After Jessie's death, I had many moments when I wondered whether or not she had REALLY been grasped entirely by Amida Buddha, and would be delivered at the end of her life to the Pure Land where she too would become a Buddha at last.
In her observations of children as readers in The Reader in the Writer, Myra Barrs supports re-reading on the grounds that sometimes there may be too much meaning in a story for a reader to grasp it entirely on their first reading of it.
Your eyes would have looked directly at them, yet your brain would have been so preoccupied by counting in a steady pattern that you failed to grasp them entirely.
I moved into a new house, was surrounded by new people, and struggled to grasp an entirely new language.
"The obvious truth is, even with all the goodwill in the world, foreigners can neither entirely grasp the psychology nor fully understand the aspirations of the people of Vietnam, nor the genuine needs and the special conditions of Vietnamese so ciety.
He can't entirely grasp how everything went wrong, much less articulate it to his family.
They feel they are too old to have things explained and yet they are not old enough to realise that much of life at any age is about piecing things together that you do not entirely grasp.
If anything, the book enchants readers who might not entirely grasp its concepts with the delight in not knowing; the realization that even the most know-it-all kids do not, in fact, have all the answers and that certain questions are worth asking.
He surrounds his familiar-seeming characters, most of whom would look perfectly at home on the steps of the Kremlin today, with a sense of the mythic, of an arbitrary power called history that shapes its participants in ways they can never entirely grasp.
The last thing you hear on the album, after a version of Willie Dixon's I Can't Quit You Baby crashes to a halt, is Mick Jagger asking uncertainly "was that OK?" He sounds like a man who's still slightly awed by this music in its original form; who knows he's still paying homage to artists he can never entirely grasp, whatever Keith Richards thinks.
As children, they won't entirely grasp what's happened.
