Sentence examples for scarcely understood from inspiring English sources

At the beginning of the 17th century, the ocean was scarcely understood and riskily charted.

The cause of these mass killings was not "intolerance," but something else, still scarcely understood.

Eisenhower scarcely understood the power of the weaponry that he was inviting Nixon to bring onto the field.

Margaretta Fitler (Happy) Murphy was eighteen years younger than Nelson and, in Smith's characterization, "a classic 1950s wife who scarcely understood her own groping for something beyond the inbred gentility of her surroundings," not unlike "Mad Men" 's Betty Draper.

Every couple struggles, to some extent, to communicate, but our differences, concealing one another like nesting dolls, inhibited our trust in each other in ways that we scarcely understood.

Just a few years ago, Davos Man was the role model for the kind of donors that the Jaitlys are concentrating on: a perpetually expatriate, cosmopolitan, Singapore-today-London-tomorrow type who moved his money wherever the opportunity migrated, who bet on risky "emerging markets" that he scarcely understood because that is where the returns were.

Roosevelt wrote, "I can scarcely understand what has come to us".

His tragedy is that he scarcely understands the cosmic forces that propel him towards his ruin.

He dreams of living with his brother's family, whose carefully managed dynamics he upsets in ways he scarcely understands.

Catapulted into positions of authority, some southerners scarcely understand the distinctive history of the population they are now serving, says Momin.

Brown even sends Fanny a valentine card for reasons that he can scarcely understand himself: a shabby attempt at both seducing and lowering her in Keats's esteem?