It is as if they have understood something.
But if you had followed Bob inside his office, and had seen him surrounded by his beloved tax documents, I think you would have understood something: you would have understood that this Bob Shelby was no milquetoast.
As he records the mood and the flow of people at work, he holds the camera at medium distance, avoiding obvious closeups, and by the end we feel that we have understood something about Romanians, about hospitals, and about dying.
He finds that the way it contains narratives and arguments without articulable terms—so that after you've listened to a symphony, say, you feel you've understood something but you can't say what it is makes it similar to his poetry, which makes it somehow stimulating.
But while drying the dishes, it occurred to me that 16 year old Meg must have understood something about sex that 20-something Meg had forgotten.
I would rather not spin facts of which I am mostly ignorant until they fit my existing beliefs and give me the mood, if not the reality, of having understood something.
Other informal phrases include "a pretty penny" to define a considerable sum of money, and "when the penny drops" to explain that somebody has finally understood something.
Inherent in this is the fact that if the child has not understood something, you will go over it again.
"In a dream you know that you have suddenly understood something and you feel elated, but when you wake it is lost, or at least you don't have the grammar to express it," he explains.
"I hope that they have finally understood something," says Riso. "This is a political task.
