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

But in her letter dated Aug. 2, Baerbock expressed "incomprehension" at what she said were insufficient consultations with other countries in the 27-nation bloc.

From Reuters • Sep. 22, 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

The words “Throw it all away” pierced through the enfolding layers of incomprehension to the quick of the Delta’s consciousness.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley