Veteran reviewers, used to stately art house fare, expressed incomprehension that Robert Rodriguez's stylised, ultra-violent Sin City had been selected.
Niven's son, David Niven Jr, was interviewed about it in one of the tabloids and expressed incomprehension and anger at some of the claims that Munn made.
Some expressed incomprehension or even hostility, varying from a rejection by the archaeological mainstream of what they saw as an archaeoastronomical fringe to an incomprehension between the cultural focus of archaeologists and the quantitative focus of early archaeoastronomers.
Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober's "The Monarchy: An Oral Biography of Elizabeth II" (Broadway; $32.50) contains, at this point, entry after entry from assorted insiders expressing blunt incomprehension: "absolutely amazed... really amazing... beyond my capacity to understand... inexplicable... astonished... staggered," and so on.
"[There will be] utter incomprehension," she said.
"It is not easy to express a sense of loss, since the initial shock is often succeeded by a mixture of other feelings: disbelief, incomprehension, anger – and concern for those who remain".
In an e-mail Friday to supporters of the Union for a Popular Movement, the party's president, Jean-François Copé, said Mr. Sarkozy, who called him Thursday night, had expressed a "strong sentiment of incomprehension before this unbelievable decision".
She draws on a recording of herself reading from her 2008 memoir, Dear Fatty, in which anger, incomprehension and grief are expressed in a fusillade of rhetorical questions: "Did you go out still fighting?
In interviews across the country, voters expressed reactions ranging from shock to total incomprehension at the campaign début of a man who, at first blush, exhibits none of the outward characteristics of a sociopath or clinical narcissist.
If the co-operation of audience members is the fuel to Wills' shtick, then it is their occasional incomprehension and slow-wittedness that allows him his major character traits: incredulity (expressed through much raising of eyebrows), gentle sarcasm (lots of ironic thumbs up) and, sometimes, Basil Fawltyesque impatience (hand gesticulations aplenty).
