In general however, there has been a decided "unclenching" as delegates warmed to the (let's face it) sometime drudgery of maintaining XML document formats. ❋ Unknown (2009)
With long strides he began to move forward three fingered hands clenching and unclenching. ❋ Unknown (2009)
His big fists were clenching and unclenching, and his face was positively fiendish, so malignantly did he look at Johnson. ❋ Unknown (2010)
On divers occasions, now, I have come unexpectedly upon him and found him muttering to himself with grim set face, or clenching and unclenching his big square fists and grinding his teeth. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Ernest paused for a moment and regarded him thoughtfully, noting his face dark and twisted with anger, his panting chest, his writhing body, and his slim white hands nervously clenching and unclenching. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Prince calmed his breathing, his gloved hand unclenching slowly. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The park admits the wind, the petals lift and scatter like versions of myself I was on the verge of becoming; and ten years on and ten blocks down I still can't tell whether this dispersal resembles a fist unclenching or waving goodbye. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)
“I would never have written the note,” declares Larissa, unclenching her fists and putting her hands on her hips. ❋ Elena Gorokhova (2010)
This book grows more personal as it goes on, but not by unclenching its manner. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He spent a few moments clenching and unclenching his teeth. ❋ Laura Griffin (2010)
Maybe some quiet expelling of breath and unclenching of teeth, but nothing collapsed, nothing smashed. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Everyone else seemed to relax, shoulders lowering, postures unclenching. ❋ KATE BRIAN (2010)
Jack stood for a moment, his hands clenching and unclenching at his sides. ❋ Cameron Dokey (2010)
The manifestations of what remains unspoken between them – that Tine can only allow him to penetrate her from behind, "her arms stretched behind her, fists clenching and unclenching, one eye pressed into the bedclothes, the other open, staring at the window like a dead fish" – lead us to suspect sexual abuse in her past, though her distressed boyfriend can't yet see it. ❋ Francesca Segal (2010)
This Love Luminary told me that the path to grace is an unclenching, like opening your hand to loosen your grip on how you want life to be. ❋ Marci Shimoff (2010)
I run the bathwater, clenching and unclenching my hands underneath the warm spray from the tap. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But irritation rapidly turned into an anxiety that planted itself in his chest and then shot snaky tendrils of alarm throughout his body till it jerked him up from the chair and made him pace back and forth, clenching and unclenching his hands and sometimes holding them out and shaking them furiously. ❋ Unknown (2010)
