Word: understandingly
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...story, the TV show and the novels are all monologues, thus suitable for reading. And all take place in what the woman's voice in Eh Joe describes as "that penny farthing hell you call your mind." Some of Beckett's characters may never understand the harm they've caused or allowed, until "the agenbite of inwit" - a medieval phrase, often used by Beckett's mentor, James Joyce, to refer to the remorse of conscience - forces them into self-knowledge, into an act of contrition. In Eh Joe Neeson's face hardly moves a muscle; the play's director says...
...country holds the rotating E.U. presidency, has set a deadline of the end of the year for Europe to overcome the Irish problem. He has traveled to Dublin on a listening tour of Irish voters, backpedaling from his intimations that they'd need to hold a second referendum. "I understand it's the Irish," he said, "who must decide...
...more “collegial” style at universities, he said that the difference would be conducive to better communication. “That’s also my style,” Frenk said. “I believe in dialogue, in listening so that I can understand better the challenges and needs of faculty and students.”Frenk, who spends most of his time in Mexico City when not traveling, said that he will be coming to Boston every month starting September to immerse himself in the community at the School of Public Health...
...ears - because he liked the sound of his music but didn't like the sound of the construction noise. He had a good 50 dB to 55 dB of noise-induced hearing loss at 28 years old. We asked a few pointed questions about when he was having difficulty understanding people, and his response was classic. "When I'm sitting at home with the TV off, I can understand just fine," he said, "but when I go out for dinner, I have trouble...
...people who run campaigns know you only have so much time to think about this stuff, so they want to make it easy for you. They translate complex economic projections into aphorisms. They turn tax plans that must be read with lawyers' help into sentences a third-grader can understand. The details? Bah. That's politically foolish, even if voters claim that's what they really want to hear about...