A contradictory and off-putting figure, she is best understood through her own words, which have a lucidity that Mr. Maalouf's heightened second-person text, an apostrophe to Weil from an imaginary sister interwoven with quotations from Weil herself, largely obscures.
Far from being a black president, the boy from Arkansas she described is best understood as particularly white.
She may be best understood as an avant-garde theater artist whose aggressive artifice makes the irreverent argument that comedy needn't be rooted in truth.
Rape, she concludes, is best understood not only as the denial of sexual autonomy, but as "sexually invasive dehumanization" (643).
"For all her controversy and ambiguity," she adds, "Wonder Woman is best understood as the missing link in the history of the struggle for women's equality".
In fact, she argues, intellectual virtues are best understood as a subset of the moral virtues.
After much chagrin, she learns that life is best understood as a series of unanswerable Zen Buddhist koans, that life is in the living.
After stealing off with her husband to one of Tokyo's "love hotels," she realizes that space is best understood through sound rather than sight, "to music, to speech, to yelling, to singing, to gasping, to silence".
BERLIN is best understood through its paradoxes.
How is this distinction best understood?
