The first thing he said to me when we met was that he hoped I understood the remark was meant as a joke.
It is understood her remarks came as a surprise to the DWP, which did not respond when asked whether it was aware that Professor Black would be appearing on the BBC programme, and which declined to comment on her remarks.
Limbaugh understood her remarks to mean that not only did she think she could have as much sex as she wanted, with whomever she wanted, without compromising her health or producing a baby, but that she expected honest-to-goodness, God-fearing Americans like him to pick up the tab for it.
Thus, we should take nothing Machiavelli says about moral conduct at face value, but instead should understood his remarks as sharply humorous commentary on public affairs.
Unless we understand the meanings of their words, how can we comprehend the minds of the sages and worthies?" Elsewhere Razan emphasized that people could never realize the minds of the sages and worthies in themselves unless they first understood the remarks of the sages and worthies as recorded in the words of texts communicating them.
"I didn't understand anything," Rumsfeld remarked as he headed toward dinner.
Tollbooth was not expected to be a hit: "Everyone said this is not a children's book, the vocabulary is much too difficult, the wordplay and the punning they will never understand," Juster later remarked.
All participants indicated that our questions were easy to understand and many remarked that it was a good way for them to reflect on their practice.
As JM Coetzee has remarked, Kafka understood "the obscene intimacies of power".
He can get technical, discussing a song's DNA, or he can be disarmingly straightforward, "You can't really understand the lyrics," he remarked of one track, "but the bits you can understand are about eating strange food".
