Donoghue's ventriloquism, with its precocious and off-kilter language, seemed to me to beautifully render the way children grapple with words and to mimic the way meaning shifts constantly as a child's comprehension of things expands.
In turn, Sarkozy's tactics have been to increase the Left Front's vote total and reduce Hollande's in the first round with compliments for Mélenchon like, "I have to say, concerning his comprehension of things having to do with humanity, I have no complaints".
But the gossipy townspeople have no comprehension of such things.
Above all, Newman was arguing that the primary role of the university was to give students a "perfection of the intellect … the clear, calm, accurate vision and comprehension of all things" that allows the individual to make good judgements.
In his highly appreciative review in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther said that the story of a marshal who eschews retirement in order to protect a cowardly, ungrateful constituency from a vengeance-bent criminal "has a stunning comprehension of that thing we call courage in a man and the thorniness of being courageous in a world of bullies and poltroons".
While I'm not closed to the notion of things beyond human comprehension (I've got a few stories of existential dread), my own screwy brain and sensory perception have me convinced that most mystical experiences are totally explainable.
You just feel a bit out of things… Leni Theme 4, limited comprehension, explores the participants' confusion and doubt about dietary self-management, especially in the early days following GDM diagnosis.
The author, a former Detroit correspondent of The Times, devotes statistics, indignation and a how-things-work comprehension of the internal combustion monster to an argument that the S.U.V. is bad for your health.
"There is quite as much average comprehension of the need of the thing, as much courage I doubt not, as much previous knowledge of the gun, & there is a readiness of ear & of imitation which for purposes of drill counterbalances any defect of mental training".
But the Australopithecines left no stone tools, and chimps, though they use natural stones to smash things, have no comprehension of fashioning a stone for a specific task.
Following Grosseteste, Kilwardby took human knowledge to comprise the comprehension of the truth of contingently existing things, of what frequently is in the same way, and of what has an absolute way of being and is immutable such as the principles and conclusions of a demonstration.
