Sentence examples for misapprehension on the from inspiring English sources

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.

Subject to much misapprehension on the American side.

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.

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

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

Clearly, any implication anyone might have divined from this was a massive misapprehension on their part.

Labouring under the misapprehension the airplane on which he and his friends are travelling is about to crash in the finale of Seinfeld, George feels the need to unburden his soul and admit he cheated to win the famous bet between the four main characters concerning who could hold out the longest and remain "master of their domain".

"This misapprehension is based on the Paris climate deal where governments clapped themselves on the back but when you look at the science it doesn't compute, it's not true.

Then, just in case Miller was suffering under the misapprehension that the Democrats on the committee would give him a warmer welcome, Sander Levin, the ranking minority member, who is also from Michigan, said, "All of us are angry at this on behalf of the nation".

We had been laboring under the misapprehension that having the wrong representation online could lead to negative behavioral preference.

Saint-Gaudens had produced the models for these dies under the misapprehension that the first pieces had been struck on a production press, rather than on the Mint's only medal press, and therefore only slight adjustment need be made.