Roberto Cavalli, the Italian fashion designer with a Gypsy soul, understood better than most that, in these times of economic and political turmoil, furniture has to be more than functional.
To emphasize the point, consider the everyday concept of a soul, understood something that is present in conscious beings and survives death.
It's what your soul understands.
Mr. Cavallo, whom I know and admire (though I can't claim to have a sense of his soul) understands this very well.
No, she's all aflutter because he arrived while she was spinning off this emotional verbal Valentine: "He, in his heart and soul, understands that the freedom to speak and be and work and get a good public education is the most important thing, and that is such a great thing to me, coming as I did from a Communist country".
Thomas argues more subtly that the modus essendi of the soul joined to the body differs from that of the soul in separation; though they are the same in nature, the separated soul understands, not by means of sensory images, but "through species which it participates in by virtue of the divine light" [ST 1.89.1r].
The pastor, who turned out to be quite affable, if somewhat overburdened by the spiritual welfare of his current souls, understood our aversion to resting among the rows of graves, since as individuals and newcomers we were unfamiliar with the neighbourly or familial entanglements of the villagers at rest there.
Long before recorded history, the soul was understood to be that part of human nature that made life, motion, and sentience possible.
Maxwell, Brooklyn's own singularly named young soul rebel, understood the gravity of taking the stage at the Apollo Theater on Tuesday night.
I wish I could claim that I was a precocious old soul who understood even then that a city was a worthy beau and not a mere substitute for one, but that would be stretching the truth.
Soul they understood as nothing more than a specific form of pneuma, or breath, the active power to be found throughout nature.
