Sentence examples for could be grasped from inspiring English sources

The world could be grasped in its particulars.

Hell's torments introduced to the medieval mind the concept of infinity and how it could be grasped.

The widespread Platonic philosophy in ancient Greece placed the highest intellectual value on an ideal world that could be grasped with the mind and not with the senses.

It's all part of the same game plan: restoring to Russia whatever power and pride could be grasped from the wreckage of the nineteen-nineties.

The world of music was once small enough that it could be grasped by chronology, not geography: the Baroque, the Classical, the Romantic and the modern transcended boundaries.

In contrast to ears, the young man's cannonball had indentations so that it could be grasped and lifted with pointed tongs.

This could be grasping budgets, client management and forecasting which are all really important factors.

Barthes had composed a ghost story of sorts, in which neither Henriette Barthes nor the book's ostensible subject, photography, could quite be grasped.

If things were not intelligible by themselves, they could not be grasped and recognised by our intellect for what they are (In Metaph., lib. VI, cap. 4, fol. 233rb va).

In his correspondence, though not in this text itself, Bauer indicated that this restoration of the Christian principle was also its overthrow, as the unity of universal and particular could now be grasped in more tangible and earthly forms.

And already it seemed to us that the notion of a living body could not be grasped without the unity of signification, which distinguishes a gesture from a sum of movements" (SB, 161 162).