| When we reached a door at the end she stuffed the key into my hand and ran, I watched her go, still stupidly uncomprehending. |
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| Most people are speechless and uncomprehending, stunned by the violence that stabbed into their lives so suddenly. |
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| It was the turn of the animal rescue service for a moment of stunned, uncomprehending silence. |
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| No doubt my uncomprehending email to S. would be, in Mother's book, the Internet equivalent of cussing in front of the preacher. |
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| With a final stricken look at his uncomprehending face, Olivia steps out into the rain. |
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| So much ingenuity and cleverness for such stupid and uncomprehending results. |
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| We look on with dumb, uncomprehending pity at anyone who would want to live somewhere else. |
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| The celebrant faced the tabernacle, his back to the uncomprehending congregants who busied themselves with their prayer books or rosaries. |
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| He must have misheard me, because he looked at me with dumb uncomprehending love. |
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| There is no reason to believe that federal judges will be insensitive to or uncomprehending of the issues involved in domestic security cases. |
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| Nevertheless, for the past few evenings I've had the tedious task of herding the uncomprehending gecko into a more acceptable location before lights-out. |
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| He did not turn a deaf ear to her nostalgia, like my father, or listen uncomprehending, like me. |
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| He demonstrated a dedication and a love capable of dealing with the weaknesses and uncomprehending hardheadedness of his disciples. |
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| Like every major classical institution, the Met must devise new ways to sell itself to an uncomprehending but not incurious culture. |
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| They, even more than the people already in place now, feel themselves surrounded by incomprehensible and uncomprehending people. |
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| Past great seas that brought an initially uncomprehending old world to these new shores. |
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| But a good mother is never rigid, uncomprehending, or deaf to the suffering of those born to her. |
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| As a dealer in Arman and César's work, I got to see people's uncomprehending and even aggressive attitudes first hand. |
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| A failure to ask appropriate questions may indicate the patient is overwhelmed and uncomprehending. |
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| His eyes were liquid and sorrowful but totally uncomprehending. |
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| What I do remember about Eddie Rademeyer is a particular locution he favoured when a question of his was met with a blank stare by some poor uncomprehending pupil. |
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| Starring Dennis Quaid, it is the latest in a line of American sports movies to try their luck in front of largely uncomprehending British audiences. |
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| This sort of uncomprehending fellow usually received a special contemptuous look which meant that the request would be filed without further action. |
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| It's been around since long before Basil Fawlty was reduced to fits of apoplectic rage by the uncomprehending antics of his dim-witted Spanish waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers. |
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| Our own emotions, once as uncomprehending and slow as the delivery of relief supplies, fill with a foreboding as large as the events on the screen. |
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| As if your hair-splitting, shifting-sands postathons are the lonely voice of reason in an uncomprehending universe. |
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| For instance, Victor Emmanuel of Italy was forced to leave his native Italy as an uncomprehending nine-year old child, and for fifty-three years has been unable to return. |
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| The Canadians gave them a better welcome but overall, the English speaking world remained uncomprehending of the French lyrics, and as for the songs translated into English, they did not have the same impact as the French. |
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| Just think of the often heard complaint about uncomprehending owners and users, who by no means want to utilise a building in the manner the architect had it intended and planned. |
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| Symbolism and fantasy emphasise this message which alternates between hope and concern for this sometimes uncomprehending, narrow vision of society. |
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| Danes and Austrians will be quite uncomprehending if the Commission makes its efforts to combat climate change a political priority and, at the same time, punishes Denmark and Austria for making a special effort. |
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| With cauliflower ears, a lumbering stoop and a slack jaw, he possesses the size and gait of a performing bear, and the same sense of deep but uncomprehending unhappiness. |
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