Alastair Reynolds

In the 'Revelation Space' books, the spaceships are a bit old and rusty, and things go wrong, and they don't work quite how they're meant to. And people asked why I did it this way, and groping around for an explanation, I said that I grew up in Barry, this post-industrial sea town full of rusting infrastructure.

British Author

Maria Montessori

We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.

Italian Educator

Joanna Scott

I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space.

American Author

Sandi Toksvig

I was once very unpleasantly groped while I was broadcasting by a famous individual who shall remain nameless. When I told the staff afterwards what had happened, everybody thought it was amusing. There was a shrugged shoulder approach to the whole thing.

British Writer

Oskar Kokoschka

All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.

Austrian Artist

Ezra Taft Benson

The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety.

American Leader

Ethel Barrymore

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

American Actress

Campbell Brown

To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.

American Journalist

George H. W. Bush

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.

American President

Alexander Payne

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

American Director

Used when someone is physically searching for something by feeling, usually without sight.

Literal Searching

Sometimes, it's not about physical search but about a struggle to understand or remember something.

Figurative Use

This usage often implies unwanted or inappropriate sexual touching and can be offensive.

Negative Connotation

Remember, 'grope' in this context must only be used when it refers to touching without consent.

Consent Matters

Expresses an attempt to find an answer or solution, often when it's challenging or unclear.

Intellectual Quest

Can describe someone trying to understand their own feelings or others', often in a complex emotional context.

Emotional Searching

Used when someone is trying to find their way in a new or unfamiliar situation.

Metaphorical Navigation

 turbine to generate electricity what I'm standing underneath is a heliostat thing the holds two mirrors and those mirrors are used to reflect sunlight onto the boiler that you see right behind me what you're looking at here totaling 392 megawatts gropes output is the equivalent of a medium-sized natural gas

The Tortoise and the...

 We were tied up, we couldn't go anywhere. At that point as the fighting got closer they decided they wanted us to live. The entire time we were punched in the face. The men were smashed in the back of the head with gun-butts and I was groped. That went on for the first three days.

Held Captive by...

 She said she was stalked, groped, and masturbated at. Now, late that evening, the report went viral. It was on news channels across the world. Everyone was discussing it. It had over a million views, a thousand comments and shares, and I found myself witnessing

Meera Vijayann: Find...

 paralysis the cockroach and then it snakes its stinger into the brain of the cockroach where it has special censors so that it can grope around the brain and find exactly the part that is responsible for generating the motivation for movement.

Zombie Parasites PIPE Nat...

 And she dropped to her hands and knees, and she began to look under the table, groping under all the chairs. She looked at the electric sockets, at the corner of the room, the floor, the corner of the ceiling,

Luis H. Zayas: The...

 my mask was knocked sideways, and there was this moment of confusion. And then I picked myself up, I groped for the nozzle, and I did what a firefighter was supposed to I lunged forward, opened up the water

To raise brave girls,...

 beginnings since when did we become afraid of the night and that only the bright stars count or that our moon is not a moon unless it is full by his command were the animals through groping

Rediscovering ourselves...

 one of the most well-known and richest singers in the world, didn't need more money or fame when she came forward with her groping case for one dollar. And I'm so glad she did. Breaking

How we can end sexual...

 Barefoot, careful on the slick slate slabs, I need no light, I know the way, stoop by the mint bed, scoop a fistful of moist earth, then grope for a chair, spread a shawl, and sit,

4 Powerful Poems about...

 look at the waves just groping on with his claws Palin's

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