graspable

• “It's to give a "graspable," whole picture -- take it home, put it on the shelf, and now I've got the view of it.”

  Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs & His Failure

• “I think these kind of graspable interfaces are very much needed, and do provide a much more intuitive interface," said Dinesh K. Pai, a computer science professor at the University of British Columbia.”

  MIT Media Lab Events and Highlights

• “And a text can be more graspable, more ready to give up its secrets, if the reader has some structural principles to measure it against.”

  What’s The Fuss About Episodic Fiction? « Tales from the Reading Room

• “The problem, as he pointed out—citing the work of Mark Liberman, a linguistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania—is that statistical differences between groups are much more graspable when shown graphically, usually in overlapping distribution curves.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Truth About Grief

• “I think that because the time of the ancient Celts itself is a murky one, with few graspable “facts” it does get marketed more as fantasy.”

  Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview with Jules Watson, Part 1

• “What properties does a snippet of our lives have to possess in order to qualify as a graspable unit that our minds can label as a part going towards a whole or merely a part unto itself.”

  Moments

• “Expect, too, for all those reasons to vanish behind what most Americans will see as the far more obvious and graspable cause: President Obama's regulatory assault on domestic oil and gas production.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Obama's Gas Price Migraine

• “Which is partly a testament to my mapmaking (non -) skill, but also partly the purpose of a map — to render something as vast as a landscape into a comprehensible, graspable, quantifiable representation.”

  The Map Thing «

• “In truth, the scent was one of the more graspable concepts on display.”

  The Wall Street Journal: White Monkeys, Green Faces At Colorful Hamptons Benefit

• “If you're a party that claims to have beliefs, do you go to where the voters are, perfecting the art of the easy road to a graspable majority?”

  The Huffington Post: The F Word: Solving a Problem Like Stupak

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