Word: clingingly
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Unlike poker, this is a game where strategy is not only unnecessary but totally useless. "It's all probability," says Lee Isgur, a leading gaming and entertainment analyst at Volpe, Welty & Co. in San Francisco. Still, players cling to the idea that their own system will work: playing at a certain time of day, stroking good-luck charms or punching the buttons at a certain speed...
...have rafts that we cling to in bad weather -- consolations, little solidarities, numbers we dial, people we wake up in the middle of the night...
Caught between a furious army and a closed border, the Kurds are forced to cling to their cold, granite friends. Supplies must traverse precipitous land routes to reach them, hampered in part by the dilapidation of the two bridges in the area of the Turkish border. Ankara, however, does not appear to be in any hurry to come in with repairs...
...most of his right lung in Vietnam, has made a career of pushing himself to the limit. The last time she spoke to him, just a few days before the fighting began, he assured her that the situation "isn't as bad as it sounds." Stephanie and her son cling to those words now. "We have our highs and lows," she confides. "There are times when I'm at rehearsal and think, 'My God, what am I doing here? There's a war going on, and here we are, dancing, as if nothing has happened...
Shining moral examples cannot afford to cling to occupied territories. They cannot afford to be perceived as opponents of self-determination. They cannot afford to be perceived as opponents of self-determination. They cannot afford to leave themselves open to harshly critical U.N. resolutions. They cannot afford to offend a superpower whose last five presidents have pushed for a resolution to the Palestinian question...