Sentence examples for half understood from inspiring English sources

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

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.

He can only tell us what he knows.History for him is like family intimate, half understood, repetitive: 1870, 1914, 1939, the Algerian war.

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.

The adult world's method may be half seen, and its facts half understood by Vapnyar's children, but they nonetheless live vibrant lives saturated with desire.

I half understand the reasoning behind Wareing's appointment.

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.

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.