Sentence examples for purporting to explain from inspiring English sources
Judging from the plethora of theories purporting to explain the utterly unanticipated victory of David Cameron's Tories in the British general election, the result was wildly overdetermined.
He played himself in The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, a downbeat comedy purporting to explain the writer's brief disappearance in 2011.
Calling themselves the Movement of Free Algerian Officers, they post on their site accounts purporting to explain many of the unsolved mysteries.
The diagrams purporting to explain how a nuclear power plant works, essential to a real understanding of the accident, are likely to be unfathomable to many young readers; there are far clearer alternatives already in print.
He then goes on to summarise my supposed approach: "Lehrer's neuroscientistic method consists of paraphrasing brain-imaging studies, grossly inflating what can be properly inferred from them, and so purporting to explain 'creativity' or 'imagination'".
In late August, Mr. Mikkelson studied an e-mail chain letter titled "The Last of the Kennedy Dynasty" purporting to explain why the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy was unfit for acclaim.
On the epigraph page, and again on the closing one, Mamet purports to explain the title of his book.
In the western British Isles during the Middle Ages a prevalent myth involving barnacles purported to explain the annual appearance of certain geese in the fall.
Part of the seduction of cancer genetics is that it purports to explain the unity and the diversity of cancer in one swoop.
A fatal problem with transcendental arguments, however, is that they are vulnerable to objections based on denying the reality of what the theory purports to explain: the laws do claim authority, but perhaps that authority is merely apparent, simply unreal.
I've often had the experience of reading a science article that purported to explain some question I'd always wondered about, only to find myself getting distracted as soon as I started reading the explanation.
