uncomprehending
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His Gogo gives a blank, uncomprehending thousand-yard stare into the void that has an unsettling power.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 29, 2025
And the jittery lighting, a collaboration between Levit and the artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, could hardly have been more uncomprehending of Feldman’s glacial austerity.
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2023
All he could do was gaze back at them, uncomprehending.
From Salon • May 6, 2023
Gray explores his own budding awareness of injustice in “Armageddon Time,” which like “Jojo Rabbit” and “Belfast” navigates daunting moral calculations through the eyes of an intuitive but also uncomprehending child.
From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2022
He would have been amazed, uncomprehending if I refused to forgive him.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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