Word: graspingly
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...aides concedes they first ran an "essentially negative campaign" against Reagan, assailing his proposal to lop $90 billion off the federal budget. But in his first campaign foray into New Hampshire two weeks ago, Ford turned more positive and presidential. On his budget, for example, he demonstrated his impressive grasp of its complexities, although his speeches were unexciting...
...Reality Grasped. Millet's sympathies were republican. His whole conception of peasant realism was in tune with, and fortified by, the political experiences of 1848: to grasp plebeian reality was to engage in a revolutionary act. But he was no militant. As Herbert is careful to show, Millet's imagination was fatalistic and conservative: the peasants, in his view, could never escape their cycle of toil but were bound like weary oxen to the mill of earth and seasons. That was the root experience of his own peasant childhood...
When you think of the literary scene in England at the outbreak of the war, you might not immediately grasp the fact that the Modernists (the writers we read today) weren't directly concerned with the war or with the mainstream of literature. Fussell puts us into the proper perspective with a curious list of (slightly exaggerated) negations...
While his men charge around the world in search of new loan opportunities, Wriston spends part of his time seeking to enlighten the public and Government in speeches and papers. His confident grasp of world trends and his wry wit make him a refreshingly able advocate. At the height of the Arab oil embargo, Wriston reminded a blue-ribbon Detroit audience that whale oil, once one of the nation's chief means of lighting, doubled in price during the Civil War only to disappear from the market later as lower-priced kerosene usurped its role...
...entire piece. Her partner, Eric Barsness, at first looks on without reacting, later comes to circle about her, holding the backs of her bent thighs, hovering over her glides, Douglas acknowledging him not in the slightest. As she executes her last turn, she catches Barsness in her grasp--still oblivious to his presence...