apprehensible

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CNN, like all televised media, specializes in nearsighted news, favoring big, easily apprehensible images and storylines.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2015

One of the best parts of “Ghettoside” is a wonderfully apprehensible crash course in legal anthropology.

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2015

What he craved was neither luxury nor the high rhetoric of history painting, but apprehensible truth, visible, familiar, open to touch and repetition.

From Time Magazine Archive

Matter, whose essence is materiality, survives all apprehensible changes; spirit, whose essence is spirituality, should do the same.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

And yet this phantom of the next age limns himself sometimes so large and plain that every feature is apprehensible, and challenges a painter.

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Carlyle, Thomas