Grabbing you closer: Into it.
"Rappers aren't grabbing you anymore, it's not pulling me in," he wrote, before adding: "It's irrelevant.
"Like somebody grabbing you and taking all the blood out of you and freezing you for the future," Bob said.
"It feels like someone's grabbing you, lunging your legs forward," said Mr. Cooke, with whom Mr. Woo has developed a friendly competition during their rehabilitation.
Rather, it submerges you, grabbing you by the neck and forcing you down, down, down until you simply have no interest in coming up for air.
"When you're on your way out, people are grabbing you," he said, and mimicked a fan pulling at his blue sweater sleeve.
An eclipse, which he witnesses from the banks of the Ganges at Varanasi, is "the solar system coming down and grabbing you by the throat".
He writes a wonderful sentence, and you hear the Roth voice, hectoring it can be, grabbing you by the throat, funny or not funny, but you hear it.
Nor are the sloppy lunges of somebody at a well-lit party as intimidating as some random dude grabbing you in an alley.
She turns around - you can hear her reverse position, as if in the studio there's a mike in front and a mike in back - and begins to shout, grabbing you by the lapels.
