Sentence examples for and misunderstood as from inspiring English sources

Few movies have been as underrated and misunderstood as 1987's Dirty Dancing.

Divorced from its original context and misunderstood as a general statement about the scope and limits of the government's authority to kill citizens, the free-floating reasoning would lead to widespread confusion.

He is out to prove that Yogi Berra is underappreciated as a ballplayer and misunderstood as a human being, that Yogi's image as an "amiable clown" created "a pseudo-Yogi that took on a life of its own, a caricature of the real man".

And Ms. Vera -- in her first published work, "Why Don't You Carve Other Animals?" a collection of short stories released in 1992 -- describes how Chido, a female fighter, returns from the war and finds herself jobless and misunderstood as the country celebrates its new freedom.

Picked on and misunderstood as a schoolboy, Jerome quickly grows up into Max Minghella (son of Anthony, who directed "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Cold Mountain"), a young man whose dark brows and big sad eyes are taken here as the signs of a delicate artistic temperament.

We hoped that if people of different cultures could look at each other through the eyes of their children and recognize these same underlying qualities in all children around the world, mutual compassion for one another would increase, leaving us less inclined to view those unseen and misunderstood as the enemy.

It's okay to be misunderstood – as long as you're not misunderstood by your consumers.

He stages plays, in the school's new 350-seat performing arts center, that deal with racism, homophobia and misunderstood youth, as well as crowd-pleasing musicals.

I hope that those who are trying to push specific religious agendas on everyone in this country read it and realize that when it comes to something as complex (and often misunderstood) as religion, it's best to keep its dogma out of our legal code.

Yet for all of his success, he is relatively unknown and greatly misunderstood, as his 1977 single "Short People" proved when most people missed Mr. Newman's deadpan irony.

And often misunderstood as vapid or lazy.