The INES scale (the subject of today's Daily Chart) is designed to communicate the seriousness of a nuclear event in a way that the media and public can understand, as they sort-of-grasp the magnitude scale by which earthquakes are measured.
That sort of grasping for something bigger yet always out of reach.
A generous view might see Ms. Kilimnik's project as a Warholian feminine antidote to a world run by the sort of grasping, high-flying bully boys who have figured in the Enron debacle.
If traditionalists say that there is a special sort of grasping or understanding or acquaintance with epistemic support facts and naturalists deny that there is any such thing, it is seriously misleading to attribute some sort of non-naturalism to the traditionalists.
So I did Miss Trinidad and Tobago and Miss Universe as my sort of grasping for that and that didn't really work out so well.
But that's precisely the sort of grasp of the facts that Fiorina has, which she put to good use in making Hewlett-Packard the titanic force of nature that it is today.
Like for instance, I'm not so hot at math or science, but if I read A Brief History of Time or one of those Quantum Mechanics for Dummies books really slowly I can sort of grasp the fundamentals.
The main lesson of his discussion is that, given the radically open-ended, temporally scattered reverberations of any given act, consequentialists cannot pretend to be able to attain any sort of grasp at all of the rightness or wrongness of the act.
On Iran, Hagel's positions are not only well-founded; they are informed by the sort of firm grasp of international and military affairs that has perennially eluded the Post's editorial board.
