For these reasons, Quilts has prompted as much bemused incomprehension as curiosity.
There was as much mutual incomprehension between myself and the black-hatted haredi kids in the Jerusalem neighbourhood I lived in as a child as between myself and the Palestinian kids in the streets of the Old City.
No wonder educational discourse has occasionally been likened to Babel, for the differences in backgrounds and assumptions means that there is much mutual incomprehension.
There's a tendency on the part of economists, both liberals and Tory Keynesians like Greg Mankiw and John Taylor (because that's what they are, except when they're playing for Team Republican), to understate the depth of incomprehension on much of the right.
Back then Ono's music and artwork were greeted with mockery, incomprehension and even rage, much like the rest of her artistic practice – which is unusually wide-ranging, including film, text, sculpture and performance art.
Her stance against animal testing was not so much driven by a love of animals as by complete incomprehension of why animal testing was necessary in the first place.
Although many of Berkeley's first readers greeted him with incomprehension, he influenced both Hume and Kant, and is much read (if little followed) in our own day.
As much of their chapter on Deleuze consists of exasperated exclamations of incomprehension, it is hard to say what it is that Sokal and Bricmont think they have accomplished.
In the past two decades, attitudes in America and Europe have diverged so much that any dialogue on the subject has been replaced by blank incomprehension, and America's retention of capital punishment has become a significant diplomatic irritant.
It was so much easier than trying to explain divorce and cope with the embarrassed silence, incomprehension or deepest sympathy.
