He is tenaciously clinging to life.
It picked up the top couple of layers admirably, but when it got to the bottom layer, where hair tenaciously clings to cloth, it groomed rather than cleaned.
In the aftermath of the horrifying accident, friends rushed to the hospital to visit the newborn tenaciously clinging to life, then on to the synagogue for the funeral of his parents.
But the Macklowes are tenaciously clinging to the Drake project and have told people they are determined to see it developed, most likely with a financial partner, even if they have to wait for years.
"They are tenaciously clinging to the politics of a day that may have quickly passed," he said of those who subscribe to the view that politics is a zero-sum game.
They are lazy, mediocre, tenaciously clinging to tenure in order to receive their lavish pay of thirty-six thousand dollars a year (that's the national-average starting salary, according to the National Education Association).
After tenaciously clinging to his famously high-paying job through thin and thinner, the Swiss executive gave up the ghost on Tuesday after the bank doubled its provisions for subprime-related losses to $38.0 billion.
Many of the leaders of the old model of capitalism are tenaciously clinging to the past and hoping that things will get back to normal.
And so McCarthy, 25, finds himself in a curious position: a genuinely gifted musician to whom the novelty tag so tenaciously clings.
Things are different at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany, where Wolfgang Wagner, the composer's pugnacious grandson (who turns 83 next week), tenaciously clings to the directorship, waving his lifetime contract at all challengers, who have included a niece and a daughter, both estranged.
