The September 11th attacks had taken place less than a year before, and little did I comprehend the enormous impact that event would have not only on my effort to remain legal in the United States but also on how my name and identity as a Muslim would be perceived.
Not until then, says Boggess, "did I comprehend just how rugged these cars are".
Never did I comprehend that more than when I was in a hospital bed calling friends to tell them that I was being tested for multiple sclerosis.
Nor did I comprehend, even as Senators Biden and Kennedy ripped into Robert Bork in a manner as demagogic as possible, that, if anything, they were merely headlining, not over-stating just how regressive a jurisprudence Bork was advocating.
Only then did I fully comprehend that I'd landed on top of another enormous tropical hardwood tree.
"Only when I moved to Knoxville, did I fully comprehend you could play the guitar and write and sing your own songs," Ms. Smith said.
"The New York Times called it 'a portrait of depravity that's hard to comprehend.' Do I want to put that on the cover?" Johnson, a strong-chinned fifty-seven-year-old with a tiny gold hoop in his left ear and a genteel lisp, made a skeptical, take-it-or-leave-it noise.
Only gradually did I begin to comprehend that my own healthy brain was as incapable of adjusting to him as his brain was to me.
I initially hesitated to sit down and watch the VICE-funded documentary True Norwegian Black Metal and the equally loathsome Until the Light Takes Us by Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell, but once I did, I couldn't comprehend why people would waste entire chunks of their life and/or money fussing over such a staggeringly insignificant subsect of the otherwise powerful metal universe.
It's also that there is much about Jane's (and by extension, Charlotte Brontë's) world that I don't comprehend and for which I can't feel much sympathy.
