Sentence examples for Grasp of time from inspiring English sources

Factor in the babysitter's vague grasp of time, and the odds are stacked against you arriving on time for that reservation.

McIntyre's adamantine grasp of time is exploded when, as a consequence of what he experienced, he was convinced that he had left his own time behind.

"The Refusal of Time" is an exploration in drawing, text, music, movement and video of the shifts and struggles in our grasp of time, from the 19th century on.

One weird aspect of the past few years is how a "tornado of news-making has scrambled Americans' grasp of time and memory," as my colleague Matt Flegenheimer put it last year.

As a book, it will be a slog: it is the equivalent of three Harry Potter novels squeezed into one, running on a Groundhog Day grasp of time travel and a Star Wars-esque handling of oedipal myth.

As she got left behind, the problems clarified: Annie wasn't learning to read, she had no real grasp of time, and she found it hard to wash herself or brush her hair.

During this period the child also begins to grasp concepts of time and number.

But an empathetic grasp of that time's susceptibility to van Meegeren's bait brings the climactic scene of his trial, in Amsterdam, in October, 1947, to life.

I was unexpectedly plunged back into Nov. 22, 1963 -- and inevitably back into Sept 11 , 2001-- by the power of an artist who has an innate grasp of his time that many of us, journalists and the memorial industry included, do not.

The resulting document, "Traffic in Towns," was uniquely concerned with the entire urban environment rather than with traffic alon It became a Stationary Office best-seller, and recognized as a pundit with a practical grasp of his times... Excerpt from Paragraph No. 391 of "Traffic in Towns".

And even many admirers lament that during a historic period for the Catholic Church in America, when a sex abuse scandal and dwindling resources caused an unprecedented retrenchment, the pulpit in the media capital of the world was occupied by a priest known more for his administrative skills than his visceral grasp of the times in which he lived.