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"Once I kind of grasped the idea that it wasn't that I was unworthy, and I shouldn't be doubting myself about being unworthy, then it became somewhat of a comfortable fit — like a new pair of shoes.
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They're kind of grasping at straws".
"That's the hardest thing to kind of grasp.
The trouble with this kind of grasping is that it is indiscriminate.
"We're kind of grasping at straws right now to see what works".
With the kind of grasp of consumer psychology that has made him famous, he squirrelled £10m into a charity fund when the sale went through.
Having apparently established that what made her cry was realising that she was going to have to go to a normal hospital with the kind of grasping hoi polloi that buy her records (as opposed, presumably, to a special pop stars' hospital filled with people as selfless as she is) the interview moves on.
Grasping value properties can be interpreted as a certain kind of grasping of a Gestalt, as Ehrenfels and other Gestalt theorists might have said.
Here is where I find reason for optimism: this kind of grasping-at-straws, evidence-manufacturing behavior typically occurs in the absence of a cogent counter-argument.
Critically, there was a significant interaction of ACTION x GROUP (F 1,18) = 6.08, p = 0.024), in that MGA did not differ between real and pantomimed actions in the magicians (Figure 2c), for either kind of grasp (normal grip: t 9) = 1.95, p = 0.10; awkward grip: t 9) = -1.53, p = 0.16).
But I also realized, pretty much as soon as I got there, how absurd and ridiculous it was to have fantasized that by simply being in a smaller space I might magically gain any kind of greater grasp on how actual on-the-grid utilities work.
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