He whirls sideways, the paper clutched tightly in his hand.
Unable to look away, I notice that my fists are often clutched tightly during the rounds.
Dreams that have already started, and have me waking up with wetness on my cheeks and sheets clutched tightly in my hand.
I was both startled and pleased for I could see that he was much moved, moved by the book he clutched tightly in his long white fingers Dr.
The day before, there had been robberies, entire busloads shaken down at a red light, and we were all tense, bags clutched tightly against our chests.
The few seconds of slicing guitars on "Hate Creation," those joyful Iron Maiden-style licks on "Faces" or the occasional moments of release that are like a hand dropping away after clutching tightly at your neck.
I was both startled and pleased for I could see that he was much moved, moved by the book he clutched tightly in his long white fingers — Dr. Harden's "Aristocracy of the Spirit World".
"Holy cow, can you believe it?" he said over the P.A. system, as thousands of people held their faces up to the sun, cardboard glasses clutched tightly over their ears.
The three male actors, their scripts and sheet music clutched tightly, had barely learned the melody of the first song when they were asked to absorb harmonies, blocking and dance steps, all of it being invented on the fly by the director, Lisa Peterson ("An Iliad"), and the music director, Lance Horne.
But when you see two little Afghan girls crouched on the front steps of their new school, clutching tightly with both arms the notebooks handed to them by a U.S. admiral — as if they were their first dolls — it's hard to say: "Let's just walk away".
It was a morning much like any other: the rush out of the front door, the web of motorbikes as they wove through traffic on the highway, the handbag clutched tightly to her body as Saysunee Jana, then 17, rode pillion to work.
