Word: fathoming
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...remark to the effect that, if you know only one language, basically you don't know any language at all: since you can't imagine that your own cunning little world has a boundary, the idea of stepping beyond it seems nonsensical, and so you can't begin to fathom the existence of other worlds. Her apt application of this metaphor to the experience of religion, though, finds a more comfortable home in our minds than in our collective stomach lining. No one would dispute the value of our all being in this place together in order that our knowledge...
...Wolfe's attempts to open up the play to outside influences, he simplifies and limits the text. All the hammering percussion cannot drum up the menace his actors fail to instill. All the bewitching lighting effects cannot etherealize an Ariel (Aunjanue Ellis) who delivers a version of "Full fathom five..." devoid of gorgeous heartbreak...
...hard to fathom the events of the last 48 hours: The Prime Minister of the first Jewish state in 2,000 gunned down by a Jew. For 47 years, Jews in Israel have carried out the bitterest debates, have seethed and raged and hated each other. With precious few exceptions, however, they had not allowed that hate to translate into bloodshed. And now they have...
...hard to fathom and even harder to swallow...
...Sharper Image catalog--keeps us from indulging what Darwin called "the social instincts." The pursuit of More can keep us from better knowing our neighbors, better loving our kin-in general, from cultivating the warm, affiliative side of human nature whose roots science is just now starting to fathom...