Sentence examples for at the misunderstanding from inspiring English sources

What should we do? S. G. Next time your tax-cheat chum sends you a package from Van Cleef & Arpels, simply thank her effusively: "I've always wanted a black pearl necklace with a diamond clasp!" The small heart attack she suffers at the "misunderstanding" should cure the problem.

When the cops arrived, everyone had a good laugh at the misunderstanding ("It is obviously disappointing that someone mistook us for terrorists but also a bit funny," one member said) but some left the gathering with a bad taste in their mouth.

Scientists are alarmed at the misunderstanding of their methods.

Meade's apparent near-firing -- or at least the misunderstanding over the apparent near-firing -- underscores the risks a worker takes when considering going on strike or demonstrating against an employer.

At the heart of the misunderstanding was a muddled call to the 911 dispatcher.

As for the misunderstanding at the law school, he called the faculty member to make sure no insult was felt -- an account the faculty member corroborates.

Beyond the misunderstanding at the awards ceremony — of which Yosef said, "It was a bit strange, but really, I understand" — he says he has felt comfortable in Crown Heights from the moment he came there to advance his education.

And what was at one end of the misunderstanding — the suicide's smashed body — would be seen, in the telling, to be hardly more foul and frightful than her own menstrual blood.

That being said, there are some continuing conceptual differences between the droit d'auteur of the continental civiliste tradition and the English copyright tradition, and these differences seem to lie at the root of the misunderstanding which gave rise to the present appeal.

Here's the issue at the heart of the misunderstanding: 100 million Americans are affected by chronic pain, more than those with heart disease, cancer, and diabetes combined.

Too often, religious excursions into science resemble the thinking of the suicidal people described by Anne Sexton, "They ask only what tool, they never ask why build?" Fundamentalism at its core is the misunderstanding of the proper relationship between science and religion -- one practiced just as frequently by atheists as Christians.