But for reasons I was unable to fathom at the time, I clung to a conviction that I must do as she told me.
As live-for-the-moment eighth graders, Ellen and I were unable to fathom that life could one day turn fragile.
It was demoralizing to discover that in spite of my record-keeping--a feat of human organization and skill unmatched by anyone whose uncle was not Ivan Ferderbar, I would be unable to fathom the instructions for filing my taxes.
I remember standing in the frame of the infamous "Door of No Return". I remember the smell of sea salt carried by the ocean's mist, and remember being unable to fathom what such a scent might be like when commingled with the scent of hundreds of chained bodies herded into tight corridors.
UNTIL he began considering what it meant to represent America in Venice, he was unable to fathom how to turn his rage into metaphor.
Republicans, convinced all those anti-Brett M. Kavanaugh protesters were a paid mob, have been unable to fathom that his confirmation fight might not have been so good for them after all.
Starring Josh Brolin as a man locked away for 20 years (up from 15 in the original) in a hotel-like prison by an unseen nemesis for reasons he is unable to fathom, Lee's version is said to be based more directly on the 1996 Japanese manga that spawned Park's mystery thriller.
James, needing to make himself taller for some reason, draws himself up, and then asks, "You are saying you work, live, and sleep here, and for food you collect the leftovers from my restaurant?" Ahmed looks offended, but James is unable to fathom why.
Unlike Locke, the narrator of the poem knows that he is unable to fathom the universe, but still questions the matter.
Watching a detainee make a frustrated weekly call home to his family, who are unable to fathom the fact that the Australian government has locked them up indefinitely a wife who believes her husband must be lying to her and living it up in Sydney, because the situation he describes simply cannot be possible.
They are terrified of failure, particularly their own and of being unable to fathom the consequences when things go wrong.
