the imp is out of options. 'Game of Thrones' Recap: Mountain Meets Viper 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z They are capable of grasping both biological evolution and moral nuance. Donald Trump’s big f*ck you: This is what Trump and Ted Cruz are really saying to women when they talk abortion 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Scotland is also home, at least in lore, to Macbeth, the grasping noble who murdered his king while the latter slept in Macbeth’s castle. Last Supper: The Real-Life Massacre that Inspired the Game of Thrones ‘Red Wedding’ 2013-06-04T15:24:37Z The choice of music such as Madonna’s “Material Girl” and Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” accentuates this point, as well as Becky Sharp’s grasping nature. ‘Vanity Fair’ TV Series Gets a Pop Soundtrack 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z This is a potent argument for grasping the renewed popularity of a musical about ideals in a town that is often thought as overrun by cynicism. Perspective | Sure Lancelot is dreamy, but ‘Camelot’ owes its success to a wistful audience 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z But for all its empathetic detail, “You Resemble Me” contrives a rather simplistic cause-and-effect tale, grasping too desperately at elusive answers. Review: In ‘You Resemble Me,’ a Maladjusted Girl Is Interrupted 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z As much as the opaque, grasping nature of African players comes under examination in “The Golden Hour,” so do Washington’s jumbled agendas — “how crazy it is, the sausage machine in the U.S. government,” he says. A thriller writer’s challenge: Make U.S. policy in Africa into a page turner He draws on his design background in working with musicians, grasping for visual terms, or what he refers to as “art language,” to relay a mood. Matt Berninger, king of melancholy music, is doing just fine 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z That means grasping how he views her, how well he understands her, how much her barbs still hurt, what his coping methods are and what he hopes to achieve by keeping her in his life. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Boyfriend’s abusive mother grates on girlfriend’s nerves 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Whereas Dickens describes Scrooge as “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner,” that still leaves plenty of room to imagine what he was like when he was getting started in 1800. Review | Christmas comes early in Jon Clinch’s ‘Marley,’ a clever riff on ‘A Christmas Carol’ 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z That’s as heavy-handed as the production gets; otherwise, Mr. Sharon trusts his audience enough to resist grasping too directly at timeliness. Think Outside the Opera House, and Inside the Parking Garage 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z With some luck, repetition and lots of hard work I started grasping how bread worked, how temperature affected it and how to transform flour into something fluffy, crunchy and very addictive! At Lutèce, Chef Isabel Coss blends abuela-inspired food origins with elevated French pastry-making 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z They are naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty. The pseudo-science of Alcoholics Anonymous: There’s a better way to treat addiction 2014-03-23T18:30:00Z An unlikely hero, his resolve was an unexpected ember of inspiration for a lost kid who was desperately grasping for something solid to hang on to. Tending to Grass, and to Grief, on a Tennis Court in Iowa 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z You find yourself turning Nurenberg’s playful pieces around in your hands, sticking your fingertips in form-fitting orifices, grasping protuberances and running the back of your hand across furry folds. Go ahead, touch the art. That's the point of 'Twiddle, Poke, Hold' 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z "Why, when a 'subject' is right in front of us," the killer wonders, "are we only capable of recognizing, of grasping, that one small part we see?" Fuminori Nakamura's 'Last Winter, We Parted' blurs reality, invention 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z As a piece of theatre, however, it doesn't wholly satisfy; it is too reverential to the original, and yet it does not succeed in grasping its essence. Dubliners – review 2012-10-01T17:14:54Z While I'm grasping for counter-arguments I should also acknowledge that I may have set up a strawman by suggesting that we in the present are more easily able to recognise Le Carré's skill. Reading group: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - does genre matter? 2012-10-04T09:01:34Z It is truly fascinating to read about things like mesmeric fluid — people grasping to understand physical law without the proper tools of discovery. Jason Segel: By the Book 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z That historical burden — that sense of a city grasping toward the limits of what is possible — still seems manifest. Can the Chicago River be saved? 2013-02-24T15:00:00Z In South Africa, where the phrase is often used by white people in reference to the black women who cared for them as children, it can take on a grasping, almost desperately sentimental quality. In This Novel, a Black South African Becomes a Domestic Worker — in Her Son’s Home 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z I watched her grasping her own story before she could tell it. Sex trafficking in Brooklyn film demands visibility, accountability: “Everyone knows that the police won’t do anything” 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z “It’s so”—she seemed to be grasping for the word—“happy?” Finding Authenticity in a T-Shirt 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z “Less seeking, less grasping, less needing. Less fear.” Taking Ayahuasca When You’re a Senior Citizen 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Aside from the occasional leak of information, regular grasping at clues and the rare outright announcement, the identities of buyers behind big art purchases typically remain confidential. Opening Paul Allen’s Treasure Chest 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z “Sing 2,” a grasping sequel by the returning director, Garth Jennings, opens with the troupe attempting to impress a talent scout with the kind of ramshackle ditty that won over fans in the original. ‘Sing 2’ Review: Taking the Show on the Road 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z It’s a familiar enough spectacle, and if there’s any justice this movie will become a touchstone and cult object among the grasping, scheming denizens of the current media jungle. ‘Lost Illusions’ Review: The Sweet Smell of Success 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z And yet she seems incapable of grasping the implicit social contract of the org-chart: that the little fish don’t get a say. A picture of persistence in honoring a Spanish hero of the Revolutionary War She clutched the rail as she walked, letting go only when she had to, and quickly grasping ahead. Wilderness by Sarah Hall 2013-03-18T13:22:56Z “Contentment had been there for the grasping, if only I had recognized it,” he writes. When Growing Old Is a Blessing 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Putting our cellphones in airplane mode was the easy part; more difficult was grasping the poetry of this two-act program. Review: William Forsythe Takes Dance to a Quiet, Uneven Place 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z Since then, I had spent my days in a sad stupor of grief: crying, struggling to eat, and grasping for motivation even to get dressed. On navigating the holiday season after loss 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z It was a grasping of freedom, a rejection of convention that she stood for and which people were all having to grapple with at the time. Billy Liar ? still in town 2010-09-01T20:30:00Z For another, grasping for facts in the murk of political indecision, but writing stories anyway. Is Bill Clinton running for first gentleman? No? Well, it doesn’t hurt to speculate. Sometimes, it's entirely possible a person is just grasping clumsily for the right metaphor, and chokes. The NFL "slave" comment that won't go away 2011-03-16T15:30:00Z He appears to come from family money, so there’s no student debt and no urgent grasping for food or shelter. A Debut Novel Mixes Lust With the Directionlessness of Youth 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z In all honesty I would probably find it more grasping if I just took the time to delve a little further into it and really process what's going on. In the Sea There Are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda - review 2012-12-01T09:00:00Z Their plots sometimes feel like a stretch, as if the writers are grasping for stories for them. ‘Nurse Jackie’ is starting to feel tired 2014-04-11T21:26:07Z The handrail on the stairs was a few centimetres more rickety, thanks to Psycho Derek's heavy grasping. One Tree Hill and me: the true cost of renting your home to a hit TV show 2012-07-27T22:00:46Z It depicts a sad-eyed female nude with disembodied arms and legs wrapped around her at every possible angle, grasping her too tightly for comfort, maybe even smothering her. Bodies sprout drawers, antlers, more at Seattle galleries 2011-09-08T20:38:04Z We’re Here About That Inheritance The curtain rises in “The Eye of the Storm” with the old lady in bed, angrily grasping at the covers and a life that she refuses to relinquish. Movie Review: ‘The Eye of the Storm,’ With Geoffrey Rush 2012-09-06T22:03:02Z A couple sits before an inquisitor grasping their tax returns. George Booth, New Yorker Cartoonist of Sublime Zaniness, Dies at 96 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Iwasaki says the setting serves as the perfect vehicle to introduce Drucker's ideas to ordinary Japanese at a time when the country is grasping for direction. Japan falls for novel on management guru Drucker 2010-12-24T12:46:06Z As expressed through Ms. Louis-Dreyfus’s electric hunger, “Veep” is about the Sisyphean tease of being this close to power and never quite grasping it. ‘Veep’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ Echo Our Politics, as Farce and Tragedy 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z But such insight didn’t do justice to the demon grasping my loins. The bathroom crisis that ruined my life: I couldn’t pee for nine months 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z A girl desperately thrusts herself at her mother, grasping for comfort. Exhibition Review: When the Dead Arise and Head to Times Square 2011-03-03T23:15:11Z It lies instead in “the aggrandizement of one domineering man and his shamelessly grasping extended family.” A Conservative’s Case Against Donald Trump 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z And it reaches out and clasps the grasping hands of two female admirers in the front row while they’re serenaded with “Girl, You’ll be a Woman Soon.” Concert review: Neil Diamond at United Center 2012-07-07T05:45:00Z Of course, that comparison may not be much help for the human brain, which can have a hard time grasping gigantic numbers with which mere mortals largely lack direct experience. How Many Is a Trillion? 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Among the many admirable things about books, they don’t metamorphose into ads for Omaha Steaks when you aren’t grasping them in your optimistic fingers. Critic's Notebook: Kindle Singles, Genre Between Magazine Articles and Books 2012-03-06T13:00:00Z Some of Vice’s many critics have suggested that this Cheney is too cartoonishly villainous – that there’s nothing more to him than a grasping pursuit of power for power’s sake. Why Vice should win the best picture Oscar 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z And those initial audiences hated Fosca, the grasping, manipulative, unprepossessing third point of the show’s love triangle. 20 Stephen Sondheim Songs to Listen to Right Now 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z For now, “The Get Down” is an exercise in glorious imperfection; it’s got the beat, but it’s still grasping for the tone. ‘The Get Down’ is a lavish remix of hip-hop history — and a big mess of a TV show 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z There shouldn’t be the grasping for positions of authority. Rev. Paul Scalia, son of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, on faith and doubt 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Posner goes for the laziest jokes all evening, the sort that trigger mere reflex giggles in an audience relieved of the chore of fully grasping Shakespeare’s idioms. Review | ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ as a sitcom? Call it ‘The Bardy Bunch.’ 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z But I wasn’t prepared for how deeply “13 Reasons Why” cuts into the raw epidermis of regret that grief’s rough grasping sloughs off of a person. Love will tear us apart: Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why” is brilliant but not for the emotionally tender 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z ‘A grasping of freedom, a rejection of convention’ . Billy Liar ? still in town 2010-09-01T20:30:00Z He’s a nervous, grasping character, not inherently evil, just desperate for the trappings of prestige. Review | Megha Majumdar’s ‘A Burning’ is blazing up the bestseller list and emerging as the must-read novel of the summer 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Even the funky, horn lined song "Holdin' On To Black Metal" centers around grasping at pop culture fandom once enjoyed as a youth. My Morning Jacket get nostalgic on "Circuital" 2011-05-30T14:28:20Z In the first place, it discredits the state, represented in the popular mind by a grasping private profiteer. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z Her landlady’s grasping son takes the mounting mess as an excuse to threaten her with eviction. Review | If a book could talk, what would it say? Ruth Ozeki has some ideas. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Maybe it’s the somewhat grasping utterance of a guy whose ship is about to sail. Perspective | Ask Amy: Two friends share an awkward movie moment 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z There’s a palpable yearning in her delivery of the 2012 ballad “Diamonds,” as if she’s stretching for something just beyond her reach and, miraculously, grasping it at last. Rihanna: Since She’s Been Gone 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z But it was an intensity of anarchy, of a sound-world drifting apart: the sound of music grasping at traditional connections precisely because they were already moving beyond the music’s reach. Eschenbach and the NSO go almost modernist with Mahler 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z A large, four-pronged wrapped sculpture called “Kong” protrudes from the wall like an immense grasping hand. Harmony Hammond’s Art Is Bold and Prickly as Ever 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Every paragraph dares you to keep up, forcing you finally to stop asking questions, to stop grasping for chronology and just trust her. Review | We waited 20 years for her follow-up to ‘The God of Small Things.’ It was worth it. 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z The wrench in the works is her grasping father, a man who almost makes Lindsay Lohan’s dad look like an upstanding guy. The lives of four damaged women intersect in MacKenzie Bezos’ ‘Traps’ 2013-03-08T18:22:10Z After that we hear and see jagged breathing, grasping, gasping, sighing and then the shake of the head from Philip that says, “It’s not over yet.” 'The Americans' Recap: A Most Painful Extraction 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Whether he was punching at his sampler or grasping at his own torso in an erotic reverie, you couldn’t take your eyes off him. Live: Arca unsettles and re-invents at Hollywood Forever 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z When first taken home as an infant we see him grasping Will's finger as well as holding his own bottle to feed. Rise of the Planet of the Apes ? 'Human, all too human' 2011-08-19T12:55:33Z To look at, Astana is so strange that it has one grasping for images. Astana, Kazakhstan: the space station in the steppes 2010-08-08T00:59:00Z Formally dressed and speaking in sometimes-halting English, Psy spoke for more than an hour and occasionally lapsed into signature dance moves such as grasping the reins of an imaginary trotting horse. Rapper Psy wows Harvard with global appeal, dance moves 2013-05-10T02:31:46Z Listen, I’m not really sure you’re fully grasping the point … I hate books. Why book clubs help you live longer 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Disorder reigns after Lear divides his kingdom between his two grasping daughters, but Sher illuminates the reason in Lear’s madness with exquisite care for the meaning of every deranged utterance. London theater forecast after Brexit and Trump: Overcast skies with a chance of apocalypse 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z The Daily Mirror said late Monday that Saatchi, 70, had accepted the official warning after a five-hour grilling over dramatic photographs published in its sister paper, the Sunday People, which showed him grasping Lawson's throat. Saatchi cautioned over assault on Nigella Lawson 2013-06-18T10:46:08Z The problem is grasping the full meaning of those things. 'Tales from Earthsea': Ebbs with narrative unclarity, flows with pleasing visuals 2010-08-12T20:24:00Z All told, MTV has spent more of its life grasping for a piece of popular culture than actually affecting it. Review | ‘MTV Floribama Shore’ is no ‘Jersey Shore’ — and that’s not a compliment 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z He bustles on in curls and bosom and bonnet as another relative, a grasping woman married to a pig farmer, who strews gifts of bacon and sausage around. Theater Review: ‘The Heir Apparent,’ by Way of David Ives 2014-04-10T02:00:01Z The people grasping for coffins as they were lowered. Mariachis Play On, Their Music Unsilenced by the Virus or the Deaths 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z But it's also the type of suggestion a grasping simpleton would make, someone who knows the letter of the law but doesn't respect what it's there to protect or prevent. "What We Do in the Shadows" prepared us for the disbelief that met the latest Jan. 6 indictment 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Baldwin possesses what you might call the salutary egotism of avid living, as opposed to the rotten narcissism of amoral grasping and mistreatment of other people. Cultural Studies: On Celebrities Good and Bad, or Alec Baldwin 2012-06-29T20:57:20Z That’s because the real beneficiaries of Veronica’s victimization are the filmmakers themselves, who seem to have reached for easy political relevance without grasping the political implications of what they were doing. ‘Antebellum’ Review: Look Away, Dixie Land 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z And yet this film still left me feeling rather empty, as if I was grasping at air. TV review: Evidently John Cooper Clarke; 24 Hours in A&E 2012-05-30T22:00:02Z Why oh why would you want to glamorize a young male hedonistically grasping a gun? Hip-Hop With an Irish Lilt 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z The film offers no sense of searching for memories or grasping at its details or its import. “The Souvenir,” Reviewed: Joanna Hogg’s Ambitious, Frustrating Autobiographical Drama 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z A self-described “left-wing, liberal peace activist,” he has been grasping for clarity by reflecting on his parents’ experiences as Holocaust survivors. ‘I Feel a Human Deterioration’ 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z In places, there is something hasty and unfocused about this album, a sense of grasping for something just a bit out of reach. Albums From Banks, Lee Brice and Matthew Shipp 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z If you have read the book, you’re likely find yourself, as I did, grasping to recontexualize the passages recited here, which can dilute what at moments is a truly powerful experience. Review: The Lists We Live by in Daniel Fish’s ‘White Noise’ 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z The disciples that followed never probed deeper than the surface in their homage, recognizing a grimmer, moodier Batman without grasping the valid despair that drove him to be so bleak about things. The Dark Knight at 10: how Christopher Nolan reshaped superhero cinema 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Unlike most new laws, grasping the rationale behind this prohibition requires insight as unexceptional as the no-host verdict. No Thanks. Really, Oscar Winners, Skip That Part. 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Because I have to tell you – that’s what grasping at straws looks like. Is the Catholic church even trying to make sense on marriage equality? 2013-05-09T14:49:00Z This is as close as you can come to thinking along with Shakespeare, weighing one word against the other, grasping for a rhyme or phrase in a way that suggests Shakespeare’s own way of composing. Encounters with Shakespeare 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z I chose Gaelic because I am of Irish descent and was grasping for some sort of cultural identity. In Defense of My Emu Tattoo 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z If apocalypse was only near, then a space, a gap, a final chance for grasping at salvation might open up between our ordinary if crushing daily predicaments and impending but certain doom. 'Jim Shaw: The End Is Here' taps public's id in a weird, humorous way 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Her creaturely hands suggest pleading or punishing, grasping or giving up. Dance Review: Rocío Molina and La Tremendita in Flamenco Festival 2014-03-24T22:48:41Z It’s possible to imagine both Donald J. Trump’s detractors and his admirers eagerly grasping a copy. A Meticulous Account of Trump’s Tenure Reads Like a Comic Horror Story 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Nearly everyone in it is venal, petty, grasping, vicious, bent on serving heaping cold platters of revenge. Books of The Times: The Supersnooper Pursuing the Paranoid Politician 2010-09-28T22:31:00Z It’s difficult to compare and contrast this particular group of characters without sounding like a student grasping at a cheap thesis statement the night before the term paper is due. NBC’s ‘State of Affairs’ and the women on Washington’s last nerve Firestone is the professional here, but she is comfortable in the background, grasping that the best way to show the gift of comedy is to let amateurs talk about their hopes to get into it. Four Stand-Up Specials That Showcase Hard-Working Comics 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z The story switches to a black man, once a special agent for the old regime but now grasping for a new life, watching his young son being killed by thugs. Michael Stanley's top 10 African crime novels 2010-06-30T14:27:00Z Immigrants’ American-born grand- and great-grandchildren are grasping backward through time and bureaucracy, hoping their ancestors might now provide them with a way to start over back in the motherland. Their ancestors came to America. After Dobbs, they want out. 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Juuling upstaged smoking, and on it goes, the generations grasping for signifiers and identities separate from the adults. We killed the cigarette. What we got in return is mango-flavored nicotine in ‘party mode.’ 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z There will be many more: hands grasping river silt, long fingers against the weave of a blanket swaddling a newborn, hands clasped in youthful want. ‘All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt’ Review: Mississippi Memories 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Happiness lies instead in the creative process, in his "singular way of seeing, marveling and grasping." 'The Enchanter:' why Nabokov matters 2011-06-29T23:02:04Z Yet grasping the “Missa,” which Beethoven considered his greatest work, is not always so easy. Philharmonic to Perform Beethoven?s ?Missa Solemnis? 2010-06-18T14:41:00Z In a world of the moth orchid, “people are not grasping that the orchid family contains over 20,000 species and they grow everywhere, except in the Arctic,” McLaughlin said. The moth orchid, while lovely, has overshadowed other, less common varieties 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z “I think you’re dealing with disease states where people are grasping for answers,” says Timothy E. Welty, a professor of pharmacy at Drake University in Des Moines. CBD is cannabis that won’t get you high. So why are so many people using it? 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Romanticizing the world meant grasping it as a resonant whole. These Romantics Celebrated the Self, to a Fault 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z In one incident, Lise holds a balance on one point and, grasping the ends of eight ribbons above her head, revolves, while her eight girlfriends, holding the ribbons’ other ends, run around her. Review: Dancing Chickens and a Real Pony in American Ballet Theater’s Comic Pastoral 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Private wealth is locked in the hands of a grasping few. Art Review: ?Drawings From the Louvre? at the Morgan Library - Review 2011-09-29T21:30:26Z More than once, he loses something precious by grasping for more. Review: A Scrappy Ballet Company, Undone by High Expectations 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Then, we form their ridges by grasping against the walls of our wombs and our own bodies, that first small world. My big, strong, manly hands 2012-12-07T20:15:00Z “I’m a small government, America First conservative,” said McCain, who seemed incapable of grasping that the beneficiaries of those programs are in fact Americans. Meghan McCain decries socialism on "The View": “I’m a small government, America First conservative” 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z There were stories about a brother’s sudden death and a friend’s suicide attempt, and the general impossibility of grasping our own inevitable nonexistence. ‘Island Night,’ a Walk Across Fire Island 2012-09-06T22:22:25Z He tries to embrace her; she steps under or around his arms, leaving him grasping thin air. She Rotates, She Floats, She Glides on Her Toes 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z You ask yourself what venal, grasping, backward looking so and so’s—we could name a few—who benefit? U.S. Pledge to Renew Cuba Ties Gets Hopeful Reaction From 'Buena Vista Social Club' Star 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z That he quotes Dylan lyrics shows he is not grasping at cool and hip but he's showing he understands the meaning behind Dylan and how it resonates to him in that moment. "Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President": A loving relationship to music that "cuts through politics" 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Symbols of childhood and adolescence, of marriage and death, and visual motifs—bent silverware, grasping hands, loose hair, wedding cake—seem to imply connections among the scenes. A Norwegian Artist’s Memory Disturbances 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z She stands on a balcony across and above the street, grasping the filigree iron railing as she sings words I don’t need to know to understand to the pasos and penitents below. You don’t have to give up restaurants, museums or shopping during Madrid’s Holy Week 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z The movies show the breaking down of an idealist, in the context of a Britain that is seedy, soulless and grasping. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z It features heroic scenes of muscular workers and even more idealized earth mothers grasping sheaths of wheat or armloads of fruit. Review: ‘Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit’ 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Such a bold palette leaves one grasping for behavioral nuance. Bold characters in 'Little Voice' need a little nuance 2012-03-23T20:43:04Z As a result, Charlottes may soon be grasping for nicknames, and they may find slim pickings. What to Expect When Your Name is Charlotte 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Not grasping the dangers, Farha impulsively jumps out of the family getaway vehicle, refusing to leave her father behind. ‘Farha’ Review: A Most Brutal Coming-of-Age Story 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z And so you start grasping for something else to make you happy. Robin Thicke on ‘Blurred Lines’ and Learning From His Mistakes 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z But ultimately, I was asking to be loved, without grasping the possible manifestations that love might take. My inappropriate relationship 2013-03-24T01:00:00Z He speaks of access to a collective brain, of grasping the essence of time and of the ways the theater can offer a heightened experience of life. Movie Review: ‘Peter Brook: The Tightrope’ Follows the Theater Director 2014-01-30T23:35:57Z My voice will say whatever it must, hurting, fearing, doubting, moaning, grasping for verbal connections that might possibly, miraculously, explode into meaning. Orphic Paris, Part XVI 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z But his pretentious and grating work brought me no closer to grasping either Heidegger or “being as a whole.” Review: Either/Or, at University Settlement, Is Inspired by Boredom and Writer’s Block 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z The way a hummingbird totters on a twig, its crablike claws grasping for a perch. Essay: Through a Lens Sharply 2014-04-09T18:16:12Z The leaves are long, rippled hands grasping at an invisible sun, so enormous that they seem almost alien. My houseplant garden is a tiny national park Donald Trump can never destroy 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z “Whether or not he is capable of grasping the concept,” Gessen wrote, “Trump is performing fascism.” The Debate Over the Word Fascism Takes a New Turn 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z And Ryan, grasping his future wife’s hand, declared them all maybe just a bit too self-satisfied about their own good fortune, too oblivious to the troubles of others. Gloria: a short story by Alice McDermott But Mr. Denk sailed through them with apparent ease, showing total command without ostentation and leaving audience members grasping for superlatives at intermission. Music in Review 2011-02-20T23:48:45Z Learning bonsai was difficult, but grasping the culture, within this bizarre, isolated world of Kimura’s art, was grueling. Learning to grow: the American bonsai master who starved for knowledge 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z The actors slouch and slump their shoulders, grasping at furniture to propel themselves through rooms; whole scenes play out on the floor. Raw director Julia Ducournau on how to make a horror film as creepy as possible 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z I’m not a career advice expert, having stumbled along myself grasping opportunity where it presented itself. I want to be an actor, but am afraid to follow my dream | Mariella Frostrup 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z And it's a shame that Marylouise Burke, who plays Sidney's grasping sister, doesn't have more to do but add her rasp to the hospital din. Larry David's play 'Fish in the Dark' thinks too small-screen 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z “The social engineering aspects of it may seem fascinating to a museum curator, but I wonder if that’s just grasping at novelty.” Dance Finds a Home in Museums 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z I stepped onto the balcony, into the sunshine, wiping my eyes and grasping my stomach, and stared in disbelief. Strung out during Katrina 2012-08-30T15:57:00Z I felt a deep connection, I felt the seesaw of euphoria, the desperate, grasping love. ‘For five years we dreaded every meal’: my infant son’s struggle with food 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z By then, this sticky and grasping summer will be over, perhaps, but it won’t be forgotten. Looking back at a hot, soggy mess of a growing season 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Examining a plant’s roots under a microscope affords him a chance to glimpse the plant and the fungus grasping each other in an intimate embrace. Whether You’re Making a Meal or Cleaning an Oil Spill, There’s a Fungus for That 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z A pair of oversized eagle claws embroidered in silver beads reached around the waist of a long black leather gown, grasping menacingly. YSL does fall-winter 2011-12 in a nutshell 2011-03-07T23:05:18Z The Latin section inspired some salsa moves, and the hoedown some airborne heel cracking, but Mr. Smith, grasping for ideas, did not always seem at home in these modes. ‘Transformation: Rhythm’s Roots’ Explores Black History 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z She's roused from her frenzied playing to find her daughter's blood-smeared hand grasping her leg and the beloved family cat dead in the next room. Tess Gerritsen's 'Playing With Fire' is a well-plotted thriller 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z But the experience was wholly immersive: musicians grasping for new sounds and ideas on a higher plane. Music Shows With a Brooklyn Feel, but Getting to Them Is a Hike 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z “The people are grasping to try to save something that is unsalvageable,” Jackson said in court. Judge rejects sex assault count against Harvey Weinstein 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Her handshake is so light it's like grasping air. Sofia Coppola on The Bling Ring: 'What these kids did really took ingenuity' 2013-07-04T19:00:00Z The young couple announces their engagement — she not fully grasping that he has lost his faith, he seemingly unconcerned by the allure piety has for her. Review: Zayd Dohrn Plumbs Muslim-American Rifts in ‘The Profane’ 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z In the snow-shrouded capital, Kabul, even people who are generally supportive of the Western military presence were shocked to the point of grasping for words. Shooting raises questions about war's course 2012-03-12T05:00:00Z But I never felt that we were grasping for things to talk about. Date Lab was doubly sure of this match! 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Offered only the thinnest exposition and confronted with the details of four parents and six children, you may find yourself grasping for a dramatis personae. ‘Commonwealth’: Ann Patchett’s masterful novel of family and family secrets 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z She escaped the witch, showing her mettle, But her brother’s in not-so-fine fettle: Grew a long, grasping tail While the hag brewed her ale. Style Invitational Week 1348: Same Difference 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Gerwig’s “Little Women” leans into the book’s fluidities and contradictions, especially among the characters themselves, who are self-sacrificing and ethereal one moment and graspingly materialistic the next. Can real men love ‘Little Women’? Greta Gerwig thinks they should. 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z She’s an accomplished, too-literal teenager, breaking down the etymology of too many words without grasping their true meaning while making a terrible relationship choice. Review | Dana Spiotta’s ‘Wayward’ is much more than a midlife crisis novel 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z He sets down his mug and picks it up again, grasping it from the base as if it were a flashlight, describing how he tests the snow to tell if it’s the right consistency. Snowmaking is the most dangerous part of skiing 2013-02-23T13:00:00Z Reaching that point in the song, she clasped her hands at her clavicle, as if grasping for composure. Review: Björk at Carnegie Hall, Heartbreak and Pathos 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z She wears an expression that implies she thinks I’m a tad dense but finally grasping the situation. I can’t bear to watch my mom detox 2014-04-13T20:00:00Z His command to his underlings that the school be established is an impulsive move, made mostly to spite his grasping wife. Ward Just's novel 'Rodin's Debutante': converging lives, loose ends 2011-03-09T23:49:04Z When I moved to Washington in 2019, I found myself grasping for a better sense of the city that I was now calling home. New & Noteworthy, From the Science of Life to Annie Oakley 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Sometimes things get a little weird, as Mr. Boote questions a woman on the sensations caused by her breast implants, and later — channeling Michael Moore — visits a trade show grasping a megaphone. | 'Plastic Planet': Celluloid Critique of Plastic?s Perils 2011-01-14T00:52:17Z Cat’s new relationships with Henry and his sister Ellie are nearly derailed by two “bad” siblings: gauche, grasping Bella and Johnny Thorpe. A new ‘Northanger Abbey:’ tweets, texts and vampires 2014-04-23T19:15:12Z They made an electrifying onstage duo — until they fell victim to the clichés of rock stardom, battling addiction and going from filling stadiums to grasping at straws for a hit. Run-DMC, Aerosmith and the Song That Changed Everything 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Suddenly, Franck, grasping that his wife, daughter and money are in danger, escapes, slipping past the prison guards and fortifications so easily that it’s a wonder the story didn’t start years earlier. Movie Review: ‘The Prey,’ a Thriller Starring Albert Dupontel 2013-06-06T21:44:58Z In September of that year Salinger did something peculiar, perhaps the act of a man grasping for a stabilizer: He abruptly married a French woman living in Germany. 2010-01-28T21:05:00Z When I visited in 1986, it was a time of stagnation, repression, poverty, corruption and lies – but at least that Moscow didn't look so heartless, so conspicuously grasping, so in thrall to consumerism. Sovremennik and the gates of hell 2011-01-04T21:31:00Z Ms. Weber could have told the feds that they were grasping at smoke. Books of The Times: When Granny Met Gershwin, and Other Gossip 2011-07-25T18:39:38Z Rachel must spend the rest of her life grasping frantically for the intimacy and integrity that was denied her when it mattered most. No escaping Simon Stephens' intimate, moving 'Port' 2011-01-18T16:05:40Z Women gather up their aprons and bend over them like farmworkers, and the dancers’ shadowy hand ballet turns field labor into stylized poetry, an abstraction of bending, sweeping and grasping. Review | 60 years on, Alvin Ailey’s dancers take the stage — and prove why the company is unlike any other 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z There, working largely in solitude in an eerie necropolis, Tessa makes a spectacular discovery that just might reverse the power dynamics between her and her grasping mentor. Review | ‘The Latinist’ is the perfect suspense novel to kick off your reading year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Juno Temple incarnates another feminine cliché, the grasping harpy. ‘Pretenders’ Review: A Little New Wave Love, a Lot of Misogyny 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z If it offers a powerful caution against overdosing on the kind of idealism that led us into nation-building exercises in Vietnam and Iraq, it can also keep statesmen from grasping their opportunities. Foreign Policy From the Dark Side 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z The chapters flow back and forth in time, in ways that may leave readers initially grasping for solid ground. Review | As catastrophic waters rise in Thailand, a writer examines the past and imagines the future 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z I raced through the book, marveling at its precise, restrained prose and grasping paranoiacally at small details that might indicate what was real and what wasn’t. Four Debut Novels Follow Strivers and Survivors 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z His sporadic, superficial attempts at contact also fit the profile of someone grasping for ways to contact you that don't trigger a spousal crackdown. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Is your father lax about staying in touch, or is his new wife in the way? 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Like “Twin Peaks” itself, it meant what it said, even if you could spend your life grasping after that meaning. The ‘Twin Peaks’ Theme Isn’t Just a Song. It’s a Portal. 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z But, when a man approaches her, grasping her hips, she pushes him away, to move with the wind. Dancing with Claire Denis 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z That’s what brings tears to our eyes – a longing for the past and a grasping to understand the future. Kelly Clarkson's return to American Idol makes us long for a bygone era 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Yeah, really it's like that, the grasping for life. David Bowie on Ziggy Stardust, white funk and other theatrical matters – a classic interview 2012-06-12T15:57:34Z That's because "Submarine" isn't really about Oliver getting what he wants, but rather how grasping for control, like any kid driven by fear and hormones, means he can't see what others need. 'Submarine': Getting below the surface of a teen's life 2011-06-09T20:11:05Z Even in triumph, Elaine is tedious, ungrateful, grasping, but what is undeniable is her gift as a performer, her ability to be both cauterizingly acerbic and heartbreakingly vulnerable at virtually the same time. Shut Up and Drink Your Champagne: The Impossible Life of the Impossible Elaine Stritch 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Above the text on the right side is a large hand grasping part of a pole — perhaps a spear — etched in a thin black line. ‘Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts’ at the Morgan Library 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z He was named best actor in a TV series for his role on HBO’s Succession as Logan Roy, the oligarch who occasionally encourages but largely torments his four grasping, feuding children. Succession’s Brian Cox: ‘I was touched up by Princess Margaret’ 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z But neither its participants nor its promoters are grasping for meaning. ‘You can be unapologetically black’: How Miss Black America has endured 50 years 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Here the influence of Sotatsu, who specialized in moody seascapes, seems clear, though Korin’s image of the ocean is very much his own, a monstrous, rearing, grasping force brushed in ink on a gold ground. Art Review: Rimpa Painters at Japan Society and the Met 2012-09-27T22:19:07Z And Speaking of Titillation: He flirts, he entices, he teases — and then he pulls away, leaving us grasping for a levity substitute. Hey, Eastern Washington: Don’t give us any (divorce) ideas 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z Anorexia’s physical manifestations distract even those of us who have suffered from it from grasping the internal issues. To the Bone confirms there are (almost) no good movies about anorexia 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Caan wears the heaviness of the character like a winter coat; he does what he has to do to get by, forever grasping for the last big score that always seems just out of reach. 9 James Caan Movies to Stream 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Initially presented as a one-note grasping network executive, his character quickly becomes something far more interesting. The Morning Show: TV so excellent it will make you totally resent Friends 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Throughout, Nielsen seems to be grasping at something just beyond his reach, to exciting effect. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Continues an Exploration 2014-03-13T22:40:45Z Each man held up the rope attached to the buffalo’s nose ring, exposing its throat, and then, grasping the knife’s bamboo root handle, wound up and took a whack. In Indonesia, Many Islands and Many Faces 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z When people say that this moment in world history feels unreal, they are grasping at a fairly simple but elusive truth. Perspective | Joe Biden warned of a ‘dark winter.’ Why does living in it feel so . . . unreal? 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z When it’s not grasping at suns, the EP settles into a few nice pockets. The Flaming Lips Play Around with the Ender’s Game Score 2013-11-01T13:00:58Z Initially releasing songs for their comedy value – “ridiculous tunes grasping for attention” – Burd soon realised his talent for verbal dexterity and his passion for rap was overtaking his satirical ambitions. Lil Dicky on Dave: 'Everything the show says about my penis is true' 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z This fierce modern retelling of “Beowulf,” filled with contemporary versions of the ancient epic’s monsters and heroes, pits a traumatized former soldier and her unusual son against the grasping denizens of an upscale gated community. New in Paperback: ‘Life in the Garden,’ ‘The Mere Wife’ 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z It’s too bad that Hers spends so much time with these three, never grasping that the only character worth watching here is finally Élisabeth — though, really, I mean Gainsbourg, a true audience-whisperer. ‘The Passengers of the Night’ Review: A Woman’s Second Act 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Both Fox’s just-canceled “I Wanna Marry Harry” and Bravo’s new “Ladies of London” tell stories about how the British gentry are, just like us Americans, buffoonish and grasping. Reality TV takes on the royal family — with ludicrous, drunken results 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z “An elephant is like a snake,” says one, grasping the trunk. A Master Storyteller From 19th-Century Brazil, Heir to the Greats and Entirely Sui Generis 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z It doesn’t feel too academic or too grasping, overscripted or shallow. Music Review: Etienne Charles’s ‘Creole Soul’ Shifts Away From Mainstream 2013-07-24T21:51:10Z Before him a post topped with a giant grasping papier-mâché hand towered high like a maypole. At 89, Still Making Art (and Bread) With a Message 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Promote problem solving, which is imagination, grasping the big picture and taking perspective. Perspective | A pediatrician’s advice on teaching kids to be organized — at any age 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z “I know, but I was younger then,” Smallwood laughs, shaking his head and grasping his throat. The Richard Smallwood you know: 4 Doves, 10 Stellars, 8 Grammy noms 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z They are small and jut out at angles from the joint, a disfiguration likely caused by years of grasping little needles and bottles of glue. The Chic Octogenarian Behind Barbie’s Best Looks 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Owens lends weary, granitic power, but the moral — that is to say, amoral — center is provided by Christopher Purves, who plays the bitter, grasping Alberich as chillingly human. Review: The Philharmonic Makes Wagner’s Gods Chillingly Human 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z The idea feels forced, not organic — grasping for meaning rather than providing it. ‘Romeo & Juliet’ Review: Older, Gentler Star-Crossed Lovers 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z And then Petit appeared on the ledge above, in a white coat with tails, taking a bow and grasping his balancing pole. At 73, ‘Man on Wire’ Philippe Petit still dances high above the void 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Its star, Gene Kelly, who directed with Stanley Donen, wanted to shoot the whole thing on location in New York, which MGM nixed, not grasping the revolution the filmmakers were trying to ignite. Escape With Me Into the Delirious World of 1940s Musicals 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z At nearly an hour long, the piece allows you to home in on infinitesimal detail at the same time as grasping an overview of its complex trajectory. Prom 36: Ensemble Modern/Reich ? review 2011-08-11T16:56:11Z And Ms. Jones, perhaps already regretting that she accepted the hospitality of these grasping hosts, keeps her remarks cryptic and fortune-cookie short. | 'The Real Housewives of Washington, D.C.': Capital Purring and Preying on Bravo 2010-08-04T17:09:00Z Even the shoes, booties with vertiginous heels, were covered in grasping little coral-like tentacles that shook as the models - their faces abloom with gold and colorful stripes - stomped down the catwalk. Business casual needn't apply: Paris is outrageous 2010-09-30T18:37:00Z Her character, Jordan, once primarily an embodiment of the “one that got away” type, ascends ever higher in her TV executive career while grasping for work-life balance. A New ‘Best Man’ Gives Equal Time to the Women 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Carrère is masterly both at singling out the telling detail and of grasping and conveying his subject as a whole. Emmanuel Carrère’s Disconcertingly Personal and Utterly Gripping Prose 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The second film in the popular animated gonk karaoke franchise bypassed cinemas and went straight to VOD, catering to a grateful audience of frazzled families grasping for entertainment options. The future of film: can cinema survive Covid-19? 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z But ultimately, the difficulty of grasping the threat of this virus may have less to do with data and more to do with fundamentals: Humans are not that good at it. Why human brains are bad at assessing the risks of pandemics 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Near the end of the performance on Sunday night, Altomare and Cott sang the new finale, grasping hands, their faces almost touching. Does the Devil Wear Prada in Indiana? 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z With the war in Afghanistan approaching the decade mark, there may be no better way in America right now of grasping the horrors of human conflict than to spend some time with these etchings. Week Ahead: Aug. 22 ? 28 2010-08-19T14:57:00Z The softly pulsating ribcage that looks like pale fingers grasping a mug of tea. The top 10 gay movie cliches 2013-03-25T19:40:00Z Bewildered and isolated, the young trio fear for their sanity before grasping the supernatural truth of their predicament — and mounting a go-for-broke escape. William Eubank used ingenuity — and begging — to get 'The Signal' made 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z “Obstructed by the limits of love, grasping at lust, scared to work on a crumbling marriage,” he harbors no illusions about his own value. Sex and the middle-aged man 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z The stolen bag of moola moves briskly from one grasping hand to another, yet the movie’s images are often strangely static. Review: In ‘Have a Nice Day,’ a Follow-the-Money Tale in China 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z There, in Through a Glass Darkly, is the warm, lovely woman grasping at lucidity, and there, in Fanny and Alexander, the large Swedish family grappling with faith and lifestyle. Ingmar Bergman, novelist 2013-02-17T19:00:00Z The greed of the overlord class, mimicked by the grasping Mrs. Lovett, is what makes mincemeat of the proletariat. Review: The Many Thrilling Flavors of a Full-Scale ‘Sweeney Todd’ 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z In one paw, she is grasping a limp, indeterminate trophy—a pheasant, perhaps—while supporting a rifle with the other. The Bittersweet Announcement of a New Beatrix Potter Book 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z My colleague Aditya Chakrabortty wrote last week about the difficulty people have in grasping the tragedy of Japan. Who should succeed Gaddafi? Step forward Marty McFly 2011-03-23T09:00:04Z Rather than exude preternatural cool, in a recent interview Gosling spoke more with the uncertain, self-critical grasping of a still-developing actor trying to find his foothold in an illusory profession. Gosling at ease in every role except movie star 2013-03-20T16:53:12Z Ms. Lane’s gasping, grasping portrait unmistakably belonged to that gallery of creatures Williams identified as monsters, people made grotesque by success and humiliation, and a tribe to which he admitted he too belonged. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Monsters and Ghosts 2013-07-11T15:00:18Z “As we entered the world of oneness, where to begin, how to continue now in the supposed twilight of our being, grasping for a sliver of sunlight amidst the dark clouds, maybes abound.” Back on Campus, Two Seniors Learn All About Love Again 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z I was the only one who watched it, and I was always just grasping for Asian celebrities to look to. "Blue Eye Samurai" cuts through multiracial shame, what it is "to be ostracized from both sides" 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z For Phoebe life is a question of "grasping the nettle"; for Gran there's nothing a good smack or cassoulet can't fix. The Lost Man Booker prize 2010-04-01T07:00:00Z Because what is Lime if not a pioneer disaster capitalist, grasping the opportunities presented by chaos with a stash of tainted penicillin? Why The Third Man is an essential primer for no-deal Brexit 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The lesson he learned was the thing he sensed all those years ago in Sumatra, reading but not fully grasping Vonnegut. George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z On the street-facing side, a cement monument, topped by an enormous pair of sculpted fists grasping the hammer and sickle, has been erected in victims’ memory. Why Won’t We Learn from the Survivors of the Rana Plaza Disaster? 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z One late in the film where Bundy recounts a story to Hagmaier while grasping his arm is particularly effective and affecting. Elijah Wood on playing the "best friend" of Ted Bundy: "He continues to endure as a fascination" 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z I'm grasping for meaning everywhere these days, trying to make sense of so many things spinning beyond my control, but I keep noticing parallels between the book and my current situation. Grief is a distant planet: How "A Wrinkle in Time" is helping me deal with my father’s decline 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z When he becomes vaguely serious about Lisa, who superficially represents a good, athletic match for him, even grasping the basic tenets of monogamy proves as difficult for him as learning a foreign language. Star power of little use in "How Do You Know" 2010-12-15T22:46:31Z In the early running, the atmosphere remained one of dread, grasping in the dark and escalating uncertainty. Trapped: a thrilling saga of ice and fire 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z “You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language,” she writes. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘My Madness Will Now Bare Itself’ 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z Compare it to a similar video from three decades ago — the Go-Go’s “Our Lips Are Sealed,” also set in a convertible in L.A. — and the growth of grasping mean-spiritedness over time is almost tangible. Iggy Azalea and Britney Spears lean in: “Pretty Girls” celebrates a macho, winner-take-all feminism — and not much more 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Cummings, a trial lawyer, sometimes taps his listeners on the shoulder or arm to make sure they are grasping the thoughts and emotions he hopes to stir at the Whitney Plantation. Antiques: A Restored Louisiana Plantation and Its Lifeblood 2013-07-25T18:56:22Z Mr. Brown, on the other hand, is certainly grasping at whatever image rehabilitation is offered him. Critic?s Notebook: Rihanna and Chris Brown Appear on Each Other?s Songs 2012-02-21T23:10:12Z I was grasping at ways to make myself feel better. I was raped — and now I can finally say it 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z That sort of grasping for something bigger yet always out of reach. This Week in Fiction: David Gilbert on Writing About a Man Who Is Trapped as a Boy 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Wouldn’t that show something about the nature of why people are grasping onto things, especially if I’m going to be saying that what I’m teaching is not real and it’s kind of nonsense?” Snapshot: Vikram Gandhi’s Documentary ‘Kumaré’ 2012-06-02T14:54:55Z In the end, Mr. Kleioris, grasping Ms. Williams’s leg held forward with a flexed foot, slowly turned her as she bent backward. Review: Joshua Beamish Takes On Challenges Within Couples, in 4 Takes 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z But the matriarchs in this one are particularly toxic, an encyclopedia of Oedipal horrors: grasping, seductive, delusional, trumpeting their “moral victimhood.” With ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen tackles the Web, mothers, the truth 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z The brain evolves in order to plan and execute reaching, grasping, turning, according to the expert on Charlie Rose, which I watch on my iPad while walking on the treadmill to rebuild my strength. The Year in Poems 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z After the show, her listeners will praise her performance —“You did a great job, a great job!” one man will gush, grasping her hand — but Tehan won’t be entirely convinced. ‘He’s picking his nose’: How volunteers help the blind ‘see’ a theater performance 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z “Basically, I think you can buy a politician who will make the law,” she said, grasping at the handlebars. Inside the N.R.A. Convention 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z “The happy ending still beckons, and it is in the hope of grasping it that we go on.” Masha Gessen, Jesmyn Ward, Robin Benway and Frank Bidart win National Book Awards 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Our mistake in viewing Greg as an adorable dullard eager to play "boar on the floor" is in neglecting to see that he's been grasping for money and power all this time. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z But now, a new crop of would-be adventurers find themselves grasping for novel endeavors, and the time-sensitive challenge has become as tired a trope as the found-footage horror flick. Enough with the “year of” stunts! 2014-01-03T20:39:00Z |
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