In an e-mail Friday to supporters of the Union for a Popular Movement, the party's president, Jean-François Copé, said Mr. Sarkozy, who called him Thursday night, had expressed a "strong sentiment of incomprehension before this unbelievable decision".
The overwhelming majority of men and women in history have lived and died with no recognition from the nation state, but Boland's unique tone of static incomprehension before this fact tends more to quietism than to radical indignation.
This incomprehension does not necessarily mean that Spain would represent an obstacle for David Cameron as he negotiates a better agreement with the EU.
The impression created by mapping this incomprehension onto the double-take that the simile forces on its reader or auditor is strange.
She looked at him with total incomprehension - what is this odd boy saying to me?
Jung himself had no illusions about the reception of his work and keenly felt his isolation in the face of his contemporaries' incomprehension and rejection, but this does not alter the hard facts of his discoveries.
There is a rather significant moment, in terms of this intergenerational incomprehension, in which Mr Smeeth lectures Twigg & Dersingham's office boy on the subject of his own alternative life, in this case a leisure given over to detective magazines and the "shadowing" of innocent members of the public.
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).
"Many who have followed this trial in Germany and America will look on this decision with incomprehension and bitterness," he said.
For Faith, the next experience was incomprehension: "I was, like, Who is this new person?
