[W]hatever punctuation the early editions actually give' has little foundation in what Defoe wrote; rather, it constitutes an attempt to put order, not into Defoe's own virtually nonexistent punctuation, but into his narratives by means of punctuation, supplied zealously but often inconsistently and
uncomprehendingly by the compositors.
This person would gleefully fill the black board with equations like it was their job (which it was) leaving the vast majority of us kids
uncomprehendingly staring at this chalky mess like Chavs at a Starbucks menu.
I leant forward, and he stared into my face,
uncomprehendingly. And then, astonishingly, he attempted to climb into the cab.
She doesn't think too highly of it: "He powders his hair and wears these fashionable clothes--it doesn't suit him at all, makes him look quite pastoral." A moment later, gazing out the window, she waxes enthusiastic: "Goya-- look how beautiful--3 different kinds of clouds in blue, brown and pink; shame that these things can't be painted anymore." Goya asks
uncomprehendingly, "Why?
Or look to the funeral of one of the first young polio victims in Nemesis (2010), when Bucky Cantor
uncomprehendingly confronts the fact that the dead no longer feel or think or grow.
The danger has always been that some in Whitehall and Westminster who would defend the Union may unwittingly and
uncomprehendingly preside over its dissolution."
May our descendants, when, in the future, they reflect
uncomprehendingly on our abuse of hens and orcas, appreciate that we are good and decent people moving in the right direction, and show some compassion for our obliviousness.
As he stared
uncomprehendingly at Garcia's calm mustacheod face, he ordered the soldier to get the surgeon.
This could suggest that Plimpton's intended user had a higher degree of familiarity with Latin than implied by the other texts--or alternatively, that the rubric and the sacred names were both copied
uncomprehendingly, as if in seamless continuation of the Latin prayer that precedes them.
As he strains to decipher the meaning of the birds' song, his own voice is reduced to senseless jibber and rendered literally barbarous: "What are you saying?" (24), his wife Rezia asks
uncomprehendingly. Septimus, "staring, talking aloud," is no more comprehensible to Rezia than the Regent's Park Zoo animals, whose "barking, howling" the couple can hear over the palings of their caws.
The Blindness of the Heart begins with a shocking and heartbreaking prologue, told from the perspective of seven-year-old Peter, who watches
uncomprehendingly as his mother Helene is gang raped by Soviet soldiers in the final days of World War II.
These two deaf characters unite in one scene, in which they
uncomprehendingly discuss Chatsky, thus bringing the miscommunication to a comic height.
Fixed by that particularly adhesive grease that holds such delicacies together, the pie sat there on his face as he wobbled
uncomprehendingly for a few seconds, then slid slowly down and eventually fell off.
