clutching

That dude on the track is clutching it in a vaguely obscene way.

If a patient is clutching their chest, we're calling our ambulance service, not doing an EKG.

You see alarmists clutching pearls and spreading tales - part of a bigger trend to spread fear and exagerate dangers.

Why is it about mental illness that causes otherwise smart, empathetic, and scientifically literate people to start clutching their pearls?

Since that's not going to happen in any universe, please keep the pearl-clutching to yourself.

The claims about vegetarianism struck me as clutching at straws just to be contrarian.

It's gonna be fun watching all the HN libertarian-types clutching their pearls at an American exercising her First Amendment right to free speech.

It sounds like MS are clutching but they still raise a valid point.

If they really are going to be worth so much, why aren't they clutching those shares more tightly and throwing cash at you instead?

I was basing what I said off of the actual filing, not the EFF's pearl-clutching.

Seeing and slightly clutching some very few things with beings.

Yay, something that diabetes actually benefits:) No, not really, but hey, its worth clutching at straws...

Plenty of examples of professionals "cheating" without widespread media outcry and pearl-clutching about the sanctity of the profession.

> Doniger's use of the Abrahamic term "Doomsday" is loaded, what is your point here, seems a desperate act of clutching at straws.

Note the all the male pearl-clutching that has taken place around codes of conduct.) It's similar to the way that police (and much of society) are more accepting of the rape of women who "dressed wrong" or were otherwise not following a very gendered code of sexuality.