Sentence examples for speaking of knowing from inspiring English sources

Speaking of knowing, I will level with you: when my friends invited me to see Gato with them, I immediately, thought, "My God, is he still playing?" I thought about this for a moment and it dawned on me that I've been turning my head away from a lot of things, including those much more important than facts about Gato Barbieri's trajectory.

They spoke of knowing survivors of the mass shooting inside the Century 16 theater in Aurora, Colo.

Social workers spoke of knowing that some of the victims were being groomed.

At the same Republican convention where Hume bemoaned his advancing years, he spoke of knowing when to leave the party and go home.

A member of the House of Delegates since 1994 and a former Foreign Service officer behind the Iron Curtain, Katzen spoke of knowing "the shadowy world from which our security has been challenged". His campaign emphasized experience.

An experienced ward councillor who speaks of knowing what it's like to be a working mum, it is easy to see how she would be effective on the doorstep.

Van der Sar has since spoken of knowing at that precise moment where the ball was going to go and that he was going to return the European Cup to Old Trafford.

After the funny greeting by Mr. Edwards, who makes haste in switching to the role of Gratiano, the play begins with abrupt sobriety, as Antonio speaks of knowing not why he is so sad, and how weary he is of it.

Vaz asked him to prepare a paper for the MPs on how people might become radicalised after he spoke of knowing people who had expressed sympathy with Isis – only to become disillusioned when they saw the bloody, brutal punishments it meted out.

While Zhu often speaks of knowing or comprehending something in terms of the metaphor of seeing it clearly, of having a clear discernment of it, which is nothing like rigid propositional knowledge, he does recognize several forms or levels of knowing, and regards the basic steps of learning in analytical propositional terms and the higher levels in more synthetic insight terms.

Also, since to know a thing is to know how to distinguish it from other kinds of things, the object of knowledge is sometimes taken to be a distinction, as when the Mohists speak of "knowing the distinction between righteous and unrighteous" (Book 17, "Condemning Aggression").