Sentence examples for we understood ourselves from inspiring English sources

"The Paks understood us better than we understood ourselves," one informed American official explained.

The Lebanon war split Israeli society because it disrupted the whole narrative by which we understood ourselves".

For centuries we understood ourselves as fallen, sinful creatures, living in the long dark shadow of Adam, the first human and ancestor of us all, and the key to understanding ourselves.

We understand him, finally, no better than we understand ourselves.

The more we understand ourselves, the less likely we are to have a car crash".

The loss of regional data raises questions about how well we understand ourselves as a nation.

It changes the way we understand ourselves and our most intimate relationships.

But stories are important: they inform how we understand ourselves and each other.

For power is never simply a possession but an exercise; power is about how we understand ourselves.

It reminds us that a culture is made up of individual stories about who we are and how we understand ourselves and value each other.

Not only does it mean that destruction and damage continue almost unabated, but it has massive consequences for how we understand ourselves.