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".
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.
Some ecologists believe the high estimates are inflated by basic misapprehensions about what drives species to extinction.
A basic principle of Pres.
But implied in the proposal is a troubling misapprehension of how unpleasant a lot of actual health care is.
Dawkins particularly sought to address a growing misapprehension of what exactly Darwinian natural selection entailed in Climbing Mount Improbable (1996).
pt. 5. Given our reliance on Hatten, we must address a recent misapprehension of that decision in Harris v. R.A. Martin, Inc., 204 W. Va.
Having started on the basis of what is now clear was a grotesque misapprehension of the actual situation in Libya, they nevertheless demand victory before finishing.
But the view just outlined, though widespread, represents a fundamental misapprehension of Ryle's work.
