Sentence examples for slippery grasp from inspiring English sources

The strength of "The Fever" lies in the slippery grasp the narrator has on his own convictions, as Mr. Shawn captures with impish wit the tortuous reasoning of a mind trying to find its way back to acceptance of a state of affairs it has discovered to be morally untenable.

Who has the slippery grasp?

If you want silliness in the N.H.L, all you have to do, however, is consider its slippery grasp of geography.

Frank's cognitive stutter pries open the heartbreaking subplot of the film, revealing his slippery grasp on reality and his mind's inability to maintain firm footing in the present; it is sharply recognizable as Frank's advancing dementia.

Some had studied the ancient Games, had heard the tales of the wrestler Milo of Kroton or the runner Leonidas of Rhodes, while others had a slippery grasp of the history here.

But challenging them all for the slippery grasp of reality prize is that maelstrom of madness, the US House of Representatives.

On BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Johnson reminded listeners how slippery his grasp on the truth has long been.

Witness: 'He tried thinking of something else, as he rocked his hips, slowly, to and from her - her slippery insides grasping him, tightly, with each movement.

Present day endoscopic graspers are designed to be tooth-like in order to grasp slippery tissues.

The pointed cusps of its teeth allow it to grasp slippery prey, while their broad bases allow it to crush hard-shelled prey.

Fish-eating falconiforms have sharp spicules on the soles of the toes to grasp their slippery prey.