"This information allows journalists to grasp concrete evidence in exposing conflicts of interest among senior officials and elected representatives and to reveal the shady practices of dishonest companies.
Kinesthetic – active, carry, concrete, emotional, feel, foundation, grasp, heated, hit, hold, impact, impress, irritate, motion, panic, pressure, rush, sensitive, shallow, sharpen, shock, solid, stress, support, tension, tired, touch, unbearable.
Since abstract concepts are harder to grasp than concrete information (Paivio, Walsh, & Bons, 1994), it follows that teachers ought to illustrate abstract ideas with concrete examples.
It is a concrete object, but not grasped as a concrete simple, but grasped in relation to what is judged of it in the predicate.
This sort of cultural blaming and shaming is all too common in the wake of a tragedy, when commentators grasp for concrete and cohesive answers to lend some semblance of closure.
Their strengths are to large extents related to their understanding of the technical and scientific issues involved and grasp of concrete cases, their familiarity with laboratory work, as well as their credibility when communicating with fellow scientists.
As Walter Jackson Bate puts it, "one of the ironies of literary history is that its most compelling and authoritative symbol of common sense of the strong, imaginative grasp of concrete reality should have begun his adult life, at the age of twenty, in a state of such intense anxiety and bewildered despair that, at least from his own point of view, it seemed the onset of actual insanity".
The venom of this description, like the undisguised pleasure that Arendt took in leaving Israel — "I have never before grasped the concrete meaning of 'relief' so clearly," she wrote at the end of a 1955 trip — suggests the great emotional forces at play.
Even in English it seems for him improvisation doesn't always feel like you are reaching for something concrete or tangible: more like grasping for something already difficult to articulate, a silhouette of a funny idea.
Bloch wrote: "Expectation, hope and intention, directed towards the possibility which has not yet arrived, constitute not only a fundamental property of the human consciousness but also, provided they are rectified and grasped in their concrete aspect, a fundamental determination at the heart of objective reality itself".
