Sentence examples for grasped upon from inspiring English sources

"That's when they sort of grasped upon this David versus Goliath story that we celebrate," Hayes-Bautista said, "because it shows that even though you're outnumbered and you're smaller, if your heart is pure and your cause is right you can triumph over evil".

Some must be subdued; others emphasised; in the process you will lose, probably, all grasp upon the emotion itself.

These 'degrees of knowledge' are not, however, independent of one another, and they have in common the requirement that to know something is to know why it is — "the mind is not satisfied when it merely attains a thing, but only when it grasps that upon which that datum is founded in being and intelligibility" (Degrees of Knowledge, p. 23).

And two methods that can predict when and how fingers will slip upon a grasped object are discussed.

But this time, Mickelson trailed Justin Rose by a stroke as he walked to his ball at the last hole, and perhaps the crowd grasped the juxtaposition, seizing upon the notion of a miracle turnaround.

Rather than build upon the easily grasped slogans and other rallying points of "War," the band returned in "Fire" in a more tentative and reflective mood.

The guard was upon him in a flash, grasped his arm tightly and growled.

Upon doing so, and upon grasping the connections between the steps of the proof, we have demonstrative knowledge (E IV.ii.2 3, p.531 532).

I've touched upon this issue, but haven't really grasped it.

His fiction still presented characters within an identifiable social world, but he found his characters and their world increasingly elusive and enigmatic and his own grasp upon them, as he made clear in The Sacred Fount (1901), the questionable consequence of artistic will.

Faith is thus a passionate commitment, not based upon reason but inwardly necessitated, to that which can be grasped in no other way.