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

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

The cascade of flickering, sometimes unreadable images is so unremitting, despite long stretches of an utterly blank screen, as to be nearly ungraspable.

From New York Times • May 24, 2018

This air of being lost in a world of ungraspable dimensions is crucial to the experience of the Passion as a whole.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 25, 2016

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