For him, a grasping of diverse personal motivations isn't merely a satisfying of curiosity.
The recognition of representations requires a learning, the grasping of a code or convention, beyond that required for the recognition of objects.
It was a grasping of freedom, a rejection of convention that she stood for and which people were all having to grapple with at the time.
Here she plays the most aggressively grasping of Stella's children with a mix of predatory fierceness and haplessness that becomes the play's comic soul.
"The Spaniards were still trying to make sense of confusing signs," he says in describing the Cortés expedition's slow grasping of ghastly Aztec practices.
It was hard, though, to take one's eyes and ears off Ms. Kavina's nimble plucking, stroking and grasping of sounds in the air as she stood at her theremin.
But now there's hope: this year, scientists demonstrated that monkeys, properly trained and specially wired, can channel the mere thought of reaching and grasping into the actual reaching and grasping of a surrogate robotic arm.
His gospel and his barrelhouse blues — "Precious Lord, Take My Hand" and "It's Tight Like That," "Peace in the Valley" and "Big Fat Mama" — possess, in his words, "the same feeling, a grasping of the heart".
Mr. Lin makes the anxious grasping of these kids for some kind of emotional turf -- their own need to shatter the stereotypes that bind them -- the heart of "Better Luck Tomorrow," a scenario that keeps the movie's blood racing.
Doncaster and the SPL clubs have had self-interest and the grasping of revenue as key motivating factors for so long that the chief executive's stance is no surprise.
