Sentences with phrase «grasp at anything»

Such rhetorical legerdemain may be pleasing to Common Core opponents, who would grasp at anything to justify their cause.

It's tempting to throw around popular psychology (failed Oedipal splits and Madonna / whore complexities) in order to grasp at anything that could explain how something like Elizabethtown could have happened — and a pretty bad sign any way you turn it.

Some of these players we are said to be targeting seem to be used by the agents to get better deals or to close deals quickly, we as fans seem to just grasp at anything the media puts out and believe.

What ignorant person would grasp at anything to save themselves from that?

It will grasp at anything, use anything, defend anything in struggling to maintain its poise and strength.

I hate the divisions that these political organizations try and create, its simpletons at their worst — grasping at anything they think will make their party look good.

Each grasping at anything to just basically say that your «hate» should be all of society's «hate» and those you «hate» should have no voice or place in society.

The fact that this is what all the headlines are saying is testament to the fact that people who do eat meat are desperately grasping at anything to rationalize their meaty diet.

Not exact matches

But to point to an organization that have given a paltry $ 1.5 million as a sign of anything is really grasping at straws.

You are a tiny little man, grasping desperately at anything that might lend you an importance that you have not earned.

For to affirm that all things eternally recur, and recur eternally the same, is to grasp an absolutely chaotic movement or flow, a movement in which identity and difference flow into one another, and nothing at all either preserves its own identity or remains different from anything else.

PS: This is one of those times where you find yourself grasping at straws trying to make out something (anything) positive out of the current reality!

Finger foods — if healthy — are great for nutrition, of course, as well as for training the pincer grasp, enjoying the freedom of feeding themselves, and even to get an active 1 - year - old or toddler on the go to eat anything at all!

Voter suppression, a Congress that has refused to work on behalf of the people, and a constant barrage of social injustices have left far too many Americans feeling alienated, grasping at straws and willing to throw anything... Read More

At this point Porsche or any German marque has not grasped the art of tuning the intake and exhaust for a melodious tune and so sounds more mechanical than anything else offering that characteristic Porsche thrum in mitigation.

In my spare time, I like to play fetch at the park, eat anything and everything within my grasp and most of all, CUDDLE!

People often are desperate to try anything, disregarding science and logic, when their faithful pet begins to show signs of this debilitation, resulting in much anxious grasping at shadows.

Ultimately Big Pharma's big problem is that while it's initially a complicated game to grasp that hints at a deep and varied strategy experience, once you've figured out how the system's work you quickly come to the realisation that underneath the surface complications that stem from understanding how the systems slot together there really isn't anything else to it.

From the start Gaffgarion is portrayed as unscrupulous and grasping for power so when he betrays the player's party at the Zeirchele Falls it comes as a surprise more in terms of timing than anything else.

He starts by promissing an opportunity to grasp the «complex underlying scientific issues», but never really discusses anything complex - I take this as an effort to flatter the WSJ readers on their grasp of these erudite points, bolstering their confidence when they take on the tree - huggers at the water cooler.

Of course he hadn't written anything quite as captivating in recent years, but still, I will miss the chance to once again see his unique combination of faith in humanity, superb imagination, and grasp of fundamental constraints of physics and technology that made his stories seem so real, while at the same time so far beyond our experience.

They're under such incredible economic pressure that they're grasping for anything to capture more eyeballs, so at least some of them are happy to assume the position of arms merchant in this war of words.