"These wines are quite elusive -- you grasp and lose, grasp and lose," he said, adding -- ever the Frenchman -- "They are like women".
He is a figment of their imagination, a shadow just beyond their grasp, the lost love forever dancing on the edge of their consciousness.
But it's hard to grasp we lost the guy Who used to have this voice.
IRISH PROVERB He who grasps loses.
IF you want to figure out why Newt Gingrich is still out there grasping for lost power, howling at the moon like King Lear, look to Callista.
So now, past our second summer, thanks to Milo, that McMansion will never be built, and we tramp over fallen trees and grasping vines, lost in that strange magic of simultaneous birdsong and hush.
But it was understandable because we had the three points within our grasp and we lose the game.
Some numbers are just too big and abstract to grasp, so they lose their power.
In the poem, the narrator visits the spot where a pearl once slipped from his grasp and got lost among "Gilofre, gyngure, & gromylyoune, / & pyonys powdered ay bytwene" ("ginger, gromwell, and gillyflower / with peonies scattered in between").
"They are in such a bunker that they have lost grasp of what it means to be in society, to be a good neighbour, to be a good Christian and Catholic .But at least they are able, from time to time, to figure out when they have to cut their losses.
