Sentence examples for incomprehension around from inspiring English sources

When comedian Robin Williams hanged himself in his California home in August 2014, the news of his death was met with incomprehension around the world.

In the novel, however, "Miller reserves such symbolistic cross-references to the more intellectual analysts and builds a comedy of incomprehension around Francis".

Gilbert's Kristallnacht foregrounds personal testimony, and the victims' incomprehension at the barbaric carnival that exploded around them is horribly vivid.

And when these characters can catch their breath and allow their thoughts to surface in the moments of respite between the slaughter, and even in the battlefield itself, Foulds subtly shows their incomprehension of what is taking place all around them and in themselves as well.

For months afterward we stumbled around in a fog of numbed incomprehension.

The wild-eyed incomprehension, an unwillingness to engage with the reality around him, is something viewers had seen in Nicholson's earlier idealistic rebels of Five Easy Pieces and The King of Marvin Gardens.

Dora's incomprehension of sexual mores throws into high relief the hypocrisy of those around her, including her doctor (a hard-working Peter O'Connor), who gets hot and bothered lecturing her about carnal matters.

For blocks around, all the way up to 14th Street, the sidewalks were a mass of people, eerily quiet, for the incomprehension had struck them mute.

Fear and incomprehension.

Rebellion met blank incomprehension.

Incomprehension is bad politics.