Sentences with phrase «desperately clinging»

I know, I know, it's already the end of July, people are shifting their minds to back - to - school, but I'm desperately clinging to summer:).

It really worked out great because I was able to itemize what I wanted to keep, which was mostly accessories and desperately clinging to my Erik Buck dining chairs.

He describes women (read: all women) as interdependent and confused, desperately clinging onto the all - capable, self - reliant male who just doesn't get what all that fuss is about.

Sadly mainstream automobile companies are still desperately clinging to the notion that liquid fuels are going to last forever.

New York's bikers have been called renegades, menaces, and high - speed killers; opponents of bike lanes have been called troglodytes desperately clinging to an antiquated notion of city life.

We've all seen the propaganda of bears falling out of the sky, starving, or desperately clinging to an ice berg due to man made global warming.

I think the only reason people actually went to watch Star Wars: Episode III is because they were desperately clinging to the hope that Jar - Jar Binks would suffer a horrible and gruesome death.

The majority of the shit I've written for the game, I wrote during its first week of release — when I was desperately clinging to the feeble notion that the game was, somehow, good.

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The Communist government in East Germany is on the brink, desperately clinging to power through the iron grip of the Stasi.

As such, the unions and their acolytes are desperately clinging to antiquated policies that are failing our children and seriously threatening our country's future.

Once they finally taste freedom and reach the outside, «Room» arguably becomes a different (and much better) picture: about a boy grappling with the jarring realities of a world he's never known, a struggling mother desperately clinging to the hope that she'll be fit for her son, and how the duo's love for each other is ultimately their salvation.

Yet in desperately clinging to the conventions of the genre, it falls short of its potential.

Wiig isn't a whiny girl hanging onto the potential that douche - bag Jon Hamm might actually ask her to be his girlfriend; she is a woman desperately clinging onto any form of companionship.

I'm desperately clinging on to whatever (minimal) tan I managed to pick up during my Gulf Coast getaway.

He clearly appeared to speak from the bitterness of backing a wrong horse in 2015, and, for political redemption, desperately clinging to the «restructuring» buzz.

Just desperately clinging to the smallest shred of hope, because I have nothing else to cling to.

Arsenal desperately needs a new direction, I don't think there are many that will doubt that and I hope Wenger walks away with dignity instead of desperately clinging to a lost cause.

Arsenal are desperately clinging to hopes of a top - four finish this season, but our chances may well rely on Liverpool bottling it.

Manchester United lost 2 - 0 at the Britannia Stadium on Boxing Day, leaving Red Devils manager Louis van Gaal desperately clinging onto his job.

It's the end of summer and we're all desperately clinging to the last bits and pieces of the relaxing, sun - soaked days of the season.

Without realizing it — and this is at the root of our present political and ideological confusion — we are still desperately clinging to the old concept, now become unlivable, of a world in a state of human immobility, as though this idea were not visibly crumbling.

Modern man is insecure and repressed — isolated from his fellows yet desperately clinging to the collectivity which he trusts to protect him from the might of other collectivities.

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?

And we desperately cling to the idea that if people just had a better grasp of the facts on Islam, they wouldn't buy into anti-Muslim propaganda.

The my cock is bigger than yours blogs are arriving from Arsenal «fans» so it must be NLD week or actually just a usual day when they desperately cling to the hope that they are still a club with a purpose.

The ongoing violence in Syria is probably the most prominent example of this - the Assad regime desperately clings to power with no sign of abdicating and, according to the United Nations, 6,200 civilians have been killed by the army on the orders of the government.

Much of this book takes places in art galleries and centers around a boy Theo who loses his family at a young age and desperately clings to a small painting that reminds -LSB-...]

Vanessa (Reese Witherspoon), a nearly illiterate firebug and serial shoplifter, desperately clings to normalcy even though her mother turns tricks, does drugs, and manages to ignore the fact that the girl's stepfather Michael T. Weiss has been abusing her for years.

She desperately clings to their status quo while he, with Edith now in the picture, seems to glimpse a change in the winds, but is it too late?

Teachers unions turn to «facts» as they desperately cling to their monopolistic, anti-privatization narrative.

What most astute brokers realize is that, over time, as some individuals prematurely exit winners while others desperately cling to losers.

What most astute brokers realize is that, over time, as some individuals pre-maturely exit winners while others desperately cling to losers, it be-comes quite possible to match different «blood types» of those trad - ers with their correct «trading diets.»

The «other» paintings in the exhibition expose the unrelieved and idealistic conceit that Grabner desperately clings to when she is in the studio.

to which they desperately cling.

Antarctic sea ice extent has been the last vestige of denial for those who still desperately cling to the «global warming is a hoax» fossil fuel industry false narrative.

Alienated from the patriotic careerism of their gung - ho sergeant and the chatty, coffee - klatch femininity of their co-workers, they desperately cling to each other to alleviate the killing boredom.

As many of us around the country desperately cling to the hope that spring will come sometime this year, we can also stop to think how the long, harsh winter may affect property conditions.

The hope we desperately cling to with every fiber of our being is the only true hope that heals — hope in Jesus Christ.

(Now that he's gone I desperately cling to things that remind me of him.)

Not exact matches

Plans, trends and challenges change all the time, so a team that can adapt together and follow the customer (rather than clinging desperately to the original idea) will be suited to startup life.

Only someone arching to believe that, straining with only one eye open, fearful that he or she will see the reality with clarity they won't be able to deny, someone who is frantic to cling to what they desperately want to believe is true, would lower themselves to accept so plainly implausible a suggestion.

BTW: Did you know (here is the study) that just as you stated in one example, Christian cling more desperately to the end of life than nonbelievers.

I for one have had to come to terms with rather difficult things to believe and reject things I desperately wished to cling onto (even things supposedly tied to Christianity).

Our deepest longing is to see the day when the triumphant, sovereign lordship of you our loving God will no longer be a mere hope clung to desperately by faith, but a manifest reality in all human affairs.

Precisely in the dying of the old self and its values, they found a freedom for ethical activities, and a resigned acceptance of whatever the future might hold for them — a freedom and acceptance not possible for a person clinging tightly (and perhaps desperately) to his or her past.

He was talking about the failure of the modern church to admit the presence of the dark side of God when he said, «He realized that they clung desperately to the God of love out of fear of facing the darker side of God.

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.

Why cling so desperately to the symbols of sanctity and identity?

Nothing obvious, but again, there's something else clinging to them, desperately.