Only once, in Brisbane in 1928-29, the match in which Donald Bradman made his debut and saw his side defeated by a barely comprehensible 675 runs, has Australia lost as heavily as this in terms of runs.
Then I remembered that Loach's Kes had its soundtrack dubbed to make it more comprehensible to soft southerners - in England, not in Dixie.
Some composers use text simply as the catalyst for composition, but most take care to make text comprehensible.
And there's the more easily comprehensible headcount of people who live on less than $1.25 a day.
Our first trip to Japan performing Thick as a Brick to inscrutable, unflinching observers left us longing for the warm and more comprehensible sights and sounds of Europe.
The obvious way to change that is at the level of the university curriculum, and yet the whole point is, economics has to be open to – not just comprehensible to, also discussable with – people who don't have a university degree.
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.
But the result in practice is almost always over-engineering: the component costs more to develop, the suspected additional use rarely materialises, when it does materialise it has requirements that don't quite match the actual implementation, and the component as a whole is more brittle, less comprehensible to successive developers and more difficult to maintain.
Deep divides exist on many social issues, but usually the other side is at least comprehensible to the majority.
It will make Eurovision sense, which is an entirely different category of comprehensible).
Admittedly, these are structures that we choose to sign up for: having access to cable, internet and television services that are properly priced and whose pricing is readily comprehensible is hardly as crucial as ensuring that our mortgages, car loans and student loans are fair and that we're being dealt with honestly by the banks and other lenders with whom we're negotiating.
