Word: comprehend
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...simply missing from the Arabs' sense of history and from their grasp of the present...They cannot understand the fierce sensations of vulnerability, the lusty devotion to military strength, the stubborn resistance to international criticism, the waves of guilt that soften the core of the hardness. They cannot comprehend the gnawing fear of powerlessness that grinds beneath the arsenal of tanks and planes, the lurking conviction that it could happen again, and that again the world would look the other...
...potential who, out of indifference or gleeful masochism, systematically degrade everything around them, not least their own bright promise. They are apt to view their intelligence either as a burden, leading people to expect things of them, or as an outright curse, lifting their vision just enough to comprehend genius but nowhere near enough to emulate it. Well into their middle years they remain obsessed with the glories of university days, when the ethereal world of ideas opened to them, and regard everything that has come afterward as a sordid compromise...
...Wiesel's role as a witness to the century's central catastrophe. "I'm afraid that the horror of that period is so dark, people are incapable of understanding, incapable of listening," he says. The Nobel Prize is a sign, perhaps, that people are at least trying to comprehend...
...could see the fervor came from deep within his soul, and I shuddered as I began to comprehend his message. All I had to do was believe in the power of our free society, and good things would happen...
What doomed the mission from the start--and what the Australians find so hard to comprehend--is that the formulation of American policy virtually precludes input from overseas. American voters come first; allies place a very distant second...