That discovery would astonish the first readers of In Parenthesis, but since its rapturous reception, the book hasn't fared well in finding a purchase in the canon.
The insta-fashion that so defined the start of the season in New York (the way, arguably, insta-everything so defines modern life) is finding little purchase here.
As he lifts her above him, her back arching and her limbs finding delicate purchase on the air like the wings of a newly hatched dragonfly, the pair seem to reach for an irrecoverable past.
This was due, in part, to the players' difficulty in finding the purchase function.
Like the two characters, the film has trouble finding purchase, which yields a more acute feeling of dissatisfaction than was probably intended.
Skittering up, over and around the ice sheets and the snow slicks on every sidewalk in central Moscow, their spike-heeled boots somehow finding purchase on the sharp, crusty surface.
All the Delts were swarming the room now, expostulating over this disgusting display, this pathetic showing on the part of a pledge class that wasn't worthy of the name, and hands took hold of Benny and Chris, people shouting and jostling, the whinny of laughter, cries of "Gross!" and "Don't get any of that shit on me, man," the hands finding purchase at armpit and knee.
Snapchat began in 2011 at Stanford, and the service took off, finding purchase not just among the usual early adopter crowd, but also with mainstream users.
Tarmin is finding purchase where companies have a ballooning collection of unstructured data and are seeking a better way to manage and extract value from it while reducing costs.
It has a little over 50,000 downloads since its original iOS launch last year, which isn't bad but isn't good, but its founder says it's finding purchase in significant use cases, including as a platform for expressing social unrest in politically volatile locations like Egypt and Turkey.
