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Key to “Ano Hito no Sekai” was the way that the characters acted mechanically and didn’t even attempt to scale walls of mutual noncomprehension.

From New York Times • May 26, 2010

Among ordinary Iraqis, it seems, there is acceptance, chagrin, forlorn hope or simple noncomprehension.

From Time Magazine Archive

The fact that Nixon was always aware that recordings were being made could explain what Dean interpreted as Nixon's frequent misunderstandings or apparent noncomprehension of what Dean was telling the President about Watergate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Defense Secretary Robert McNamara partly blames civilian teachers who not only failed to impart knowledge, but sent students into "a mental fog of boredom, confusion and noncomprehension."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was beginning already—that inevitable noncomprehension of two such divergent natures.

From The Moon out of Reach by Pedler, Margaret