Sentence examples for understanding like from inspiring English sources

She sounded comforting, understanding, like a good shrink who reminds herself to be patient in the face of ignorance.

"After the Matthew Shepard incident, there was a push for understanding, like we're going to face what happened in our community and we're going to change".

No wonder writers, ever hungry for experience and understanding (like everyone else but maybe more so), have been drawn to them.

If you could just get over the issue of not understanding, like in opera, and see it as a vibrant representation of another time.

I figured that his broody, moody ways meant he'd be an intense and passionate lover – and that being with someone nice and understanding like me would bring out their softer side.

Mind you, there is more that passes AstraZeneca's understanding, like the fact that 43% of votes were cast against the re-election of non-executive director Jean-Philippe Courtois.

The Zweig strategy, based on my understanding, likes stocks with fairly low price-to-earnings multiples, but not so low (below 5) that one has to wonder if there's something really wrong with the company.

"I wanted to test the waters with her, fully understanding her likes and dislikes," said Mr. Quadrini, whose wife died in 1997.

In Michael's first-person narration, Burnside no doubt means to portray the interior state of a shallow, aimless character — a man whose self-understanding, like his understanding of the world, is fatally limited.

They operate with a near zen-like understanding of their own place in the scene.

The distinguishing feature of DBER is deep disciplinary knowledge of what constitutes expertise and expert-like understanding in a discipline.