intelligible

The casting of deaf and hearing actors — one to embody and emotionalize a character, the other to sing, speak and jam — fails to harmonize into a resonant or even intelligible interpretation.

His performance during the CNN debate — in which he gave rambling answers in a quiet, at times barely intelligible voice, while his opponent delivered lies and racially charged rhetoric with comparable vigor — opened a flood of questions about his fitness to serve, and crucially, his chances of winning in November.

Watching a Trump speech in full better shows what it’s like inside his head: a smorgasbord of falsehoods, personal and professional vendettas, frequent comparisons to other famous people, a couple of handfuls of simple policy ideas, and a lot of non sequiturs that veer into barely intelligible stories….

Elora Forshee, director of Sedgwick County Emergency Communications, has said Bedeski’s call was not intelligible enough for the dispatcher to understand that she was trapped.

They make the world intelligible to people.