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 Current Search - understanding in The Trial
1  could not understand and asked the painter about it.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
ContextHighlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
2  and sharing an understanding with the other policeman.
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3  pretending not fully to understand what the painter said.
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4  "You're quite right, but we can't get him to understand a thing," said the other.
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5  They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway.
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6  did not understand, and even the painter laughed as the hunchback whirled round in his hand.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
ContextHighlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
7  The only things of real value are honest personal contacts, contacts with higher officials, albeit higher officials of the lower grades, you understand.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
8  Ever since then I learn something new about the court every time he comes to visit, and so little by little I get to understand something of how it works.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
9  He finally noticed they were speaking to him but he did not understand them, all he heard was a noise that filled all the space and through which there seemed to be an unchanging higher note sounding, like a siren.
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10  This is partly to do with changes in the way I do business, in that I concentrate nowadays more and more on matters such as your own case, and partly to do with the ever deeper understanding that I acquire from these legal matters.
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11  That's how it is," said the man, mocking her, "but I don't understand why it is that you're explaining all our intimate facts to the gentleman, or rather why it is that you're pressing them on him, as I'm sure he's not all interested.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...
12  realised that the possibility of communicating with the Italian had been largely taken from him, even his French was difficult to understand, and his moustache concealed the movements of his lips which might have offered some help in understanding what he said.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Nine In the Cathedral
13  In the end the office director stood up, as he had stayed far longer than he had originally intended, made his farewell, looked at me in sympathy without being able to help, he waited at the door for a long time although it's more than I can understand why he was being so good, and then he went.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni
14  So off I go running as fast as I can, shout the message through the crack in the door of the office I've been sent to, so out of breath they'll hardly be able to understand it, run back here again, but the student's been even faster than I have - well he's got less far to go, he's only got to run down the steps.
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15  has seen for himself that the court officials, including some who are quite high up, come forward without being asked, are glad to give information which is fully open or at least easy to understand, they discuss the next stages in the proceedings, in fact in some cases they can be won over and are quite willing to adopt the other person's point of view.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
16  There was a very slight risk that people would later say he couldn't understand a joke, but - although he wasn't normally in the habit of learning from experience - he might also have had a few unimportant occasions in mind when, unlike his more cautious friends, he had acted with no thought at all for what might follow and had been made to suffer for it.
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17  Even the most junior lawyer can understand the relationship there to some extent, but one significant point is that almost every defendant, even very simple people, begins to think of suggestions for improving the court as soon as his proceedings have begun, many of them often even spend time and energy on the matter that could be spent far better elsewhere.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
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