Sentence examples for understand at once from inspiring English sources
For early image theorist, Roland Barthes, it's a two part answer: studium, the quality in a photograph that displays the "given cultural meanings that we understand at once," provides the sort of contextual understanding that allows us to read into the image itself.
The smile that Alice gives, as her utterance falters, is more heartbreaking for being so radiant; we understand at once what it will cost this particular woman to put on a good show, and a happy face.
This provides the opportunity to perform a comparison between these two cases, to understand at once how distributed governance varies under different conditions, and how different articulations of distributed governance are linked into a single global system of governance.
"We decided we'd try to find the simplest modern equivalent to every moment in the play," she said, "so that someone who knew nothing about Greek drama or the story could understand at once what was going on".
We stopped in at the Times shrine the other day and had a pleasant, reminiscent chat with Mrs. Farrar, who gave us to understand at once that she was not the inventor of the crossword puzzle.
The construction of his Yiddish-British persona was firmly grounded, as Elliott revealed in an essay of 2005 called "Confessions of a Jewish Autobiography Reader". The title paid winking homage to Confessions of [End Page 360] an English Opium-Eater (1821), as some of his readers would understand at once.
I understood at once that it was an attack.
She understood at once and collected herself; we both stepped back.
Another actor, I suppose, would have understood at once what Brando was saying, but I found him difficult to follow.
"And, even if we did not see why, the authorities understood at once: mass media could very easily be manipulated to achieve any goal.
It was understood at once that such a change would be explosive; Senator Trent Lott, the former Majority Leader, came up with "nuclear option," and the term stuck.
