If children want to comprehend the world around them, infographics can do that.
If you want to comprehend the future of play, you have to be at E3. (Even if that means clogging a few arteries).
If you want to comprehend the reach of that ambition, you can buy the exhaustive, seven-volume catalogue (Abrams; $195) that accompanies the exhibit.
If you want to comprehend terror beyond the glib mantras of politicians – or its al-Qaida videos – then Anna is your guide.
Like JCO, who is menaced by "the threat of totally losing control", who wants to "comprehend" her experience of grief in a "coherent way", "categorise" it, O'Rourke tries to "ransack the moment for understanding", "to make sense" of it: "I gave up trying to sleep.
The contemplative philosopher is not interested in initiating anything, but rather wants to comprehend and arrange the forms of existing, eternal things.
Who would want to comprehend such a vindictive mind?
I think having family, on my father's and my stepmother's side, who died in the Holocaust, made me think: If we want to comprehend what happened, we have to understand that we don't live in a Star Wars universe, where good and bad guys are clearly separated".
Tomás wanted me to comprehend the incredible powers that this new Samatenje and his other brother, the witch doctor of Sadjunjira, were believed to possess.
(Brooks is an ardent believer in slow zombies. He doesn't even want to try to comprehend how we'd deal with fast ones).
