Word: comprehendingly
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...then there are the walking wounded: the thousands of survivors whose minds cannot yet comprehend the full extent of their tragedy. Dozens of people who come to our kitchen bear the telltale signs of a nervous breakdown in progress, the stuttering, the facial tics. Many others are in deep denial, like Varsha, a Bhuj housewife in her late thirties. The apartment block that housed her third-floor flat has collapsed. Although she and her family were unhurt, the sight of all their worldly possessions going to dust has left her unbalanced. Every day, from dawn till dusk, she stands guard...
...that also makes it easier for them to comprehend the music their parents used to love. This helps explain the watershed success of the Beatles 1 album, which topped Billboard's album charts for eight weeks and has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. You don't score numbers like that just from the middle-aged Beatlemaniacs still shaking their imaginary moptops. It requires massive sales to the teenagers and twentysomethings who buy most records. The phenomenon of that album followed the success of Santana's Supernatural, which paired a survivor of the '60s with up-to-the-minute...
Fans have struggled to comprehend what possessed some of the world's best cricketers, handsomely rewarded for their prowess, to succumb to the approaches of subcontinental bookmakers. Bob Simpson, Australia's coach from 1986-96, acknowledges the theory that there are too many one-day games, the results of which are consequently of little importance even to the participants."But, in the end," says Simpson, "I think it's just player greed...
...comprehend the full horror AIDS has visited on Africa, listen to the woman we have dubbed Laetitia Hambahlane in Durban or the boy Tsepho Phale in Francistown or the woman who calls herself Thandiwe in Bulawayo or Louis Chikoka, a long-distance trucker. You begin to understand how AIDS has struck Africa--with a biblical virulence that will claim tens of millions of lives--when you hear about shame and stigma and ignorance and poverty and sexual violence and migrant labor and promiscuity and political paralysis and the terrible silence that surrounds all this dying. It is a measure...
...exempt from the nation's harshest drug laws. For others, including many who view imprisonment as a pointless and even dangerous punishment for drug addicts, Downey serves as a stark reminder of the strangling power of addiction, and the persistent failings of a system too bent on "justice" to comprehend the power of treatment...