Word: grasp
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...midst of fiscal crisis, as Wall Street crumbles and our friends grasp frantically at disappearing internships, we can’t wipe the grin off our faces. Now those perky i-bankers with their interview jackets and heels will have to live like we always knew we would. We’ll ride the bus together to our low-paying jobs and swap budget-saving coupons. That will teach them to put money before passion...
...Couric's question was beyond difficult - it has been the most vexing question facing U.S. policymakers over the past seven years. What do you do when democracy produces results you don't like? There's no good answer, but there are many ways to grasp at one. Palin could have said that elections are only one component of democracy; that bringing extremist groups into the political process helps to moderate their behavior; that extremists tend to lose support once in power, because they don't know how to govern. She could even have said, "Those are the breaks...
These are bleak truths that Carrie Bradshaw could never grasp. Her life in Sex and the City is a fairy-tale fever dream of shopping and dating from which she will never awaken, no matter how many princes kiss her. She wouldn't last an hour at One Fifth Avenue. Bushnell knows this. She even slyly hints at it: Lola, the gold digger, "had watched every single episode of Sex and the City at least, as she claimed, 'a hundred times.'" Lola arrives in Manhattan expecting--nay, demanding--a West Village apartment and a Mr. Big. Suffice...
...lack of causality quite succinctly by saying that “we are not dealing in reasons because we are not dealing in reason.”Amis knows reason, and that is all. He may be able to recognize, where America cannot, that we have yet to fully grasp the significance of Islamism to the 21st century, but he is not so different from the Americans in not knowing how to stop it. While “The Second Plane” is a bracing and thought-provoking read, it is ultimately irritating in its unsubstantiated smugness. Being...
...somehow, someway, was the first to hit the ground running. I was also the first target. A Yale policeman with a big butt came on a beeline right for me. But you know what? I was so freaking ready. Quick jab to the right, spin move out of his grasp, and I was in open field. I sprinted as fast as I could, got between the players, and I was safe. I was moving. I was grooving. And, oh yeah, I was rushing. Principle 4: Have a super-sweet diss move. Last weekend, after Harvard’s come-from...