Word: comprehendingly
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...understandable that people had conflicting thoughts about Schiavo and hesitated to take sides. I relate to those who wanted Schiavo to live because of her family's grief and the belief that she might be helped by advances in medical science. Harder to comprehend was the passion of some who were eager for her death. Without a living will as proof of Schiavo's desires and in light of her parents' willingness to take full responsibility for her, should the life-or-death decision have been left to a husband who had moved on and started a new family? Bonnie...
...Cohen, “that there was a holocaust going on, that this was a work-to-death program, and that you, an American soldier, were in it with the Jews of Europe, these were things that in the midst of a crazy, mixed-up war were impossible to comprehend...
...theme of the tango is sexual entanglement and male domination of the female--Latin machismo, in other words. The man's upper body is rigid, and the woman revolves around him; down below, their legs and feet meet and embrace in steps too involved even for a computer to comprehend. "The tango is a connection between the brain, the heart and the legs," says Virulazo Orcaizaguirre, 58, who looks like a Hispanic Rodney Dangerfield but moves like a slim lad of 20. "First, you feel with your heart. Then the brain tells you what to do with your feet...
...longtime fan of Keillor's, I have often been struck by his meld of nostalgia with bitterness that reflects small-town life in the Midwest. We accept his barbs at our memories of narrow-minded ministers, spinster schoolteachers and children who try to comprehend the town's hypocrisy, simply because Keillor has the knack of laughing with us at our human frailties. He can make us think about our Minnesota forebears without hurting too much. Keillor is all of us who have left the old ways, but who recall the shimmering mists of childhood somewhere in the snow and wheatfields...
...It was understanding that people had conflicting thoughts about Schiavo and hesitated to take sides. I relate to those who wanted Schiavo to live because of her family's grief and the belief that she might be helped by advances in medical science. Harder to comprehend was the passion of some who were eager for her death. Without a living will as proof of Schiavo's desires and in light of her parents' willingness to take full responsibility for her, should the life-or-death decision have been left to a husband who had moved on and started...