Sentence examples for not understanding of from inspiring English sources

The joy of such fare in childhood was the joy of not understanding, of facing mysteries not in order to put them together or to solve them but to revel in them, not to put together pieces of a puzzle but to make constructions and fantasies of my own, and to imagine that there was a world that I couldn't yet even imagine.

I thought we were too open and not understanding of the elements, it was more difficult to defend that end - we needed to be nastier sooner.

"You know 2-year-olds can't wait," she said, "and women without children are not understanding of women who have children.

Frank writes with both fluidity and precision about politics, sexuality, and religion; about identity, family, and love; and about fear: the fear of not doing enough to protect those we love, of not understanding, of betraying and of being betrayed.

"Hopefully these kids will be taken away from this woman and they'll end up with caring people, because this woman clearly has not understanding of what a caring parent is," was one comment left about Hatfield on a local newspaper website.

This is another example of where word-recognition itself is limited because it measures correct pronunciation and not understanding of the word.

(And perhaps one of the effects of not understanding them, of just using them, is not understanding the extent to which I am used by them).

It's part of what makes New York New York -- not understanding half of what goes on, or why.

Mapai was accused of hypocrisy, of preferring pragmatism to principle, of not understanding the spirit of the changing times.

We have always had the problem of not understanding the necessity of integrating all the tools of American power.

I had this period of adjustment, this period of not understanding, this period of giving up on my dream.