Word: clingingly
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...symbol can only do so much. Too often, it convinces those who cling to them more than those who must accept them. And if there will never be another 1950s night at a Harvard dining hall, students will no doubt attribute it to the complaints of a bunch of Black students. Not to a bunch of white people who offended them...
...Sisyphus, I. I cling to my rock, you don't have to chain me. Stand back! I roll it up -- up, up. And . . . down we go. I knew that would happen. See, I'm on my feet again. See, I'm starting to roll it up again. Don't try to talk me out of it. Nothing, nothing could tear me away from this rock...
...most important thing in this city is not keeping your head so much as keeping your feet," he said. "Don't forget where you are from. Cling to your family and friends. Books and lessons from the past should be your roots. Heed that line from Alan Drury's Advise and Consent that goes something like this: 'Washington took them as lovers and they were gone...
This much tragedy, in the hands of a less capable author, could easily become bathos. But Carver's characters cling to what they have so earnestly that no reader can dismiss them. They are up against the wall, but they haven't given up. They are still hoping for some transcendence, some moment of connection, even if the connection has to cross 20 years of failed marriage and distrust...
...attacked mostly prostitutes and runaways. Their disappearances were sometimes not reported until years after they were killed. The lag time has frustrated investigators, who have spent $13 million in pursuit of the slayer since the first victim was found along the Green River near Seattle in 1982. Police cling to one consoling fact: they have found no victims murdered after 1984. Since such killers rarely quit, police hope this one is either dead or already in prison...