Sentence examples for stunning comprehension from inspiring English sources
In his highly appreciative review in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther said that the story of a marshal who eschews retirement in order to protect a cowardly, ungrateful constituency from a vengeance-bent criminal "has a stunning comprehension of that thing we call courage in a man and the thorniness of being courageous in a world of bullies and poltroons".
It shows a stunning lack of comprehension of Luis Barragán and encapsulates everything that he was not.
"He supposed it was comic after all, but comic on a scale so vast there was no basis for human comprehension — it was only awful and stunning," the narrator says of Don's pawn-shop misadventure, but this bit of hyperbole is a summation of Don's life, and the novel as a whole.
Most stunning are two colorful oil paintings by Richard Pousette-Dart. "Comprehension of the Atom, Crucifixion" (1944), a powerful composition, teeters between ominous and spiritual, while his "Illumination Gothic" (1958) juxtaposes totemic forms in a rhythmic pattern.
He told National Review Online that it offered "stunning insight" into Obama: "What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?" Gingrich asks.
