Sentence examples for genuine grasp from inspiring English sources

The lounge also has a genuine grasp on cocktail culture.

Equally important, he has a genuine grasp of what ordinary Americans face.

In particular, the difficulty is to explain how awareness of a mental state can be direct and immediate, yet epistemically substantial a genuine grasp of the state as a state of a certain kind.

For the head of a western firm visiting China from the back of a chauffeur-driven car and staying in top-of-the-range hotels, it can also be hard to get a genuine grasp of daily life.

Moving forward, particularly in HIV/AIDS prevention, and gay men's health overall, we must not reduce members of our community to problems that need to be solved and thus rush to establish prevention strategies without any genuine grasp of our desires and sexuality.

No actual grasp was allowed.

Maimon does seem to have had a genuine appreciation for Mendelssohn, both because of his kindheartedness and because, unlike most others of the circles of the Jewish Enlightenment, Mendelssohn had a reasonable grasp of the Talmud and rabbinic literature.

But none of them has had a better feel for it, or a more genuine, yet simple, grasp of the nation-building potential of sports than Nelson Mandela.

Parkinson said governments had to get serious about adjusting the tax mix, look at raising more revenue through indirect taxes such as the GST and grasp genuine reform of the federation.

It is unclear, for instance, whether his hosting of the former US basketball star Dennis Rodman reflects an autocrat's caprice or a genuine attempt to grasp something about the alien superpower.

"The great comedians collected here changed comedy forever," he writes, between bouts of insisting that no one has picked up the torch because audiences became unable to grasp genuine wit.