Sentence examples for comprehensible that from inspiring English sources

Arthur Goldhammer wrote: While the temptation to condemn the former Harvard president's words as the nec plus ultra of philistinism is comprehensible, that isn't my reaction.

As a scientist I have a rational conviction that the world is comprehensible, that mysteries are only mysteries because we have yet to figure out the answers.

It seems barely comprehensible that this line of argument could ever have achieved such success, given that so much contrary evidence confronts you wherever you look.

"It is not comprehensible that a less sensitive ultrasonic technique should not detect large flaws," wrote Ilse Tweer, a former adviser to the Austrian government.

"And it is easily comprehensible that Lyeff Nikolaevitch [Tolstoy] is passionately fond of this game," Sergeenko writes, as "it affords considerable work for his muscles.

Good journalists must ask the awkward questions and question the answers, must dig to unearth and then explain, making comprehensible that which authority, by intent or verbal inadequacy, has left confused, incomplete or plain mendacious.

Conduct of clinical trials in developing countries faces considerable ethical challenges. 1 2 One of these constraints includes ensuring that informed consent is provided in a comprehensible manner that allows potential participants to freely decide whether or not they are willing to enrol in the study.

This is a comprehensible approach that is based on the Conjugate Gradients (CG) algorithm and that uses FFTs.

By comparison with what her black compatriots were suffering, her own plight seemed almost comprehensible, and that seemed to be exactly her point.

In its fast-paced, total theatre mix of music, film and literally explosive performance, not everything was always comprehensible, but that didn't really matter.

There were other similarities: both books reduced the fabulous complexity of the natural world to something comprehensible, something that could be mastered.