Sentence examples for grasp anything from inspiring English sources

Paul Dirac would today be diagnosed with a personality disorder: he could not grasp anything other than the direct logic of the spoken word.

"To believe that Pinochet lost the plebiscite because of a TV logo and jingle is not to grasp anything of what occurred," wrote Francisco Vidal, a cabinet minister in two recent Socialist governments.

To grasp anything as part of my life as something that I do or experience is not a theoretical observation of myself but a practical activity of spiritual self-maintenance in which I am always engaged.

If I cannot fathom anything of the power of the drive derived from thinking that he has a special mission, what can I understand of Socrates?... How can one grasp anything about the problem of the Galatian community without sensing in one's bones the problem of worrying about God's acceptance?

She does not recognize certain forms, she experiences chaos in which it is very hard to grasp anything constant.

Others propound a version of minimalism by claiming that to understand what truth is one need not grasp anything more substantial than some rather minimal claims.

The nearer I got to the end, the further I felt from grasping anything of any real weight.

But if Barbour has grasped anything during his life in politics, it's that the Mississippi governor's race may well be about exactly those things.

In any case, in view of the difficulties concerning the soul he enumerates, Aristotle evinces an appropriate modesty when undertaking its investigation: "Grasping anything trustworthy concerning the soul is completely and in every way among the most difficult of affairs" (De Anima i 1 402a10–11).

"I totally understand how one would grasp for anything that looks promising," Dr. Mucke said.

But many residents will grasp at anything that means their pensions might be paid, or the streetlights might start working again.