His grandfather was suddenly more comprehensibleto him than ever before, and the task to which the old man had devoted himself for half a century--the weal and welfare of Doenninghausen--appeared to him in a new light.
This he speedily put to purpose by enlisting the co-operation of a number of the greatest scientists of Europe in the preparation of text-books embodying the discoveries of science, couched in language comprehensible to young minds.
It is admitted by everybody that as a serviceable instrument for expressing definite sounds in an expeditious and comprehensible manner, English written language is a woeful failure.
Darwin enabled us to look upon man as the completing link in the great chain of the gradual evolution of the life-giving forces of the Universe, and he rendered thus our position more comprehensible and natural.
But this attitude was not very comprehensible to her present companion.
On the other hand, the average number of the Russian intelligencia, as well as officers, were often satisfied merely with the immediate and more obvious and easily comprehensible causes.
But a little while before the War, when he was a student and was carried away by the popular movement, he had visited villages and factories and had found "real words" which were clear and comprehensible to all.
Both phenomena are comprehensible on a close examination of the distinctive features of the work.
But such a man rouses a combination of emotionscomprehensible only by women.
However, If women werecomprehensible to men, men and women would be friends, not lovers (But the race is safe).
This sounds alarming; but the experiment is both comprehensibleand interesting to any boy or girl of ordinary intelligence.
The conception is illustrated and made comprehensible by the miniatures in the Lucca MS.
If there is anything comprehensible in the incoherent flow of Mallarmé’s words, it is perhaps his admiration for the pre-Raphaelites.
It is comprehensible that an educator who turns the schoolroom into a tavern and a brothel should have success and a crowd of followers.
This is not mysticism, but a very clear and comprehensible fact.
This explanation of the term ‘realism’ is a little more comprehensible than the others; but I have no need to show how grossly external and how philosophically and æsthetically worthless it is.
Wagner, whose Die Meistersinger Rolland regards as the climax of universally comprehensible and elevating art, cannot be presented without the aid of music.
Tolstoi's The Dominion of Darkness and Hauptmann's Die Weber would be comprehensible enough, but their matter would prove somewhat depressing.
I should not willingly make additions, because they would of necessity have reference to the "original theatre," and about that I should have to say a great deal to make my idea comprehensible to the general public.
Music, on the contrary, should do no more than contribute its full share towards making the drama clearly and quickly comprehensible at every moment.
In any case, it would be much more natural that it were so recorded than comprehensible that it were not.
It does not become comprehensible and perceptible to us until it shows animation and movement and kindles on the several horizons of space questions more and more distant, more and more foreign to all our uncertainties.
The truth of it, as conceived by Browning, could hardly be told otherwise than in poetry, for it needs the faith that comes through spiritual beauty to render it comprehensible and credible, and such beauty is best expressed by art.
We saw that the establishment of those compound reflex actions called instincts is comprehensible on the principle that inner relations are, by perpetual repetition, organized into correspondence with outer relations.
We have now to observe that the establishment of those consolidated, those indissoluble, those instinctive mental relations constituting our ideas of space and time, iscomprehensible on the same principle.
In this case, however, the force would be recognizable and demonstrable at every point; the phenomena should nowhere stand in opposition to its admission, and should in no case be explicable or comprehensible without it.
No; to throw the handle after the hatchet is a comprehensibleact of desperation, but to throw one's pocket-knife after an implacable friend is clearly in every sense a hyperbole, or throwing beyond the mark.
The situation would be entirely comprehensible if the scene between Camillo and Archidamus were omitted.
I could fill this page with sayings from the scene in question, all perfectly comprehensible without any account of the situation.
The dramatist should give the public what he himself wants--but in such form as to make it comprehensible and interesting in a theatre.
They exactly fitted his standard of art, not always sympathetic, nor comprehensible to the average human mind, of which the grand in form and the abstract in expression, were the first and last conditions.
The very air seems to eat up all that is harsh or colossal, and leaves us nothing but the sublime to feast on:--a sublime peculiar as the genius of the immortal architect, and comprehensible only on the spot.
But the President failed to explain the situation in terms comprehensible to the average man.
The error is not in ascribing divine attributes to the wrong being, but in the conception of wrong qualities and attributes ascomprehensible in a divine being.
And this was easily comprehensible by the analogy of his own smaller consciousness.
