"Primary Colors" evinced a sort of love-hate relationship toward its hero, the ersatz Clinton, and in this book, too, Mr. Klein seems conflicted about his feelings toward the former president, leading to a sort of on-one-hand-and-on-another approach.
Mr. Hine's Janus-faced approach to his subject makes for a lumpy book in which there is a lot of on-one-hand, on-the-other-hand sort of rumination.
Charles Fairbanks, who also worked for Wolfowitz in the policy-planning office of the State Department, recalls him as "sort of on the one hand, on the other hand on most issues," but ardent on the subject of certain regimes he regarded as outside the norms of civilized behavior, including the radical Baath party of Iraq and Muammar el-Qaddafi's Libya.
The lightning-fast, voiceless bidding relies on rock-paper-scissors sort of hand movements.
"Feelings" can be of two very different sorts: on the one hand, non-cognitive "feelings," such as physical pains and pleasures; on the other hand, "feelings" which incorporate cognitions or beliefs, for example a feeling that such and such is the case.
Some, sure, but it's an "I-could-count-them-on-one-hand" sort of thing.
My life was just sort of weird because, on one hand, I was on the playground with my friends, able-bodied, and then I'd like go to physical therapy and have some woman named Jandy stretch me into a pretzel.
This terminology game is, on one hand, a sort of ruse, on the other, an expression of something like the psychopathology of real estate".
There's all sorts of nonsense on one hand about how if Craig could intelligently design life, so could god, and on the other that if Craig could create life, it proved god didn't.
"On one hand, it's sort of shocking, on the other hand it's like a piece of the puzzle has fallen into place and you say, 'Aha!'".
