Word: graspingly
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...years after the first. The strings had difficult chromatics to flurry through. But it never got noisy or jarring, never lost sight of Tove's tender love theme. Over the radio Stokowski said that Gurreliede was unlike most modern music in that it was simple, direct, easy to grasp on a single hearing. If in Vienna Composer Schonberg was listening he perhaps resented such homely praise. He started Gnrrelieder when he was 26 (he is 57 now), when he was deeply impressed with Wagner's harmonic combinations, Wagner's use of Leitmotifs. Inspired...
...maternal grandmother, who smoked a pipe, prophesied that he would die on the gallows. She had her reasons. Once, to compel his mother's attention, he snatched a kitchen knife from her by the blade so violently that he still bears the scar. "A similar perversity drove me to grasp potted plants by their stems and to dash them to the floor...
...literal English translation in which it was given. Then the curtain went up on a drop topped by the letters H. P., with a heavy, everyday horse on one side, an everyday electric battery on the other. Mexico's Artist Diego Rivera claims that the lowest intellect can grasp the meaning of his paintings. Certainly no one had to scuttle for his libretto last week to discover that H. P. stood for horsepower...
Jane Parker still seems to be more pleased than frightened. Her abductor does not disillusion her. Although he can only converse with monkeys and is, aside from his ability as a gymnast, convincingly subhuman, Tarzan shows a surprising grasp of the niceties of romantic love. He is only rough once, when he seizes Jane Parker's handkerchief, tears it in half and gives a disagreeable grunt...
...fateful deadlock which will compel the nomination of a compromise candidate. And though Mr. Baker will go in to the convention with scarcely a pledged vote in his behalf, a succession of ballots would bring his name so significantly forward that the nomination might easily be within his grasp...