incomprehensibility
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Her work is an acknowledgment of war’s incomprehensibility and a resistance against it, as when she writes,
From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2022
The doctor was smiling at the good news, but I was frozen, expressionless, anesthetized by the incomprehensibility of this new state of affairs.
From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2020
She has said that the shock and fear and resignation created by this incomprehensibility are at the core of her writing.
From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2020
The scope of events grows wider and weirder, a spiral of mistaken identities and collateral damage whose incomprehensibility makes it all the more devastating.
From Slate • Jan. 10, 2020
I rejoice still in the comfort of its incomprehensibility.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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