Sentence examples for be understood at all from inspiring English sources

I didn't understand how we could be taken out of our American context and be understood at all.

History, to be understood at all, should be absorbed a very little at a time, in solitude, and always a step or two behind the actual march of events.

The current reign of the optical museum where all the objects are shut away, even ones that demand to be touched to be understood at all, like scientific or musical instruments—is, Classen shows, in "The Deepest Sense," a cultural history of touch, a recent one, due to "the association of touch with irrationality and primitivism".

Secondly, that modality de re cannot be understood in terms of analyticity and therefore cannot be understood at all.

Meinong tentatively defines such an inconsistency as something that involves incompatible determinations [Unverträgliches] but is still understandable, whereas nonsense would be something that cannot be understood at all.

To make progress with these issues, the nature of waves of aggression, temporal adjustments to disturbing forces, spatial interactions with structure, divergent pathways of change propagation, evolution of 'barriers to change,' effects of inheritance, decoupling, and the effects of change on system specifications all need to be understood at all temporal and spatial scales.

For Aaron, it's the idea of being forgotten or perhaps not truly being understood at all.

Uncertainty, lack of information, and uncertainty over the right diagnosis, and worry over whether you'll be understood at the hospital, and all these things.

Meaning it can't really be understood at first.

Rather, these capacities can be understood at the nonconceptual level.

This contribution can be understood at several layers.