Random Thoughts on the passing scene: Teresa Heinz Kerry's latest loony statement that pro-Bush hackers could have gotten into the electronic voting machines during last year's election gave me my first misgivings about having criticized her.
Personally, I find the experience of reading them poignant and melancholy; a rare glimpse into the creative practices of a deeply private and evasive man: the smudges and fingerprints on the cards, the food stains, the imperfect sentences of a perfect stylist, the erasures, misspellings, second thoughts, misgivings, and the loopy and elegant, almost child-like handwriting.
Mr. Aguilar was one of the first to experience misgivings, expressed in a newspaper editorial that made him persona non grata.
The bills were drafted after the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombings, during a wave of fear about crime and terrorism, and President Clinton signed the first one with misgivings.
A lifelong advocate of individual freedom and the cause of the people as against the oppression of aristocracy, the tyranny of "legitimate" monarchy, Hazlitt was disturbed by this tendency in the human imagination as expressed in poetry, and it was here that these misgivings first entered into his general theory of poetry.
She admitted that the guinea pigs had some misgivings at first.
"I did have misgivings at first – I try not to collaborate with brands very often.
I had misgivings the first time I heard him mention Cassie and realized Quade was referring to shortstop Starlin Castro and not the second Mrs. Joe Montana.
" Mr. LeBlanc said "Episodes," the brainchild of the "Friends" co-creator David Crane and the "Mad About You" producer Jeffrey Klarik, gave him some misgivings at first.
When the news of this initiative spread last week, corporate travel managers were among the first to express serious misgivings, said Jack Riepe, a spokesman for the Association of Corporate Travel Managers.
In one of the first public signs of misgivings, an influential Catholic writer on Sunday disparaged the idea of a less hierarchical church and defended the Vatican bureaucracy.
