Sentence examples for be getting at something from inspiring English sources

Again, an ending followed by a beginning; Mr. Callahan seemed to be getting at something here.

In films like "The Devil Wears Prada" and "The Iron Lady," she has embodied the contradictions of female power, and she seemed to be getting at something similar in her appraisal of Thompson: an alternative to masculine authority that entails fortitude without bullying, wisdom without entitlement.

We could relativize the notion of ontological commitment to languages; but given that reality itself, for Hirsch, isn't ontologically structured, none of these relativized notions of ontological commitment would be getting at something of ontological significance (including the one that gave ontological commitment relative to ordinary language, and ordinary language quantifiers).

Ms. Worden is getting at something here.

Ai Weiwei is getting at something really sublime.

By focussing on the moment of creation, Fincher and Sorkin are getting at something new.

"He was getting at something profound, just as Clinton's line about the meaning of 'is' was getting at something profound about truth".

Hopefully at its core Charlie's story — like Edie's in "The Middlesteins" — is getting at something universal and human.

Both are getting at something similar, yet they offer very different results.

Bernie Sanders is getting at something powerful, which matters to a lot more people than socialists.

"The term itself is vague, but it is getting at something that is real," says Jon Kleinberg, a computer scientist at Cornell University.