If, however, we continually imagine the rose blossom without its thorns, each time we embrace the bloom by the stem, we will come away with bloodied and painfully throbbing hands.
The electronic grip would measure whether the recognition technology was disabled by a stressful situation that caused a sweating hand, a hand throbbing with a racing pulse, or a frightened hand that did not grip the gun in its customary way.
Deep in the bowels of Twickenham's West Stand on Saturday night Stuart Lancaster briefly closed his eyes and rubbed a hand over his weary, throbbing head.
A few minutes later, he was crouched on the court at Madison Square Garden, the pinkie finger on his right hand throbbing.
Distinguishing features: Moses's right hand protects the stone tablets bearing the Commandments; his left hand, veins throbbing, muscles tense, appears to be holding back from violent action.
The boils on my hand are throbbing; sweat pours into my eyes.
Rick Reed's bruised left hand was throbbing so much that he had trouble sleeping in the early hours yesterday.
Pamela guides me downstairs, my hand now throbbing to the point where my eyes are clouded in a different brand of tears.
Back home and with one hour to go, I still had to slice and sauté peppers, onions, mushrooms and olives to layer on top of the swordfish steaks, an enterprise made much more challenging because my left hand was throbbing and I had significant trouble gripping things.
