Word: grasping
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Klunick, a highly-touted recruit who saw a lot of time on the floor early in the season, missed much of the year with a hand injury. He provided a spark on the defensive end, using his quickness to generate steals and harass opposing ball handlers. His grasp of the offense will need to grow in the offseason, however, as he committed 11 turnovers in 63 minutes of play...
...contradict (and, recently, to express contrition), usually beginning with “Let me just say that…” and often devolving into an economics metaphor. The second is as chair, where he employs a unique insensitivity to parliamentary procedure. Summers’ poor grasp of the rules has caused such confusion that votes on simple matters with unanimous consensus—like adjournment—have turned out wrong and required a revote...
...then MOMA's supremely influential photo curator, rightly saw that all three were turning the practices of documentary photography, as he said simply, "toward more personal ends." What he might have said was that they were entirely discarding the conventions of that kind of photography--easy-to-grasp, socially concerned images of David Douglas Duncan or W. Eugene Smith--to enter a realm that was a whole lot stranger...
...wicked, ironic sense of humor (in private) and a great raucous belly laugh. She is smart and solid; she inspires tremendous loyalty among those who work for her. She is not quite as creative a policy thinker as her husband, but she easily masters difficult issues-her newfound grasp of military matters has impressed colleagues of both parties on the Armed Services Committee-and she is not even vaguely the left-wing harridan portrayed by the Precambrian right. I also think that a Clinton presidential candidacy in 2008 would be a disaster on many levels...
...game was close for a while but then was slipping out of our grasp,” senior midfielder Casey Owens said. “In the second half we knew we were going to have to step it up if we were going to have a shot...