McCain can be excused for not understanding what he didn't live through.
Appreciating William Witney begins with understanding what he did with Roy Rogers, Mr. Tarantino says.
Acquiring insight into his conduct, truly understanding what he did, was a difficult and terrifying experience.
I never worried that he was incapable of understanding what he did not know and doing what was necessary to address such knowledge gaps.
It's like being a jazz fan Coltrane might not be around any more but understanding what he did then is central to understanding what you do now.
In the first situation, the defendant must show that he was either suffering from a disease which damaged the functioning of the mind and led to a defect of reason that prevented him from understanding what he was doing, or that he could not tell that what he was doing was wrong.
"And I think when it comes to understanding what he would do as president there are serious questions that have been raised in this campaign.
The treaty was not agreed until 1216, by which time John was dead and nine-year-old King Henry III accepted it, probably not understanding what he was doing.
Mr. Berk's sons, Joel and Harvey, said in a petition filed in Brooklyn Surrogate's Court that their father suffered from severe dementia that prevented him from understanding what he was doing.
Jack, a blocked, broke writer, takes a job at a London casino on the advice of his reprobate father and soon finds himself falling out with his girlfriend, becoming involved with a bitter ex-prostitute, betraying his co-workers and taking part, without ever quite understanding what he's doing, in a daring crime.
It wasn't voluntary, understanding what he'd done.
