Sentences with phrase «cling like»

Breastfeeding, and being carried by and kept close to their mothers (human infants don't cling like monkey babies to fur, but human females» arms, which are shaped differently from males» arms, are designed to hold objects easily to their chests) are what infants need and what their evolved responses are geared to obtaining.

Curiously, the benefits of this Crown aura seem to cling like sparkles from my eight - year old's arts and crafts project.

Sure, some of them do have a valid point but most of them just repeat others and for some reason they also seem to cling like mad to the game what they claim to not like.

Because that's what Rocamadour is: a beautiful staircase of masochistic proportions, a ravine where pale stone chapels and steepled chateaus cling like stalagmites to the white rock.

«You cling like a woman to that dragon.»

What's refreshing, though, is Coffey's skeptical but affectionate feel for the tenacious strivers who cling like limpets to the margins of every arts scene, often for precious years of their impoverished lives.

The fabric is a wonderful weight and doesn't cling like some jersey does.

It has stretch but doesn't cling like a cotton tank.

Does your child dissolve in tears or cling like a wet noodle when you try to leave her side?

Every one of which has been empirically proven false but yet clings like moss to ancient rocks.

And if it were true, why are the anti-vax folks still clinging like barnacles to Andrew Wakefield whose paper was retracted and license to practice medicine revoked?

He clings like a stain she can't scrub out, but she moves on to other lovers, including a beer - swilling actor (Nicolas Duvauchelle) and a gaunt, purportedly uneducated man (Paul Blain).

Although the pavement is narrow, bumpy, and dotted with blind crests, the 918 tracked with the precision of a fighter jet, clung like a magnet to the tarmac sprayed dark gray with mist from the Mediterranean Sea, and decelerated like an accordion, only to reach out for the next straight with expandable elasticity.

There was hardly any public transportation, a few streetcars to whose sides people clung like flies on a lump of sugar, two or three buses, a few tiny cars with no windshield wipers, and perpetually fogged windows, and some motorbikes with wooden seats trapped on the front, from which, after the shortest ride, one toppled like a stone.

Spectacular beaches lies beneath the volcanic cliffs of Dois Irmãos, upon which the favela of Vidigal clings like shale.

Not exact matches

I like this definition of humility: It's an ability to recognize your talents and gifts accurately and then willingly stoop to a lower level and become curious, open, and willing to accept instruction without clinging to your pride.

In this way, he's a bit like Latin American socialists who cling to theories no matter the real world harm they wreck.

Obama said that Pennsylvania blue - collar voters «cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them.»

Those clinging to the old ways may find themselves stranded, just like fossil fuel assets.

According to Oliver, «trudeau - era debt clung to Canada like a bad flu».

We may not yet be in negative rates territory in terms of the official Bank Rate, what with it hanging on to 0.25 % like a cinematic damsel in distress clinging on by her fingertips to a cliff edge.

«Then We made the sperm - drop into a clinging clot, and We made the clot into a chewed like substance, and We made from that chewed like substance, bones, and We covered the bones with flesh; then We developed him into another creation.

I cling to the sacraments like a drowning man clinging to a life preserver, headed over the falls.

The baby carriage, the stroller, the children's books and play rug — like burs that cling to your clothes after a forest walk, they were all reminders of our past.

That is why Paolo and Francesca, the two adulteresses who inhabit the outer ring of Dante's inferno, still cling together like doves, appealing to the law of love, «which absolves no one from loving.»

The church clings to these words like few other sayings of Jesus.

Often more active in the world than in a Church that is still clinging to many of its medieval traditions which bind it like a grave cloth.

Writes Smith, «It becomes easier than many would like to imagine to begin to cling to the Bible and forget about Christ — in fact, perhaps, sometimes to use the Bible precisely to avoid a real encounter with Christ.

Given that we are rich when the world is poor, that we cling to our nuclear arms as if world extermination were a noble risk, destroy ancient forests, gouge the landscape, pollute the soil, water and air, that we copulate and abort with unrestrained abandon — how then are we to interpret Jesus» words, «It is what comes out of a person that defiles,» so as to come up smelling like roses?

While some, therefore, among the great prophets turned away from it as too misleading to be useful, others, like Ezekiel, clung to it and, by giving it sublimated meanings, made it a servant of their spiritual lives.

I mean why else would kids like that so desperately cling to the symbol of the whole religion while rejecting the organization that betrayed its own foundation?

The family's response is more than a reaction to the social stigma which still clings, leech - like, to mental illness.

Like his analogy, I was faithfully planting acorns, patiently clinging to the promise that decades later they may bear fruit in the form of an oak tree in the lives of healthy people and healthy churches.

Honestly bud, it sounds like you've clung to religion so much because it's given you security that even though the universe is unknowable in many aspects, there's something out there that does know it and this same thing is looking out for you.

Like with the ark in Noah's day, only those who cling to Christ the Savior will be saved from the wrath to come.

Of course, some people will cling to this old paradigm for as long as possible, just like we have people who belong to the Flat Earth Society, who believe the creation story in Genesis is to be taken literally, and who believe the lunar landing is a hoax.

On the other hand religion likes to pretend, although we all know it does nt, it clings to old ways because god has seen everything and knows how we should live therefore nothing needs to change.

Just like clinging to ancient unfounded myths, you are clinging to the past.

But there is nothing, just believers clinging to their personal myths, like children clinging to security blankets.

I cling to Him, and love to be with Him, and want to be like Him.

There is even a debate between those who think the devotee depends entirely on God's grace, like a kitten picked up by its mother, and those who think some human effort is also required like a baby monkey who has to cling on to its mother.

The old saying «There but for the grace of God go I» comes to mind, it just changes to «There but for the grace of my intellect and education go I, like those poor souls clinging to irrational thought.»

2) It appears that god only asked to take the land vertebrates on the ark, the inverts died or survived by themselves by clinging to floating stuff, flying, using air pockets in earth or something like this.

Germans apparently like to cling to old party names, even though the world has changed mightily since they were founded.

In any event, they have made their film, and while they haven't completely abandoned what they know about moviemaking, they have clung tightly to the image of Jesus given them by a Sister Josephine — or in Schrader's case, someone like the harsh father in his movie Hardcore.

The fury of oppression clings to this album like sweat, elevating the work from «excellent» to «important.»

Anne is clinging to my hand with both of her mittens, she feels it all, too, and her head is on my forearm, like she can't be close enough.

You can find yourself in a place that feels like you're clinging exposed and unprotected to the sheer insanity of life and how do you be brave enough to be?

Even the earth we cling to is nothing but a twirling ball, singing through a dark void, and our faces, breasting the wind, eyes dreaming like the figureheads on ships.

I would say that it's more that she's figured out that the bible and religion in general is bull but like a child with a security blanket, she doesn't want to believe what she's figured out (like the child not wanting to believe that they've outgrown the blankie) and is desperately trying to rationalize clinging to her faith when the best thing she could do is free herself from what she deep down inside knows is untrue and silly ancient myths.