tugging

“Great Gold Bird” can be heavy, tugging at our hearts even as it becomes more mystical — its themes ricocheting among grief, science fiction and spiritualism.

While the jobs came quickly, the undertow of racism in the industry was always there, tugging at him.

Based only on a brief moment of Walz tugging on his son’s hand, commentators declared Walz an abuser with a secret rage problem.

Even if a patient were “tugging for breath, literally suffocating in my exam room” and needed to terminate their pregnancy, by law she couldn’t help them, she explained.

“It was very scary. I just thought, when will it all end? There were rockets and a plane flew over us,” the little girl recalls, tugging at the sleeves of her sweater.