Sentence examples for incomprehensible scale from inspiring English sources

Enormous subdivisions have sprung up in the dunes outside of Cairo, on an almost incomprehensible scale.

How else to convey its mad caprices, the incomprehensible scale of his cruelty and the spiralling paranoia?

This war has resulted in an "nearly incomprehensible" scale of human suffering, according to the UN humanitarian chief.

You're in.' Doherty remembered the run-up to the last Live Aid he organised with Geldof; the sleepless nights; the barely manageable logistics; the almost incomprehensible scale.

Even Weedn acknowledges the incomprehensible scale of the effort: "Testing every fragment in the debris is an impossible feat," he said.

It took time to attune to Feldman's musical world and to adjust to the central paradox of the quartet: the way that, despite its incomprehensible scale, the piece is constructed out of individual, fleeting moments.

Now parents and pupils will rapidly have to get used to no levels at all, the virtually incomprehensible "scaled score" for primary school leavers, more difficult GCSEs and a new numerical exam grading system that will raise the bar to match what are seen as international standards.

We toured cavernous marble palaces stuffed with gifts to the Great and Dear Leaders, paid homage to mummified bodies of these Leaders, and feasted on indistinguishable delicacies on a scale incomprehensible to the average malnourished North Korean.

It has been just over a month since his bandmate and best friend, Stephen Gately, was found dead at the age of 33 in his Mallorca holiday villa, and still it feels as though the magnitude of his loss exists on a scale too incomprehensible for Keating to cope with in its entirety.

It's also a tragic modern reality on a scale that is incomprehensible.

But "The Leftovers" is about collective trauma on grand scale — a huge, incomprehensible event that creates a crisis of meaning for everyone in the book.