Then I had a miscarriage, and in some uncanny moment of the veil lifting, I grasped what had slipped through my fingers.
But when time passed and I grasped what had happened, I was shocked.
Obama has had burdens that I'll never grasp, but having to always be prepared not to be taken seriously isn't one of them.
I'm still not sure I grasp everything that the writers have attempted here.
As we drove silently, and semi-contentedly, back past the gold-foragers, and the ramshackle cafeteria, and the heavy machinery of the Saudi farm installations – Gedo at the wheel, Omar asleep and me staring out at nothing– I grasped what I had failed to grasp on that lazy night of beer drinking on Omar's balcony.
The one thing I wished I had grasped before venturing into entrepreneurship was how committed to the long haul I had to be.
I thought I had grasped it before, but it took a whirlwind year to fully realize the truth -- they really do grow up so fast.
As if I grasped that I would have been somebody else, A poet of another language, of a different fate.
Nor had I grasped that opening the balcony door was out of the question, too, as the air outside was too hot.
"Although chemistry can be an 'intimidating' subject that is often viewed as difficult for students to grasp, I have always embraced this simple idea: Chemistry is everywhere, and thus chemistry is for everyone.
However, I was a writer and editor for The Onion for 19 years, and I think I have a grasp on satire.
