Sentence examples for without quite understanding from inspiring English sources

Even Riggio seems to concede the point — without quite understanding what he's conceding.

Still, marrying was the great change he'd hoped for, without quite understanding beforehand what it might be.

Barnett Newman was more aware of the precedent for his stark abstractions, but without quite understanding it, Bois says.

But he seems to have fallen for the addictive romance of their musical language without quite understanding what they hang it on: a traditional narrative line.

WHEN I hear the words post- structuralism and semiotics both of which I have taught at university level without quite understanding them -- I reach for my delete button.

"I probably indulged in a bit of it in my youth: you tend to imitate the conflict of your elders without quite understanding the basis for it".

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.

The two embark on a course of friendly but casual sex that turns, without either of them quite understanding what is happening, into a love affair that frightens them both in its intensity.

It gives a unique and compassionate voice to a narrator who can comment on human's inhumanity to human without being ponderous, "worthy" or even quite understanding us at times.

"Oh," Vivian said, sleepily, not quite understanding.

Fortunately, security, so far, has been quite understanding.