It's to give a "graspable," whole picture -- take it home, put it on the shelf, and now I've got the view of it. From Wordnik.com. [Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs & His Failure] Reference
I prefer the concrete, the graspable, the provable. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of the Archons] Reference
What's more, the Mirror's Edge world feels tactile and graspable. From Wordnik.com. [Victory in Vomit: The Sickening Secret of Mirror's Edge] Reference
The number was graspable, because I was always good at arithmetic. From Wordnik.com. [sirilyan Diary Entry] Reference
In truth, the scent was one of the more graspable concepts on display. From Wordnik.com. [White Monkeys, Green Faces At Colorful Hamptons Benefit] Reference
Are there any weak points in the system that are graspable by the outside?. From Wordnik.com. [Book Review: The New American Militarism] Reference
And if you've seen them and are looking for something more graspable then. From Wordnik.com. [The Idiotrix] Reference
A shared and easily graspable magnitude expressed at the expense of complexity. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
At least it was graspable and, with luck or hard work, sometimes even reparable. From Wordnik.com. [Firestorm]
It must be graspable by even the weakest of minds; by even the unintelligent mind. From Wordnik.com. [Reality Check] Reference
The article mentions several almost graspable straws that have been comforting in the past. From Wordnik.com. [Intelligent Design described - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Seriously, though, quirks are just a way of treating shifts in modality in more graspable terms. From Wordnik.com. [War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…] Reference
Topos metonymically touches the 'inside' and 'outside' of poetry, in a somewhat ordinary, graspable way. From Wordnik.com. [_Queen Mab_ as Topological Repertoire] Reference
The emergence of the monarchy that still rules Jordan is among the few graspable benefits of the Great War. From Wordnik.com. [Israel Now] Reference
Raul Grijalva, just elected chairman of the progressive caucus, sports a handlebar that appears especially graspable. From Wordnik.com. [Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow] Reference
Looking forward a hundred years is a graspable idea when we consider how slowly languages have evolved in the past fifty. From Wordnik.com. [The Hundred-Year Language] Reference
We need to develop a style and a vocabulary that make head-arguments as inevitable and graspable as those aimed deeper down. From Wordnik.com. [Robin Lakoff: Head, Heart, Guts and Gonads: Getting Down and Dirty in the Rhetoric War] Reference
The assumption is that things graspable by intellect alone belong to a realm above the material, corporeal world and hence are timeless. From Wordnik.com. [John Scottus Eriugena] Reference
And a text can be more graspable, more ready to give up its secrets, if the reader has some structural principles to measure it against. From Wordnik.com. [What’s The Fuss About Episodic Fiction? « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
There are seconds -- fleeting, momentous seconds -- when the world seems relentlessly clear, and the very nature of existence graspable. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
It is restless and not graspable from any fixed point. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
MISSES: All that recycling's not immediately graspable. From Wordnik.com. [Charlotte Observer: * Home Page] Reference
A graspable meaning with a darkly comedic visualization. From Wordnik.com. [Chinalyst - China blogs in English] Reference
It means that nothing is graspable really, but I like that. From Wordnik.com. [theatre notes] Reference
"There is this non-graspable fear of fundamentalism," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - UPI.com] Reference
Our show is entertainment, but there is a very graspable message in. From Wordnik.com. [Lead Stories from AOL] Reference
She had the air of snatching at that as something concrete, graspable. From Wordnik.com. [The Lovely Lady] Reference
The associations are rich and inch toward making catastrophe graspable. From Wordnik.com. [Creative Loafing Atlanta] Reference
Perhaps it's that it seems too easy when handed to you in an immediately graspable way. From Wordnik.com. [Art & Perception] Reference
"The instructors did a good job of explaining things in a graspable way without boring me.". From Wordnik.com. [BabyGotMac.com] Reference
But because his reach exceeded his grasp, in fact exceeded the graspable, he went very far. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Boyz] Reference
You took a subject that everyone knows, but no one understands and made it graspable using iconic imagery. From Wordnik.com. [ON: Digital+Marketing] Reference
Plato's majestic arguments in favor of the Immortality of the Soul fall short of anything sure and graspable. From Wordnik.com. [Ardath] Reference
I like that Kahn managed to make the puzzle a good work-out despite its having a very easily graspable theme. From Wordnik.com. [Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle] Reference
There is a general resemblance, it is familiar and graspable to a twelve year old, so that is what we are told. From Wordnik.com. [CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries] Reference
Top 4 is still graspable as I think Liverpool are well short of quality compared to Manure, Chelski and Arsenal. From Wordnik.com. [Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed] Reference
They all seemed to come up with big plays through the second half to keep Sacramento within a certain graspable reach. From Wordnik.com. [Sactown Royalty] Reference
In this article, I shall describe the most fundamental and easily graspable morphological element which is temperament. From Wordnik.com. [gimcrack hospital (PG)] Reference
Otherwise, we run the danger of treating love as just another idol … another graspable substitute for certainty and ultimacy. From Wordnik.com. [UUpdates - All updates] Reference
The whole of human existence that emerges as his stories unfold makes you feel that life's mysteries are perhaps graspable. From Wordnik.com. [The Local - Sweden's news in English] Reference
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