Cardano thinks that the principal task of a moral philosopher should be that of freeing the mind from misapprehensions and prejudices: "There are many people who prefer to be happy in a mistaken way rather than acknowledge the reality of their affairs and their condition" (De utilitate, OO, II, 24b).
A lot of Mr. Lipsyte's folk hero status among younger writers comes from a misapprehension.
He has collaborated on two libretti, an operatic sideline resulting from a misapprehension.
Maybe the perversity we all feel in the idea of striving at marriage — the reason so few of us do it — stems from a misapprehension of the proper goal.
Nor is it a book about the slow and mysterious integration of America into what we call "the Western world"—an outrageous misapprehension, since from the American perspective, Europe is the East.
Clearly, any implication anyone might have divined from this was a massive misapprehension on their part.
It used to be that adults didn't notice this subterfuge because they weren't paying attention; now the misapprehension comes more from the pronounced tendency to dismiss the thoughts and culture of Generation Y and all who come afterwards.
(The so-called Pindaric ode has had a long and distinguished history in English literature, but it derives from an almost total misunderstanding and misapprehension of Pindar's own style and technique).
Yet the same story appeared so ridiculous to the University of Cape Town, staff say, that they did not trouble to deny it.To report this misapprehension is doubly sad, apart from our own regret at being caught up in it.
Cartoons have depicted her swigging from a bottle as she cooks, and some viewers insist that they have actually seen her do this on camera — a misapprehension that may stem, Julia thinks, from the time she carefully peeled, seeded, and squeezed a tomato and then drank off the juice in a cup.
