Word: comprehend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Critic Leslie Fiedler called it an "inhumanly virginal landscape," shuddered at the "atrocious magnificence of the mountains, the illimitable brute fact of the prairies." He was right. Montana is elusive, too vast to comprehend. It almost seems indecent for a land so big to have a population so small: 701,000 people in all, or five to every square mile of atrocious magnificence. Each resident reflects the Montana character: a cussed inconsistency that some people call rugged individualism. It is a trait bestowed by birthright ("You're not a Montanan until you've weathered 40 winters," the saying...
...anthropology, and economics. The student is relentlessly forced to focus on the individual doctor-patient relation and the science of disease, and his subjective understanding of himself and the world around him flags... The primary purpose of medical education--that is, to understand disease and to be able to comprehend and manage the problems of sick people from the perspective of biological science--has been fulfilled. But the broader issues of the physician's (as well as the patient's) place and problems in the world at large has been neglected...
...sense, that is what happens in Why A Duck? The illustrations are the still life of the party. But as the brothers deliver their lines, now entombed in comic-strip balloons, both timing and inflection-the soul of cinematic wit-vanish. Those unacquainted with the films cannot hope to comprehend the fond archaeology of Why A Duck? No, this is a trigger for memories, a bright souvenir for the ages-the ages well above 30. Plus those youthful Marxists who flyspeck television listings for sporadic, interrupted revivals. Other coffee tables need not apply...
High school education tells us to sit back and learn while some authority outside us teaches us something for some reason we are not to comprehend. Political parties urge us to cast our votes one day and to get out of the way the next, while party leaders and candidates run our communities and our country. The corporate model reminds us that we each have our place, our aiche in the process, while those above our niche determine the frontiers of our decision-making and we provide the same constraints for those who, to their misfortune, remain below...
...people's behavior when they are alone or with another by entrusting the trio to the audience as their intimates. They speak the abbreviated language of lovers, and we are shown friendships formed months ago, situations interrupted, conversations already three quarters finished, and are expected with confidence to comprehend the ellipses. When asked why the film did not end on Daniel's and Alex's encounter rather than on Daniel's monologue. Gilliat had a strong conviction...