Women's clutches are too small. I open my purse, and with some hydraulic force, a tampon shoots 12 feet into the air.
Willpower is not some mythical force that we either have or don't have. Willpower is our decision to use higher mind thinking instead of lazing around in the clutches of our primal mind.
That was one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.
Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.
Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!
Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.
Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew.
How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
. . . it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.
The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.