Keen grasp of the obvious?
How could Jesse so quickly grasp the absence of the shocking sound in the wake of the shock that still held all in its sharp grip?
Curtis plays the quintessential fast-talking New Yorker: sarcastic, brash, grasping, sharp-elbowed, success-crazed, womanizing, egocentric, quick-thinking.
One was relief: Mr. Powell's answers to reporters' questions demonstrated a sharp and intuitive grasp of global issues.
Maybe Ashton Carter's sharp intellect and grasp of detail will help with that.
The ball tumbled out of Urban's grasp, Sharper recovered, the Saints scored a touchdown four plays later, and the rout was on.
The first two fingers and the thumb ended in curved, sharp claws for grasping prey.
The various interpretations of his work — that "Woolf" was really about four gay men, and so on — have probably made him a little skeptical of our ability to grasp the sharp turns his mind takes.
Yet true to form, Mr. Hong draws this triangle with hard, sharp lines, which you grasp when one man tells the other that he admires him because "it's hard for a married man to openly bring along his girlfriend," as he has.
Our mind further needs to be sharp and alert to grasp new concepts and trigger new ideas without judging them on our bias or untested beliefs.
