Sentence examples for as we grasp from inspiring English sources

Yet we persist in believing (it would be hopeless not to) that, once they arrive, we will in some deep way know our children, even as we grasp that parts of them will remain a mystery to us.

As we grasp in finer detail how the rivalrous seafaring states of Greece negotiated with societies to their east and south, no longer do these divinely gorgeous beings sit snobbily atop what Jenkins calls "some invidious and outrageous pile of cultures".

Furthermore, complexity as we grasp it is rapidly becoming hypercomplexity.

Since the whole world is structured according to number, we only gain knowledge of the world insofar as we grasp these numbers.

This comes next, when he states that it is actually the "interconnection of the whole of nature" insofar as we grasp it by means of the senses and imagination that we contemplate and admire in a beautiful work of art, or that it is intimated to us by such a work.

Since Archytas evidently agreed with Philolaus that we only understand individual things in the world insofar as we grasp the numbers that govern them, it seems quite plausible that Archytas would regard logistic as the science that makes us wise about the world.

"It was a cool Autumn evening and the terraces stank of cigarette smoke as we grasped our plastic cups filled with steaming hot Horlicks.

The President was as surprised as everyone else, as we grasped from the dramatic photograph of him taken as he was given the dreadful news at an elementary school.

The question is whether as a society we grasp the tallow controversy as an opportunity to keep this momentum going, or whether we let it encourage the misconception that vegans are a bit weird and self-righteous.

Deborah Black, discerning that memory has a perceptive as well as retentive role, describes memory as "the faculty by which we grasp the individual as such".

How blessed we are to have it, how well it has weathered, and how instantly we grasp, as three Beatles hare along the street in the opening sequence, what manner of kids they must have been — and, to an extent, still are.