Sentence examples for were generally understood from inspiring English sources

This quote from Clinical Psychiatry, a hugely influential textbook in the 1950s and 1960s, epitomises the way in which unusual mental states were generally understood for much of the 20th century.

The fact that so many readers accepted "The Lottery" as truthful is less astonishing than it now seems, since at the time The New Yorker did not designate its stories as fact or fiction, and the "casuals," or humorous essays, were generally understood as falling somewhere in between.

For both Mormons and Masons these oaths of secrecy were generally understood to have exclusively symbolic significance.

"Proletarian" relations are generally understood in terms of capitalist dispossession.

The main tool is, generally understood, polar decomposition.

This is generally understood to be the heart of Mueller's investigation.

This, she says, is how the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama is generally understood.

COMPUTERS figure more in the making of contemporary art than is generally understood.

It is generally understood that the 1611 Bible owes its greatest debt to William Tyndale.

It is generally understood that players on a contract drive will pad their own statistics first.

The original was generally understood as an outcry against the war.