When the gallery invited him to make etchings and lithographs, he grasped the chance, even though – or perhaps because – these were unfamiliar media.
Falkirk held out, though, and grasped their moment of glory.
(It is true, though, that Eisenhower grasped the revolutionary power of nuclear weapons earlier than most of his fellow career officers. After the war, he set up a staff of young analysts to work through the implications and collaborate with government scientists).
Then again, though he surely could grasp the intricate mechanics of the infield-fly rule, how would he decide whether a ball "could have been as easily handled" by one fielder as another--a decision the rule says is governed by "[t]he umpire's judgment"?
He did, though, grasp that the strange securities were, he wrote, "monstrosities".
If, though, we can grasp their possible futures with sufficient faith and rigour, we may achieve the best anyone can hope for: averting the worst, aspiring toward the best, and handing on a culture (if not a planet) in better shape than the one we inherited.
Both Roosevelt and Churchill were convinced that sea power was decisive, even though, as Hitler had grasped, the combustion engine had made the old calculations moot.
Though he beamed afterward, McHugh, too, grasped the dichotomy of the day.
Though unconventional, she grasped her patient's psychology like no one else, and she truly cared for her.
