Sentence examples for understand references from inspiring English sources

There were jokes that Hassan didn't understand, references to Web sites that he didn't read.

Nora Christenson, 32, from Gowanus, said she often wondered if a national audience would understand references to Park Slope's ubiquitous strollers.

Winning, we're meant to think, is not so important, but a comedy that expects its audience to understand references to Proust and Nietzsche probably can't be accused of advocating mediocrity.

I am glad I can finally understand references to Blanche, even though I feel (controversially?) that Sophia is definitely the best character.

In other words, the audience response is not so much a reflexive, gut-wrenching surrender to brilliant wit as it is a communal signal of understood references.

With an audience that understands references to consumerism as "a hedonic treadmill," many articles in The New Inquiry make The Paris Review look like a beach read.

This novel by one of Britain's foremost novelist-biographers is set in the far future in London, where an honored orator named Plato fills his Socratic meditations with dimly understood references to the ancient past.

However he wonders whether non-British viewers would have understood references to The Italian Job and Only Fools and Horses.

Perhaps most impressive of all, in a sign of what a widely understood reference point the book has become, it inspired a headline in The Onion: "Copy of 'Eat, Pray, Love' Left on ­Elliptical".

As it is normally understood, reference is the preeminent word-to-world relation.

Always by the words "science" and "scientific" Peirce understood reference to actual practice by scientists in the laboratory and the field, and not reference to entries in scientific textbooks.