Word: comprehends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major Roman Catholic artist. He is rich, successful, greatly loved ("fame is a powerful aphrodisiac''), and he is also dead. He has "had it." The act of love and the creation of beautiful buildings have become empty of meaning. Baldly stated, this spiritual situation is hard to comprehend. But by means of Greene's great novelistic art, the powerful magic of a born and practiced fabulist, the reader is compelled to understand and share such desiccation of soul. As British Critic V. S. Pritchett says of Querry-in a sense of contemporary man-"He can face...
...Ernie Levy is something of a visionary. Even as a child, he seeks to understand the meaning of God's design; he aspires to be a Just Man. It is Ernie Levy's effort to comprehend the role of the Just Man, his rebellion, his eventual return and resignation to suffering that are the heart of the novel...
...church unity is more pathetic than peculiar to behold. It is pathetic because it reveals quite clearly that even after some 2,000 years of bloodshed, burning and all manner of proselytizing in the name of the Christ Jesus, Christians still are impelled by his example but unable to comprehend the principle of his action...
...ambitious French A student will find the film's dialogue not very difficult to comprehend, translated adequately by the subtitles (though, of course, without the many nuances which were important to the film) and, in general, much more fun than a language lab. Actually, though, much of the humor was wordless; director Rene Clair has not lost his touch for creating telling little dramas without dialogue (also without subtlety, as was most of the film...
...love. There is no making-out on the screen, Boris and Veronica exchange no profound glances of desire; in fact there are no cinematic cliches which we are supposed to translate as meaning Love. But there is an affection between these people that is simply expressed, and simple to comprehend. And then there is war, and Boris is a volunteer...