Picture poor Ben Affleck as the film's clapped-out Captain Kirk character, having to explain the concept of movies to the uncomprehending faces at the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance: "On our planet, we, er … we pretend.
"You've built up a real rapport," he says, peering at Abigail's matted cow hair and uncomprehending cow face.
Haughty and cool and willing to exploit others where his plans require it, he refers to himself as a "high-functioning sociopath," and, in an almost sentimental moment, admits that he is "dismissive of the virtuous, unaware of the beautiful and uncomprehending in the face of the happy".
When she becomes upset, her features scrunch into an uncomprehending childlike expression of pain.
The uncomprehending smile on Lizzie's face as she waited for Mika to change, that said everything.
You can imagine the look of uncomprehending disdain that would pass across the ruggedly handsome face of Don Draper Jon Hammm) and his colleagues if they were to be confronted by today's tobacco-puffing pariahs, forced to shiver outside offices and pubs.
In the first he faces his estranged, uncomprehending wife (Vivien Merchant), who cannot understand him, in the second a complacent chief superintendent (Trevor Howard),, who believes a policeman can only survive by leading a double life, and finally the infuriating, wheedling suspect (Ian Bannen) who gets beneath Johnson's skin.
The emotions expressed range from the almost uncomprehending bewilderment of British soldiers faced with the task of providing a massive relief operation to the tremulous joy of the survivors, for whom the nightmare was finally over.
Inexperienced authors – and uncomprehending observers – can become bewildered when facing the question at the heart of fictional writing: "How do I write someone who isn't me?
Introducing the De Palma package — called "Auteur Fatale," a play on the title of his 2002 film, "Femme Fatale" — the critic Eric Henderson tosses down a bucketful, construing Mr. De Palma's career as a series of face-offs with his uncomprehending and uptight detractors.
