Sentence examples for fathom the meaning from inspiring English sources

Do they fathom the meaning of liberty?

Jack, who has tried to fathom the meaning of the lyrics of "Rivers of Babylon" — "So let the words of our mouths / and the meditations of our hearts / be acceptable in thy sight" — now lives them.

If you wanted to know why people do the things they do, understand the mind of God, or even fathom the meaning of it all, scientists were supposed to be able to tell you.

Jack, who has tried to fathom the meaning of the lyrics of "Rivers of Babylon"—"So let the words of our mouths / and the meditations of our hearts / be acceptable in thy sight"—now lives them.

For the fall semester, I enroll as a freshman at St . Johns College, the Great Books school in Annapolis, Md., where I sit around a seminar table with 17 teenagers and two tutors, reading and discussing Homer, Plato, Aeschylus and Herodotus, trying to fathom the meaning of life.

Wilson regretted the loss of his precious objects, the things that had allowed him to cure the sick: the black-and-white cloth he wore while contacting the spirit world; the bones and stones he customarily threw on a mat to fathom the meaning of events; the sheep fat he burned to chase away evil spirits; his beads and impala horns; his potions, herbs, roots, bark and snuff.

Not only doves like Karen Brown fathomed the meaning of those words.

Their lack of practice in fathoming the meaning of text leaves them reluctant to persist with improving their reading skills (Stanovich [1986]).

The Ikhwān aṣ-Ṣafāʾ, like all other Islāmic philosophers, attempted to naturalize Greek philosophy in a way of their own; they chose to follow a fairly orthodox Neoplatonic position and admitted Hermetic, Gnostic, astrological, and occult sciences on a large scale in the belief that their absorption of ancient wisdom enabled them to fathom the esoteric meaning of revelation.

Both these philosophers felt themselves entitled to try to fathom the esoteric meanings which the text must be hiding, for they were both convinced, as rationalists, that the texts could not contradict the rational truth.

No one but the two players bound by it will ever really begin to fathom the nature and meaning of it.