Sentence examples for apprehension of him from inspiring English sources

And, of course, what she knows about her father's history can't but seep into her private apprehension of him, changing everything, so that there can be no openness between them, nothing frank or free.

He was bright, quick-witted, with a ready apprehension of the things around him and an ability to observe closely, so that, for instance, when I placed a crab, a scorpion, and a spider on a tray before him he was able instantly to discern the relationship between them and apply the correct family, genus, and species names I'd taught him.

Part of that exactness and richness comes from the apprehension of the reality in front of him.

These early losses gave him an acute apprehension of mortality, but did not impair the flow of his affections.

The Byronic Maddalo "derives from a comparison of his own extraordinary mind with the dwarfish intellects that surround him, an intense apprehension of the nothingness of human life".

McGrath has a fine apprehension of how he did so, and admires him for it with little qualification.

I ask him if Darwinism informs his everyday apprehension of life.

Michel in particular is afflicted by sadness, his hyper-intelligence condemning him to all too frank an apprehension of the way things are going.

The mahout stood near the wall he had just pissed on, watching Chenayya talking to the elephant, a sense of apprehension growing within him.

Critics respond to this apprehension of pain behind the laughter.

Mr. Swerdlowe also admitted to having apprehension of his own.