Sentence examples for misapprehension as from inspiring English sources

They come from there". In Scientific Babel, Gordin looks beyond the dominance of English in contemporary scientific discourse to uncover a story of scientific debate that's characterised by confusion and misapprehension as much as by collaboration and progress.

You may have misapprehension as to the mentee's long-term goals, while the mentee may have an exaggerated notion as to what services you will provide.

"There has arisen the most extraordinary misapprehension as to our position with regard to aviation," said Colonel Seely, "the officers engaged in the dangerous profession of flying make it a point of honor never to allow any of their performances to appear in the press.

Defendant demonstrated full knowledge of plaintiff's name and activities, and admitted to an understanding that using plaintiff's mark as his domain name would attract "pro-abortion" Internet users to his web site because of their misapprehension as to the site's origin.

He claims that during the notorious Redlands raid of 1967, he allowed the police into his home in Sussex because he was under the misapprehension, as a result of copious quantities of LSD, that the officers were dwarves "wearing dark blue, with shiny bits and helmets".

Ashbery's style prizes such mistakes and misapprehensions, as though looking for the word on the tip of the tongue.

He added, "Ashbery's style prizes such mistakes and misapprehensions, as though looking for the word on the tip of the tongue".

A report of research I presented to a recent publishing conference, challenging misapprehensions as to what sort of people are now self-publishing, provoked just such a lively correspondence.

It may well be that the killers on Wednesday were laboring under the same misapprehensions as Bouyeri about the nature of their religious obligations.

"I was aiming for people who were not Hispanic to know us and need us". She wanted, in particular, to remedy the popular misapprehension of Latinos as monocultural and strictly working-class.

Building on Keil and Rozenblit's research, Sloman and Fernbach have found that this same misapprehension applies to more abstract phenomena as well, such as tax policy and foreign relations — and to politically charged topics such as climate change and genetically modified organisms.