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 substantial early vote will also make it harder to get a quick grasp on the race, since the mailed votes can differ from those cast on Election Day.
[Lee Kuan Yew] may be the single best available volume for those who want a quick grasp of Lee's thinking on foreign affairs and geopolitics....in compiling such a rich collection of statements on such a wide range of global issues, Allison and Blackwill have done both scholars and general readers a service by providing a manageable, one-stop shop on Lee's thinking.
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.
This will give investigators a quick grasp on how the sequencing experiment performs.
To streamline access to evidence and limit data overload, an interactive web prototype (Tikiwiki v3.0) was developed to provide highly synthesized data for each criterion ('Lite' version, for a quick grasp of issues), hyperlinked to a version with more details ('Full' version) with further hyperlinks to the full text sources from which data was extracted.
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.
The authors worked for a man with an astonishingly quick grasp of priorities and an extraordinary understanding of government.
Also driving the seeming epidemic of drivel are the ever-expanding maw of airtime that has to be filled and the need to hook an audience with a quick, easily grasped gimmick, lest it move to another channel.
