The phrase "a penetrating understanding of the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone’s deep and insightful comprehension of a particular subject or topic.
Example: "Her research demonstrated a penetrating understanding of the complexities of human behavior."
Alternatives: "a profound grasp of the" or "an in-depth knowledge of the".
His two Berlioz productions have been crammed with vivid imagery and showed a penetrating understanding of what makes Berlioz's operas such a special challenge.
The writing all goes into deciding who falls backward through the window, has his head ripped off by the alien, bares his bottom amusingly to get his shots from the pretty nurse, or pouts tensely when the sonar says "Ping!" Mencken fancied himself above it all, but he had a penetrating understanding of star power.
His Maimonides is a figure who rejects superstition and religious fundamentalism in favor of a deeper and more penetrating understanding of the tradition.
Their questions to her on intelligence matters elicited "defensive responses" and an ignorance of the subject "inconsistent with her compendious and penetrating understanding of political and international affairs".
Bellow was a writer about conscience and consciousness, forever conflicted by the competing demands of the great cities, the individual's urge to survival against all odds and his equal need for love and some kind of penetrating understanding of what there was of significance beyond all the racket and racketeering.
Although the novels are quite different, both are set in Nazi-occupied Europe and display their author's eye for perfectly illustrative yet wholly unexpected incident and detail, as well as his talent for storytelling and his extraordinarily subtle and penetrating understanding of human nature.
The psychologists Alfred Adler and Carl Jung were deeply influenced, as was Sigmund Freud, who said of Nietzsche that he had a more-penetrating understanding of himself than any man who ever lived or was ever likely to live.
The identification of this fjord landscape, based on new data from ice-penetrating radar, provides an improved understanding of the topography of the Aurora Subglacial Basin and its surroundings, and reveals a complex surface sculpted by a succession of ice-sheet configurations substantially different from today's.
According to the National Park Service, scientists will expand their investigation to "mapping of openings, depressions, and anomalous features, the use of multispectral Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) and coring to develop a better understanding of the overall internal architecture of the dune, and detailed GPR and coring of some of the anomalies identified in the EPA report".
Overall, our results can contribute to a better understanding of the role of peptide lipid interactions in the mechanisms of cell-penetrating peptide membrane translocation, helping in the future design of more efficient cell-penetrating peptide-based drug delivery systems.
