This "ground sense," to borrow William Carlos Williams's idiom, is at the core of our humanity.
Working with Dr. Versteeg and another geophysicist, Bruce Bevan, they did some trial runs using above-ground sensing techniques.
"Normally we would do this manually," he said, "but students wear out, and they don't go in a straight line.' Above-ground sensing at Amheida will be accomplished by the same robot, this time equipped with a laser scanner.
But there always is Mr. Axelrod's grounded sense of context and avoidance of hubris.
We tend to lose that practical, grounded sense as the history proceeds.
In RD Laing's world, a grounding sense of humour was never too far away.
Developing skills and talents are important, but there is no substitute for a grounded sense of self.
Accordingly, they're inclined to ascribe to him a deep, philosophically grounded sense of the meaning of human liberty, which guided him at every step.
Hopkins had statistics on poverty pouring into his office in Washington but, in order to more effectively administer his relief program, he wanted a personal, on-the-ground sense of what the country's poorest citizens were experiencing.
Little else in the show makes such humanly grounded sense, though there's no gainsaying the appeal of the abundant flavors of an international aesthetic cuisine: French color, Italian locomotion, Russian tectonics, Dutch severity, American pep.
