Word: grasping
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...Buddha, who listens patiently and then promises to help if she brings him a mustard seed from a household that has never witnessed a death. The young woman knocks on many doors. By the time she returns empty-handed to the Buddha, she has begun to grasp his lesson: all things in the world are impermanent, and to be ignorant of this fact is to be trapped in an endless cycle of craving, frustration and suffering...
Engell noted that upon the completion of Expos, students generally “feel good” about the course, though this impression changes by senior year. He suggested that this shift in student attitude may be caused by the fact that even after completing Expos, students struggle to grasp the stylistic demands of different departments...
Take a firm grasp of the bookcases’ metal sides. Do it standing, with entry from behind. Keep your thrusts to a minimum. Your lover and the bookshelf will appreciate...
...Celtics. Over the past few seasons they’ve had the Patriots, and this October they were blessed with the Red Sox. Philadelphia has had nothing. It is time for Philadelphia to stop losing. It is time for Philadelphia to claim the championship that has eluded its grasp over the past two decades, and on Sunday night it will be time for every true-blooded Philadelphian to scream at the top of his or her lungs, “Fly, Eagles, Fly!” as the Birds finally bring home a victory to the streets of Philadelphia...
...number of U.S. officials involved in the troubled occupation, including former U.S. administrator J. Paul Bremer. But among the skeptical allies the idea of basing an Iraq strategy on the success of managing postwar Germany is taken as a sign of an inability in the Bush administration to grasp the specific nature and history of the problems it faces in Iraq, and in the Arab world more generally...