My wholly unscientific theory – and I've no more evidence for it than the Maya-Maya-world's-on-fire lot do for their beliefs – is this stems from our understandable difficulty grasping the walk-on part we all have amid the sprawling enormity of deep time.
After no response for months, it's understandable they might grasp the first opportunity they're offered – regardless of how much they know about the role.
But in our understandable effort to grasp and master the skills of leadership, we tend to lose sight of the fact that there are two parts to the leadership equation.
The grim determination with which Hope pursued his career is perfectly understandable if you first grasp the grim lack of determination with which his father pursued his own.
Michael Tyndall, an auto analyst at Barclays Capital in London, said that while it was understandable that people were grasping for good news, the weakness in Europe was not over.
The apperceptive subset of agnosia is a neurological condition that entails trouble assembling elements of an image into an understandable whole, and difficulty in grasping the relationship of objects to one another.
The implications of modern genetics are not as easily grasped, and it is understandable that the filmmakers felt they had to set a slow, careful pace when dealing with science.
Though Trump and his properties are surrounded by projects, businesses, and community functions that benefited from the stimulus, it's actually quite understandable that he may not have grasped the extent of the law's effects.
That is understandable, but it makes it harder to grasp the connection between Mills's life and work.
He said it was frustrating but understandable that Australian governments were unwilling to grasp the mettle given "the level of community fear and concern that you have about our kids getting involved in drugs".
