Sometimes though, they mangle the word so bad and the look of utter incomprehension is so strong on the listening person's face that I do repeat what they tried to say but correctly. ❋ Unknown (2006)
These create between them, with all the desire for understanding in the world, a barrier of misunderstanding and incomprehension, which is all the more fatal because it is so intangible, so obscure, so hard to put into words, so often actually unconscious or subconscious in the mind of one or of the other. ❋ Unknown (1916)
Fantastic! breathes an inattentive Tamara at precisely the moment Tait is telling her about the death of teenage American soldiers in Korea, is a disaster of mutual incomprehension and hostility, and the piece seems sunk. ❋ Unknown (2011)
"It's been a constant battle," she said, detailing obstacles that ran the gamut from her family's incomprehension and dead-set opposition, to the scarcity and sometimes prohibitively high prices of fresh produce, to the near-total absence of meatless options from restaurant and cafeteria menus. ❋ AP (2011)
"If we do not attempt to discover the magic sense of things, we will do no more than add new sources of degradations to those already offered to people today, which are beyond number... if the powers of backwardness continue to spread, if they push us any further into the dead end of cruelty and incomprehension, that will be the end of all human dignity," he wrote. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I like to think I`m pretty clued-in to my club, but most of the time I`m left shaking my head in complete incomprehension. ❋ Unknown (2011)
While you can argue that it served a bridging function while a tradition-oriented establishment came to terms with a new reality, history will look back with blinking incomprehension at a policy that will seem to have been thought up by a preschooler, along the lines of "If I cover my eyes, can you see me?" ❋ Tom Toles (2010)
Questions about hospital superbugs are met with incomprehension. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Stealing the show: an aged local legend of a miniature horse named "Lil Sebastian," and it's hard to say what was funnier: the ecstatic look of boyish glee on sourpuss Ron Swanson's face when the mini-horse is led into the office, or the look of utter incomprehension on outsider Ben's face. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The drunk woman turned her head slowly, studied the sight with incomprehension, then said, slowly, “Wooo!” ❋ Unknown (2009)
Mrs Dalloway, despite my general incomprehension of its larger purposes, showed me, at a relatively early age, what it was possible to do with ink and paper. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The existence of the Arena and associated frames of reference merely shows that the relativistic effects are limited – special cases which will collapse if subjected to analysis from the point of view of the privileged frame, but only if they become relevant to the spacetime track of … he saw the incomprehension in her eyes and stopped. ❋ Blue Tyson (2010)
"The duration of this crisis has led a large part of the population to feel an incomprehension for the political world, which is not providing solutions for problems," the king said. ❋ Frances Robinson (2011)
"Which is not what I came to see you about," I answered brusquely, somewhat nettled by their incomprehension. ❋ Unknown (2010)
At one point, the playwright had really screwed up this way from complete incomprehension of other types of people. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Generally, the classic response of an orthodoxy (or what Thomas Kuhn famously called a paradigm) is to ignore any threat, not only out of fear of what might be lost (tenure, prizes, careers), but out of incomprehension; to the predetermined model builders, Frydman and Goldberg's argument must literally seem like babble. ❋ Robert Teitelman (2011)
Lop-Ear's eyes came the plaintive look that always accompanied incomprehension, and I know that in my eyes must have been the same look. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Yet, the chances are that our own descendants will ask the same question, with the same incomprehension, about some of our practices today. ❋ Kwame Anthony Appiah (2010)
[gabbie] is so incomprehensible ❋ Gdawg (2003)
That [stuff] is incomprehensible, [man]. ❋ Mr. Not Guilty (2016)
[What’s the] Definition of Incomprehensible?
[I don’t know] it’s to much to [comprehend] ❋ Aaaaaaaaaratsssssss (2023)
Dude, [did you] [understand] what I was [saying]?
No, I have incomprehensibilities! ❋ Defin1t10n5 (2021)
My friend is saying things like "oidhapuifwehsdm-g98pershfpiguwetgniu" and "riwahosv9f8aweodsijmgoqwriguqre9n" to me! Their [speaking] is total [incomprehensibility]. [Uh oh]. ❋ Shepsidian (2021)
[Justin] has some [incomprehensibilities]. ❋ HalloDeutschland (2021)
Incomprehensibilitiy (ˌinˌkä[mpr]əˌ[hens]əˈ[bil]ədē/ˌɪnˌkɑmprəˌhɛ[ns]əˈbɪlədi)
‘It can't: it is crammed with lovers packed in tight, the details smashed flat, extraneous facts [shorn] away to [save space], mangled and compressed to the point of [incomprehensibility] and all beyond counting or [collating].’
‘This article gives some idea of the incomprehensibility of such an event in Japan, where the discovery of a live bullet in someone's luggage at the airport is national news.’
‘Marriage is the theme, in all its incomprehensibility, its difficulty and its infinite gentle understandings.’
‘The result turned out to be so hard to understand that the novel acquired an aura of profundity by virtue of its sheer incomprehensibility.’
Incomprehensible (ˌinˌkämprəˈhensəb(ə)l/ˌɪnˌkɑmprəˈhɛnsəb(ə)l)
‘This story from the St Albans Observer is completely incomprehensible.’
‘Confusing films may be [in vogue], but confusing does NOT equal incomprehensible.’
‘Spoken entirely in Latin and Aramaic, it is contrived, opaque and incomprehensible.’
‘What seems perfectly reasonable for one person is completely incomprehensible for another.’
Incomprehensibilitiy (ˌinˌkämprəˌhensəˈbilədē/ˌɪnˌkɑmprəˌhɛnsəˈbɪlədi) & Incomprehensible (ˌinˌkämprəˈhensəb(ə)l/ˌɪnˌkɑmprəˈhɛnsəb(ə)l) ❋ ANCIENT_WOLFY (2022)
