half-understood

She too was a beautiful woman who had become a symbol for something that could not be expressed in words and was only half-understood.

The Painter's Wife, a short story 2009

They told beautiful wonders, half-understood glories; their eyes far, their fingers quickly delicate, their teeth chattering endless secrets.

The Future and Why We are Afraid Kenton deAngeli 2011

She too was a beautiful woman who had become a symbol for something that could not be expressed in words and was only half-understood.

The Painter's Wife, a short story 2009

Comfort is taken from these code phrases, these half-understood prayers to an ancient ideology.

Matthew Yglesias » The George Will Scandal and the Decline of Great American Newspapers 2009

It was too disagreeable a reminder of those long nights in hospital when he had struggled in restless half-consciousness against irrational terrors and half-understood fears.

She Closed Her Eyes 2010

Oddly, we have reached the stage where there might still be a singular vision, but too often it is being micro-managed at executive level to the point of blandness and is often hobbled by an unhealthy mix at executive-committee stage of half-understood notions of political correctness tied to an essential distrust of viewers 'intelligence.

Can British TV produce drama as good as Mad Men? 2010

The words came out in a rush, as if the boy was repeating an only half-understood (as yet) lesson.

Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

I tried again to heave up, flailing my arms feebly, without success - and now my dream came back to me, half-understood, and I knew from the numbness of my limbs that this was no ordinary waking ...

Watershed 2010

This same factor is a crucial part of what makes conservative media so successful: the careful deployment of social issues designed to pray on fear and the half-understood morality preached in America's evangelical circles.

Beau Friedlander: The Obama Referendum: Nothing to See Here 2009

Instead, they rely on half-understood soundbites from "climate sceptics", aka the fossil fuel industry.

Wake Up Australia to Climate Change Scam! 2009