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As so often in Christian thinking, this sort of apophatic preamble does not prevent Cusanus from spending a whole book proposing how we might comprehend the incomprehensible God "incomprehensibly".
On any given afternoon – to take a random sample from the programmes on offer in these places last week – you can take in Battleship Potemkin, a Buñuel retrospective, a lesser-known Fellini, or Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar (an obscure western from 1954 that is incomprehensibly revered by all French true believers in the art of cinema).
The pre-election sense here was of an incomprehensibly large sum somehow being wrung out of a vast and vague tract of spending.
Perhaps it was because everyone in Leeds is perpetually furious, or perhaps it was the fact that for once they didn't have to also aim their questions at self-promoting newspaper columnists and above-their-stations comedians, but this lot operated on an incomprehensibly high baseline of fury.
With reluctance, we departed the boat for Long Bay Hotel, dry land seeming incomprehensibly dull, but within minutes of arriving at the resort, occupying most of a mile-long stretch of white sandy beach, our happiness was fully restored.
The latest thinking divides the company into three incomprehensibly vague units that between them cover just about all possibilities: industry and society, the individual, and components.Between them, Toshiba, Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric, Fujitsu and NEC employ almost 1m people.
He saw that the Milky Way, that cloudy streak across the sky, is made of stars.That observation was the first hint that, not only is the Earth not the centre of things, but those things are vastly, almost incomprehensibly , bigger than people up until that date had dreamed.
He then proceeded to ramble incomprehensibly for much of the next hour.On his visit to India, however, he would surely have felt strangely comfortable, if not in the language then in the politics.
But since 1967 America has been considered by Arabs to be incomprehensibly pro-Israeli.
But when it came into effect earlier this month, all seemed to go smoothly.Except it didn't for several thousand Canadians who, when they applied for passports, discovered that their own country's bureaucracy had incomprehensibly stripped them of their nationality.
And if one is not familiar with, say, the form of the Iberian peninsula, or is unable to accept an Africa that looks like a curved strand of spaghetti, the map may not make much sense.The Economist's research and infographics teams have a visceral aversion to proportional maps; the correspondents tend to blink incomprehensibly at them and return to their martinis and bridge hand.
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As an adverb derived from the adjective "incomprehensible", its primary function is to modify adjectives and verbs to indicate a total absence of understanding or a scale that exceeds cognitive limits. Ludwig AI confirms its status as a standard and correct usage in modern English.
Expression frequency: Very common
