It was just a kiss," she splutters, unable to comprehend any attitudes that do not mirror her own.
The fancy is so outlandish, yet the unsettling instinct hidden in the luxuriance of the poison garden so resolutely explored, it is no wonder that, on reading this and other of his tales after his father had died in 1864, Julian Hawthorne wrote that he was "unable to comprehend how a man such as I knew my father to have been could have written such books".
As the bullets flew, and on the brink of a disaster that he himself had helped to initiate but was unable to comprehend, he greeted a bemused fellow officer with a quote from Sir Walter Scott's "Lady of the Lake": "One blast upon your bugle horn/ is worth a thousand men".
Watson is also a strange cricketer in some ways, a batsman whose full-shouldered new-ball clumps, combined with the oddly endearing spectacle of his utter desolation at the fall of his own wicket, as though unable to comprehend how such a thing could possibly come to pass, were a defining image of the English Ashes summer just past.
But he added that it did not mean jurors – who were able to take notes throughout a trial and question parts they did not understand – were unable to comprehend issues in a more layman manner.
More often than not, they have been hyperbolic comparisons grabbed at by liberals unable to comprehend how such a foul man was running the most powerful country in the world.
I feel sorry for Mr. Bush, and I feel sorry for the electorate who are unable to comprehend what qualities an American president should represent.
If you've ever worked in a US supermarket you may be psychologically unable to comprehend the concept of a global hunger problem.
If you've ever worked in a US supermarket, you may be psychologically unable to comprehend the concept of a global hunger problem.
In "Paper Losses", a woman, unable to comprehend her husband's cruelty, decides that he is a "space alien".
