Sentence examples for grips upon from inspiring English sources

still ringing in your ears, spare a thought for poor Axl – the man uses the illusion that he remains a functioning performer to keep the most precarious of grips upon reality.

These new, emergent forms of archival capital have an increasingly powerful grip upon culture and its reproduction.

"I do not wish to suggest," Rosamund says, "that the irrational was taking its famed feminine grip upon me.

But almost always, the imaginative grip upon his materials is delicate, subtle and unpredictable; and his remixes have a kind of metamorphic historical wit.

The novel bears traces of an interrupted composition, wherein the author had to get a fresh grip upon the many glittering threads of theory and incident.

"The journey of a one -nation modern compassionate Conservative party": so strong has David Cameron's grip upon his tribe been since the election that he could have coaxed the activists into singing the Red Flag.

A column of armoured Humvees was spotted speeding towards the airport as the Islamist fighters who had briefly besieged Bala Hisar seized it back – gaining a vantage point that will greatly strengthen their grip upon the city.

There is something of early Philip Ridley in Kelly's dark comic vision; but, although he creates a complete and terrifyingly grim world, his two narrators are too unreliable for the audience to ever get a real grip upon the story.

It's also questionable whether our grip upon the notion of the essence of a proposition is any firmer than our grasp of the notion of the generic reference of a judgement, or what a statement is about, or that in virtue of which it is true, or even the notion of truth-maker itself.

One day I realized that it had lost its grip upon me.

Furthermore, PPO was significantly lower (P < 0.05) in WAnT1 in the ARF protocol compared to the NOF protocol which suggests that in the absence of leg fatigue, the strength of the grip upon the handlebar may be influencing PPO.