uncomprehension

• “Her look was one of total uncomprehension, but he spoke for his own benefit as much as hers.”

  Conan The Victorious

• “Beat him with it," he said, and laughed at her look of complete uncomprehension.”

  Conan The Unconquered

• “The reaction of startled uncomprehension among the British public and press to recent events in the north must suggest to perceptive young Unionist men and women that partition has created a political twilight zone.”

  Emerald Isle in a Sea of Discord

• “Hornblower stood sword in hand, staring at him in momentary uncomprehension.”

  Hornblower And The Hotspur

• “His kisses altered, but still she bore them, dimly aware of portent in them, but trying, with a woman's guile, to laugh them off by seeming to keep a child's uncomprehension of what they meant.”

  Secret Bread

• “Music never stirred her, and she regarded the society of the country neighbourhood where she lived with a sense of uncomprehension which she sometimes found difficult to conceal.”

  Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

• “Then, at the evident uncomprehension in Arkwright's face, she added: "Has it been going on like this -- very long?”

  Miss Billy -- Married

• “His hatred for the interloper was as nothing now to his rage against Valentina, a rage that had its birth in a wondering uncomprehension of how she should prefer that coarse, swashbuckling bully to himself, the peerless Gonzaga.”

  Love-at-Arms

• “He spoke with such a settled seriousness that it was difficult to be sure whether he understood the jest and played up to it in that spirit of make-believe which had drawn down the King's anger or answered out of a dull uncomprehension.”

  The Justice of the King

• “If you walked into a party and said “I self-published my book,” then the room would first go silent, a hundred eyes would stare at you with a mixture of uncomprehension and pity — and then you’d be politely or impolitely ignored for the remainder of the evening.”

  Interview with Michael Pastore: Ebooks and Digital Publishing | The Creative Penn

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