Sentence examples for half understands from inspiring English sources

Mr. del Toro balances dread with tenderness and refracts the terror and sadness of the time through the eyes of a young boy, who only half understands what he is witnessing.

The narrator grows up surrounded by glimmers of bucolic Czech villages, intimations of illicit secrets and riddling fragments of stories whose veracity is often unclear, and whose significance he only half understands.

Mr. del Toro balances dread with tenderness and refracts the terror and sadness of the time through the eyes of a boy, who only half understands what he is witnessing.

Nor will half understood jargon from a weekend screenwriters' course.

I half understand the reasoning behind Wareing's appointment.

Yet in this sample of adults over 40, only about half understood that fact.

They work intuitively on subject-matter that seems only ever to be half understood.

The French captain, Guy Forget, could half understand the reasoning by the Americans.

So quit pretending you understand things you only half understand, and return yourself to wonderment, to masturbation, to dreaming".

They half know and half understand the grown-up world but prefer their own consciousness of exploration and wonder.

Bush seems to have only half understood why he was there, and so he came prepared with several jokes about Letterman, who had recently undergone heart bypass surgery.