Himself a playwright, Mr. Upton's Chekhov mixes modern-day song lyrics ("O Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood") with a contemporary vernacular ("you are pushing it, girlie").
We revised the initial questionnaire based on the results of this pilot study, replacing phrases and words that could be misunderstood with alternatives that the pilot study participants indicated did not carry the risk of misunderstanding.
"Barney, to some extent, is misunderstood — with this image of him as a fierce partisan.
The fallout from this is misunderstood with mental illness.
Schizophrenia, I've learned, might be misunderstood, but with the right treatment and support, it's nothing to be feared.
She drones and under-enunciates, the better to be misunderstood, and with several band members who have been a constant for decades — the guitarist Waddy Wachtel and the percussionist Lenny Castro — she fitted the songs to the audience's memory.
Even educational programming with messages of empathy can be misunderstood by preschoolers, with negative consequences.
First, adjustments to English words such as 'vigorous' and 'moderate' activity, which can be misunderstood and not associated with PA behaviours in Nigeria, were replaced with words that are more representative of the language used in Nigeria, such as 'very hard' and 'hard', respectively.
Both the film and album will be misunderstood as being packed with gangsta cliches – sex, brutality – but Drew emerges as a pitbull fuelled not just by anger but by compassion.
In this situation several small incidents could be misunderstood by the person with dementia and result in undermining personhood.
As such, it is always apt to be misunderstood, undervalued and at odds with itself.
