Sentence examples for or incomprehension from inspiring English sources

The trick is figuring out whether a person's distrust of non-native speakers stems from prejudice or incomprehension.

He even came to believe that the neglect or incomprehension of the majority of readers was itself proof that he was on the right path.

But he said the call of President Jacques Chirac of France for a law banning religious symbols in state schools was unsurprising "in a secular environment that looks at religion not only with suspicion or incomprehension but with fear".

Girls in short dresses, dashing men in pink shoes, young lovers fused together and talking about things that are hard to comprehend even when you try very hard — they all receive long stares of unspoken indictments or incomprehension; but eventually people will become inured to these veneers of modernity, and the stares will cease.

(4) A pretest of the first stage was delivered to experts and scholars of related disciplines to modify the questionnaire for avoiding any error generated by the misunderstanding or incomprehension of the questions.

But here conversations go nowhere, reveal nothing; they close in mutual suspicion or mutual incomprehension, or they simply tail off inconclusively.

I believe one can only be that way through total indifference to our world, or appalling incomprehension.

The authorial sin here is not malice or even incomprehension — more like a kind of distraction, a straying of focus.

Men and women are cut off from one another by jealousy, possessiveness or simple incomprehension, and men are cut off from one another by competitiveness and the fear of humiliation.

But among those who had not, there was incomprehension or, worse, a harsh brand of judgment.

AUTHORS who defend liberalism must often struggle just to get the word out without facing incomprehension or abuse even today.