Sentence examples for managed to grasp from inspiring English sources

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".

The 21 Grams of the title, I managed to grasp through the mists of obfuscation, is apparently the weight a body loses when it dies, from which we might infer it is the precise weight of the human soul.

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".

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.

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.

At the end of "Clouds," the script flashes back to the scene of the fall, where, upon closer inspection, Guy manages to grasp the hand he leapt for and "watches his lifeless body fall to the concrete below".

After many agonizing moments, in a set of abrupt and jerky movements, he crouches and with painstaking precision manages to grasp a two-by-four board and then drop it to his right.

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.

Permeated by perspective visual thought and accustomed to reading the city like a text that can be subjected to a single gaze, our culture no longer manages to grasp the sense of this new, absurd, elusive geography.

Whereas they had dismissed the physical world as too changeable to be a fit subject for human knowledge, Ghent believes that pure truth and certain knowledge can be had of the physical world, provided we manage to grasp the real essences of things.