So did news of the deaths of reporters I have never met, but whose need to tell this story I viscerally understand.

It was like a coded message that beaten-down liberals could understand viscerally: it was time for Democrats to stop being afraid to act like Democrats.

And Mr. Quesada understands viscerally the importance of this real setting.

However thin and weak the albino might seem, Sulu understood viscerally that he couldn't afford to underestimate this man.

I understood viscerally that this trip was more than a house-hunting expedition.

And I do not viscerally understand loneliness.

You can understand viscerally why it's hard for workers to vote for their own interests while their friends remain in limbo.

But beneath the tweedy exterior beats the very confident heart of a man who viscerally understands - loves, even - politics.

The film viscerally understands why quiet, awkward Pauline falls so madly in love with the more daring Juliet, whose upper-class parents have left her free to indulge in an active fantasy life.

Americans understand viscerally for the first time the risks they face.