Sentence examples for awful understanding from inspiring English sources

As an Army chaplain, he has the awful understanding that comes from having been in combat, an understanding that allows him to help shoulder a soldier's burden.

Sharing a similar past has allowed for an awful lot of understanding.

Clearly it has an awful lot of "understanding" to do on this front.

This documentary takes us a small step toward understanding the awful depth of that pain.

"The bins have been awful," she acknowledges, "but my understanding is that they've made some tough decisions.

Maybe we need a Berlin or a Detroit, places that for various reasons have suffered catastrophic collapses, but that contribute an awful lot to our cultural understanding of the world. . Britain's second cities are great places.

"Had this thing been thoroughly aired over two or three months, there would have been a better understanding of the kind of awful fiscal gimmickry behind it," said Assemblyman William Parment, a Democrat from western New York who opposed the bill.

The entire act of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, depends on the collective understanding that these weapons are uniquely, intolerably awful.

But though metaphor is essential to understanding emotion and the spirit, it's simply awful for clarifying political or legal debate.

The payoff is fine, but you have to wade through an awful lot of neuroscience and psychology, and people with even a passing understanding of behavioral economics will already know much of it.

Reynolds's desperation is not grating or awful; it's a force of nature, and Jones conveys it with real understanding.