uncomprehending

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His Gogo gives a blank, uncomprehending thousand-yard stare into the void that has an unsettling power.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 29, 2025

He was wearing his mug-shot face, but the eyes were uncomprehending.

From Salon • Sep. 21, 2023

And the jittery lighting, a collaboration between Levit and the artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, could hardly have been more uncomprehending of Feldman’s glacial austerity.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2023

Gray explores his own budding awareness of injustice in “Armageddon Time,” which like “Jojo Rabbit” and “Belfast” navigates daunting moral calculations through the eyes of an intuitive but also uncomprehending child.

From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2022

They had stared at her with great uncomprehending eyes.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison