hold it
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“He’s a brilliantly realistic actor, and I think the reason he isn’t even more prominent in the public eye is that he came along at a time when film construction became so disheveled that a film needed a vaudevillian to hold it together,” the film critic Andrew Sarris told the Los Angeles Times in 1992.
It became apparent upon inspecting the ship that oil had moved internally into tanks not designed to hold it, presenting "a huge safety issue" and "risk of explosion".
From BBC
In the 2024 trial in Avignon that garnered global attention, she declined the option to hold it behind closed doors, saying she wanted the world to know what she had been subjected to.
From Barron's
It sounded like the sound a seashell makes when you hold it up to your ear —and a voice, perhaps.
From Literature
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It was the best and most terrifying thing to be able to hold it.
From Literature
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