Late on, when Smiley starts to figure a few things out, he is even granted a moment of "elation".
Here the reader is granted a moment of cool repose before being plunged back into the adjective-heavy hothouse of a young writer struggling to find his voice.
Eileen Heckart, a longtime resident of the state, and Sylvia Herscher, the very model of a non-profit theater trustee, were not granted a moment of television time to receive the honor, or to say a word.
"A Moon for the Misbegotten" was O'Neill's elegy for and apology to his alcoholic brother James, whose character in the play (also named James) is granted a moment of absolution and unconditional love before dying.
Congratulators flocked her, and I was granted a moment to ask how she felt.
All of history, all of natural law and all actions of the divinity, are seen as leading up to the present moment, granting incomparable power and authority to the fundamentalist.
At one moment, granting this point about the First World War, he calls it "a distracting exception"; but any theory of total war where the First World War is a distraction sounds like a theory of something other than total war.
Partly, this is because the series' lorry-levelling denouement was a con of such delicious tidiness, granting us a moment of realisation that dawned just before it did for Roper, and tying up all the loose ends in one highly explosive bow.
The art morphs before the viewer's eyes, each moment granting the audience a fleeting, kinetic snapshot as it evaporates seamlessly into the next.
My painful illness has granted me moments of grace.
The moment of granting permission.
