"incomprehension by" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It can be used when describing a situation where someone is not able to understand something, and the reason for their lack of understanding is attributed to someone or something else. Example: The students were left in a state of incomprehension by the complicated explanation given by their teacher.
The one about green M&M's making you horny, for instance — while that one was well known to old white people from Boston, it had been met with incomprehension by young nonwhite people from the Bronx.
The Boy, in speeches rendered with heartbreaking openness and incomprehension by Mr. Burtka, repeatedly asks that he be allowed to dwell in innocence for just a bit longer, to let the "pain and loss" come later.
Small wonder that the fruits of contemporary scholarship in the humanities are so widely viewed with contemptuous incomprehension by nonscholarly critics and the common reader, since the members of the professoriate are so reluctant to translate their ideas into the plain English of the public intellectual.
While participants and admirers believe that this evolution was empowering by fostering turbo-charged critical thinking skills, current debate practices are often viewed with incomprehension by outsiders (as this recent segment with journalist Mo Rocca on CBS attests).
The polite incomprehension prompted by a papal visit to a place with almost no Roman Catholics is particularly well drawn.
But Amal also knows it puts her in the path of all the anger and incomprehension generated by 9/11 and the 2005 Bali bombings.
Newman's first one-man show, held in New York City in 1950, aroused hostility and incomprehension, but by the late 1950s and '60s his work had influenced Ad Reinhardt, Clyfford Still, and such younger artists as Frank Stella and Larry Poons.
Garai's Isabella has the scrubbed purity and shining virtue of the religious novice, and her initial reaction to Angelo's assault on her virtue is one of baffled incomprehension followed by moral outrage.
Equally important, the Globe series addressed the civic incomprehension evinced by so many miseducated white Bostonians who are clueless to the realities of the city.
Incomprehension was replaced by the search for meaning, for God, for answers.
The Taliban men were ignorant of diplomatic niceties, and Richardson's icebreaking small talk was met by incomprehension.
