She did have a more immediate grasp of systems than he did, though.

"Or simply escape," Kelson answered, amazed, as always, at her immediate grasp of all the ramifications.

He found he had an immediate grasp of the necessities of flying and an instinctive appreciation for a finely tuned machine.

Tucked away up in the north-western corner of the plain, it is not near the sea and does not have good arable land within its immediate grasp.

Although steeped in his own investigation of the moment, he always seemed to have in his immediate grasp its ramifications into every corner of the universe.

According to Lorenz, the most significant factor in social behaviour was the immediate and intuitive grasp of the new hierarchy by each bird in the flock.

Well, what is this immediate grasp of a situation as a whole supposed to be if not the intuition they find so detestable?

If something is not within your immediate grasp, climb down and reposition the ladder.

She delighted in the pleasure she had given him, and impressed him with her immediate grasp of the esoteric arts of navigation.

Eventually she forced herself to smile, and Sandy felt that she was depending on him for something profound, something beyond his immediate grasp.