Word: comprehendingly
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Zeligs draws incomplete and consequently inaccurate portraits of both men. Chambers emerges as cold, sick, and vengeful. Hiss is dry, methodical, charming and generous. While we can understand what made Hiss an appealing person we can at no time comprehend what part of Chambers' character made him even remotely tolerable, to Hiss or anyone else...
Sadly, many of the treaty's most vociferous critics do not seem to comprehend what innovations the agreement actually entails. It is not, as many opponents believe, the only way to establish new consulates. The President can legally authorize consulates himself, and has done so in the past without Senate approval...
...nation that has hitched its destiny to the star of education and pours billions of dollars into the enterprise is collectively crazy if it does not try to find out the result of all this effort. We don't know whether most ninth-graders can read and comprehend a typical newspaper paragraph, whether most high school graduates know more or less about more or fewer things than high school graduates did 20 years...
Ambivalence. In her more introspective moments, Julie suffers the familiar agony of one who has risen high but cannot comprehend the forces that lifted her. She sees a psychoanalyst once a week ("My Ju? Bloody nonsense," huffs her mother. "Of course, you understand we still look on them as quacks in England"). Says Julie: "I needed some answers, and I think I'd have been a rotten mother without analysis." She is concerned about "the real me. I have an absolutely fearful temper. I always get upset when people don't get on with the job at hand...
...answer is that if the Minotaur cannot fully comprehend the maze, neither can the viewer, who remains trapped in the paintings' distortion and violence. Thus Picasso's work continues to evoke both anger and adulation from critics and the public alike. But it is the fact that the world still tries to comprehend, despite a sense of outrage and shock, that is the final gauge of Picasso's genius...