Word: graspingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Porter reader is invitingly and inevitably addressed as "you." This means everybody: "Just consider these facts and you'll grasp the deep personal meaning of this to you-whoever you are, wherever you are." If the "you" is fissionable, Sylvia splits it: "you, the small business man" and "you, the consumer," to quote two salutations joined in one recent Porter column. "You" also is highly possessive: it is "your recession," "your cost of living," "your pocketbook," and, of course, "your dollar...
...first art Hulme created when he returned to London in 1908, at the age of 25, was imagist poetry. Hulme preached the primacy of the image, since he believed that man's only sure grasp of reality was through analogy and metaphor. Though his disciple Ezra Pound gave the school its name and became its chief panjandrum, it was Hulme who wrote the first imagist verse, including what T. S. Eliot has called "two or three of the most beautiful short poems in the language." Sample...
...accountant in the small town of Three Oaks, Mich. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in business administration and a Phi Beta Kappa key, worked briefly for a Chicago accounting firm, joined General Motors' New York staff as an accountant in 1926. His quick grasp of figures and his lucid speech propelled him quickly upward. In 1941, at 38, he became one of the youngest G.M. executives ever to reach a vice-presidency. In 1956 he was named executive vice president for finance...
...showed greater wisdom in next essaying Bach's Coffee Cantata and Locke's masque Cupid and Death. Both are works of high quality readily stageable and technically rather easy--well within the grasp of student performers. Yet the participants adopted so cavalier and irresponsible an attitude toward preparation that the result was an insult to the audience and, uniquely in Harvard's post-War theatrical history, managed to achieve total disaster. When, near the masque's end, the principals were poised in the balcony arches above the Fogg Court, one felt a nearly unconquerable desire to yell, "Jump...
...great things you have done are 'standing still,' then I say America needs more of it." Ike's best crack, by far, was a stinging jab at Kennedy's repeated references to a drop in U.S. prestige: "My friends, anyone who seeks to grasp the reins of world leadership should not spend all his time wringing his hands...