Sentence examples for was to grasp from inspiring English sources
His first instinct, like Rumsfeld's, was to grasp at fine distinctions.
Chase's creative leap was to grasp the transformation of the Mob genre, its passage from tragedy to farce, and, against all odds, make something new.
But what was of overriding importance was to grasp that there were deeper reasons for people taking outrageous actions that only appear to stem from religion.
But to sit in Janice's living room and listen to Yousef's story, even as Israelis and Palestinians once again trade rocket attacks in a new round of violence, was to grasp the awesome power of forgiveness and reconciliation.
His specific insight was to grasp early in that campaign that Labour voters would decide the result, which proved to be the case, Since then, he has been intermittently preparing for the third such plebiscite.
Even for a viewer too young, as I was, to grasp the psychosexual undertones of a tale as old as this one, the Beast's physicality — the big buffalo head, the wolf's tail, all pathos and silly roughness — seemed less like an obstacle in the love story than its central object.
The challenge for government is to grasp it.
How quick Trollope is to grasp a place.
But the key to rethinking this picture is to grasp that it is not finished.
The task has been to grasp and move an unconstrained object.
To understand how music works is to grasp fundamental truths about how humans communicate creatively.
