apprehensible
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CNN, like all televised media, specializes in nearsighted news, favoring big, easily apprehensible images and storylines.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2015
One of the best parts of “Ghettoside” is a wonderfully apprehensible crash course in legal anthropology.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2015
What he craved was neither luxury nor the high rhetoric of history painting, but apprehensible truth, visible, familiar, open to touch and repetition.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And the earlier philosophers, from Plato to Leibniz, had kept the human mind open for the thought of the universe as one idea behind all its physically apprehensible transformations.
From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard
And yet this phantom of the next age limns himself sometimes so large and plain that every feature is apprehensible, and challenges a painter.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Carlyle, Thomas