She begins with a detailed tour of a typical Indian grocery store, aisle by aisle and shelf by shelf, making us understand without saying so that we are about to tour an entire culture.
But we understood, it goes without saying, that they had earned the trust they were given".
"It must be something like this," she said once in that perfectly dark, silent, sealed space, and I understood without her saying so that she was imagining what it might be like to be dead.
Good friends understand that and are there without saying, "I told you so".
Without saying if he understood why Tyson bit him, Lewis added, "I don't expect Mike to do that to me".
It goes without saying that you understood all the references immediately, but some of your friends might need a little help with their Gertrude Stein and their Luis Buñuel, so why not send them a link?
China is for China first, foremost, and always — this is something so ingrained, understood, and logical that it goes without saying, let alone necessitating a slogan.
It goes without saying that this notion is understood against the background of the notion of a direct interpretation.
But Van Ruijven also clearly understands, without anyone saying a word, that as a frequent and honoured visitor, he will have ample opportunity of forcing himself sexually on the serving maid Griet, and so the painting will be an exquisitely evil memento.
It goes without saying that the Nazis of Hitler's Germany understood the terrible power of propaganda, too.
Likewise, we understand the need for female teachers so that girls can have female role models it goes without saying.
