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Gerwig’s “Little Women” leans into the book’s fluidities and contradictions, especially among the characters themselves, who are self-sacrificing and ethereal one moment and graspingly materialistic the next.

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2019

The fact that law is no longer classified as a "nontraditional" occupation for women has not made our culture any less graspingly litigious or any more concerned with the rights of the underdog.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am supposed to tread lightly and pounce graspingly at the same time.

From Time Magazine Archive

My fatal mistake last year, I think now, lay in my accepting what she gave me—accepting it so readily, so graspingly even.

From Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Lilac bushes had passed all bounds, and took up room most graspingly.

From The End of a Coil by Warner, Susan