You have a broad comprehension of everything that is human, and a dull incomprehension of everything that is particular to Ogarev".
Children, it will have been noted, play a fraught part in these men's lives, and soon it's clear why: for we also come to meet, in awful flashbacks to 1990, Connor Walshe, a glue-sniffing 15-year-old schoolboy and petty criminal who, with a child's need for human affirmation and a child's incomprehension of risk, acted as an informer for the British authorities — then disappeared, permanently.
Of course, a nagging sense of incomprehension is a perennial feature of the human experience.
But you can't, because you're white, a stigmatized presence in a world that associates you with incomprehension, callousness, and a sort of confused humanity, if it sees you as human at all.
Instead, she invites us to examine flawed human lives, and to reflect on a tragedy of mutual incomprehension.
"If we do not attempt to discover the magic sense of things, we will do no more than add new sources of degradations to those already offered to people today, which are beyond number... if the powers of backwardness continue to spread, if they push us any further into the dead end of cruelty and incomprehension, that will be the end of all human dignity," he wrote.
Presented with a man with a stomach, she reacts with incomprehension, as if fat is a revolting glitch in the human genome.
In an episode of devastating comedy — and mutual incomprehension — the squad is introduced to a weird strain of "industrial-sized humans" otherwise known as football players.
The Human Torch, as he's also known, has traditionally been white, and online trolls spluttered with incomprehension.
An element of self-delusion in the human condition interested him, the gap that separates real understanding from what is claimed or supposed, and the incomprehension at the root of human relationships.
