Sentence examples for I refuse to understand from inspiring English sources

"Why an opera like this is not in the repertory everywhere is something I refuse to understand".

I refuse to understand this death as anything but yet another life taken in the context of a genocide.

"Positive!" the nurse at the other end kept shouting, while I refused to understand.

Maybe it was Mike Woodson, a coach who inherited a team of Bad News Bears, added two former North Carolina Tar Heels (Raymond Felton and Rasheed Wallace), and often had the same firm look that my stepfather used to adopt when I refused to understand why the yard couldn't be raked over a period of weeks rather than in one Saturday afternoon.

When I ask VanderMeer what humans refuse to understand about our environment, he notes our strange belief "that somehow we're not part of this world but instead settlers of it, as if we're all astronauts who came from another planet".

"When my friends fail to recognize or refuse to understand the stakes of this life-and-death struggle, I do tend to feel isolated from them". Allison. Allison

If they refuse to understand," she adds with a smile, "we send them to the palace".

Wing is confounded by men who refuse to understand the terms of this new egalitarianism.

Of course, we could simply refuse to understand such behaviour, and even ignore it, but that offers little hope of stemming the tide.

"In the West, people still refuse to understand that the cheapest, fastest route transferring energy from the Caspian is through Iran," Mr. Khatami said.

(CH) Nauman says that his art "comes out of frustration with the human condition, about how people refuse to understand other people".