It is not possible to understand this statement without having a thorough comprehension of the character or in other words idiosyncrasy of Spaniards as a people.
Kempowski's handling of this episode displays all his deep talents as a novelist his impartial hospitality to many different perspectives, his shrewd comprehension of his characters' solipsism, the impurity of their heroism.
Kempowski's handling of this episode displays all his deep talents as a novelist — his impartial hospitality to many different perspectives, his shrewd comprehension of his characters' solipsism, the impurity of their heroism.
A couple living together out of wedlock is beyond comprehension for one character.
They were selected by a national panel of judges, who evaluated playing ability and comprehension of the life skills and character education learned through their involvement with The First Tee.
Rather than suggesting a multiplicity of meanings, the mystery man's questionable provenance bolsters the argument that amnesia is a device best left to farce, and the characters' instant comprehension of the Holocaust the moment they first learn of it feels ahistorical.
Notwithstanding the aesthetic pleasure derived from reading, how well can one appreciate the nuances of character and circumstance in a novel if one is reading 10 pages per minutes sans Bloomian comprehension skills?
The Bobover rebbe, Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam (obituary, Aug. 3), was unshakable in his belief that God's character and thought processes are beyond the comprehension of mortals: we simply have no basis for questioning his actions.
However, the very character and essence of his administration's economic policymaking reveals the lack of comprehension of how dire and unique the Global Economic Crisis is on the part of President Obama.
A 2006 University of Toronto study found that avid readers of fiction were far more socially adept than avid readers of non-fiction: "Comprehending characters in a narrative fiction appears to parallel the comprehension of peers in the actual world, while the comprehension of expository non-fiction shares no such parallels".
