She found my inability to inform her of Christopher's whereabouts incomprehensible, and her response was withering but not entirely surprised, which somehow made matters worse.
Many of us find this kind of reaction incomprehensible, but it serves as an important reminder that empathy is not a universal response to others' pain and suffering.
It also responds to the contemporary Chinese idiom "nao na yang", asking "what's the matter?" in response to something incomprehensible.
On taxi rides to and from the Prado (half-hour tutorials), I asked drivers: "Ha visitado Londres?", as if conducting a survey, and invited incomprehensible torrents of Spanish in response.
Journalists are now bound to be tempted to use GCS scores – 2 is makes incomprehensible sounds, opens eyes in response to painful stimuli, 1 is makes no sounds, does not open eyes – for the government as a whole, or ministers on the verge of resigning.
0 NO: A response is totally incomprehensible due to language errors, or because the response is left blank. .
After Wednesday's call, the fact that 10 years of searching had just ended with such a comprehensive, unprecedented response was almost incomprehensible for Mathis.
Now, if BP was in the nuclear energy business, which produces 15% of the world's power, such a response would be incomprehensible, cause for riots in the streets.
Completely incomprehensible," Mr. Marshall wrote, apparently in a response to a test suggested by the doctor.
In light of all of the counterproductive and insanely wrong responses to 9/11, it seems incomprehensible now but I was told "no public safety emergency" existed on 9/11 and again on 9/12.
Responses were discarded if they were incomprehensible or had no relationship to the study objectives.
