He says the law clerk misconstrued his stories about Adnan, that he'd only said Adnan told ordinary teenager's lies about where he was going out to at night.
One of the reasons I find The Conversation so rewarding is what it says about misconstrued stories: Harry pieces together the fragment in ways which make sense to him.
"'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album," he writes, explaining that the title of his first long-player in 14 years, and only his third in 19 years, might be misconstrued as being about religion or paint the artist as some sort of egomaniac.
A well-travelled tale — recounted in more than one book about Scorsese — and, I think, easily misconstrued, seemingly a vignette about neurotic perfectionism but actually a wholly characteristic illustration of the multilayered subtext that underlies his finest work.
It misconstrues everything about Romanians.
Sharpton said he told him that "if there was a misunderstanding or if it was misconstrued, we can talk about that".
Is I'll Stick Around really not about Kurt? (The line "I don't owe you anything", etc… Dave was quoted in Rolling Stone, saying how upset he was that people – ie me – could have misconstrued it to be about his past).
And again, I think that part of this issue is that scientists have to start communicating more and better about what we do, because it's obscure and opaque to non-experts, and because we spend a lot of time worrying about being misconstrued.
He said a comment to the conservative Weekly Standard about the civil rights era — "I just don't remember it as being that bad" — has been misconstrued because he was talking about his overall childhood.
In an interview with USA Today Ms. Jolie said the story of the film had been misconstrued, adding: "The film is about the experience that a lot of different people, on all different sides, have as war takes its toll.
