Sentences with phrase «quite express his understanding»

Wesley comes close to this view, but it does not quite express his understanding.

Not exact matches

It is enough to provoke both laughter and tears — not only all these protestations about having understood and comprehended the highest thought, but also the virtuosity with which many know how to present it in abstracto, and in a certain sense quite correctly — it is enough to provoke both laughter and tears when one sees then that all this knowing and understanding exercises no influence upon the lives of these men, that their lives do not in the remotest way express what they have understood, but rather the contrary.

Children have tantrums because they have a sudden buildup of emotions that they don't quite understand yet, and it's their way of expressing themselves, much to our dissatisfaction and sometimes our embarrassment.

Mind you, it could be reasonable to allow a poster to later insert a very obvious «corrigendum» paragraph at the end, to deal with clumsy bloopers / typos / or poorly - expressed phrasing... and this would help the flow of understanding in the commentary [rather than having such corrections appear later and quite possibly be half - buried by other intervening posts].