grabbiness

In this sense, the experience of having children is like being taken back to childhood, to the atavistic grabbiness that maturity was supposed to refine.

Today's owners consider the Ausco-Lambert very reliable and powerful, but admit its grabbiness and sensitivity.

Multiple attempts to grab it (in one instance Finster whacks Bugs with the bag of money) are interpreted as a baby's typical grabbiness.

Furio's grabbiness with Matt and Sean would cause problems later, as they are convinced they are being used by Tony, and then attempt shooting Christopher.

But there was also such denseness and hostility in Isa, the need to manipulate and goad, the need for reassurances to which she would not admit, greediness, grabbiness, contempt.

Thanks to the grabbiness of Catherine the Great (1729-1796), the Russians were the first on the Continent to discover that the British, besides being writers and empire builders, could also make art.

And for all the righteous blather that has poured forth in response to this cynical and blatant grabbiness, I have yet to read an explanation that rings true as to why the 1980's have been such a shamelessly greedy time.

Self-energizing brakes are more subject to brake fade, but it appears part of the Ausco Lambert design is to reduce the exponential gain of drum and band brakes, and thus reduce grabbiness and hot fade.

We're living in an age of the 401(k) and nomadic "knowledge workers," when all the great social movements have ossified - the New Deal is fossilized in bureaucracy, the civil rights movement fights over quotas, feminism has become political correctness, unionism institutionalized grabbiness.

Still, there was not that jittery prurience, that messy something-for-everybody grabbiness that reaches out now from the curtainless screens of the shopping mall complexes, where, as I write, "Creepshow II" is competing with "Meatballs III."