Despite much lilting anecdote and exuberant profanity, "The Naked and the Dead" captures a saddening moment in American life — the shift after the war from a vibrant Depression-era outlook, which was economically pinched yet indomitable, to something smaller, meaner, and more self-protecting.
Has he pinched himself yet?
I was upset to find myself in a familiar place of feeling the financial pinch to fund yet another creative project out of my own pocket, yet I understood why.
But if the cap does not yet pinch big business, there is much grumbling about how the rules are applied, as well as over the message that skilled migrants are not wanted in Britain.
Or take a few minutes to reflect upon the rising cost of gas and energy, the likely pinch of expenses yet to come — or bills begging to be paid — and save it?
They are 10 points behind second-placed Hampshire, who face Glamorgan in Cardiff, and could yet pinch the £110,000 on offer to the Division Two champions, compared with £50,000 for the runners-up, if they secure 19 more points than Worcestershire.
My heart pinches when I see incomplete family photos, yet the pinch does not steal from the joy in the life I have built.
Yet The Pinch rests on an even more fictitious premise.
Gently yet securely pinch the loose ends of the thumb side strips together at the inner webbing of the thumb.
1.19am BST Giants 1 - Reds 1, Top 8th Bochy brings out yet another pinch-hitter, this time Joaquin Arias for Brandon Crawford.
