Sentence examples for understood slowly from inspiring English sources

That is why, Evans suggested, books like the ones he reviews in this issue are so important: "Reading these two books reminded me yet again that history may be made quickly, but it is understood slowly".

I began to understand, slowly, the whole scheme of things.

In community and country I saw all around me the destruction wreaked by war, and came to understand slowly the effect of war on family and friends.

As a child, Al was at a loss to explain his dad's job to classmates, but he began to understand slowly.

But you do begin to understand, slowly, her "journey"; how a feisty beauty, after her own incarceration, learned to hate and become at times as ugly and relentless as the cops' own sjamboks; and the problems of being a very human woman married to such an infallible man.

But too few doctors, experts say, understand how slowly methadone is metabolized and how greatly patients differ in their responses.

Today O, for opportunity... which is a word that we came to understand only slowly, particularly as a counterpart to the word "challenge".

Read slowly enough that the child understands you but not so slowly as to be boring.

Slowly, slowly they understood.

News of Hiroshima's destruction was only slowly understood in Tokyo.

And Mr. Jaime, a high school teacher by profession, was one of the few Cubans we met who understood just how slowly and clearly one needs to speak to a linguistically challenged guest.