The interviewer: "How do you feel looking after her works out?" "It's a bit uncertain, no grip on it.
Uncertain of his grip on reality, he is the only honest person in the room.
In opposition the same fear has gripped them, uncertain how to handle an understandable public fear of moral hazard, needing to separate the deserving from the undeserving.
By the time he was reluctantly dropped during the Ashes series and temporarily replaced by Jonny Bairstow he did not know whether to stick or twist as a batsman and was also suffering behind the stumps, his hands uncertain as if gripped by panic.
"The September 11 Syndrome: Anxious Days and Sleepless Nights" suggests that there are "Seven Steps to Getting a Grip in Uncertain Times," while "The Deeper Wound" by Deepak Chopra offers 100 affirmations for beginning "the healing process," like "I will appreciate myself, including my pain".
Sitting at a library table, I laid that notebook flat, gripped with an uncertain fear.
These days, it's hard to conceive of a party convention where the final result is uncertain, but Byrd offers a gripping account of one where it was.
By L. Arthur, Pappidas, and John McCarten The New Yorker, November 8 , 1958P. 35 Passing along Button Place the other evening we fell in with a dishevelled character, uncertain of gait, who was gripping an empty whisky bottle.
Or perhaps it's just that his grasp of the English language – in ping-pongese, his pen-holder grip – is a little uncertain.
After an uncertain period, this director has rediscovered his grip.
