Sentence examples similar to a half understood from inspiring English sources

Not just characters with names like Superfudge and Sheila the Great and Moose Freed, not just the suburban comforts and anxieties and the grownup details seen from a kid's perspective, half understood or totally unfamiliar: erections, sanitary belts, Hitler lampshades, the word "bordello," the concept of over-the-shoulder boulder holder.

Nor will half understood jargon from a weekend screenwriters' course.

They appear suddenly and naturally, to speak or intervene, and then vanish again, leaving us with the sense of a world governed by powers and riddled with jealousies only half understood by the suffering mortals.

In 2002, during the Second Intifada, I remember standing with 40,000 people in Trafalgar Square, swept up in a haze of blue and white flags, proud parents and slogans I only half understood.

Yet in this sample of adults over 40, only about half understood that fact.

They work intuitively on subject-matter that seems only ever to be half understood.

The adult world's method may be half seen, and its facts half understood by Vapnyar's children, but they nonetheless live vibrant lives saturated with desire.

His writing is atrocious: long-winded, confused and smug; filled with references to books Brand has half read and thinkers he has half understood.

Bush seems to have only half understood why he was there, and so he came prepared with several jokes about Letterman, who had recently undergone heart bypass surgery.

He can only tell us what he knows.History for him is like family intimate, half understood, repetitive: 1870, 1914, 1939, the Algerian war.

They had always made a point of releasing all the data they got, so it wasn't really novel; but like all the best news, their wallchart dramatised and made inescapable something people had only half understood.