Sentence examples for misconceive from inspiring English sources

To fail to grasp or to misconceive what was believed to be the essence of faith might mean exile, harassment, or even death.

But to marvel at copiousness would be to misconceive achievement: all that arithmetic is, however impressive, beside the point.

Gauthier's response to this is to argue that we misconceive practical rationality, even instrumental rationality, if we think the aim of rationality determines in any straightforward way the manner in which we should reason or deliberate.

That Stevenson intentionally develops his entire ethical theory around an "informal, common-sense psychology" is a point missed by many commentators, who misconceive Stevenson's ethical theory merely as a "development" of Ayer's comparatively thin emotive theory.

Over the past 15 years, the creators of British cinema have resembled nothing so much as a bunch of frustrated alchemists; leaving a trail of failed potions and misconceived prototypes in their wake.

If so, the court order was excessive and misconceived".

The general impression is that the damage is done, and they will not be forgiven for reneging on the issue of tuition fees, not to say going along with so much of the Conservatives' misconceived austerity programme.

Just as passionately, many Democrats say the scheme is wasteful and misconceived.

A fourth says the very notion of an "eastern partnership" was misconceived.

It is not completely far-fetched to imagine charming, vast and dense cities in which most human movement takes place on foot while most movement of goods is by robot delivery systems.But perhaps the whole exercise is misconceived.

Worse, the attempt to draw workers back to shrinking cities is misconceived.