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We who are in control of the media and therefore aware of the context in which unclear English is used, know what's going on (and therefore the meanings of the utterances used to describe it), while the vulgar (to use Berkeley's delightful expression for those with a shaky grasp of vocabulary and syntax who are therefore ill equipped to understand some particular bit of newspeak) are led to believe, when they fail to fathom what's going on, that the failure in comprehension is entirely their fault.
The comprehension of mind invoked by a biological mechanism appeared ripe for the sort of thoughtful, theoretical science he had applied to DNA.
One prominent macro-economist calls today's globalized economy "almost beyond human comprehension."
Adams saw the new technological forces of a century ago as awe-inspiring, destructive, and almost beyond comprehension.
A formal analysis of patient comprehension for each presentation format was beyond the scope of the present study; however data on this topic has been previously reported [ 24 ] . While responses from focus group participants reflected how well they felt they could understand the information in various formats, no formal testing of comprehension was performed.