grasp at

And yet here he is. And here we are. And here you are, still grasping at straws trying to defend yourself. Douche bag.

Grasping at help like a drowning swimmer tends to scare away the resources you've already got, as well as potential assistance.

He's just grasping at straws trying to stay out of jail.

According to an analyst who spoke with Reuters, Dell may be "grasping at straws" in an attempt to breathe life into its tablet business.

She, too, invited me to go with them tonight, and I agreed now, grasping at anything to distract myself.

Barbara spoke of the arising of fear and the distortion created by the desire to serve, by grasping at service.

The children were grasping at the dangling ropes.

Slowly it dawns on us that all the heartache we have been through from grasping at the ungraspable was, in the deepest sense, unnecessary.

Mindfulness involves being with your thoughts as they are, neither grasping at them nor pushing them away.

But since we have never before encountered them, we are deluded into grasping at them when we first investigate this point.

You're grasping at straws , and you know it.

Grasping at any straw they possibly can to soothe their fear of their growing insignificance.

"This is grasping at straws, I know, " said the helpless man.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Near the end we were grasping at straws.

Even in the relatively sound job market of Pittsburgh, I was grasping at straws.

Harry, you're grasping at straws if you think you can pass that exam by starting to study the night before.

What is behind that grasping at service in this specific way or that specific way?

We need a President who can face the threats of the future, not keep grasping at the ideas of the past.

The doctor was grasping at straws in order to save his patient.

Beware lest you lose the substence by grasping at the shadow.

And it's about grasping at straws to try and find something else.

You--what Scott saw Was you grasping at anything you can to push me away. That is not true.

The moral is that: Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Instead, you let them feed your greed for more and more. You are left exhausted and unsatisfied, madly grasping at goat legs!

I went to church, grasping at the Catholic faith of my childhood.

grasping at delicious delicious meat add pepper powder, chilly taste of hemp refreshing broth, tender meat than full throttle to greasy;

Grasping at the combined opportunity to promote equipment management level