Sentence examples for effort to grasp from inspiring English sources

"Speculation," she says, "being the effort to grasp reality in its interactive entirety".

Once there, the eye slides and the mind stumbles around in the effort to grasp what it registers.

They all try to describe James's distinctive manner of speaking, which was an extremely deliberate, pause-filled, somewhat stammering effort to grasp le mot juste.

By Richard Brody August 28, 2016 Nanni Moretti's "Mia Madre," starring Margherita Buy, is something more than a work of personal cinema — it's a virtual manifesto for it, an effort to grasp the very motive for his art.

But in our understandable effort to grasp and master the skills of leadership, we tend to lose sight of the fact that there are two parts to the leadership equation.

But in his new film, "Mia Madre," he reveals himself to be a sly cinematic shapeshifter, making a movie about a filmmaker while playing a supporting role and yet telling a story that, for all its well-crafted and sharply observed drama and its flamboyant comedy, is something more than a work of personal cinema — it's a virtual manifesto for it, an effort to grasp the very motive for his art.

Relativity changed the scientific conception of the universe, which began in efforts to grasp the dynamic behaviour of matter.

His achingly self-aware drawings of the period have the stuttering air of efforts to grasp memories that are just out of reach.

Military service, Ronald R. Krebs argues, can play a critical role in bolstering minorities' efforts to grasp full and unfettered rights.

It revealed to them just how far Mr. Bo, who is now being investigated for serious disciplinary violations, was prepared to go in his efforts to grasp greater power in China.

In our efforts to grasp the number, and the scale of destruction, we've been forced to conjure up comparisons from beyond our borders: to the Somme, or even Hiroshima, the first Ground Zero.