Sentence examples similar to a question grasped from inspiring English sources

For Phoebe life is a question of "grasping the nettle"; for Gran there's nothing a good smack or cassoulet can't fix.

Because the human world thus embodies mind, or spirit, it needs to be understood in a special way in terms of what Hegel called "concrete universals". Concepts of this kind are in order when it is a question of grasping a particular sort of subject matter one in which there are intimate connections between the data under consideration.

You search for answers -- for the fourth week in a row -- but the Jets' locker room was in a shambles, players mumbling responses to questions, grasping for answers they could not possibly know.

Rashad smiled, tasted and asked questions, grasping for something witty to say about dishes like Parmesan spinach roll-ups.

Some might speak so quickly that they are hard to follow; others might trail off in the middle of answering a question, distracted or grasping unsuccessfully for the right words.

In asking such a question we acknowledge a grasp of those words' meaning but seek to know how that meaning is to be taken as a threat, as a prediction, or as a command.

That abstract category sounds absurdly difficult, but it wasn't: it merely required that we ask a slightly different set of questions and grasp a slightly different set of conventions, and, after two or three rounds of practice, guessing the contents of someone's mind fifty miles ago becomes as easy as guessing Winston Churchill.

Time magazine, which treated Reagan generously during his first year, ran a cover story in Dec. calling into question his grasp of the job.

Nowadays being a panel member is not for the faint-hearted but for those with a depth of gardening knowledge and an incisive grasp of a question.

That's how he skewered Education Secretary Betsy DeVos with a question that exposed her shaky grasp of education policy.

Weirdly enough, it's often the argument made by people who claim to be "strong" on national security, when in reality it should call into question their grasp of even the mild complexities of war.