Word: comprehendingly
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...Mishima - which is natural enough since Mishima was, for all his exuberance and charm, a squirmingly unpleasant character; his brilliance had the phosphorescence of decay. All his life, he was explicitly and erotically in love with death. Suicide was the only act, he believed, that could make him comprehend his own existence. Just after Mishima disemboweled himself, his mother said: "This was the first time in his life that Kimitake [Mishima] did something he always wanted to do. Be happy...
...cannot comprehend the moral basis upon which you select Man of the Year. Here is a person who blatantly manipulated economies and crises throughout the world. In a society where morals are consistently sold out to the highest bidder, you rank with the best of the offenders...
...lives and gives them coherent visual expression. This "Flame of Recognition," to use Nancy Newhall's description of Edward Weston, is what lies behind any great photographer. The absence of Friedlander, Winogrand and their co-workers from the Whitney's show is emblematic of Doty's failure to comprehend this, but his miscomprehension of what makes for good photography also shows up in his failure to hang the best photographs by several of the "classic" photographers. Doty's treatment of Edward Steichen and Alfred Steiglitz, both closely associated with the "pictorialist" school, is good, but the pictures by Weston...
...educational session. I joined several other black student delegates who were seated with Ilda, a member of the Federation of University Students. They had been joking with her about the language that blacks spoke in North America. Sometimes she would not understand a conversation because she could not comprehend the "Black English" we spoke. Ilda explained how she had learned English from textbooks bought before 1959. These books were based on English spoken in Britain. We laughed at her confession and immediately understood some of the difficulties in our communication...
Almost everyone knows what it is like to have his blood pressure taken. But few really know what the doctor is doing, and fewer still comprehend the meaning of the figures that register blood pressure. Actually, taking blood pressure and interpreting the results is a simple process...