So we need to stiffen our spines and broaden our embrace, grasp tightly but reach out far.
At its heart the play grasps tightly to the sensibility which makes Rankin's books, particularly any which feature his key creation John Rebus, a success – that is, the impression that society's peacekeepers are flawed and failing individuals muddling their way through an inexact trade.
When Frank, who'd been my editor at our college newspaper, propositioned me at lunch downtown, I froze, a beignet grasped tightly in my claw equidistant between my plate and my maw.
We grasp tightly onto our dirty, old habits of prejudice by focusing on the surface issues of race, when instead I believe the world is much more dynamic and simplified if we infuse a larger dose of humanity back into it.
Water strider males grasp tightly the female's thorax with their forelegs in order to overcome the female's resistance.
If it's small, you will need to put your hands together as if in a prayer, and grasp tightly.
The baby's interest lit on the I.D. card, and, grasping it tightly in both hands, it widened the tear until the card ripped in two and it was left holding a piece in each hand.
When we let go of grasping too tightly, when we hold life a little lightly, we allow ourselves to unfold and become who we are.
Witness: 'He tried thinking of something else, as he rocked his hips, slowly, to and from her - her slippery insides grasping him, tightly, with each movement.
