It has been easy to fill this void with at best misunderstanding and at worst dishonest portrayals.
On the one hand, art and culture have become reified to the extent that it is almost impossible to compare them with other areas of public policy without the charge of, at best, misunderstanding or, at worst, philistinism.
The notion of controversy over it is viewed as political correctness gone wild or, at best, a terrible misunderstanding.
In NATURE of August 19 , 1933 p. 271, an example of some so-called mummy wheat from an Indian tomb was shown to be actually a recent one, the whole idea having been based, at the best, on a misunderstanding.
Measuring benefits against "tax revenues," as Wang does, reflects at best a fundamental misunderstanding of Social Security's revenue streams.
In particular, the level of awareness and knowledge of these conditions in immigrant communities was generally low, and at best variable; with misunderstandings about modes of transmission, limited awareness of the asymptomatic nature of chronic infection, and underestimation of the seriousness of hepatitis B and C infection.
A kind of ursine Jacques Tati, the well-meaning Paddington caused chaos wherever he went through a mixture of clumsiness and cultural misunderstanding; the best moments usually involved his clashes with pompous British officialdom.A new film version, directed and written by Paul King, focuses on a quality for which the British once prided themselves a welcoming attitude towards refugees.
Therefore, I believe the responses are best interpreted as the misunderstanding of the nature of science.
If companies are too close-mouthed about how they set compensation — what data they use, how they determine their labor markets, why employees fall where they do within a range — they risk losing their best employees over a misunderstanding.
But even that formulation suggests what is a basic misunderstanding at best and cynical contempt at worst for the role of government in the process of protecting Facebook's users.
Winston Churchill rushed to Moscow and suggested to Stalin that the best way to avoid misunderstandings was to agree on separate spheres of influence.
