Sentence examples for understandable only from inspiring English sources

Thus, metaphors cannot be understandable only in metaphorical terms.

The World Wide Web is a vast source of information accessible to computers, but understandable only to humans.

It is understandable only because homelessness has become so common in our society.

The organization of the metropolitan complex is understandable only in the context of the city's history.

Understandable only to Portuguese speakers, and said almost straight into a television camera, it was a swear word.

Repeated references to sources understandable only to a trained physician may obscure matters for persons not trained in medical terminology.

A punitive, zero-tolerance reaction to this sort of emotional blindside is understandable but only drives the deep issue out of sight temporarily.

The prioritizing of such day-to-day threats is not only understandable, but also entirely coherent.

That was not only understandable but inevitable.

This ecclesiastical act, questionable though it may have been in its methods and personal motivations, was not only understandable but unavoidable, since it was directed against what, after all, amounted in principle to an antitheological, rationalistic secularism.

Without directly addressing this episode, Mr. Bell's new book, "Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism," nonetheless makes it appear not only understandable but almost inevitable.