"There are epiphanies with patients where you have a perfect understanding," she replies.
After all, Webster asked, "what do men gain by elective governments, if fools and knaves have the same chance to obtain the highest offices, as honest men?" Jefferson, who considered Webster "a mere pedagogue, of very limited understanding," never replied to his letter, and Webster added the slight to his list of grievances.
Is that your understanding?" Smith replied: "Not really, because I think the frustration if there was any … was more about Mr Hunt wanting to talk to Mr Murdoch about the bid and the broadband and local TV and all sorts of other issues.
Listening to them chatter "twinglish" at one another, clearly understanding and replying to what is being said, is unreal.
A few years later, I saw a little article in the Times about how a music teacher in a tough public school in New York was trying to teach Schubert's "Winterreise" to his kids as a parable of loneliness and survival, and I clipped it out and sent it to Buckley at National Review — and got a very polite and understanding letter in reply, which I still have somewhere.
"People say to me you could do with a 1-0 scrappy win and you reply understanding the sentiment but I know what a scrappy win looks like and it's not pretty.
Understand that there may be many reasons for her answer such as nervousness, her parents not wanting her to date, her thinking of you in a brotherly way, etc. Be polite and understanding in your reply.
"What side are you on?" "Upper East Side," I replied, understanding that to some people this might be a big distinction needing clarification.
If an American charitable trust offered you a small fortune for "affirming life's spiritual dimension", you would need to check you had strong principles and a remarkably understanding partner before replying: "I have never been so insulted in my life".
(Kennedy Shriver, possibly not understanding Arnie's accent, replies: "That's very nice").
