Mr. Bardem's portrayal of the newly enlightened Lorenzo — who tries to help Ines find the daughter they had together when she was a captive — is filled with fine brush strokes that make the character compelling, if not quite comprehensible.
When we consider legal and social systems in relation to these various factors, Montesquieu believes, we will find that many laws and institutions that had seemed puzzling or even perverse are in fact quite comprehensible.
What is incomprehensible and inappropriate for use in a cohort study may be quite comprehensible and appropriate for use in a incidence case control study or a prevalence study.
In his new translation of "Pearl," Simon Armitage, who is currently the Oxford Professor of Poetry, conveys that feeling of the almost-but-not-quite comprehensible, the feeling that can make medieval art at once eerie and wonderful.
A chanteuse performs in a tawdry frilled dress, a male crooner delivers not-quite-comprehensible lyrics, go-go boys strut and grind absurdly in shorts and court shoes.
In turn, you suddenly start to pay attention to shows like Money Box Live (Wednesday, 3pm, Radio 4), in which the gently sympathetic Paul Lewis fields questions from rattled listeners about ISAs, pensions, balanced portfolios, even changes of citizenship, and puts them to the experts, who provide comprehensible, but not quite detailed, answers.
It's a way of seeing what are otherwise civil, perhaps quite heated, but ultimately quite neutrally comprehensible disputes and making it impossible for those arguments to even take place in any kind of reasonable way by saying that black is white, which is a bit like we were saying about the crowd.
It's quite possible that no true and comprehensible statement about God could ever be made in prose.
The blatant stock market abuses were comprehensible to ordinary citizens, quite unlike the exotic credit derivatives and mortgage-backed securities that baffle us today.
Schaffner and his script writers, Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North, were obviously aware of the problems they faced in trying to transform Patton into a figure who would be as comprehensible today, if not quite as sympathetic, as Ringo Starr.
The fallen leaves upon the forest floor murmured: "What has been written in this brief essay appears to be quite simple, but there are times when everything simple and readily comprehensible recedes from human understanding and only can be grasped with great effort".
