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.
This "ground sense," to borrow William Carlos Williams's idiom, is at the core of our humanity.
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.
Ultimately, Tad is so disarmed by Rosalee's goodness and her grounded sense of values that he later pays a surprise visit to Fraziers Bottom, intending to hang out with her and absorb more of her goodness.
Though her cold hands gave away her nerves, she is a remarkably calm, surprisingly mature teenager who meets a gaze and holds it, and seems to have a grounded sense of herself.
But critics of the process say the city does not do enough to get an on-the-ground sense of school quality, and that it frequently closes schools despite credible signs of improvement.
