Wrestling with his Teutonic demons - and keeping close company with the likes of Grünewald, Altdorfer and Caspar David Friedrich - Kiefer could scarcely comprehend, much less identify with, the case for painterly amnesia, nor with the posturing for lightness and shallowness (he has never been much of a tease).
Playing at the level of Carlsen or Karjakin takes a type of mental exertion that the average person can scarcely comprehend.
A generation is growing up indigenous to social media, with ideas of community, belonging – their very identities – shaped by technology in ways that their parents, the befuddled digital immigrants, scarcely comprehend.
This week, it was a gut-wrenching moment for Susan as their young son tried to process the overwhelming grief he's feeling, and the massive loss he can but scarcely comprehend.
He could barely comprehend the concept anymore.
Next year, Donald Trump will preside over a holiday dedicated to a man whose principles he scarcely seems to comprehend.
I myself have always hated the contortions of conspiracy theorists: people scarcely able to comprehend the concept of statistical variation, but with the most wonderful belief in the Machiavellian genius and discipline of their opponents.
The thought of a snake weaving its way through your cistern, covering itself in pissy water, only to hide in the underside of the bowl to launch an attack on your penile apparatus is a horror I can scarcely begin to comprehend.
Martin-Jenkins never fully comprehended modern electronics.
This I have never fully comprehended.
"We just can't comprehend it.
