Sentence examples for everyday understanding from inspiring English sources

Both of these shadow realms violate our everyday understanding of logic and physics, space and time.

True, bankers are detested but they remain a distant abstraction, sequestered in a private stratosphere beyond everyday understanding.

The 18-page decision declares that "a post-operative male-to-female transsexual is not a woman" and that "the words 'sex,'malele' and 'female' in everyday understanding do not encompass transsexuals".

Frye comes closer to our everyday understanding of the term in his discussion of the ironic persona, which is essentially a kind of literary straight man; the ironist pretends to be ignorant of everything, Frye says, even of his own irony.

"Sharing a small amount of marijuana for no remuneration, let alone possession with intent to do so, does not fit easily into the everyday understanding of trafficking, which ordinarily means some sort of commercial dealing," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for a seven-justice majority, partly quoting from an earlier case.

And this, of course, conflicts with our everyday understanding of equal treatment.

A student's everyday understandings are often cogent stories about the world that make sense to the student and are embedded in everyday experience and discourse (Gee, 1996; Pozo and Gómez Crespo, 2005).

Recent work [ 9- 11] has innovated in the methodology of lines-of-argument (LOA) synthesis originally proposed by Noblit and Hare by building on Schutz's [ 26] notions of "orders" of constructs Schutz used the idea of "first order construct" to refer to the everyday understandings of ordinary people and "second order construct" to refer to the constructs of the social sciences.

With its many overlaps with everyday life, understanding Newtonian mechanics has proven particularly challenging (e.g., Halloun and Hestenes, 1985; Nieminen et al. 2010; Shtulman and Valcarcel, 2012).

But playing Ernie Pyle is not the same as maintaining an everyday journalistic understanding for the emotional, social and economic bearings of average people who are the nation's true center of gravity.

Grady and I talked openly about how the current political landscape feels to him, and, particularly, how everyday interactions, understandings, and behaviors affect and are affected by this climate, as experienced by folks who are connected and disconnected from one another.