Which bridges us nicely to the last micro-outrage: the ongoing troubles relating to Facebook's promoted posts feature, or if you read the same article I did as it made the rounds, "the single most misguided thing a major corporation has ever deliberately done, bar none, in the entire history of American capitalism and the world".
— Eugene Cappuccio Hillary Clinton's comment about the 1968 primary might have been the stupidest and most misguided thing she has ever said.
But Daddy became convinced before he died that in spite of every foolish, greedy, misguided thing we have done to our environment, this great woodpecker somehow survived.
Another misguided thing people do is to make the cover letter all about them: "I did this, I'm looking for, I want to... I, I, I".
She added: "What interested me was the part of someone who does monstrous things maybe, or misguided things.
But she really comes into her own — and will, if widely read, make an indelible mark on our parenting culture — when she moves beyond child development to concentrate instead on parent development, exploring why we do the misguided things we do, and asking how we might (as we must) change ourselves and behave differently.
Many male executives have done or said misguided things, Stapp notes, without facing the same sort of public shaming.
In the Arab world, a misguided belief that things could hardly get worse persuaded us that there was "a modest chance that 2014 will bring a general improvement".
It may even have been part of a misguided attempt to keep things hygienic, which many in the wider public also seem to believe, despite the reality that pubic hair likely protects against disease.
Maybe the suggestion that two respectable ladies should break into a man's rooms and go through his things in a misguided attempt to protect the reputation of the Prince of Wales, a character we absolutely don't care about anyway?
Minor simplifications are not worth a disaster; harmonisation is a misguided goal if it means doing things wrong everywhere.
