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come to grips

VERB
  1. deal with (a problem or a subject)
    I still have not come to grips with the death of my parents

How To Use come to grips In A Sentence

  • They have so far failed to come to grips with the ecological problems.
  • Vividbleau wrote: ya know its gotta be scary for them to come to grips with the fact that their empiricism is self refuting. Carry-Over Thread
  • It was a society in turmoil, one that resented its own fate and was trying to come to grips with it all.
  • I still couldn't come to grips with him being so different, but I found his differences interesting.
  • Im afraid just like your other examples you have repeatedly given this too will not register … ya know its gotta be scary for them to come to grips with the fact that their empiricism is self refuting. Carry-Over Thread
  • Returning to the present, we find him a confused and frustrated old man, unable to come to grips with the horrific realities of modern war.
  • You'll need, for instance, to come to grips with the devilishly complicated Thai tonal system (even my ultra compact phrase book devotes several pages to it).
  • They often meet for the first time in a Board of Education night class or a dance studio, where they must come to grips with the proper dance hold and the box step.
  • Yet, it is necessary to outlive the inhuman experience of this attempt at genocide with the collaboration and connivance of the state and come to grips with its implications for the future of the Republic.
  • His oeuvre resembles a series of projects, with each one more or less disavowing the others but all involving a new attempt to come to grips with an elusory reality. Nobelprize.org: Nobel Prize for Literature 1998 - Press Release
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