Dimly it passed across their confused and uncomprehending minds, taken at its broadest for a coarse joke, at its subtlest for a "shame.
His face was drawn with agony and uncomprehending despair.
Tucker shook his head in a dazed, uncomprehending manner, as if the proposition were too fantastic to be considered.
The little child looked at her father with uncomprehending eyes; he stared at his daughter for several minutes, then turned, hurriedly drove away and never beheld his wife or child again.
Haldane, looking up with an uncomprehending stare.
He said she met this question with a look so blank and uncomprehending that he just lifted her and carried her in among the palms.
She leaned against his chest, sobbing in the uncomprehending grief of one who has spared herself nothing, yet come to no reward.
What stony, uncomprehending glances or what wild shrieks from the maniacal!
The other cannot go through," he says, pointing to de Vaudrey, who tries to look as stupid and uncomprehending as possible.
Occasionally, however, the heavy hand of an uncomprehending stage director or of an aggressive actor has played havoc with the delicate texture of his fabric.
It seems incredible that a girl so witty, so beautiful, and so intelligent as Rosalind should waste so much time on that sentimental, uncomprehending creature known as Orlando.
They were negroes, mostly coal black, but a few were brown or even yellow and the dazed, scared boys looked upon them with uncomprehending amazement.
Little Smeed, uncomprehending of the judgment that had been passed, stowed his bag inside and clambered up to a place on the top.
He had watched him with an amused, uncomprehending interest.
Elizabeth looked at him with perfectly uncomprehending eyes.
Nannie, in the doorway, sobbing under her breath, watched with frightened, uncomprehending eyes.
I thought he had coarsened and got into the ways of an ordinary Tommy--and I was snobbish and uncomprehending and horrible.
In the crowd, the head of her late companion could be seen, rolling his uncomprehending eyes.
At any other time he would have realized at once that he was in a ship's cabin, but now an uncomprehending stare soon yielded to a torpor of pain.
She lifted her head, and gazed at him with uncomprehending eyes.
Lena blinked at him in anuncomprehending way with her big eyes, and he smiled innocently in return.
Lena still stared at him dumbly, vague with uncomprehending fear.
A horrified whisper passed through the class, and they looked at one another with uncomprehending eyes.
But Pelle buried his face in the clothes, and when his father turned it up toward him, he met a despairing, uncomprehending gaze that made his own wander restlessly round the room.
At this point Mr. Powell who (he confessed to me) was listening with uncomprehending awe, heard behind his back a triumphant chuckling sound.
He looked into her face with astonished, uncomprehending eyes.
Lilly sat on the sofa stiffly upright, mechanically turning her head after him now to the right, now to the left, and staring at him with great, uncomprehending eyes.
His uncomprehending eyes were fixed upon the dust-laden thatch of the roof overhead, where droning wasps toiled upon their frail abodes.
The Christ-principle, the saving truth about God and man, is ever present in an uncomprehending world.
But, if so, these were never openly expressed; nor did her manner ever change toward her foster-parents, or toward the simple and uncomprehending folk of her native town.
Though she was the most selfish and the least considerate of the three children, Virginia was like wax in her hands, and regarded her dashing, rather cynical, worldliness with naïve and uncomprehending respect.
Sweat had broken out in glistening clusters over her face and neck, and her eyes, under the stray wisps of hair, had in them an expression of dumb and uncomprehending submission.
Neither am I concerned with Costa’s uncomprehending attitude toward the Russian novel, in which he can find only folly, cruelty and delirium!
She was too much wrapped up in her own personal concerns, too uncomprehending in a spiritual crisis.
A little later on horse and rider emerged out of the wood and the Brussels road stretched out its long straight ribbon before Bobby Clyffurde's dull, uncomprehending gaze.
Now half-blinded by despair and by panic they gazed with uncomprehending eyes on the man and on the horse and merely shouted to him as they rushed galloping or running by, "The Prussians are on us!
Ah, but it is the waste of himself that I mean; his lashing himself out on stupid and uncomprehending people until they take him at their own estimate.
I see your meaning, I think," said Lady Ellen, looking at him with wide, uncomprehending eyes.
