They have been helped to an extent by unguarded statements from MPs who should know better or, at least, show have grasped that their words could be twisted.
They keep saying they love fashion, yet they've never actually grasped that this isn't yoghurt or a piece of furniture – products in the purest sense of the term.
The reality is that the United Kingdom may not long survive unless virtuous principles are grasped and acted on by whatever government is elected as soon as the general election has taken place.
After three weeks in my new role, I believe we are on the cusp of a new era, which if grasped will firmly secure Britain's continued role as a leader both in the arts, and the creative industries.
The prime minister grasped how damaging it would be to have this pugnacious woman floating around without a portfolio to keep her on-message.
She instinctively grasped the troubling connection between being sexy and being vulnerable, and kept herself centre stage even as she lost control.
Instead, she dutifully extended her arm, grasped the Queen's hand formally and welcomed her to Ireland.
"I want to grasp things with the mind the way the penis is grasped by the vagina".
There is actually more continuity to Mandelson's revisionist stance in 2012 than Radio 4 listeners might have grasped unless they ploughed through those memoirs, The Third Man.
"This is a unique opportunity, an opportunity to be grasped," Espen Barth Eide, the UN envoy appointed to assist the talks, announced after the politicians had their first face-to-face contact over dinner earlier this week.
The argument that if we grasped how to control the climate then evildoers would already be doing it doesn't hold water with conspiratorial thought, however.
