Word: comprehendingly
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After 30 years, it is easier for the normally intelligent man to understand the interest that these gruesome figures have for artists, even though he may not be able to comprehend the technical skill, the shrewd relation of form to material that these savage artists used. Their work was not idly decorative but deeply purposeful. They were making religious symbols just as earnestly as the romanesque stone carvers of the 9th Century in Europe. Fear of angry gods and strong enemies was their dominant emotion as they fashioned their fetishes to win divine favor and victory on the battlefield. Wrote...
...alien tones that at this hour of darkness had no right, according to all the parietal rules, to issue forth from within the monastic confines of the ivy-clad Georgian depths. In a glance his trained eye had the situation in hand and his other eye began to comprehend and follow uncertain but trusting the leadership of its more intelligent brother...
...intellectual seemed a platitude, and I can understand why intellectuals wondered why in addition to pronouncing self-evident facts I even dwelt upon them and illustrated them. Yet I always said to myself, 'There is this or that humble man in my audience who does not yet quite comprehend what I am driving at, so I must make it clear to him by the humblest illustration from daily life...
Democratic Senate Leader Robinson snorted: "It is difficult to comprehend the mental processes of those who reach such a conclusion...
...things merely for a selfish reason-trying to acquire a public office, which I would not accept if it were tendered me. It may be that in your environment you are so accustomed to things being done from a purely selfish motive, that it is difficult for you to comprehend that there are people, who do not belong to the "axe grinder's club" and that in Texas things are done on a broader scale. Perhaps on this account, allowance should be made for your insinuation...