Mutual incomprehension extends to the nature of the man just elected.
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One through line is the mutual incomprehension between Americans and Afghans.
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This would have trapped her in a world of silence and incomprehension.
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Violence becomes more likely because incomprehension grows across hardening lines of fracture.
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The empty compartment signifies incompleteness, while the unidentifiable lump of flesh conveys incomprehension.
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The comradeship of men at arms becomes a refuge from the incomprehension of family.
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This is not the only area where the danger of his utter incomprehension lies.
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Yet this will only be possible, if the dramatically rising mutual incomprehension is tackled.
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Some of us were unimpressed, while others snarled at the unimpressed's incomprehension of Roupenian's achievement.
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The comments from government officials to leaders of major corporations range from incomprehension to dismay.
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Authoritarian aggressors, illiberalism, and poverty will flourish in a world of German-American mutual incomprehension.
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The incident underlines one of the sad if perennial features of Anglo-German relations: mutual incomprehension.
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Occasionally, her fascination with technological processes, combined with an incomprehension of them, can have productive results.
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But this is the kind of storyline where narrative incomprehension was largely just fine by me.
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The seemingly arbitrary division has roused incomprehension and bitterness among an estimated 13,000 Afghans stuck in Greece.
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One problem, says Gary Barnett, an analyst at GlobalData, a consultancy, is mutual incomprehension between insiders and outsiders.
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A downward spiral of chest-puffing and mutual incomprehension would hurt her most of all. Economist.com/blogs/bagehot
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And in another, he asks someone for a trash can, and she sheepishly shakes her head in incomprehension.
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But Monday's attack, which left children with bolts and nails lodged in their bodies, was met with incomprehension.
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TWO groups seem to be staring at each other in mutual incomprehension at the moment; investors and economists.
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In countries with a tradition of liberal multiculturalism, such a ban is greeted by incomprehension, if not ridicule.
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Either way, it illustrates the gulf of mutual incomprehension that has finally doomed this gainful but troubled relationship.
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To this day, I won't forget their mutual look of slightly outraged incomprehension as I chucked them out.
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While some concerts were solid, there were frustrations between him and the musicians — mutual incomprehension, some stormy scenes.
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This seemed a particularly stark illustration of the mutual incomprehension that exists between Mr Trump's critics and his fans.
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It added that Plassat had taken the decision "due to the incomprehension surrounding the financial conditions" of his retirement.
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Probably my mother's own limited knowledge of English had prevented her from explaining my silent incomprehension to the teacher.
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" He added that Mr. Walker was always looking for a "whoops factor"— "a moment of incomprehension from the listener.
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Mention its name outside the New York metropolitan area and you would very likely be met with blank incomprehension.
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Her Japanese is weak, so she works in a dazed state of incomprehension; rarely does someone pause to interpret.
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Warhol and Mr. Richter look on with sweet incomprehension.) Yet look at the large, landmark "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" (1995).
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Britain may have voted to leave the EU and acquired a new prime minister, but still that mutual incomprehension reigns.
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Hence the ambiguities and mutual incomprehension that swirl around the dispute and that have made a resolution, thus far, impossible.
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The West's image of Islam and the Muslim image of Western societies are often mutually incommunicable; the incomprehension incubates violence.
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The wellness industry takes medical terminology, such as "inflammation" or "free radicals," and levigates it to the point of incomprehension.
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And perhaps the most remarkable accomplishment of "The Jungle" is that it acknowledges this incomprehension without being paralyzed by it.
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Under these circumstances, to say that terrorism is the main threat to Europe is an act of fundamental strategic incomprehension.
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Our reviewer wrote that "The Seven Fat Years" can "help all of us to unravel the mystery of our incomprehension."
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A Nissan executive with direct knowledge of the board meeting said Renault's representatives had initially voiced incomprehension over the accusations.
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In Beethoven's day many of them met with incomprehension and dismay, which the short-tempered composer had to learn to accommodate.
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The first episode even adapts the story of the original show's two-part pilot, condensing it to the point of incomprehension.
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This is a question some Americans ask during every presidential primary race, but this year our mutual incomprehension feels especially intense.
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BOONE, IOWA — People connected to the Democratic establishment still tend to view the Bernie Sanders campaign with bemusement, incomprehension, or scorn.
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In those instances, there is a jolt of incomprehension in their eyes, and, on our part, a lurking feeling of invasion.
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Rather than being offered the help they sorely need, many Sues are met with incomprehension and spite in their close environment.
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Because of her hearing difficulties, she feigned incomprehension when German authorities became suspicious and questioned her, until they eventually left her alone.
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Look no further than the incomprehension and contempt with which many on both sides view each other in the current election season.
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When I say, "Hey, ease up on the language, O.K.?" they look at me with incomprehension, not realizing they've said anything offensive.
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The result, over the past seven decades, has been a near-constant state of mutual incomprehension, cross-cutting interests and periodic blow-ups.
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In recent months, we've seen Jerry Seinfeld's interspecies rom-com reordered alphabetically and sped up to incomprehension—even recut to exclude bees entirely.
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It was a fair question, I thought, but he looked at me with blank incomprehension, even though I had spoken in his language.
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Non-Dutch speakers' incomprehension of what's being spoken suggests that the febrile creatures who inhabit Rand's universe are their own race of superbeings.
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I was anchorless, rudderless, drifting further and further away from the comforting shore of context into the dark and deep waters of total incomprehension.
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By the end of last week, high-profile liberals and members of the political press corps were battling one another in a state of mutual incomprehension.
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Given the depths of mutual mistrust and incomprehension, and both sides' forceful rhetoric there could well be a violent attempt to resolve the crisis in 2018.
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This sense of pessimism about Christianity's relationship to liberalism, the fear that fragmentation may be irreversible and mutual incomprehension inevitable, are feelings that I often share.
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Violence and incomprehension have marked our relationship with animals since before we made the distinction between them and us and started using them to think with.
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Unsurprisingly, some of General Idea's more absurd and improvisational musings on the nature of performance and art practice were met with eviscerating criticisms or outright incomprehension.
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I phoned the owner of our inn, the Penzion Prvni Nelyzujem, who spoke no English and little German, and we talked over each other in mutual incomprehension.
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In Brazil, as in France, the United States, Italy, the UK and beyond, the haves and have-littles regard each other with mutual incomprehension, often with contempt.
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Stonecipher is in touch with the different ways we feel displaced and estranged in our everyday lives, the various states of incomprehension infiltrating all of our perceptions.
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But this July 4th Americans are riven by mutual incomprehension: between Republicans and Democrats, yes, but also between factory workers and university students, country folk and city-dwellers.
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THE idea of two Americas is a trope of political commentary: a population divided in mutual incomprehension by income, race, religion or region—flyover country versus coastal elite.
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Cameramen and anyone running a livestream on mobile checked and double-checked their monitors and screens, the impossible discrepancy, a sense of dumbfounded incomprehension falling like blackout curtains.
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Her book "The Female Eunuch" (1970) made her a star, with its diagnosis of "the problem of female identity" as women's incomprehension of their own bodies, libidos, and souls.
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"Life of the Party" may represent Hollywood's incomprehension — or fear — of young people, whose pursuit of decency seems to be freaking out a lot of grown-ups these days.
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The talks, aimed at cutting Atlantia's stake in Autostrade to a minority, were interrupted over "incomprehension and the climate of diffidence with the government" as regards the concession issue.
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Granted, this might say more about my own deep-seated, festering resentments and total incomprehension when faced with an idea of fun that differs from my own, extremely narrow, parameters.
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Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande" is also about a young woman who doesn't quite fit in, who bridles against maturity and conformity as elders look on with mingled incomprehension and fear.
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Speaking about his past in a recent phone interview, he again emphasized the estrangement, not the glory, recalling that on visits home even his cultural references were met with incomprehension.
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But we have an advantage over Ophelia (embodied with heartbreaking incomprehension by Gayle Rankin, in a breakout performance), whom Hamlet must keep in the dark as to his real intentions.
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POLITICS in America may be an arena of mutual incomprehension with few settled facts, but the debate about the health of American firms' balance-sheets is, if anything, even more bewildering.
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No, the real problems arise when Ozark stages so many of its scenes in ways that downplay visual contrast, leaving almost everything shrouded in shadow, to the point of genuine incomprehension.
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"In Brazil, as in France, the United States, Italy, the UK and beyond, the haves and have-littles regard each other with mutual incomprehension, often with contempt," writes columnist John Lloyd.
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"I'm aware that my vote will provoke incomprehension and frustration among friends," said Cristovam Buarque, a respected senator on the left who has announced that he would vote against Ms. Rousseff.
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As you read his article, you see the utter incomprehension with which he approaches Hagerman, a rich, successful, well-educated man who has decided to cut himself off from the news entirely.
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Not that anyone involved with "Moonlight" necessarily did this, or that anyone should bother in the case of the Grammys, whose incomprehension of hip-hop is entirely too well known by now.
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But you can't, because you're white, a stigmatized presence in a world that associates you with incomprehension, callousness, and a sort of confused humanity, if it sees you as human at all.
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He and the supposedly best and brightest of his administration have saddled the U.S. and its Israeli and other allies in the region with an ongoing legacy of strategic failure, incomprehension, and incoherence.
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Many times and in many ways we have tried to speak out for our rights, but the Spanish government has never listened; we have always found the same wall of incomprehension and rejection.
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It suggests incomprehension of Sanders's, Warren's and McCain's proposals, for the whole point of these proposals is to regulate 21625st-century shadow banking just as the original Glass-Steagall regulated 2900th-century shadow banking.
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And if you were not downtown that day, and did not have to flee uptown or across a bridge, did not have your memory seared by the smoke, the dust, the smell, the incomprehension.
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His artwork doesn't back away from the hazards of obscurity; rather, it soaks up the potency of incomprehension and, in its electric collisions of light and shadow, makes its own kind of syncopated sense.
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In China, incomprehension has been a common reaction to the vote, as people mull why Britain would abandon such a deal and how a democracy might not deliver what is in a nation's best interests.
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His stern father (Russell Crowe) and more circumspect mother (Nicole Kidman) respond to that revelation with an incomprehension that's not unlike what'd you'd expect if they'd just been told their child had gotten a face tattoo.
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For one thing, some of it is very funny, as in a tableau positioning two porcelain figurines of colonial-era gentry before a regal, glowering jet-black face looming above them, their graceful postures bespeaking total incomprehension.
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Both places saw Spanish incursions from the south, mutual incomprehension in the meeting of Europeans and aboriginals, waves of disease that devastated the natives and a relentless quest by the newcomers for the raw materials of empire.
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" In their statement on Friday, the bishops noted the victims' "perseverance and their courage, despite the personal, spiritual, social and familial difficulties they had to face, often accompanied by incomprehension and the attacks of the ecclesiastical community.
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As the standoff between Vice President Mike Pence and Angela Merkel at the recent Munich Security Conference or President Trump's repeated complaints about Germany indicate, mutual American-German incomprehension is at an all-time post-1940s high.
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"It may reflect any combination of genuine innumeracy [lack of math skills], incomprehension of an oddly phrased item, participant inattentiveness or jesting, sampling error, or a genuine flaw in the ... technique," Gervais and Najle write in the paper.
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By connecting the empirical, reproducible data of cancer science to visceral, unpredictable and subjective experiences of the disease, "When Breath Becomes Air" points toward an approach that can mitigate the mutual incomprehension that baffles too many doctors and patients.
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"We took a decision that was received with general incomprehension by citizens," SPD leader Andrea Nahles said of the deal under which Hans-Georg Maassen was booted as intelligence chief but promoted to a senior job in the interior ministry.
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" They continued, "Thank you to the victims, for their perseverance and their bravery, despite the enormous personal spiritual, social, and family difficulties they've had to face so many times, amidst the incomprehension and the attacks from the ecclesial community itself.
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She accentuates Fleabag's self-consciousness and theatricality by not just talking into the camera, but silently looking into it on a regular basis, arching her brows or throwing a look of incomprehension at the ceaseless irritation other humans cause her.
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It's perhaps the most important problem confronting the United States, because the end point of hardening fracture and mutual incomprehension is violence — like last week's fatal stabbing of two men by a Muslim-insulting white supremacist on a Portland commuter train.
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This kind of cycle of incomprehension and aggression tends to destroy republics if it isn't broken, if leaders can't compromise ideological principles to maintain civic peace, if partisans can't imagine how the world looks in communities vastly different from their own.
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My son typically responds with a blank stare — not, it should be noted, the aggressively vacant stare I cultivated in my 20s to discourage the apparently benign interest of family and friends in my romantic life, but an actual stare of incomprehension.
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But it is an older world than the one the rest of us encounter, and it is a wonder for our own newly arrived species to gaze, with dull incomprehension, at such grace and power, and the deep history of our curious planet.
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"Lady Bird" is one of a cluster of movies that might be described as declarations of independence, stories of individuals — of women, in many cases — asserting themselves in the face of cruelty, indifference or incomprehension and laying claim to their rightful share of dignity.
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Even actions that look like a slight policy softening, like his announcement of a two-week delay in implementing some China tariffs, betray a deep incomprehension of the problem — which has as much to do with his capriciousness as with the tariffs per se.
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But far from being expressionless, these faces seem to register complex or even equivocal emotions — hovering between stoicism and disappointment, say ("Pale Blue Portrait Bust with Dark Drips," 2018), or between incomprehension and muted chagrin ("Portrait Bust with Amber Shirt and Lavender Hair," 2016).
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"In the discussion the traditionally close and trusting relations between Germany and Turkey were emphasised and it was made clear that the latest comments on German lawmakers are not in line with that and were met with incomprehension," the official said on Tuesday in an emailed statement.
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When, on our way to the convention, I tried to explain to my son that I would just drop him and his sister off because the focus of the convention didn't interest me enough to stay the whole day, he gave me a look of utter incomprehension.
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He found himself watching one freckled, fair-skinned cameraman in particular, the one with the long reddish ponytail shooting for CSPAN, who was glancing between screens and the fray with such pained incomprehension that his head seemed to somehow physically contort and cave under the pressure.
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But I do believe it's the single best way to explain the mutual incomprehension between liberals, who worry that Trump poses a threat to U.S. democracy in very broad ways, and news outlets, which see themselves first and foremost as defenders of one particular pillar of liberal society.
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"We treat with a certain scepticism and a certain degree of incomprehension and aversion the cases of extra-territorial application of the jurisdiction of U.S. courts which have become pretty widespread lately," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a conference call with journalists when asked about the U.S. doping investigation.
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Fumbler?) Until then, all the times I have my single-ness shoved in my face (watching couples lovingly sway at concerts, or post on Instagram in honor of their first date or first couple's STD testing), I just look on with a kind of bemused incomprehension, like watching a nature documentary.
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This misunderstanding or incomprehension, though frustrating, can also reveal an acute alienation: if those inside the art world cannot comprehend an artist's language, does it signify that those who presume to share that language are in fact as far away, or even farther away, than those who exist outside the art world?
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"It is certainly true that much of the rest of the world looks at us with incomprehension and judges us to be a less moral society because we don't seem to care to protect schoolchildren," Heather Hurlburt, a US foreign policy expert at the New America Foundation in Washington, told me on Friday.
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" Justin Chang, LA Times "But the movie belongs rightly and effortlessly to Nyong'o, and she sustains every moment by distilling innumerable emotional layers — the unshakable resolve of a mother and wife, the stricken gaze of a trauma survivor, the lingering incomprehension of a lost child — into a performance for the scream-queen history books.
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"There is a feeling of rage, an incomprehension of the way things work, of a Europe that no longer protects and a globalization with too many losers," he said on BFM TV. Macron said harmonizing corporate taxes in the EU, reviewing seconded-workers regulations and raising anti-dumping taxes would be among the issues he would put on the agenda of his first summit with EU leaders.
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He imbues the vaguely Germanic phonemes and word parts with a dynamic reading, and, early on, when the viewer is most at risk of losing their footing and falling into total incomprehension, he uses his body, moving away from the podium at which he stands for most of the performance, and lunging himself forward repeatedly, as if to physically force some sense into the text.
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These entries are a better example of what an archive can achieve in terms of art: they are less concerned with the event as a moment in history than they are about conveying the more humble and interesting tension between the emotional significance of a person's death, and the degree of alienation and incomprehension that can arise simultaneously, not least when the dead person in question is a politician or public figure.
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There is little money; to save on heating costs, mother and son spend hours at a time on the Tube, going around London on the Circle line, where snobbish Sibylla gleefully notes the incomprehension of the average punter—people who, when they see a child in a stroller reading the Odyssey in Greek, admonish Sibylla in customary ways: he's far too young; he's only pretending to read; ancient Greek is a dead language; he should be outside playing football; and so on.
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