Word: clingingly
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...prone to believe, however, that those who own remaining drawings by Turner would feel a very real regret at the loss of the bulk of the artist's work, in spite of the pecuniary advantage to themselves. They will undoubtedly cling with anxiety to the straw of hope held out by experts that perhaps the major part of the Tate collection was not destroyed...
...College government supported institution of the higher education of the deaf and dumb, is repeatedly denied the financial support of the government adequate to its sore needs. Even our great national leaders cannot get away from the fallacious conception of the deaf and dumb as social nonentities. . . . They apparently cling to the superstition that the deaf and dumb are inarticulate humans, eking out a miserable existence selling lead pencils on the street corners; or worse, are semi-idiots, confined to asylums...
Many of the men who make a living out of art have a great contempt for the wealthy. They cling to the generalization that a millionaire can be no better than a moping fool and a rich man's daughter must know less about painting than a dog-catcher's apprentice. Such artists were among those who competed for the commission of making stage sets for a drama called India, soon to be presented in Manhattan...
...President Coolidge's swarthy audience at Pine Ridge understood all that he said. Perhaps there were a few who bridled momentarily at the simple words: ". . . Many Indians are still in a primitive state." The President noted that a great portion of Indians, "mostly the older ones, still cling to the old ways, stoically refusing to go further along the modern road. They wish to live and die according to the old traditional ways of the Indians, and they should be permitted...
...height until early morning. The engine was working beautifully and I was not sleepy at all. I felt just as if I was driving a motor car over a smooth road, only it was easier. Then it began to get light and the clouds got higher. . . . Sleet began to cling to the plane. That worried me a great deal and I debated whether I should keep on or go back. I decided I must not think any more about going back...