"Climb on," she commanded, gesturing at the horse, and when the children did she grasped the halter and started walking.
Nor does she grasp at bigger themes or the many common factors that hedge-fund managers share.
Only when Lace, subsequently turned into an American TV mini-series, made her a multimillionaire – rated the 84th richest woman in Britain in 1994 – did she fully grasp the importance of maths as a tool for control.
The new mother, groggy from a nap, sat at the table as though she did not grasp why she had been summoned.
By Yiyun Li The new mother, groggy from a nap, sat at the table as though she did not grasp why she had been summoned.
Yiyun Li on growing up in Beijing in the eighties: "I did not yet know that some people were assigned a fate that left them… The new mother, groggy from a nap, sat at the table as though she did not grasp why she had been summoned.
She did grasp in due course that it wouldn't hurt to do "warm" – 1993's The Red Shoes is as "intimate" and "warm" as her music has ever been.
When Ms. Gorman noted that until 2008, PayPal required verification after a mere $2,000 in sent money — raising it to $10,000 was a conciliatory step in response to customer complaints, she said — it seemed for a moment that she didn't grasp the essential cockamamieness of the policy she was defending.
But she didn't grasp its significance until almost eight years later, when she and Harley began finding telomerase in human tumor cells.
But she didn't grasp its significance until almost eight years later, when she and [the biologist Calvin] Harley began finding telomerase in human tumor cells.
