Word: grasping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...medal at sprints that will be a significant accomplishment, but I think that's totally within our grasp," Simmons said. "We're trying to set our sights more on nationals as our final race...
...this argument. If I am convinced that I am a failure, I probably will fail. If I am having trouble with a problem and I am assured that I am smart enough to figure out the answer, I will probably try harder, newly aware that it is within my grasp. However, the all-powerful selfesteem workshop can be very dangerous when it falls into the wrong hands, especially when the information we have been given about self-esteem is somewhat questionable...
...grasp what it means to be 120 years old, consider this: a woman in the U.S. now has a life expectancy of 79 years. Jeanne Calment of Arles, France, reached that advanced age back in 1954, when Eisenhower was in the White House and Stalin had just passed from the scene. Twenty-two years later, at age 100, Calment was still riding her bicycle around town, having outlived both her only child and grandchild. And 20 years after that, she was charming the photographers and reporters who arrived in droves last week, along with the French Minister of Health...
Certainly, artists who weren't white and male faced enormous difficulties in acquiring respect and recognition during Lewis' era. "Images and Identities" doesn't do enough with this problem. It tends to grasp at straws where Longfellow and Lewis' relationship is concerned. The brochure accompanying the exhibition says, "Upon first examination, Longfellow and Lewis would seem to have little in common." By the end of the show, we realize that, indeed, Longfellow and Lewis don't have much in common. "Images and Identities" starts out on the right foot, but looses its way among rhetoric and generalizations...
...Applicants who do well show a certain degree of spark," says Kramer. "Who do you want taking care of your grandmother? You want someone very smart, ready to grasp complex scientific situations and explain them simply to a patient...