Sentence examples for incorrectly imagining from inspiring English sources

Whether Lucy or Alice is narrating, Mangan's diction has the archaic gentility of someone incorrectly imagining how previous generations thought and spoke.

These are "too-good mothers" who (incorrectly) imagine that "their needs don't count in comparison to those of their children".

Mr. Tasini, a labor leader who once successfully sued The Times on behalf of freelance writers, is the politically impractical candidate from the left that many commentators incorrectly imagined Ned Lamont to be when he challenged Mr. Lieberman in Connecticut.

One might thus imagine — incorrectly of course — that the hardness of ice depends only on water molecules being at rest with respect to one another, the fluidity of water only on water molecules moving with respect to one another at a moderate speed, and the etherealness of a cloud only on water molecules moving with an extreme relative speed.

Most imagine, incorrectly, that losing the next election will make them miserable.

And restrictions on sublets — which can vary drastically — can be glossed over by buyers who may imagine, probably incorrectly, that they will live in their new apartment happily ever after.

For modern Western readers, "The less accurately we know the time, the place and the circumstances in the background, the more liable we are to imagine it incorrectly, and the result will be that we either misunderstand the poem or fail to understand it altogether".

Like imagining.

Begin Imagining.

In the novel he calls him a "man of action" who "liked to imagine--incorrectly that he had more than passing acquaintance with Shakespeare".

More often than not, we imagine that future incorrectly.