I could feel deft fingers fluttering around me, fastening straps and hoisting sagging tights.
But in the past 10 years, after the morality of freedom was withdrawn, the state has begun fastening the procedures of totalitarianism on the substance of democratic society.
Because fastening the surveillance of the master on the whole human race is wrong.
But by fastening on its advantages, especially in agricultural industries, and acknowledging its limits, it may be able to offer its children a brighter future than their parents had.
Fastening on a definitive figure could be nigh-impossible.
He has a habit of fastening on social problems, setting up an advisory group, then losing interest.
Yes, they turn writers away from the "real world," where the real stories are, fastening their gazes to their navels.
Seizing involves the fastening together of two ropes by means of another rope.
Nut, in technology, fastening device consisting of a square or hexagonal block, usually of metal, with a hole in the centre having internal, or female, threads that fit on the male threads of an associated bolt or screw.
A bolt or screw with a nut is widely used for fastening machine and structural components.
More profoundly, he attempted to analyze the fundamental ideas animating the movement and, fastening on the Revolutionary concepts of "the rights of man" and popular sovereignty, emphasized the dangers of democracy in the abstract and the mere rule of numbers when unrestrained and unguided by the responsible leadership of a hereditary aristocracy.
