Sentence examples for escapes our grasp from inspiring English sources

But this time, as the digital clumps break up and reform, the truth tauntingly escapes our grasp.

Do we wish to control the uncontrollable, to preserve mastery over a natural process, over an eminently human moment that goes beyond the medical and which escapes our grasp?

Once again, the Ninth Legion has escaped our grasp and disappeared from sight.

Mr. Bush made another pitch in his welcoming remarks to Mr. Yeltsin this morning, calling the economic aid "an investment in a new century of peace with Russia". "History offers us a rare chance, a chance to achieve what twice before this century has escaped our grasp," he said.

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Go to bed hungry, and sleep likewise escapes your grasp.

(The effect is reciprocal: sleep disturbance is associated with weight gain). Go to bed hungry, and sleep likewise escapes your grasp.

Once the cat starts shifting around, moving, or even meowing or trying to escape your grasp, it's time to set the cat down.

Maybe you'll realize that it is harder to get a teddy bear in a head lock than you thought, because their heads are filled with cotton so they can easily escape your grasp.

Yet this is a thoughtful, sympathetic portrait of white working-class life which is essential reading, even if a convincing definition of Englishness ultimately escapes its grasp.

We don't tell people that they are helpless, that the addiction has its claws into them forever, that no one ever escapes its grasp -- least of all poor, debased them.