The action of his operas is uncomplicated and self-evident, so that the spectator, even if he does not understand the words, readily comprehends what is taking place on the stage.
While royal rule, as legitimized by blood descent, had almost vanished as an effective principle of government in the modern world, monocracy a term that comprehends the rule of non-Western royal absolutists, of generals and strongmen in Latin America and Asia, of a number of leaders in postcolonial Africa, and of the totalitarian heads of communist states still flourished.
More broadly defined, however, the term comprehends actual as well as prescribed forms of political behaviour, not only the legal organization of the state but also the reality of how the state functions.
About one-third of the region's population speaks Euskera, and another one-sixth comprehends it.
Delirium, a mental disturbance marked by disorientation and confused thinking in which the patient incorrectly comprehends his surroundings.
The first aim of government is to secure the right to life; this comprehends the safety of fellow citizens as regards one another and the self-preservation of the country as regards foreign powers.
As a political theorist, Epictetus saw man as a member of a great system that comprehends both God and men.
To know brahman is to know all; in knowing brahman, one achieves a transcendental consciousness that comprehends, in some measure, the unity of the universe and the deep connection between the soul and brahman.
Mr Blair neither shared nor, evidently, comprehends this bitter experience.
A passage in the later Book of the Dead (1200 bce) represents the deceased, who has been ritually identified with Osiris, declaring that he comprehends the whole range of time in himself, thus asserting his superiority to it.
He is a frustrated and impoverished intellectual, trapped in a pointless job; he is serious, passionate, and abrasive, and he comprehends, from an estranged distance, the kind of privilege that Zoe takes for granted.
