But for reasons I was unable to fathom at the time, I clung to a conviction that I must do as she told me.
Tufa grew up learning English, Arabic and Turkish but, for reasons Tufa couldn't fathom at the time, her father also made sure she could speak Oromo, the fourth most spoken language in Africa.
He was occasionally drawn from his work to attend conventions and superhero fan fests, signing autographs and posing alongside knockoffs of the Black Beauty, the Hornet's sinister-looking, low-slung car that was outfitted with tubes under its chassis that could launch rockets, 'infra-green" headlight that could reveal the all-but-invisible and — hard to fathom at the time — a car phone.
I can't even fathom the last time Bill Cosby has been forced to perform in front of an empty room, but it had clearly messed with his head.
Government overreaches were comparatively little known or even fathomed at the time.
I couldn't fathom this at the time but I realized later that this character was created as the person Dad wanted me to be.
Yet for reasons that I couldn't at the time quite fathom, despite my resistance to it, I seemed drawn to marriage like a moth to a flame.
No one can easily fathom the meaning of "deep time".
Such exacerbation in US-Mexico relations makes it almost impossible to fathom a time when the border was a much more fluid place, where Mexican migrants played a more active role in the American economy at least officially.
The gulf in outlook is so pronounced as to be all but invisible, as each side struggles to fathom the other, nobly, at times unknowingly, fumbling even simple communication -- much like the classic summer-romance couple in a remote resort, finding attraction and perhaps safety in the shortfall of real conversation.
