Sentence examples for subtle grasp from inspiring English sources

The "Embassy," in Book 9, in which the Greeks send a trio of chieftains to appeal to Achilles, shows a subtle grasp of psychology and rhetoric.

He added, "Reagan may not have had a subtle grasp of everything, but he read the briefing books and he knew the arguments, basically.

There are some that display all the subtle grasp of colour harmonies you might expect of a Shetland Terrier, but then you turn a corner and see something so lovely that you know at once that an artist's eye is at work.

Cartoons show more a more subtle grasp of the human condition.

But what is perhaps more developed is Robertson's subtle and nuanced grasp of character, notably of the vulnerable Maud: a heroine almost worthy of Thomas Hardy.

The results which flowed from this deficiency of understanding included constitutional arrangements which, because they did not reflect an understanding of liberty that was subtle enough to grasp that the liberty of the many was power, did not qualify popular sovereignty in a way that would restrain the demos effectively.

The data analysis shows that the students were in their "regime of competence" for grasping subtle nuances of the materials and for providing important hints for revising them.

In a previous study, we showed that such EMG changes were associated with subtle differences in grasping behavior [18].

The fictional narrative channels to the subconscious a sense of historical cause and effect that is often too subtle for reason to grasp.

As previously established in a long rant about his people's troubles with the Bush clan (basically, a clash of sensibilities, and too subtle for me to grasp), "George" meant the President.

In fact, the more subtle critiques of ideology grasp the extent to which both liberation and manipulation can be embodied in the law.