Sentences with phrase «grasp things at»

Suddenly, it is possible to grasp things at a glance that can only be understood in their original size through the time - consuming process of a physical inspection.

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Yesterday, President Obama took to the podium and proclaimed, ``... we have always been and always will be a triple - A country,» and it sounded like empty sentimentalism from a man at a loss for words and for meaning» the kind of helpless, grasping - at - straws thing you say to a defeated friend you are trying to buck up, even as you know you lack the answers, or the resources, to offer either consolation or solutions.

he IS grasping at straws since the singel parent thing wasnt an issue... secondly... you apparently need to go to school and learn that there IS a difference between a woman and a man and that children benefit from BOTH... and hwo a man loves a woman as nature intended... its people like you who are reason for high divorce rates in USA, because they don tknow what love or marriage is..

in a way i have sympathy for this kind of person, after all, they believe their church is dull and will grasp at the first thing that maybe offers a solution.

The famous verse (24:18) of Nagarjuna cited by Odin (p. 67) shows the identity of relational origination and emptiness, but it goes further to assert that emptiness is also identified with the middle way in virtue of the conceptual nature of grasping at the relational structure of things (prajnaptir unpadaya).

The starting point of this process is: «He did not look at equality with God as a thing to be grasped» (Phil.

Things that can be seen and grasped are certain and at our disposition.

God's natural order can still be grasped at by the common sense of men of good will, but the full truth and meaning of creation, the separation of the sexes and of human nature, will only ever be in part and obscurely viewed when the determined and determining purpose of the mind of God is recognised in creation, holding all things relative to Himself — and to His plan to enter creation as its Lord and King.

We can never look directly at them, for they are bodiless and featureless and footless, but we grasp all other things by their means, and in handling the real world we should be stricken with helplessness in just so far forth as we might lose these mental objects, these adjectives and adverbs and predicates and heads of classification and conception.

I know there is no recipe for these horrible mind things (been depressed myself so know full well how what works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another) but I was grasping at a straw when I asked you for some insight.

Sorry to put you on the spot, Ray, I know there is no recipe for these horrible mind things (been depressed myself so know full well how what works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another) but I was grasping at a straw when I asked you for some insight.

whoever said the thing about the benjamin franklin pick and the king richard is a total moron and is grasping at straws.

For to affirm that all things eternally recur, and recur eternally the same, is to grasp an absolutely chaotic movement or flow, a movement in which identity and difference flow into one another, and nothing at all either preserves its own identity or remains different from anything else.

Instead, at the most basic level, two things are required: First, an understanding of what the biblical gospel is, and second, a good grasp of how to share this gospel with others (aka «evangelism»).

While common sense develops only a dull, vague, but solid feeling of the infinite reproducibility of this elementary experience, say, feeling the stone under the butt and the butt on the stone, natural science consciously aims at optimization and at an optimized grasp of the persistence and regularity of constellations of events, which satisfy the requirements for stability that things have.

Above all, at that critical point where instinct turned reflexively to thought, and awareness of the future became an accomplished fact on earth, must not Man, m whom this radical change occurred, even in his most primitive state have experienced the vital urge to grasp all things and transcend himself?

But grasping at defensive potential seems to be a particularly Warriors thing to do these days.

Young has grasped his first - team chance at Manchester United with both hands after Louis van Gaal decided to shake things up in his faltering side.

At this age, she's too young to fully grasp a lot of what led her to us, but having all of these things will help her immensely when she tries to make heads or tails of it throughout her life.

By now I have a clear grasp on the importance of what Montessori does for children ages 3 - 6, by creating an environment for them to be successful at the things they are capable of doing themselves.

-- he's grasping at everything these days and loves to put things in his mouth.

Now, as we come to the end of a tumultuous political year, it seems clear that the candidates and their advisers absorbed the wrong lessons from Dean's moment, or at least they failed to grasp an essential truth of it, which is that these things can't really be orchestrated.

No commentary on this type of thing is complete without at least a basic grasp of (and nod towards) the cynicism of this process and sheer determination of the Remainers (incl the PM) to thwart the real intention of Brexit.

Sometimes, everything's within your grasp, while at other moments one or more things start to slip too far away.

For a low - fi indie movie, there are some great things at play — strong performances, an enticing script, mounting suspense, a huge payoff — even though some of the trappings of small budgets features don't escape Manson Family Vacation «s grasp.

Frequently, educators grasp at a new program, a new curriculum or a new «shiny thing» to accomplish the lofty goals we have for our students.

One thing Hyundai still hasn't quite got a grasp on is a cabin «presence» befitting a vehicle priced at more than $ 44,000.

They really are grasping at straws to try to pick one small thing to try to decry the ability of the iPad, it must be hitting the Kindle sales HARD!

Portfolio managers should grasp three things at least:

Looking at the bigger picture, however, will allow players to grasp the meaning of their adventure in the world of The Witness, which seems to mirror life: there's just no true meaning in solving these puzzles, just like in life there's no true meaning in many of the things we do.

We see the same things from different angles, as if we were ourselves multiplied and scattered in different spots around the same location, but we also see separate events take place at once, a collective routine that is impossible to grasp at a glance.

[7]» As Sachs says about the piece: «At the time I didn't fully grasp the value of my handcrafted things... I should leave it to Sony or Motorola to make those perfect things.

In this way, works like «Tsss Tsss Tsss» gives shape to the shapeless — to things that are hard to grasp — in order to be able to look at and reflect on them.

It's about the only thing that remains... that's us grasping at something better.

To grasp why this will take time, consider Edith Brown Weiss's sobering conclusion that «Earth has become a global commons» knowing that, as Charles Perrings explained, «If we value things at zero they'll be wasted.»

The sceptics are having things all their own way and the mainstream climate community are letting themselves be treated badly, and are not approaching things at a level the public can grasp.

I just find it so depressing that scientists refuse to acknowledge simple things like this because it degrades science so much for scientists appearing to be grasping at straws or denying reality to their dying breath.

You seem particularly inept at grasping nuances of things that really make a difference in fully understanding the dynamics.

What you seem to not quite grasp here is that the public has been told any number of things that were ultimately incorrect: professionals were wrong, mistaken, sometimes liars who made stuff up (I'm looking at you, Rachel Carson) and in every instance the case was argument from authority.

The hypothesis is that these aerosols reflect sunlight back to space and cool the earth (by the way, the blue line above in the IPCC report is explicitly only non-anthropogenic effects, so at the time it went down due to natural effects — the manmade aerosol thing is a newer straw to grasp).

Yet I've seen people at Seventh Generation all of a sudden grasp on to these ideas and say «oh my God, I'm getting these senses out there of this thing that is starting to emerge» but then it'll just kind of die.

But people grasp at these things and «unbundling» of services as half measures and yes... bandages, when the real thing is not on the menu.

London Review of Books — Marx at 193 — John Lanchester — Physics isn't the only thing that's difficult to grasp.

By way of background, the whole thing started when The Washington Post reported that the judge overseeing the case was «' astonished» at Rakofsky's performance and his «not having a good grasp of legal procedures.»

Things are slightly less grim for in - house counsel jobs, where women hold 23 % of the positions, and academia, where women hold 37.5 % of tenured positions, but now we're just grasping at straws to make ourselves feel better.

If you have read the details of the coverages mentioned, you would have grasped one thing — each one is an added coverage at a very low premium outgo.

When designing your own ladder strategy, the most important thing to do is to get a grasp of how much coverage you'll need at different points in your life.

Yes, at the fingertips of the person, things are already grasped.

Blockchain is a very nascent technology that many tech insiders themselves don't have a total grasp on — at least on the technical, developmental side of things.