A work that contained all those episodes, Aristotle argued, would be "too extensive and impossible to grasp all at once"; instead, Homer cannily focusses on just one episode from the tenth and final year of the war, and emphasizes a single theme.
Above all, these writers seemed to find it impossible to grasp how a novelist of Greene's acuity, seriousness and fame could have a relationship with a woman of Cloetta's provincial, unartistic background.
Spin is the canonical quantum observable that has no classical counterpart, reputedly impossible to grasp in a nonquantum way.
Even the most basic meaning of a complex novel is nearly impossible to grasp without dialing back and embracing a leisurely pace.
Indeed, it is the most technically demanding field in the whole of modern economics, impossible to grasp for anyone who lacks a command of differential calculus.
That evening a technical problem with a projector made it impossible to grasp the 3-D effect; even so, "Sky Breaks" has deeper structural problems.
For Baudrillard, the latter always elude capture by the former, thus philosophy is an "impossible exchange" in which it is impossible to grasp the truth of the world, to attain certainty, to establish a foundation for philosophy, and/or produce a defensible philosophical system.
It seems appropriate that a chapter of history almost impossible to grasp would present impossible challenges, especially for young children.
Second, think of Street's Law Courts not as a single building -- its immense size and constricted setting make it impossible to grasp that way in any event -- but as a far greater sum of parts, both exterior elevations and interior spaces.
Their bodies are covered in a mucosal slime, making them near impossible to grasp or impale (most eel spears have tines).
