I need to relax and not try to grasp onto things that are ungraspable. From Wordnik.com. [i-claudius Diary Entry] Reference
His perception of time came to resemble something flowing and ungraspable. From Wordnik.com. [Flooding the Memory River] Reference
Big House itself, constituted a sum gaspingly ungraspable to the country-side. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER IV] Reference
But that's not a confidence that comes from knowing that mystery which is ungraspable. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Z. Cohen: Spiritual Self-Confidence] Reference
He has a generous streak, but the whole idea of buying toys for kids who are not him is ungraspable. From Wordnik.com. [Travel Shopping] Reference
What the poet Elizabeth Bishop calls the "art of losing" is, in this case, ungraspable and shapeless. From Wordnik.com. [Lost Lives] Reference
Nature — formless, sporadic, and disorderly — is one vast, ungraspable pattern, a living mandala. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzine » Order, Chaos, Light] Reference
The concept of achieving true happiness has, in the West, always seemed ill defined, elusive, ungraspable. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: The Art of Happiness by His Holiness The Dalai Lama] Reference
A tension is set up — a vibration, as we almost grasp the ungraspable, and even have the hubris to put a frame around it. From Wordnik.com. [A Space in Time] Reference
No, the truth is just out there, free-floating and ungraspable, a permanent toxic cloud that taunts us with its elusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Big and Profound Screen | PopPolitics.com] Reference
It seemed somehow intangible, fleeting, ungraspable. From Wordnik.com. [Rose Orchid] Reference
Pure immediacy, as such, is almost ungraspable by us. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day] Reference
Lydon's lyrics were barbed, alienated, yet oddly ungraspable. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
"Life was ungraspable because it would not stay still," Tassie reflects. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
The bulky and the physical supplanted by the conceptual and the ungraspable. From Wordnik.com. [FT.com / Arts / Visual Arts - Monument to a worthy Italian job] Reference
She was full of thoughts and intentions as ungraspable and spacious as the Milky. From Wordnik.com. [Captivity] Reference
The completion of that letter had been to him a struggle ungraspable by Scorrier. From Wordnik.com. [Villa Rubein, and other stories] Reference
There were times when the ungraspable idea came before her that Juliet was herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Girl] Reference
Everything was elusive, ungraspable, evasive -- he seemed to get no further forward. From Wordnik.com. [In the Mayor's Parlour] Reference
Like the ungraspable clauses of its title, "The More I Die, the Lighter I Get," the works in. From Wordnik.com. [artforum.com] Reference
Where the world of microbiology excels is in unpredictable forms and textures, ungraspable complications. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Everything about the Tarahumara seemed backwards, taunting, as irritatingly ungraspable as a Zen master's riddles. From Wordnik.com. [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference
Both involve a power that wants to be power even in the region of the ungraspable, where the domain of goals ends. From Wordnik.com. [Brit Lit Blogs] Reference
Boltanski doesn't use photographs any more, but there are less direct ways to evoke this ungraspable individuality. From Wordnik.com. [London Review of Books] Reference
He had no real knowledge of the subject, and I had none of any kind, which made its ungraspable facts all the more thrilling. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference
This year the Best Picture category expands to 10 nominees, from five, for reasons that are as ungraspable as Sandra Bullock's popularity. From Wordnik.com. [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference
Whereas the adult world seems immense and ungraspable, sprawling and unwieldy, this pretty microcosm was tidy, inviting and self-contained. From Wordnik.com. [Ventura County Star Stories] Reference
Hitchens answered, ... quot; The thought that the universe is finite or infinite to me is ungraspable. ". From Wordnik.com. [Day 2 of the NYC Book Expo: Christopher Hitchens & Independent Book Publishers....] Reference
How remote such a time seems, and how ungraspable is the fact that real men ever did fight in real armor!. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp Abroad — Volume 03] Reference
He says, "The truth is ungraspable and inexpressible. From Wordnik.com. [Open Buddha] Reference
"Like an unrequited love, the surprisingly ungraspable dream of translating. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
The craved-for renown remained ungraspable. From Wordnik.com. [In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"] Reference
He felt himself facing something ungraspable. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Flies]
His core beliefs are ungraspable. From Wordnik.com. [ConservativeHome] Reference
Things are ephemeral and ungraspable. From Wordnik.com. [Doors of Perception weblog] Reference
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