Sentence examples for grasping reality from inspiring English sources

F.W.J. Schelling (1775 1854), Hegel's successor at the University of Berlin, emphatically rejected the idea that reason was capable of grasping reality.

A few hours with Reader, and I could "read" The New Republic and The Wilson Quarterly, City Journal and Pruned, ftrain and XKCD, Bibliokept and Grasping Reality with Both Hands, The American Prospect and Idle Words.

To outsiders familiar with the armageddon bearing down on the Iraqi leadership, their attitude has seemed redolent of an authoritarian elite in deep denial, incapable of grasping reality, either about their external enemies or the mood of less powerful Iraqis, because of years of listening mainly to echoes of themselves.

Are not Jim Tankersley and Ezra Klein close substitutes?" (J Bradford DeLong, Grasping Reality, 2,380 words).

Generally speaking, Zen cherishes simplicity and straightforwardness in grasping reality and acting on it "here and now," for it believes that a thing-event that is immediately presencing before one's eyes or under one's foot is no other than an expression of suchness, i.e., it is such that it is showing its primordial mode of being.

Paul Ryan has grasped reality with both hands.

It just shows a failure to grasp reality".

"Speculation," she says, "being the effort to grasp reality in its interactive entirety".

Abdul-Jabbar seemed to grasp reality better than many aging players.

We are badly prepared to grasp reality as described by modern physics.

"I think we need a president who can grasp reality a little better," he declared to applause.