Sentence examples for understanding less from inspiring English sources

It tells the story of Joe Alston, a retired literary agent who feels that "he has gone downstream like a stick, getting hung up in eddies and getting flushed out again, only half understanding what he floated past, and understanding less with every year.

Sometimes it is about understanding less is more, stepping back and letting the reality of a person come into the light on its own, and then you can be there to support.

In some ways, global satellite TV and Internet access have actually made the world a less understanding, less tolerant place.

As the writer George Packer recently noted in The Times Magazine, "In some ways, global satellite TV and Internet access have actually made the world a less understanding, less tolerant place".

His fascinating new book, "The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data," begins with a thought experiment: "Imagine a society where smartphones are miniaturized and hooked directly into a person's brain".

Those claims are important but they tend to be made – loudly, as they must be – to the detriment of another type of understanding, less obvious but no less vital, that makes its way into the darker spaces of the world, ripping the cover from the illusions through which the most deadly forms of power sustain and congratulate themselves.

But for what?"), she finds plenty of occasion for understanding Lessing, and even to see in herself the time-protecting writer's coldness – "I was at least as selfish as Doris" – though you are not quite convinced.

Then Mayakovsky giving himself more and more to party propaganda, and Pasternak understanding him less and less, sadly left to stand on his own feet with no gods to admire.

But, he continued, experiences through his church have given him empathy and understanding for less fortunate people.

Of course, a patient might feel more comfortable with a physician who has had personal experience with his medical illness, but that alone wouldn't guarantee understanding, much less good treatment.

Oddest of all are the scientists, our little species' own homegrown superior intelligences, whose knowledge and mental capacity are often laughably unequal to understanding (much less defeating) the alien adversary.