Instead, all that is needed is a pregnant hint, carefully repeated, conjoined with looks directed intently ("wistly") toward someone likely to grasp the hint's meaning.
"He offers us continuity and real energy and passion for someone who wants to grasp the opportunity.
And for someone who loves to grasp at perfection, tango was an amazing exercise.
And I also feel like if you're someone who really tries to grasp or really tries to force something, it never happens.
Klebold's project is to reconcile the private image of her son with the public one, to grasp how someone she so loved, someone by many accounts lovable, could have done something so horrifying.
It's hard to grasp where someone who wears a yarmulke and a huge Star of David gets his nuanced understanding of Catholic concerns.
In sharing his Internet know-how, Mohamed said he understood that what might seem basic to him might be harder to grasp for someone who had not grown up with the technology.
(And why fuss over psychoanalysis, so seldom practiced today?) "If we wish to grasp how someone sees the world," the historian Quentin Skinner has written, "what we need to know is not what words they use" — "narcissism," for example — "but rather what concepts they possess".
The funny thing, looking back on it, is how long it took for even someone who predicted the disaster to grasp its root causes... [Fund manager Steve ] Eismanknew subprime lenders could be scumbags.
And it left the family of the slain girl, Queen Washington, not only grappling with the horror of her death, but also trying to grasp just how someone so young could possibly be responsible.
