Sentence examples for grasping something from inspiring English sources

Once again his characters were presented with the same underlying tone of subtle depression or another issue which prohibited them from grasping something that made them feel fulfilled.

Joy can come from a student suddenly grasping something, from resolving a difficult personal issue, or from hearing the bell ring at 3pm.

You can also fault Mill for not grasping something that a crazy reactionary like his friend Carlyle recognized: the depths of violence and rage and hatred beneath the thin shell of civilization.

Rather, it is new way of grasping something that he already knew.

To accomplish that, the prosthetic hand had to correctly determine within just 70 milliseconds that it was grasping something painful.

Each recalls the Kantian claim that objectivity requires space, or that grasping something as independent from oneself requires the experience of space, a version of which is deployed by Strawson (1959, ch 2) in his famous discussion of sounds.

As soon as you grasp something it slips away.

"I wanted to grasp something fragile and raw," Mr. Dozol said.

But the silver-haired spud salesman has grasped something that his critics have not.

Ultimately the interpretations were only words: futile attempts to grasp something beyond language and maybe beyond mind.

I must have watched it on VHS eleven or twelve times in one summer, trying hard to grasp something.