Sentence examples for great misapprehension from inspiring English sources

In MacLeod's work, the phrase voices our great misapprehension about the significance of almost every creature that draws breath; the author would swear that, for all their apparent inconsequence, each one of them hovers over a small diaspora of others.

But that is not journalism; it is an essentially pointless pastime, equal parts maths and cash-free gambling, and it is part of the great mess of misapprehension and false expectation that defined this election.

I've been working for the past few years on a screenplay and an opera libretto about Eugene O'Neill, and a while back I came across Bernard DeVoto, writing in the Saturday Review in 1936, dismissing O'Neill's play "Strange Interlude" and any misapprehension that O'Neill was a great writer.

Even the once great logician Bertrand Russell was baffled; he seems to have been under the misapprehension that Gödel had detected an inconsistency in mathematics.

But along the way the author pokes mercilessly at misapprehensions large and small.

The great final speech of "The Great Dictator," in which, through a wondrous series of misapprehensions, the Jewish barber takes Hynkel's place on the world stage and delivers a humanistic message of peace in his stead — in which the Jewish barber becomes (through Chaplin's voice) the moral beacon of the era — couldn't have come about had the barber and his people not repudiated Schultz's plot.

This was a misapprehension.

This is a fundamental misapprehension.

This is a common misapprehension.

This misapprehension is rather universal among men.

But that is a fundamental misapprehension.