Sentence examples for a misapprehension about from inspiring English sources

Underlying many of the decisions, officials say, was a misapprehension about what Americans would find on the ground in Afghanistan.

This is a misapprehension about how the effects of fiction are produced, and can be dispelled by obeying Rule 1.

He adds that: "In Europe people have a misapprehension about production in China... we believe we can make the best products in the world there".

But that suggests a misapprehension about why we read, or at least why I do; I'm not looking to be entertained.

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.

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.

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.

But it's "Sweet Gospel Music" that reveals the shortcomings of his design, involving as it does a fundamental misapprehension about gospel music, which is rarely the sweet, peaceful thing he eulogises here, but the kind of raging emotional torrent he seems unable to access.

With Starck's designs, some not yet hired high-profile chefs, and spontaneous-seeming, unannounced shows — Cirque du Soleil-style performances, concerts by rappers like Ja Rule, and so forth — Nazarian hopes to lure people from their domestic enclaves, and, in doing so, to correct a central misapprehension about Los Angeles.

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.