Sentence examples for a basic misapprehension about from inspiring English sources

But the social-media scoffing also belies a basic misapprehension about how the world works – borne, perhaps, from a desire among millenials to feel they are wresting agency away from their elders – as well as common-or-garden prejudice.

The uniting thread is a basic misapprehension regarding the underlying logic of Obama's so-called "team of rivals".

Some ecologists believe the high estimates are inflated by basic misapprehensions about what drives species to extinction.

Here, as in Byatt's historical reconstruction, there is talk of King's College, Cambridge, and the Apostles, and Lytton Strachey (" 'We do see Lytton from time to time,' Cecil said, with an air of discretion"), and Rupert Brooke: "Oh, Rupert Brooke," said Freda, "what an Adonis!" Cecil gave a snuffy smile as if at some rather basic misapprehension.

If more and more people aspire to belong to this last category, the basic misapprehension remains the same at every level of acquisition.

It's a basic problem about storytelling.

13] contains a common misapprehension about the treatment of Marian Anderson in 1939 by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Let's clear up a common misapprehension about viewing figures: we think Ann is the reason to watch Strictly, because that's why we all watch it.

That, says Ronni Lundy, author of the forthcoming book "Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, With Recipes" (Clarkson Potter, August 2016), betrays a gross misapprehension about the region and its food, which is far more complex.

This appears to be based on a convenient misapprehension about how laws work, whereby apparently they're a zero sum: if you add some criminalisation in one place, it must automatically decrease in another.

Despite all this, there is still a double misapprehension about the gaming world: "non-gamers" think games are for gamers, and "gamers" think games are… well, for them.