Sentence examples for misapprehension of the from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, the empirical world is not totally unreal, for it is a misapprehension of the real brahman.

Having started on the basis of what is now clear was a grotesque misapprehension of the actual situation in Libya, they nevertheless demand victory before finishing.

Mr. Hartley is scathing about the American intervention: not its intentions but its disastrous misapprehension of the place and the people.

I remember at the time that it wasn't so much the veiled utilitarianism in this statement that chilled, more the crass misapprehension of the value and function of the whole of the subsidised sector.

Maybe the perversity we all feel in the idea of striving at marriage — the reason so few of us do it — stems from a misapprehension of the proper goal.

Such a misapprehension of the publicist's usual relationship to sincerity will not get young Pollack very far at some of New York City's better-known public-relations establishments; but it stood him in good stead last week when he was flown into town to appear at a press conference advocating the use of Transcendental Meditation among schoolkids.

But sufficient numbers believe I did, and in cases of widespread misapprehension of meaning, the fault always lies with the writer.

Today, of course, we recognize the giraffe as a distinct species, though the misapprehensions of the past endure in the animal's Linnaean name: Giraffa camelopardalis.

He wonders "how many of his misapprehensions of the world the world had the patience and resources to correct," though anyone would be flummoxed by the emotional logic that determines the what and why of this novel's plotting, its many twists and disclosures.

In the course of William Shawn's long career as editor of The New Yorker (1952-87), would sometimes shake his head in dismay over what he took to be an astonishing misapprehension on the part of many readers--the misapprehension that one of the magazine's most admirable qualities was its contriving to remain always the same in a restlessly shifting world.

If other universities share the misapprehension of what freedom of speech entails, they should consider the example of the University of California, which in this case has distinguished between permissible and protected expressions of disagreement and unprotected and intolerable disruption.