Sentence examples for had understood him from inspiring English sources

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No one had understood him in his farm town, no one had understood him in Silicon Valley — "Hell, I do not understand him".

During their marriage, Haffner was unfaithful, and now, after her death, she haunts his memory: "He had understood Livia, and Livia had understood him.... Livia -- the most naturally elegant woman he ever knew".

Oghi wondered if that was some sort of signal, if perhaps the man had understood him after all, but when he heard the therapist and his mother-in-law talking, he realized that it was goodbye for good.

I asked, in what seemed a rather pale voice, how he imagined I would wait there (there were three hours to go till six), and then he merrily said that he would come over immediately and take me to a hotel, he didn't say which, and I wasn't even sure whether I had understood him correctly.

The Times reported that Musa Ibrahim, Qaddafi's spokesman, said that the regime had understood him to be taking some sick days: "I don't think his sick leave included London," Mr. Ibrahim said wryly, adding: "This is not like a happy piece of news, is it?

Schmitt would state that no one had understood him as Strauss had, and Strauss would later claim that reading Schmitt changed his own orientation toward the question of the relation between philosophy and politics.

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The one man who might have understood him.

There is much we cannot know about God, and for centuries the pretense of having understood him caused much damage to Christendom.

"Based on what is intelligible," the judge said, referring to portions of the February recording that was unclear in spots, "I will decide what a reasonable person would have understood him to say".

In this seminar we will investigate this debate with an eye to the question of what it might mean to say that meaning is normative: in particular, what Kripke meant by it, and what Kripke's interpreters have understood him to mean by it.

Whatever Locke's true intentions may have been, many of his leading successors and critics, such as Berkeley and Reid, seem to have understood him as believing that ideas are inner representational entities, and, when visual, are like inner pictures.

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