Sentence examples for misapprehensions of the from inspiring English sources

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.

It is also a misapprehension of the purpose of the environmentalists' suit.

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.

Where the argument falls is in its misapprehension of the fundamental nature and scope of Fourth Amendment protection.

We need not examine the charter for the contention rests upon a misapprehension of the meaning of 'profits' as used in the by-law.

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.

In a case such as this, where no square holdings have perpetuated our misapprehension of the meaning of § 1983, we should be the more willing to correct historical error.

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.

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.