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It is not easy for us now to grasp how central the image of theatre was to the Elizabethan Weltanschauung.
The effect was that they did not have a very good grasp of strategy and tactics.
By their own admission that is way beyond their technological grasp, and may remain forever out of reach.
The obscure concepts of the rhumb line, the loxodrome, and spherical trigonometry were also beyond their grasp.
From the very beginning, I was really impressed with Chan's direction and his assured grasp of shot composition.
She actually surprised herself when she reached up to grasp his hand without a second thought.
They were, he continued, within a whisker of making it through to the All Ireland semi-finals when they had victory snatched from their grasp.
Tightening her grasp on the tray until her knuckles turn white, Rena suddenly nods.
Fining over the top of the wrecks and around the hull affords a great opportunity to grasp the size of the ships.
I don't think anyone could entirely grasp who I am from watching the show, but what was shown was very raw and honest.
Week after week he painstakingly helped them work through problems his brightest students would grasp in an instant.
Tensions inside the firm mounted as some of the firm's white-shoe bankers worried that CEO Purcell would grasp at any deal.
There is a strange gleam in the older boy's eyes as he reaches down to grasp the hem of his shirt.
It is vital for almost everyone to gain a rudimental grasp of basic computing skills.
Then suddenly, he pulled the pinchers out, and in their serrated grasp was a perfectly round lead musket ball.
Now simply grasp the dowel with both hands, hold it out at arm's length and alternately wind and unwind the cord.
Kevin wrapped a protective arm around Lana who squirmed out of his grasp disgusted.
My colleagues' somewhat ropey grasp of physics resulted in a deluge of emails pointing out the error of our ways.
Many have a group of hard plates which retract and grasp like teeth, commonly called Aristotle's lantern.
Since I am an extremely avid roleplayer, I decided to create a character whose mentality and persona I could easily grasp.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They actually did have a remarkable grasp of physiology and biochemistry, and constantly sought to learn more.
They dropped from his grasp, and I saw that his fingers were purple and black.
However, in any one particular thing, we grasp only what it is in actualization.
No one will deny that the buddhist, the Mahometan, the Confucianist, have their grasp of truth.
The cabalist started up, seized him, and held him in his careful grasp, foaming and in convulsions.
How will he despise what he can grasp, for the sake of the dim glory that eludes him!
He hails the Rev. Septimus with a genial laugh and a hearty grasp of the hand.
The Canuck felt perhaps the simpler joy that the average man has in any strange notion that he is able to grasp.
A warm grasp of the hand from each was the only reply, and I turned once more to my discomforted friends the Guerillas.
We stand before the greatest marbles and canvasses, and we seem to have truth within our grasp and nature almost subjugated.
The 'chin rest' was meant to give the player a better grasp of his instrument.
He stepped nearer, and towering over her, he took hold of her shoulders in a powerful grasp and looked down upon her dominantly.
If chipping or cutting is required, he will grasp the first chisel at hand.
Then, too, when our artist friend was with us we were in the grasp of an epidemic of cholera.
These assignations, sine die, are such shadowy things that I can neither grasp nor get any comfort from them.
The Christmas rose clung tighter to the little brown hand, and drew comfort from the tender grasp.
If you grasp it, by abstracting from it even being, you will be in ecstasy.
Some of the boys were farsighted enough to grasp what Elmer believed so firmly.
He rushed forward and seized it in his grasp so violently that he knocked it down with its fastener.
He tried to grasp the situation and fearfulness does not help at such a time.
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