Yenne's book excels as a study in leadership, showing how Sitting Bull's position in Lakota society has been misapprehended — he was not, at Little Bighorn or elsewhere, the top military commander or chief of chiefs but something closer to a charismatic shaman.
Nearly everything and everyone in "Ether" is misapprehended by someone else.
Intelligence is fundamentally misapprehended when seen as an isolatable entity rather than a complex ideal.
What the outsider apprehends and misapprehends can be great stuff, depending on lighting, angle of vision, field of view, misapprehended idiom, distortions caused by hyper-alertness.
Lately, Kristol has been wondering if, in some fundamental way, he has misapprehended the country.
In authorizing the instructions, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals appeared to have "clearly misapprehended our prior decision," Justice O'Connor wrote.
Still further, the Appeal Tribunal appears to have misapprehended the nature of the role served by cross-examination.
"I misapprehended?" "Yeah, it didn't work out, you know?" The Sergeant's cowardly dog, Mavis, appeared behind the glass door that opened onto the patio.
"And I said, 'George, you've covered seven of his fights.' But I misapprehended that George was casting himself as John Q. Public, not himself.
To the extent the Texas appellate court believed that Penry I was satisfied merely because a supplemental instruction was given, the court clearly misapprehended that prior decision.
More than stylistically though, Levin's conceit of a child genius misapprehended in a scholastic setting has to remind us of "Infinite Jest," that account of the prodigy Hal Incandenza and his time at the Enfield Tennis Academy.
