Word: comprehendible
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...Omaha native--would betray Schmidt's essence. The director, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jim Taylor, understands that lives like Schmidt's are composed of incidents that cannot, must not, be forced into confrontation. Payne also understands what it has taken me most of a lifetime to comprehend: that the Schmidts of this world are not to be easily dismissed. Payne did that brilliantly in Election a few years back. Here he's after something deeper. And maybe, if places like Omaha are not bred in your bones, you will grow impatient with the patience he expends on Schmidt...
...with a plain mind confronts a woman with more intricate workings. Hope, 78, is a famous American painter who is questioned by Kathryn, 27, a relentless art specialist who knows everything about postwar American artists except the deep sources of their power to throw thunderbolts. That she will never comprehend. "Interviewers and critics are the enemies of mystery," Hope thinks to herself, "the indeterminacy that gives art life." It's safe to say Updike has entertained that very thought...
...Part of our task will be to assure that all who graduate from this place are equipped to comprehend, to master, to work with, the scientific developments that are transforming the world in which we will all work and live,” Summers told students and faculty last year at his installation speech, adding that scientists also need a thorough grounding in ethics and the humanities...
...think that if more people could read, write and comprehend, then many of our problems could end,” she said...
...have it; Louise Buzzelli, the addressee on the letter, would have to come. It was a simple misunderstanding--an officer had found bills in Louise's name inside the briefcase and assumed it was hers. But the incident gave Pasquale the uncomfortable sense that the city couldn't quite comprehend that he was alive. "This is me! I'm right here," he said, clutching a newspaper clipping about his survival...