Sentence examples for misapprehension by from inspiring English sources

My tactic was crude — avoid misapprehension by minimizing the range of words that needed comprehension — and it soon proved inadequate.

Brown, anxious to avoid a row, hints at the probable source of his friend's misapprehension by gently singing the opening lines of a well-known folk song: "My father was the keeper of the Eddystone light and he met a mermaid one fine night".

Khrushchev added to this misapprehension by stating in an October 1957 interview that the USSR had all the rockets, of whatever capacity, that it needed.

He addressed this point in a 1958 publication called Can I Leave My Baby?. Ainsworth in the WHO 1962 publication also attempted to address this misapprehension by pointing out that the requirement for continuity of care did not imply an exclusive mother child pair relationship.

Far too grand for such fripperies as story or characters, Crash instead consisted of the interaction of unintentionally caricatured ideas, and suggested that the US's racial problems were basically rooted in an endless series of self-defeating misapprehensions by individuals.

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.

There is a misapprehension encouraged by advocates of repealing the estate tax that it punishes a large number of middle-class Americans.

Indeed, there were long periods of the trial during which an outsider might well have assumed that a divorce case was being heard; and it often seemed that the Crown was labouring under the same misapprehension, intensified by spasms of uncertainty as to whether the defendant was Constance Chatterley or Frieda von Richthofen.

Ostrander hopes the study will help explode the "huge myth" that sharks are immune to cancer--a misapprehension shared even by "people in my own field," he says.

Above all, it was propelled by Peter Sellers's inspired portrayal of eternally bumbling Parisian Inspector Jacques Clouseau, whose mastery of misapprehension is hilariously augmented by a proclivity for mispronunciation and preposterously transparent disguises.

Moreover, several theorists have suggested that our intuition is misguided by a misapprehension of what it is like to lead a life in Z, i.e. a life that is barely worth living.