In leading discussion sections, I found that focusing on the importance of grasping the essential mathematical tools sometimes obscured the fact that the methods I was teaching had a greater purpose.
In his anguished, push-pull relationship with the brother, Mr. Cruise in a sense "acts out" the trauma of the family, the anger, the resentment, the inability to love; and, as he probes, he provides the film's sense of illumination, making us feel as if we are grasping the essential mystery of Raymond and their childhood together.
But the frustration, as so often on a men's wear runway, was not to be able to grasp the essentials.
The skills being tested here are your ability to quickly grasp the essentials of a situation and respond in a way that reflects an understanding of your role and organisational policy.
Its references to the great kings and more local rulers to whom the kings eventually ceded power, he said, give "a tantalizing glimpse into some detailed power structure of which we still do not grasp the essentials.
He tried to fashion a clear, concise, straight news story, starting with the who, what, when, where and why of an event and proceeding toward the end by placing factual details in descending order of interest and importance - a device that ennabled readers to grasp the essentials immediately and editors to cut stories from the bottom up.
By then, we've long since grasped the essentials of the story, which first caught the public imagination in Patrick Dennis's 1955 best-selling novel, "Auntie Mame," and then went on to even greater glory as a stage and film vehicle for Rosalind Russell.
Altho' good eyes and right understanding of the stylistic development and perhaps of its psychology would enable a scholar to grasp the essentials of Eastern art as well as Western, yet in Eastern art literature and art are so closely related with each other, that without a good command of language and literature it is practically impossible to get to the true meanings of Eastern art.
Or why is it sometimes clear that the reviewer is unable to grasp the essentials of the problem under consideration, and yet, rejection is recommended?
Such high-school arguments fail to grasp the essential chaos of media.
They both grasped the essential nature of making the city work".
