Sentence examples for feeble grasp on from inspiring English sources

Or anxious about your feeble grasp on the role of quantum physics in biology?

But in Michael Clayton (for which she won an Oscar), and now Burn After Reading, for the Coen brothers, she drifts in and out of vision, does amazing and unexplained things and generally unbalances the two films' feeble grasp on reality.

Ordinary people often skipped church and had a feeble grasp of basic Christian dogma.

(That always boggles me, as a pedestrianly pragmatic American: I'm not sure if what I'm missing flies beyond the feeble grasp of my intelligence or, simply, isn't there).

He finds an antagonist in the form of Irving P Crick Tim Beckmannn), a US weatherman with a feeble grasp of the jet stream, and works in that staple of disaster movies, a heavily pregnant wife with, yes, high blood pressure.

Mr. Green's dewy romantic imagery, self-pitying tone and feeble grasp of the principles of poetic scansion suggest the powerful influence of Rod McKuen, a celebrated poet of the 1970's who has since fallen into disrepute.

This is my feeble grasp at the plot.

The rebels present a growing threat to the government's already feeble hold on the country.

In contrast, Charon's gravitational pull is too feeble to hold on to those volatile gases.

Mr Sharon drove his way through an international force, albeit a feeble one, on his way to Beirut in 1982.

Her grasp on the assignment tightened.