Sentence examples for without ever understanding from inspiring English sources

Every now and then a horrific burst of imagination shook him: the cold darkness, the rising hunger, the first and final fear, of dying without ever understanding death.

He wonders how Fusco can purport to accept him "but be diametrically opposed to the country and culture my ancestors are from without ever understanding it".

Indeed, Richard Byrne's wonderful research into gorilla memes has revealed how apes are able to learn useful behaviours from each other without ever understanding what they are for: the explanation of how ape cognition works really is behaviouristic.

Although I do not speak Mandarin, it was shown I could have a very convincing discussion with a Mandarin speaker without ever understanding a word of my responses.

Gatsby dies too young, and without ever understanding Daisy's true motivations.

Some had their benefits withheld without ever understanding how much they really owed the VA or why.

Both had every reason to fund Bellingham until he was driven to make his attempt, without Bellingham ever understanding how they were using him.

I'd been a quiet teenager, hiding in my bedroom, reading everything from Ken Kesey to Solzhenitsyn (without ever really understanding the latter) and writing poems and song lyrics, mostly about love and death, which I showed to no one.

But then the 'balanced' audience, like so much else about the program, seems little more than a television gimmick; one of many conceits in a political theatre that tries to replicate the features of a serious debate without ever really understanding their meaning or importance.

Jack, a blocked, broke writer, takes a job at a London casino on the advice of his reprobate father and soon finds himself falling out with his girlfriend, becoming involved with a bitter ex-prostitute, betraying his co-workers and taking part, without ever quite understanding what he's doing, in a daring crime.

Of course, there are predatory humans out there who would love nothing more than to kill you, your family, and your dog, Floppo, in cold blood right this second, but for all the gossip about pedophiles, jihadists, and Nazis, the reality is that most of us will go through our lives without ever truly understanding the sensation of being hunted.