Sentence examples for understandable place from inspiring English sources

But then, I thought, why should the world become a smaller, more understandable place if all you do is send off cigarette lighters in return for Hollywood films?

Capitalism is perhaps the most important concept of all, but only after humankind realized the world was an understandable place the hugest step of all.

Politically, North Korea "is not a nice place, but it is an understandable place," Mr. Cumings writes, "an anticolonial and anti-imperial state growing out of a half century of Japanese colonial rule and another half century of continuous confrontation with a hegemonic United States and a more powerful South Korea".

Schopenhauer's PhD dissertation of 1813, The Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, examines what many philosophers have recognized as an innate tendency to assume that in principle, the universe is a thoroughly understandable place.

But I think it does, at least, come from an understandable place: the reason for his behaviour, obviously, plainly, of course, is that he's a dad now.

But I think it does, at least, come from an understandable place: The reason for his behavior, obviously, plainly, of course, is that he's a dad now.

Similarly with the notorious list of Communist sympathizers George Orwell wrote up for a friend with whom he was in love and who worked for the British government: Garton Ash, who was the first researcher to see a copy of the list, finds it unsettling but understandable, placing it in its period and the context of Orwell's waning life.

It was striking that the interviewees' decisions to use or abstain from substances were readily understandable when placed in the context of their life experiences and beliefs.

The respondents' behaviour becomes understandable when we place it in the greater context of daily life.

The twofold meaning of the epithet is significant and can serve to make the mythology of sacred kingship understandable in other places as well, because the function of the king is in fact double.

It's understandable, especially at places that have far more applicants than openings, but it's also regrettable both for capable people without credentials and employers and schools that may miss out on some great candidates because they can't easily quantify their skills.