Since the organization helped topple cultural norms that held back women, it's no surprise that men, many of whom feel excluded from this process, grasp familiar though outdated standards to justify defunding it.
And you are the one left desperate, grasping for an arm, a leg, anything familiar to hold onto, to push her back into the womb you once shared.
Nowadays, Hollywood studios are supposedly interested only in vast projects guaranteed to bring vast returns: these have to be action-packed, effects-heavy sequels and prequels of familiar material easily grasped by global audiences.
The complex harmonies and extreme chromaticism of his madrigals, written at the turn of the 17th century, are so viscerally unsettling that people tend to grasp for familiar points of reference to make sense of them.
The candidate preferences that voters share with pollsters are extremely tenuous -- they will typically grasp for familiar names -- and can be highly unreliable in predicting the nominee.
For example, showing a country's history of repression on a visual timeline might help people less familiar with the happenings grasp the concepts faster and with more accuracy than a whole lot of paragraphs detailing the same information.
Others may argue that beyond the familiar figures of the grasping politician, dodgy hack and bent policeman, corruption is more amorphous and more pervasive.
Gaby adds, "The story makes [these adult themes] accessible because of Scout [Lee's six-year old protagonist and a semi-autobiographical stand-in]." In that sense To Kill a Mockingbird may have been the first YA novel – it gives young people a familiar lens through which to grasp concepts that might otherwise feel overly adult or abstract.
Reading English in books you are familiar with will help you grasp a lot of the concepts.
I don't want them to be brought to me, or made helpfully more familiar, to bolster a neurotically grasped assertion that the present world is the only one of import: I want to be taken to them, I want to discover difference.
Nolan even tasks him with delivering the film's best line: "You're familiar with the phrase 'man's reach exceeds his grasp?' It's a lie: man's grasp exceeds his nerve".
