non-comprehension

I lay in the pond and watched the football fans scurry about looking for free beer and turning violent when they couldn't find any, and I watched the police slapping handcuffs on everyone moving, including the four thugs, who had over-estimated the window of escape, and I watched Patsy's bewilderment and Surtees's swings from glee to non-comprehension and back.

They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

As Robert Naylor argues, it is the non-comprehension of property in the Western sense that allows George and his family to become tools in a scheme that eventually will disappropriate them.

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

The most it can do is to allow for non-comprehension and enumerate non-anthropomorphic, non-elegiac, non-celebratory, non-lyrical, non-poetic, that is to say, prosaic, or, better, historical modes of language power.

History against Historicism, Formal Matters, and the Event of the Text: De Man with Benjamin 2005

I suspect that the blogger/jorno interaction is one of utter non-comprehension.

Here they are, with laptops, salami, and crackers... Ann Althouse 2007

Just today here in Shenandoah County I heard it twice in a half-hour conversation, once where it meant disbelief response to a joke - the ferrier didn't believe the horse-trainer feeds them mustard oil, and once where it meant non-comprehension.

languagehat.com: DO WHAT? 2004

“It was met with complete non-comprehension, like it was from outer space,” Hartley recalls, noting that Salzburg viewers are religiously and politically conservative.

The Branch Davidian siege’s influence on popular culture 2003

I lay in the pond and watched the football fans scurry about looking for free beer and turning violent when they couldn't find any, and I watched the police slapping handcuffs on everyone moving, including the four thugs, who had over-estimated the window of escape, and I watched Patsy's bewilderment and Surtees's swings from glee to non-comprehension and back.

To The Hilt Francis, Dick, 1920- 1996

In the Cameroon, (Ref. 38) testing materials found a nearly 25 percent rate of non-comprehension of visual images.

Chapter 10 1985

He gave me his usual lofty look of non-comprehension and decided Jenny needed him at once.

Whip Hand Francis, Dick 1979

He gave me his usual lofty look of non-comprehension and decided Jenny needed him at once.

Whip Hand Francis, Dick 1979