Of course, misery is detectable only in its works, and I manage to grasp something of the sorrow and bedlam that Jade has been through when I glimpse the old photograph of her.
But there is little sense that he has managed to grasp the scale of disaffection felt by those who participated in the riots.
Bob Pittman, who was then running AOL and knew Blodget, said, "Henry managed to grasp that the Internet would be part of every business".
While George W Bush managed to grasp that America existed and, indeed, was America, his 2006 slogan betrayed a rather basic understanding of what a government does: "Real plans for real people".
I was reassured to hear how many other people there were daunted in particular by the plot; and yet, with the help of some jolly cardboard boxes designed by writer and opera aficionado Sarah Lenton, we managed to grasp the basic plot of the entire Ring in less than ten minutes.
But at least the lack of nuanced choice under FPTP was laid bare in all of its lurching, tribal absurdity when it became clear that the Lib Dems, even with a respectable 23% of the vote, had not, by some way, managed to grasp even the balance of power.
The meat industry has, inexplicably, never managed to grasp the obvious: consumers feel duped by industry and find LFTB unappetizing.
While still in school, he became fascinated upon hearing the British première of Gruppen, and listened many times to the recording of this performance, while trying to penetrate its secrets—how it always seemed to be about to explode, but managed nevertheless to escape unscathed in its core but scarcely managed to grasp it.
Yet he managed to grasp that his only hope lay in licking JT and Stephen's butts as ardently as he could, because his inter-tribe grudges and anti-female vendettas had destroyed Timbirra's early numerical power and left The Jalapeno Trio firmly in control.
None of the interviewees managed to grasp this in the pre-clinical course, but then they were split almost 3 ways whether it came together for them during the early part of the clinical course, final exams or when working in the first postgraduate year.
