Sentence examples for misdirected sense from inspiring English sources

In business consultant lingo, Mr. Collins' enterprise had a misdirected sense of mission owing to a leader whose assumptions couldn't be tested.

Perhaps from a misdirected sense of obligation, or maybe the contrarian streak that makes me shun top-rated big-city restaurants for neighborhood joints, since that summer I've stayed at more than my share of independent, mom-and-pop motels.

To water down my atheism with "I don't know for sure" is to resist an inescapable conclusion for the sake of political correctness or a misdirected sense of wanting to be open-minded.

In situations that are difficult to calculate for the assistance system, misdirected assistance causes a sense of discomfort during control and a low work efficiency.

Whether it's the sense of having been misdirected, the feeling of being on set and knowing the possibilities left untapped, or the fact of having a theatrical vocation of which acting is merely the foot-in-the-door for a comprehensive achievement, it often happens that actors become directors.

Using the term in its broadest sense, our attention spends much of its time "misdirected" without any need for outside help.

He says that while a lot of the debate has focused on self-discipline and responsibility, what it has failed to acknowledge is that within the groups at the forefront of the trouble – criminal street gangs and local groups of youths who describe themselves as being in "gangs" – a sense of responsibility and loyalty does exist; it is simply misdirected.

Editorials, news clips, comment sections -- Oh, the comment sections -- how they pose a threat to misdirecting my child's sense of self-worth.

Her work here is made especially memorable by the exactness of her tone in evoking small-town tensions, the often misdirected energies of youth and most especially the process of growing up and acquiring an adult sense of responsibility.

Effort is never misdirected.

Javier Bardem, however, is misdirected.