It had been useless to try to explain to her what this strange alien footwear represented to him, how it seemed to come from nowhere, this tidal wave of otherness, rising from that mysterious world far out beyond his tiny understanding, swallowing everything that used to seem reasonable.
A tiny bolt of understanding passed between them.
I had the tiniest understanding about what I was experiencing, but I was also hell-bent on leaving the Hertfordshire suburbs for the bigness of London.
Researchers are about to take a big step toward better understanding a tiny air pollutant.
With only a tiny bit of mutual understanding, it seems that we can all just get along.
I have personally performed lab experiments on mice and birds, knowing that the work I did was a tiny stepping stone toward understanding how the brain works, and would, down the line, contribute to medical advances in the treatment of Parkinson's disease and traumatic brain injury.
But along the way, the research helps provides answers as to why certain drugs fail in humans after working on animals, and "if we can just contribute a tiny bit to that understanding and making our science better, that will save animals," Bajramovic said.
Scientists now believe they are close to understanding why a tiny proportion of people with HIV can live for many years without succumbing to Aids.
In 2004, Father Desbois created Yahad-In Unum, an organization devoted to Christian-Jewish understanding run from a tiny office in a working-class neighborhood in northeastern Paris, backed and largely financed by a Holocaust foundation in France and the Catholic Church.
Data, yes; a tiny step forward toward a better understanding, yes.
The impact a tiny aural cue can have on the brain's understanding of narrative is astonishing.
