Sentence examples for grasp instinctively from inspiring English sources

He is one of the few male blue-eyed soul singers to grasp instinctively the soul man's attitude of impassioned humility, in which vulnerability is a badge of virility.

Rather, they are in some ways, at least, the expected way to mourn the passing of a father; not hewing to this tradition would invite social or state opprobrium, as the two teenage boys in the videos seemed to grasp instinctively.

Disraeli grasped instinctively that nationalism was the adhesive that would reconcile old wealth to new voters.

Berlusconi grasped instinctively the truth so apparent to the ad men who crafted the winning Tory campaigns in Britain.

For instance, he grasped instinctively how an actor should play the Mormon Joe Pitt, whose bottled-up emotions might suggest a performance of one-note stolidity.

Renoir looks apolitical, but he grasped instinctively that the same kids whose families supported the Commune weren't going to have their lives or pleasures defined by other people's hatreds.

In the general absence of meat, and with so nutritious a legume before them, Asian people seem to have grasped instinctively that soy – made palatable as bean curd – was worth keeping.

At first, he wrote, it was as though she were under water, and we [her teachers] on the surface over her, unable to see her, but dropping a line, and moving it about here and there, hoping it might touch her hand, so that she would grasp it instinctively.

We used a reflexive assay of grip strength, in that when pulled gently by the tail, the rodent grasps instinctively at a bar attached to a force transducer of a grip strength meter in order to stop this involuntary backward movement.

We grasp our powerlessness instinctively.

Moviegoers instinctively grasp what movie critics, it seems, are stubbornly slow to learn: books and movies are different.