incomprehension
Example Sentences
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Puthli’s life embodies pop music in the post-colonial world, with all its promise and incomprehension.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2024
Like the peevish alien Roger from American Dad, Sam’s general attitude toward the human world in which he finds himself is equal parts incomprehension and condescension.
From Slate • Oct. 5, 2023
Pádraic's distress and incomprehension around Colm's rejection allows McDonagh to explore not only the grief experienced when adult friends decouple, but also vicariously the collapse of childhood friendships or family estrangements.
From Salon • Jan. 16, 2023
My school friends and I talk about it now with each other with again - contempt, disbelief and incomprehension that sort of thing happened in plain sight and nothing was done.
From BBC • Jul. 26, 2022
“I felt like one of the pioneer woman, coming here. Besides—” She turned and looked at me, smiling at my incomprehension.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
