Sentence examples for understand straight from inspiring English sources

"When a kid picks up one of my books it lets them understand straight away that this is not work".

"Christie Whitman and Bob Franks have been politicians so long that they don't understand straight talk when they hear it," Mr. Shea said.

I argued that it didn't take seriously the concerns of women — safety, proximity, control — even though the founder Joel Simkhai told GQ, "As a gay man, I probably understand straight women more than straight guys do".

Work hard to understand straight, level flight.

I understood straight away it was a mistake".

I was extremely lucky that Tessa Jowell understood straight away what was going on, as did David Hill.

"It's brought higher-quality people into my life because whoever is going to be [with me] understands straight off the bat it's a package".

They understand direct and clear comments that go straight to the behavior in question.

He was told by his Burmese interlocutor – with, I understand, a straight face – that Burma had extensive experience of running elections and no need of anyone to offer advice on or check out the process.

We understand that straight men have sex with other men in prisons, and we don't speculate that they are gay or bisexual, and they don't "turn gay" after leaving prison, either.

MR: My feeling is that you're taking another jump in your musical evolution, one that embraces your amalgams in an easier way to hear or understand than straight on classical, etc. BH: I think it's really easy to write formulaic pop music, and it's hard to be great at anything.