Sentence examples for our normal understanding from inspiring English sources

It's the glimmer of another presence that lies just outside our normal understanding that intrigues.

Second, we know that, when it comes to gambling addiction, our normal understanding of personal responsibility is not cut and dry.

The last time I was properly delusional and thought I was dying was about eight years ago, when I was evicted from a flat - it's always at times of intense stress.' David Bell feels it is important to see psychotic breakdown as distinct from our normal understanding of a breakdown.

This position has been shown to be incompatible with our normal understanding of the significance of posthumous events (see Gosseries 2004, ch. iv, sects. 4 5).

Our normal understanding of causation assumes this feature to such a degree that we intuitively have great difficulty imagining things differently.

Maybe such a thought is potentially comforting for those who love me, but it is surely at odds with our normal understanding of coming into existence and passing away.

"I am heartened that the court recognizes the importance of this kind of testimony and that it is not in the normal understanding of the jury," he said.

Or study paintings, since art "can challenge society's normal understanding of who or what matters," and laugh at those New Yorker cartoons, humor being "a useful weapon with which to attack the high status of others".

But Lyon told the committee that Smith should have identified her Redditch home as her main home from 2004, and not just from June 2007, because that was consistent with a "normal understanding" of the rules.

In any normal understanding of the words, a traffic warden is a significant form, at least to the motorist who sees himself about to receive a ticket.

The Fifth Circuit Court's certainty that Congress wanted Section 101(25)(A) of the bankruptcy code to change that normal understanding seems like more than a bit of a stretch.