Sentence examples for understood lost from inspiring English sources

With breathtaking insight, Unsworth lays out his portrait of Calchas as the ineffective intellectual who, although right, is also "powerless to act, unable to make himself understood, lost in useless speculation".

Second, rights so understood lose their explanatory force: for the specificationist rights can only be the conclusions, not the premises, of arguments concerning which side in any dispute should prevail.

When we zoom out to the big picture and long-term view that the orbital perspective provides, striving to leave a legacy (as it's traditionally understood) loses its importance.

He could understand losing to the former Met Mike Hampton on Wednesday.

"I understand losing, I understand what it's like to be in the minority party, but you don't have to get up there and spike the ball in my face every single day," Mr. Martinez Fischer said.

I don't understand losing.

I understand losing your temper, it's terrible and wrong, but I understand it.

"But I understood we lost.

The financial ones are easy to understand, including lost fees from subscriptions, possible lost revenue from spin-offs and perhaps lost royalties for books.

"I understand we lost people who were integral in the past.

Executives understood that losing absolute control of board of director elections threatened their licence to run amok.