How To Use Incomprehension In A Sentence
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What he cannot see, in his cultural incomprehension, are the numberless indications of our collective strength, character, and resolve.
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He spread his hands in a gesture of incomprehension.
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But, in between, there were dozens and dozens of people who showed every sign of genuine hurt and incomprehension.
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Official reaction was one of complete incomprehension as to how such a thing could even happen.
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A sighingly lovely covey of youths stares at the cartography with a smouldering incomprehension.
Times, Sunday Times
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Melvin Jules Bukiet claims similarly that it is "not that a reader necessarily seeks a lesson, but fiction and nonfiction ought to approach the subject as more than an opportunity to wallow in the worst humankind has to offer," and these two comments most explicity reveal the incomprehension with which so many American reviewers of The Kindly Ones reacted to the narrative constructed by its protagonist.
Furies
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It was a mix of sympathy, disappointment and incomprehension.
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But, as my conversation with two Georgian fellows spilled out into the corridor, I sensed the rising waters of mutual incomprehension.
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This time he saw a look of blank incomprehension on her face.
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I recognized the blank , resentful stair of incomprehension in her eyes.
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But when he talks about it, it's more with incomprehension than snobbish disdain.
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With two complicit systems of self-justification and self-fulfilling incomprehension reinforcing the divide, is there any way forward?
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He took the note she was holding out, but it was blurred with his sudden blinding incomprehension.
FAIRYLAND
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It's then that I glance over at Irian, who is listening to our niceties with complete incomprehension.
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There's more grizzling [him] and incomprehension at the sudden outbreak of said grizzling [me].
Times, Sunday Times
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Ilse looked at him with bemused incomprehension.
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There is a tendency to what some might consider utter selfishness in the Arien personality, but confront your Aries mate with such an accusation and their reaction will very probably be one of complete incomprehension.
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I must have had an expression of absolute incomprehension, because she looked away from me and repeated the question in a slightly less emphatic tone.
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In fact, it's only when I ask for another coffee that he complains, his voice pitched somewhere between disgust and incomprehension.
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Andrei scraped back his chair, his head tilted back, his arms flung wide in a gesture of utter incomprehension.
TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
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There is a tendency to what some might consider utter selfishness in the Arien personality, but confront your Aries mate with such an accusation and their reaction will very probably be one of complete incomprehension.
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The tone betrayed his incomprehension of those stupid blue collar voters who don't understand their own interests as well as Matt does, but the facts were welcome.
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The state of confusion into which we are thrown by what seem to be senseless acts of brutal violence in Iraq produce the very effects the terrorists intend: our incomprehension and demoralisation .
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Otherwise mutual incomprehension and avoidable conflict will continue.
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So, what we have is not a clash of civilizations but mutual complicity in proliferating mutual incomprehension.
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Her explanations were met with blank incomprehension.
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his incomprehension of the consequences
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But here, the main issue is civilian incomprehension of the horrors of war, as a shell-shocked young hero returns home only to greet news of his DSO with disgust.
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It wasn't as if he was speaking Gaelic, his first language, simply that his Lewis lilt was unfamiliar to the point of incomprehension.
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As a blogger, by contrast, I almost invariably receive one of two reactions, glowing praise or a look of total incomprehension.
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Could it be because you're operating with complete incomprehension of their feelings - which this week are very, very touchy?
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But his face stared back at him with a look of dour incomprehension.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Explanations are not this film's concern - it strives instead to give shape to our incomprehension.
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In one scene we see Vicki's complete incomprehension of the gangster talk that surrounds her.
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She takes my incomprehension to signify that we'll never really understand each other and are thus, not each other's Ones.
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Startled by the torchlight, their shallow caprine eyes gazed back in fear and incomprehension at the source.
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Bessey encountered a spectrum of incomprehension, scorn, puzzlement and good will.
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After a few moments of complete incomprehension, Em broke out of her daze and blinked up at her fellow instrumentalists.
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This time he certainly saw blank incomprehension mixed with a liberal dollop of incredulity.
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When the appeal is turned down he looks at the umpire the way a teenager looks at his father when told he cannot have £50 for a night out: incomprehension.
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Knowledge comes of shared experience while ignorance and incomprehension of the other can be the consequences of time unshared.
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In fact, it's only when I ask for another coffee that he complains, his voice pitched somewhere between disgust and incomprehension.
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Kate Hunt smiled pleasantly and said hello, but when she looked towards her husband I saw his quick shrug of incomprehension.
BETTER THAN THIS
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On the whole, not a great success, ending as it did in mumbling confession of love, response of utter incomprehension and threats of violence from older brother.
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Hopefully you won't change what you're doing because of the incomprehension and begrudgery of a very small majority.
Give 'em the Old Razzle-Dazzle, Razzle-Dazzle 'em.
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In this, his first solo exhibition in nine years, the distinguished abstractionist has chosen to sacrifice a body of images sanctified by popularity, and to risk the incomprehension and even irritation of his viewers.
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The audience reacted with surprise and incomprehension.
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Tunnel vision and mutual incomprehension were natural reactions.
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Deafness and incomprehension, producing anomie and a reluctance to vote, are the default modes of the modern electorate.
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This poor attempt at levity earned me the usual blank look of incomprehension, so I was forced to abandon the oblique approach and ask directly about the offensive effluvium befouling our happy home.
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I remember listening to Debussy preludes for the first couple of times with similar enjoyable incomprehension.
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On the other hand, it meant that some of his ideas provoked hostile opposition, while others were greeted with incomprehension or indifference.
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He loved and revered Kaspar, but he had always feared him -- feared, at least, his disapproval, his incomprehension.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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If they calmly endure his dumb questions and stubborn incomprehension they may end up looking silly, and if they show their irritation they risk coming across as jerks.
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His fitful petulance, his unsuccessful attempts to take control, his complete incomprehension of adult assumptions and mores.
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Btw, it may pass notice without an overt mention, but the earlier reference to the "unholy" trinity - of facile contempt, philistine incomprehension and an incurious and willful blindness - is "unholy" vis-a-vis the very best and most rigorous of post-Enlightenment (i.e. rational and transparent) standards, not the pseudo-standards of some strawman, stereotypical, backwards looking fideism.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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He spread his hands in a gesture of incomprehension.
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On the other hand, there is still a very real cynicism, unease and basic incomprehension which prevents complete acceptance.
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The painful experience of what one might call “counter rape” is focalized through the eyes of the victim — a young man whose bewildered incomprehension is utterly ignored by his female attacker.
Shulamit Lapid.
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Children, left to their own devices, stand on the sidelines where they observe the grown-ups with a mixture of incomprehension and sudden insight.
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Which is not what I came to see you about," I answered brusquely, somewhat nettled by their incomprehension.
THE DESCENT