Sentence examples for misapprehension and from inspiring English sources

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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.

There is a kind of fearful symmetry between his misapprehension and Captain Gault's, but when Horahan's final destiny becomes linked to both the captain's and Lucy's, it will be more than a thematic parallel.

And there are Jacob's intimate relationships with two Czech men, Luboš (a brief affair that founders on misreading and misapprehension) and, later in the novel, Milo (a much happier relationship, which ends — or seems likely to end — only when Jacob returns to America).

Mistaken identity, misapprehension, and serendipity are at the centre of that story of an office worker (Jean Arthur) who becomes the accidental owner of a valuable fur coat thrown out by a wealthy banking tycoon (Edward Arnold) and later is involved with a bumbling waiter (Ray Milland) who, unbeknownst to her, is the banker's slumming scion.

Great writers hit us over the head because they present characters whose imaginary lives have real consequences (at least while we're reading about them), and because they see the world in much the way we do: complicated by surface and subterranean feelings, by ambiguity and misapprehension, and by the misalliance of consciousness and perception.

(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).

It's a cinch, now that Spurling has cleared away a century's worth of misapprehensions and canards.

"That's the way it is," she says, of my misapprehensions, and bursts into peels of laughter.

Much of Germany and even more of Russia was unscathed, at least physically, by war.He also corrects exaggerations, misapprehensions and simplifications.

[www.haroldpinter.org] PINTER -- The impetus came from my secretary, Angela, who said: "You need to correct a lot of misapprehensions and misquotations and fabrications.