Word: clawingly
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...plotting gives only a hint of The Honourable Schoolboy's glistening social observation, its luminous intelligence and its immense and varied cast. Among the principals: the incomparable Lizzie, a daydreamy beautiful loser, "punchball" for many lovers, whose flaws prove even more compelling than her easy virtue: "not just the claw marks on her chin, but her lines of travel, and of strain ... honourable scars from all the battles against her bad luck and her bad judgement." Connie Sachs, Circus Sovietologist beyond compare, "a huge, crippled cunning woman, known to the older hands as Mother Russia." Fawn, Smiley's recessive factotum...
...without excitement. Witness the contest down in Providence between Brown and Princeton. The Bruins, pre-season bigwigs in every poll, had to scramble and claw their way to their first Ivy victory of the season, a 10-7 nudging of the Tigers...
...front of the assembled baddies, though she could not possibly conceal the object they seek -a large medallion-on her pretty person. A little later they invade her room dressed in voodoo getups, smear her body with blood and seem to do something rather peculiar with a chicken claw they're carrying. The sadism is excessive for this context, and the employment of blacks in the roles of sex fiends caters to an ugly racial stereotype that should have died with D.W. Griffith...
...thousand schemes, James Earl Ray, has tirelessly tried to scratch, claw and dig his way out of jail so many times that fellow inmates nicknamed him "the Mole." He has made eight known escape attempts-and bungled most of them. His reported escapades, up until last week's getaway...
...Alice encounters a creature, the reader can hear a pun drop. The wasp, for example, mistakes Alice for a bee because she has a comb. Typically, wordploy is incessant, and terror lurks just beneath the surface. At one point the wasp takes off his wig and stretches out one claw toward Alice "as if he wished to do the same for her." "The cutting off of hair," writes Gardner, "like decapitation and teeth extraction, is a familiar Freudian symbol of castration. Interesting interpretations of this will surely be forthcoming from psychoanalytically oriented critics...