Sentence examples for a quick grasp from inspiring English sources

Soldiers in the mass are not intellectual giants, but they have a quick grasp of broad meanings.

Fox's Brit Hume has a quick grasp of the moment, and on MSNBC, Chris Matthews has never got over his boyhood crush on democracy.

The tall, 39-year-old Indian immigrant, with aristocratic bearing and a quick grasp of details, had a rich résumé and a strong network of friends.

Although she is now as much a public-health worker as an earth scientist, Kulshan says her graduate training gives her a quick grasp of hydrologic conditions as well as skill in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting other kinds of data and communicating the results.

The authors worked for a man with an astonishingly quick grasp of priorities and an extraordinary understanding of government.

Henri Marie called the attack a "spur of the moment" decision that showed Wittmann's quick grasp of the possibility of surprising the British but described the action as foolhardy and that other historians had become carried away by Wittmann's ambush and that Wittmann lost the first Tiger knocked out combat in Normandy.

Older siblings are, we are told, those most likely to succeed, but younger brothers and sisters have a measurably quicker grasp of other minds, a writerly ability to intuit the thoughts and desires of others.