ungraspable

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Food that holds you in place for a moment when the world feels loud, fast or oddly ungraspable.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025

But as composer Sakamoto’s farewell piano motif bestows a merciful poignancy to the closing loop of “Monster,” behavioral mysteries don’t seem so ungraspable, and the truth finally resembles a prism of hope.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023

The result is a beguiling, sidewinding meditation on “the possibility of dissolution of identity itself, of release, with all of its cosmic, ungraspable meanings.”

From Seattle Times • May 7, 2021

But, too often, “Hill House” reduces the ungraspable terrors that shudder through the original to mere “issues,” as if evil were just another trauma to be confronted, then resolved.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 2, 2018

We mustn’t swoon over every extraordinary number that comes before us, but it is perhaps worth latching on to one from time to time just to be reminded of their ungraspable and amazing breadth.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson