But he began to comprehend the scale of the accusations against him.
Then the pain freezes, and he steps back to comprehend the scale of it.
It is hard to comprehend the scale of the defeat, one that will either galvanise the players or destroy them.
We painted our hallway the other weekend and haven't really recovered from the trauma, so it's hard to comprehend the scale of what Beeny is doing.
It is difficult for those not familiar with the country to comprehend the scale of corruption, the waste of capital, the sheer inefficiency, the ubiquity of the party and the obeisance to hierarchy that is today's China.
Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst, mourned for Iraq: "One million dead, 4m displaced, and that's a victory?" He sees the failure of Americans to comprehend the scale of the destruction wrought under their flag as nothing less than racist.
After the explosion in West, it was not the Texas City disaster that many people here talked about as they tried to comprehend the scale of the loss, but another, more recent one.
To comprehend the scale of this innovation, it is necessary to understand the extent to which data has until now been held in silos, available to only one authority.
Vivaldi's output was vast – so vast that he quickly fell from favour after his death in 1741, and even today we struggle to comprehend the scale of his achievement.
If one imagined the Times asking its readers to read twelve pages of French every week, one would still not comprehend the scale of this new idea, since the Times (a) wouldn't do it and (b) is not published in a country where a belligerent defensiveness about the national language is a defining characteristic.
