Sentence examples for comprehensible time from inspiring English sources

In addition to providing a vividly comprehensible time line, "After 9/11" makes intelligible — in a way that even an overtaxed Presidential candidate can grasp — the tribal and religious-factional complexities within Iraq and Afghanistan.

If, like me, you don't know Pakistan, then this only gradually becomes clear, when the technology stays the same though decades pass in the lives of the characters; and when the few news incidents alluded to, such as the 2008 truck-bombing of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, don't seem to fit into any comprehensible time scheme.

These varied theodicies tried to account for evil, to make it comprehensible, at times even to dismiss it.

Through her moral balance and literary expertise, an untouchable subject becomes comprehensible, at times even funny: the correspondence between Father Rog and his beleaguered friend Bishop Pip outdoes Muriel Spark and Evelyn Waugh in high Catholic comedy, yet has no touch of malice or frivolity.

The SF-36, commonly used in health services research, was chosen as the measuring instrument because it is fairly simple and comprehensible, not time-consuming to answer, and has been previously validated with a representative sample of the Greek population [ 29].

One of the most inhibiting aspects of interstellar communications is the sense that, somehow, we need to get everything absolutely right and completely comprehensible the first time out.

It is easily comprehensible, takes little time to administer, is comfortable in handling, is inexpensive, and is reliable as it rarely produces false positive results.

White makes a diligent, often delightful, stab at rendering complex subjects and complex times comprehensible.

The tension between the universal mission of the church and the hitherto omitted missionary duties, as well as the idea that the colossal task must be accomplished in the shortest time possible, renders comprehensible the astonishing physical and spiritual achievements of the great Christian missionaries.

What's more intriguing to catch up with is Wong Kar-Wei's 1994 "Ashes of Time," the barely comprehensible action film that now seems as if it took place a lifetime ago for the director, who has moved on to far more mature -- and opaque, if that's possible -- filmmaking.

This results in a set of specific actions as designers look for pertinent information and attempt to structure their task in a way that is comprehensible at the point in time that it was conceptualized.