Sentence examples for mode of understanding from inspiring English sources

Or is it our mode of understanding history?

It would be difficult for one to think up a more groundbreaking mode of understanding the mind and the heart.

"This mode of understanding waves reminded me of the technology of cinema — even recalling to me an 1891 film called 'La Vague,' made by Étienne Jules Marey to study the movement of a wave in the Bay of Naples," says Helmreich.

Accordingly, when we say, 'Homer was a blind man,' the word 'blind' actively signifies the passive mode of understanding something as being without sight, and owes its semantic function to the way its corresponding concept is understood.

It is Virgil's single-handed invention, as if out of nowhere, of a genuinely prophetic mode of understanding history that is the seeming miracle on which his justly deserved fame as a prophetic poet has every right to rest.

(A tactic Kivy does not consider is an attempt to hoist Levinson with his own contextualist petard, arguing that even if architectonic listening is non-perceptual it is a well-established mode of understanding pieces of music in the Western classical music world, and thus that to argue music must be understood primarily perceptually is to beg the question).

"As race and gender and sexuality have become the dominant modes of understanding our world, class has fallen out of the picture," said Jefferson Cowie, a visiting assistant professor at Cornell University who specializes in labor and working-class history.

Like the British Romantics and like the '60s counterculturalists, Dr. Hofmann also saw a "spiritual crisis" in "Western industrial society," one that demanded that we "shift from the materialistic" and discover new modes of understanding.

On the other hand, he added, "In the art world, there is a lot more emphasis on validating different subjective perspectives". Participating in art and law allows File to engage with both modes of understanding the world.

It is, rather to qualify, as did your earlier column, your claim here that we in the West, or in a democracy, or in America, have a variety of modes of understanding the world and ourselves, and are not disconcerted by the differences or dismayed by the inconclusiveness of it all.

Think, rather, that we have complementary modes of understanding.