He has been misunderstood as an entirely "social" poet, but his real subject is the mind that attempts, never entirely successfully, to ward off the social world that bombards it from every side.
It's okay to be misunderstood – as long as you're not misunderstood by your consumers.
The napkin tells you something about Grieve, but it shouldn't be misunderstood as a sign of disloyalty.
Faith is misunderstood as a synonym for certitude, but really it's a concept that has doubt folded into it.
But his impassioned farewell to the Rights o' Man is misunderstood as a revolutionary declaration, and Claggart, responsible for discipline, is told to watch Billy.
Mr. Balanchine deliberately refrained from including "Stars and Stripes" in the tour, because he feared that the ballet might be misunderstood as a political statement.
The decision to send troops to help stability in South Sudan deserves praise and should not be misunderstood as a "gamble" or an attempt "to maintain the fiction of global reach", as Tisdall writes.
Peter Bofinger, a professor of economics at the University of Würzburg and a rare admirer of Keynes among German economists, said this strain in the country's political culture can be misunderstood as a self-lacerating streak.
And others expressed concern that the experiments, if disclosed, might be misunderstood as a clandestine effort to resume work on a class of weapons that President Nixon had relinquished in 1969.
Too often, it is misunderstood as a misty tale of fragile individuals lost in the past when, in fact, it is a critique of the irresponsibility of those who ignore the complexity of the present in favour of easy memories.
