clinging

His T-shirt was now clinging to his thin frame like a second skin, and his hair was plastered to his face.

When the storm struck, she was swept out to sea, clinging to a bit of wreckage.

Neighbors saw the mother, a towel over her head, clinging to her one surviving child, being escorted by the police to a waiting ambulance.

And yet, as a recent porn hysteria post at The Good Men Project demonstrates, we still love clinging to these simplistic notions.

Even through the twilight they could see that clinging to its stem against the wall was the long ivy leaf.

He leaned into her body, as if clinging to the threads of her will to live.

She was no longer herself but a woman, with a woman's clinging need; and though she leaned ever so lightly, the need seemed satisfied.

We watched it over and over, my son clinging to it as some kind of validation that he was not the only one whose dad had died.

His wife back from calling for help cradled him in her arms, clinging to each other, they wept at their loss.

Absorbent booms and pads are being used to soak up oil floating on the surface or clinging to plants, boats and structures.

One of these is undue absorption in the past. The other to be avoided is clinging to youth in the hope of vigor from its vitality.

He didn't seem to care at all that the wet shirt was clinging to his body.

The country wants to cosy up to Western governments, companies and tourists, while clinging to its traditional laws and customs.

Most afternoons, Joao straps on his prostheses and circles the physical-therapy room for an hour and a half, clinging to a walker.

Suddenly, they saw its back end drop down, as into a rut, and the gee- pole, with Hal clinging to it, jerk into the air.

ACTION: Atthis point, clinging to your old life, paying your bills and showing up for work, is no longer relevant!

The sun had gone behind the hill, and shadows were clinging to the earth, the sky above was full of travelling light.

don't you Why do something by yourself for a change? When I married you I didn't realize you were such a clinging vine.

After I let it go, I would scan all the legs of every pigeon that I saw, clinging onto the small hope that Sky would come back.

Photo Gallery: Jurassic Period Clinging to life on an offshore crag, a tuatara looks little different from his Jurassic relatives.

Even violent tantrums, or clinging to the point of riding on a parent's leg, can be curbed, researchers say.

So, we sort of reduce a little of the clinging to the ones we love -- just in the meditation -- and we open our mind to those we don't know.

Rogers, who had been clinging to the bus for more than three hours, was dazed and disoriented, by his prolonged exposure to cold.

Maybe you had done everything you can to seize something, but it is useless to your whole life. Please remember, do not clinging too much.

We found the little girl clinging to her mother.

In a remarkable tale of survival, Japanese Defense Ministry said a 60-year-old man had been rescued clinging to the roof of his house.

By that, the Buddha did not mean stupidity, he meant clinging to the illusion that life is static and predictable.

The taste of blood is clinging in my mouth, and the bow and the arrows of my fathers yet linger in my hand and I cannot go.

Forty minutes later, clinging to the side of a snow-covered mountain I was still maintaining that I could walk in them.

"I was clinging on for dear life, " she said. Some of the water slopped over her.

It's a great tragedy for a woman to be regarded as a clinging vine by people.

Clinging to life in the basin are beetles, gerbils, ostriches, oryx, and a few other species.

Clinging to the hope that it is all chance, and all natural, seems naive.

But don't confuse them with a simple stratus cloud clinging to a mountaintop. "Only a jaunty cloud hat" will do.

Clinging to the first and trying to prolong it is a pointless waste of energy.

A fourth man who was on the weekend fishing trip is hospitalized after being found yesterday clinging to the boat.

Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more , a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more .

He blinked, sat upright on a low couch, and groggily pushed away the last sensor tapes clinging to his skin.

Little wonder that Europe is clinging to its monopoly on seating the head of the International Monetary Fund.

The enemy the use of favorable terrain in an attempt clinging to mark the north retreat.

Judging by recent developments inside North Korea, however, clinging on to its nukes may not actually help prolong Kim Jong-il's regime.

Those with spare cash, including companies, are clinging on to it as a hedge against an uncertain future.

The still of a winter scene is enlivened by the sound of clinging silver bells as horses pull a sled through the woods near Sutton, Vermont.

But she sat there, clinging to her husband for support because she knew she still had a living child under the rubble.

The Karmapa is a sturdy young man, spectacles clinging to his round shaved head, pebbled brown half boots peeking out from beneath the robe.

There go those poor people again, clinging to God (and no doubt their guns too).

Every time we invite Bill to dinner, he shows up with one of his clinging vines.

For many these past weeks and months have been especially hard as many are still clinging to that which must be released.

Helen, rushing and clinging to him, trying to explain.

Sweat stood on our brows like drops of rain clinging to leaves after a passing shower, but we did not mind.

Mayor Jin Sato survived only by clinging to a railing on the roof of the town hall as the torrent carried off dozens of colleagues.

Disagreement on these matters is not a result of parents clinging to the "status quo, " as you have recently asserted.

I will never forget seeing a child clinging to one of the tank turrets. None of us should forget that.

However, you may also have noticed that there is a neediness and a clinging quality to that intensity.

He's done every trivial thing, as if to seize a life-saving straw, in the end, you discover that he has been clinging to the giant trees.

The girl was found clinging to her mother.

Mr. McCain does not, clinging to the fiction that the mortgage industry will somehow, someday, voluntarily rework most of the junk loans.

This desire for greater gain is still clinging behind their surrender, and as such the surrender cannot be complete.

The flour-roller clinging to the wall is stirring the mixture of flour and water with a constant rhythm.

Why don't you do event by yourself for a alter? When I married you I didn't realize you were like this a clinging vine.

The Russian is shown on a skateboard, clinging onto the front of a car driven by Steven Gerrard.

But with a bare two-seat majority in parliament, the conservatives have been clinging to power in undignified fashion.

That is, clinging to your own limitations, you think you can create world unity, world peace - which is impossible.

He remained clinging convulsively to the ladder and feeling so limp that he was unable to go down any further for several minutes.

Is your organization clinging to any of these leftover Atomic Age leadership mechanisms?

Forty yards downstream, a bus rocked like a whale stranded in surf, with three people clinging desperately to the top.

Her glad little cry rang in his ears, and he felt her clinging to him like a cat.

Mr Ozawa's decision to clear his name while clinging to his exalted position in the DPJ has already started to spatter the party with mud.

FOR the "bitter" Americans Barack Obama accused in 2008 of "clinging" to their guns (and religion), this has been a sweet week.

Like a parasite clinging to a host, the deadly HIV virus buds from a white blood cell grown in the laboratory.

By clinging like grim death to the boat, Tom managed to keep inside it.

But consultancies clinging too long to a specialization in strategy at the expense of other practice areas now find themselves in trouble.

They have narrowed down the search area after finding a fourth man clinging to the capsized fishing vessel off the Florida Coast.

American speech remained conservative, clinging to an increasingly uniform standard, during the entire colonial period.

Dreaming of emigration and riches, I brushed through trees clinging to the side of the ravaged creek bank. I wasn't the first.

In Ameth'Aran, all was in ruins. Its people clinging to the ground as though that might spare them from the destruction.

So is clinging to the roof of an SUV in a gale with practice mallets fashioned from paint roller handles and plumbing parts.

More probably, while we try to compare the relative power of the West and the East, we are clinging to an obsolete vocabulary.

s swiftly rooted out, it takes hold and grows, crippling and eventually even killing those who insist on clinging determinedly to it.

Periodic tallies released throughout the day by the Interior Ministry showed Mr. Karroubi narrowly clinging to second place.

We fell asleep clinging tightly to each other, as though in our dreams we could make it all better.

The other thing to be avoided is clinging to youth in the hope of sucking vigour from its vitality.

Since Aries are always starting new ventures, they're never clinging vines, something you appreciate in a lover.

The other thing to be avoided is clinging to youth in the hope of sucking vigor from its vitality.

Inside the plant last week, there was ash everywhere, forming drifts, clinging to the skin, getting into the throat.

Though clinging to a violent ideology, it has been groping crabwise towards an accommodation.

The water vapor in the atmosphere is able to change to liquid by clinging to dust particles suspended in the air.

The day wore away, and even through the twilight they could see the lone ivy leaf clinging to its stem against the wall.

Do not seek to escape from a flood by clinging to a tiger's tail.

Zoology An organ or other structure adapted for sucking nourishment or for clinging to objects by suction.

Both of us were able to look in by standing on the basement, and clinging to the ledge, and we saw--ah!

At last I managed to climb up my cliff, clinging with fingers and toes, then kneeling sideways upon a ledge.

The other thing to be avoided is clinging to youth in the hope of finding strength in its vitality.

I sit there for hours, my bottom growing damp from the glaze of water clinging to the rocks, and look out for anything I can see.

Driving down the highway, he discovers Marty is still clinging to life.

All the sufferings, diseases and hurdles are all originated from your greed, hatreds, clinging, ignorance, and jealousy.

That may be the difficulty, for each of you has your area of clutching and clinging.

The boy students dislike going any where with her because she is such a clinging vine.

Again, Sariputta, a bhikkhu should consider thus: "Are the five aggregates affected by clinging fully understood by me? "

it's deeply unreasonable, and deeply irresponsible, to invent reasons not to act because you're clinging to simplistic slogans.

No storm can shake my inmost calm, while to that rock I'm clinging . Since love is lord of heaven and earth how can I keep from singing ?

Democrats are still clinging to entitlement programs with no talk of real cost cutting, though the current system is clearly unaffordable.

He called for a clear break with the "bad habits" of the past: demagogy, clinging to power, "primitive egoism" .

Strangely, when you stop clinging and just let go, things tend to work out a lot better.

We may soon render ourselves worthless inside, while desperately clinging to a shell of appearances.

Paw prints were found in a number of places, and puma spur stinging on the bush [ was found clinging to bushes ].

Then he scraped at the thick lump of beans that was clinging to the bottom.

This corrupt official was still clinging to his power. He refused to step aside.

It's hard to see how his forces can win this, but they are clinging on.

any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas.

To assume they won't, seems a very poor Risk-Adjusted Position to be clinging to.

It produces thousands of apricots, many of them clinging to branches twenty feet in the air, so that you'll never reach them.

Fur clinging to bushes Paw prints were seen in a number of places and puma fur was found clinging to bushes.

Macro image of a dragonfly clinging to a car antenna on a clear day in California.

The Buddha told us to see the way things are and then let go of our clinging to them. Take this feeling of letting go as your refuge.

To the extent that it is genuine, my caring is not a smothering of the person or a possessive clinging .

StubbORnly resisting change OR clinging to a seemingly hopeless OR outdated cause.

But China has defied this system by clinging to a more or less fixed exchange rate.

In other words, he's clinging to his victimization fantasy. If anything goes wrong, guess whose fault it will be?

Paw prints were seen in a number of (in many) places and puma fur were found clinging to bushes.

He always brings one of his clinging vines to our dinner.

Suddenly. with your laughing. grass and trees feel like clinging.

Lichens arose as a co-op. Fungi married algae. Clinging to rock, and eating it too. Transforming barren land.

The rosy-cheeked , bright- eyed quartet looked so charming in their light summer attire, clinging to the roadside bank .

The failure to sell Pan American, however, leaves BP clinging to a valuable but unwanted asset.

Lack of detachment is attachment, which means, among other things, clinging to old or outdated behavior and ways of thinking.

Clinging to cash equivalents or long-term government bonds at present yields is almost certainly a terrible policy if continued for long.

Rather than tragically clinging to outgrown notions of youth, groups are seen as defining it in their own terms.

BT is clinging on to an old business model which is supported by illegal downloading.

In other landscapes, a ravine would suffice, where clinging to roots from nearby trees is an anchor.

They always had him wear clinging garments when he played Dow-Ming-Sez in "Meteor Garden" .

Usually, the clinging tot does just fine as he or she grows older and finds a niche, Snidman says.

On a snow slope, clinging to the steep North Face, he noticed, first Mallory, then Irvine approach a broad rock step.

If you are an authentic Canadian, you will set to enjoy the shades of leaves from a real angle-- seeing them clinging onto the ground.

A tree frog shows off its broad and effective grip while clinging to a tree trunk in the Pacific Islands.

The sailors were clinging to the mast to stop themselves being washed overboard.

For many years, I was a packrat , clinging to possessions like a safety blanket, like trophies, like you might cling to the past.

She spent nine hours in the water, clinging to a piece of wreckage.

Please make the decision by yourself, OK? I don't realize you are such a clinging vine.

On the other side of the spectrum, clinging to youth and dressing like you're half your age is embarrassing in public.

Most of the anger, frustration, misery, and despair in this world come from people clinging to past hurts and problems.

Droplets clinging to the leaves can act as little magnifying glasses, focusing sunlight and causing the plants to burn.

Shake the tree so happy: "COME ah! Children to climb up my trunk, clinging to the branches of my swing, happily. "

It stood on the edge of a cliff, grim and defiant, seemingly clinging to rock.

Paw prints were seen in a number of places and puma furs were found clinging to bushes.

Asia is also proving an unlikely champion of free trade, with little enthusiasm for clinging to outdated, traffic-limiting bilateral deals.

the church was old and grey , with ivy clinging to the walls , and round the porch.

Perfume too seemed to emanate from the glorious hair and white clinging vestments of she herself.

We discerned the figure of a man clinging to the mast of the wreched ship.

After so many years, she was still clinging to the hope that he could return.

The large 30-gallon waste collection bin is constructed of anti-static material to prevent particles from clinging to it when emptying.

I what says neither , lower head only clinging to a meal suddenly and forcibly.

They're clinging to a rock face and actually scraping bacteria off that rock face.

We usually think about others passively and always are stuck in "myself" so that we'll be clinging to ideas of our own.

The other thing to be avoided is clinging to2 youth in the hope of sucking vigor from its vitality3.

Keep watching the mind. At this stage, wisdom-knowledge will appear that destroys or diminishes clinging and grasping.

By morning, we're clinging to the banks of the Fraser river, fluid and bobbing with logged wood.

So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

another flash showed him four men clinging to the shattered mast and the rigging , while a fifth clung to the broken rudder.

I curled up on the floor and lay as still as possible, hiding myself entirely under the soft clinging fabric of the old tunic.

In practice, the crude defilements are greed, hatred and delusion, impurities, craving, clinging and intentional action.

He described it as "clinging to every last phosphate molecule, and really living on the edge. "

To cause excessive clinging to the relationship with the flange base daughter a falling out.

Clinging on for dear life, Harry sent Stunning Spells flying at random into the whirling night.

As a result, China is increasingly alone in clinging to the idea of a divided peninsula.

People are both clinging on to their current jobs, however much they dislike them, and dreaming of moving when the economy improves.

He could swim, but his fear of alligators kept him clinging to the overturned craft.

We are being swept by a wave of parochialism, with countries clinging to the notion of sovereignty.

Black dirt or soot, especially such dirt clinging to or ingrained in a surface.

They had no choice but to wait for help when clinging to a tree.

In this article I'd like to explore a third alternative, and how you can still experience joy without clinging to things.

Some banks were tangled and steep; others were endless stretches of clinging grass that pulled at our legs.

Born early in the cold war, it was still clinging to power almost 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Fans are probably clinging to news that Tse plans to sue Apple Daily for sparking the divorce speculation.

Most of the houses are thrown together, clinging to steep hills and set along narrow alleys.

Friends and doctors warned Deborah, who was by now 36, that clinging to her husband was unhealthy.

Obviously it's clinging there, not by animal magnetism, but by chicanery, my index finger being there.

Some were still clinging to the hope that their loved ones might still be found.

But in the blue sky, we still clinging to call a traditional spirit, is also a kind of the spirit of The Times, that is -- honesty.

After so many years, he was clinging to the hope that she would return.

I don't realize you are such a clinging vine.

My dear friends: In this New Year wishes God bless you! Fortuna clinging to you!

In the depths of the worst misery possible, people are looking after each other and clinging onto their humanity.

What's the good of clinging to one you're bound to lose?

"Don't leave me again, " she sobbed, clinging to his arm.

For now, it is clinging on to its privileges.

The opec is a silent hunter, typically lying in wait, clinging motionless to rocky crags.

They were clinging for dear life to the edge of the rock.

And who's the one you're clinging to Instead of me tonight?

So if you're clinging out of fear to a job you don't want, you're doing yourself and the rest of us a disservice.

The other group has a clinging lifestyle of sinning all week and seeking redemption on Sundays.

In the theistic tradition there is a notion of clinging into a word.

My care will never be a smothering of the person I love or a possessive clinging.

fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships.

People clinging to the former opinion argue that infrastructure construction is the duty of the government.

Bob Schindler, her father, told reporters afterwards that his daughter is clinging to life.

Individual character optimistic clinging, and the courage to face the difficulties and challenges.

A radar tower 300 yards away tracked enemy aircraft and fed signals along cables still visible clinging to the walls.

I cleaned off the earth clinging to my boots.

And men are warm and generous, helpful, clinging to love, strong social skills.

Certainly it involves relinquishment of stinginess, clinging and greed.

I'm a vampire clinging to the sounds for a fast high.

They are seen clinging and walking on the ceiling in the subway tunnel and can jump with great power when attacking.

The greatest source of misery and hatred in this world is clinging to past hurts.

One thing is for sure: If we really want Afghans to attain the future they deserve, clinging to a fake version of their history won't help.

6. Clinging to your own thoughts and being closed to outside influences.

Microsoft has its loyal fans in mind, including those clinging for dear life to XP.

After months, weeks, days and hours of clinging to my extremely late 30s, on Saturday I acceded to time's insistence and turned 40.

I was nearly drowned through the drowning boy clinging to my neck .

Obama is every bit as bad as Bush in clinging to the dead wood in his administra? tion.

Clinging to old notions of being male will not solve the problem.

But some will remain, clinging to all solid surfaces.

Conservatives like clinging to old patterns of life.

People clinging to buses. People herding animals.

Even as it becomes less and less viable, they are clinging on.

There is also a noble side left to him so he is clinging onto the last piece of wild animalistic nature he has.

People cling to continuity and to their privileges, but nobody is clinging to the doctrine.

324-110. Release me from my unfulfilled past clinging to me from behind making death difficult.

In five years, two tianya zhichi land clinging to a commitment.

Dew drops clinging on their leaves, the trees looked green and fresh.

The 18 rescued survivors were clinging to life-rafts when found by the fishing boat.

On the contrary, I hope to free my followers from clinging to styles, patterns, or molds.

The tranquil sunny haze, the clinging smoke, the vapor.

The greatest source of misery and hatred in this world is clinging to the past hurts!

I was not yet twenty then, and I crossed the Ertix River clinging to a horse's neck.

But Knut amazed medical staff at the zoo by clinging to life.

The greatest source of misery and hatred in the world is clinging to past hurts.

'It's so heartbreaking . . . he was clinging to me the whole time in the hospital.

She burst into tears and, clinging to him sobbed in love and anguish.

Therefore, in order to completely eradicate the attitude of self-clinging, one needs to practice absolute bodhicitta.

This is clearly in Beijing's interest, though China's leaders are still clinging to the old export strategy.

I find myself clinging to people I'm close to, because I'm afraid they'll leave me.

In Yemen and Bahrain, pro-American regimes are clinging bloodily to power in spite of America's pleas for reform.

You'll be surprised how well you'll do, in your next job, when the clinging to images isn't there anymore.

They should raise their child to know that the most important aspect of life is being upright in religion, clinging to it firmly.

If he can liquidate this hoard into cash, arms and food, his chances of clinging on indefinitely will be boosted.

Now they have nothing: just an ageing Lothario clinging to power.

Boys would climb the tree, clinging to tree branches to swing, eat apple.

Some swept away after clinging to rooftops.

while to that rock I'm clinging.

Of effort make oneself happy, but why to always meet clinging at one individual loneliness?

The puma fur was found clinging to bushes.

and puma fur was found clinging to bushes.

The dream of China is the life preserver many multinational corporations are clinging to, not without some reason.

They're clinging to each other through these hydrogen bonds.

Hoteliers are also clinging to hopes that they can bring in environmentally friendly policies to cut energy costs by as much as 20 percent.

At the same time, abuse phenomena only exist if you are still clinging to transitory phenomena as permanent and real.

Of the 30 people on the roof, only 10 survived by clinging onto the railing or an antenna.

In this modern time, even his family and friends might laugh at his bookish and clinging.

Is silver now with clinging mist.