Word: grasps
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...stage to Goode, who performed the four short pieces of Brahms' Op. 119, three intermezzi and a rhapsody. The first of the set, the intermezzo in B minor, is the thing of devastating beauty. Though Goode's tempi were excessively free, his princely touch and his formidable intellectual grasp of the music overwhelmed all objections. His performance of the bravura E-flat minor rhapsody was the best of the four, demonstrating superior voicing and clealiness of fingerwork...
Overall, however, the bulk of Stoppard's genius comes through. The two sensitive main performers overcome moments of slowness in their presentation by simply persisting in their pitiful, confusing quest. This production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead has a firm grasp on Stoppard's humor and his upside-down view of the situation, making for a worthy evening of entertainment. But the directors needed to sustain a more frenzied, fast-paced atmosphere to make this jaunty and subversive play the thought-provoking pleasure that it should...
Russian women took care of their families during the Soviet period and that was their way of holding on to the only aspect of the private sphere to which they were entitled, the last grasp at a personal life outside of the Party and the "Motherland." In America, women are forced into the public sphere and out of the private sphere...
What dread grasp / dare its deadly terror clasp...
LaFollette said that others failed to grasp the most crucial issues underlying pollution and energy crises...