Sentence examples for a misguided idea of from inspiring English sources

The Arabic chicken salad would not make it onto my meze table — it seemed a misguided idea of American-style cooking with its slightly soupy sautéed bite-size pieces of chicken over the aforementioned cucumber salad — and neither would the unremarkable chicken-vegetable soup.

The last batch was made from an old laying hen bought from an egg farmer for $10 and a bag of chicken feet that I picked up for $5. (Somewhere in here is a misguided idea of thrift: Make your own stock and save a bundle! It would have been a lot thriftier, though, if the old laying hen cost $2 and her feet were still attached).

The Mayor dared to criticize the original World Trade Center as a misguided idea, and he said that the future of Lower Manhattan was not as a commercial district alone.

The latter was a misguided idea.

Where might deluded Republican primary voters have picked up such a misguided idea?

There's a misguided idea that by dressing up – by participating – you are therefore having A Good Time.

In light of these skill deficiencies, communicating scientific uncertainty to the public may sound like a misguided idea.

They may have a misguided idea, and think they're doing the right thing.

Underlying some of this madness is the idea that work is the only meaning of life, tied to a paternalistic and misguided idea of equality.

Still, it's easy to see why this misguided idea of unity appealed to them.

She also beat up two waiters who had the misguided idea of avenging the manager, who lay on the Churrigueresque tile floor howling in pain from some broken ribs.