Sentence examples for they were grasped from inspiring English sources

Buildings designed by hand, using pens, pencils, paper and rulers retained an element of the haptic – touched in the making, they were grasped once built.

"They were grasping at straws," Jones said.

Ms. Weber could have told the feds that they were grasping at smoke.

The children held on to these backpacks as if they were grasping life preservers after falling into the ocean unable to swim.

Honestly, if these guys weren't so bloody hilarious you might say they were grasping desperately for relevance in a world that has evolved beyond their intellect!

Husserl and Meinong contended that the basic categories of objects mirror the various kinds of mental activity by which they are grasped.

In this paper, we investigate categorizing arbitrarily shaped objects on the basis of how they are grasped.

However, since both cowhood and skyness are simple properties, they are grasped as such in perception without further qualification.

He thought of logic as turning on structural forms, independent of both their semantic contents and the mental acts by which they are grasped.

While the world consists only of two genera of individuals, substances and qualities, the concepts by which they are grasped and expressed are universal and of ten different types.

When the elements of judgments are initially identified, they are grasped qualitatively, as sensory impressions, like the visual image of a particular dog or the memory image of a horse.