Sentence examples for misguided comfort from inspiring English sources

Our futures would be better secured if we shed the misguided comfort of secular religion to create a truly transparent market, highly regulated to minimize the impact of corruption, greed and fraud, and free of the false assumption of predictability.

"Everyone's scared of spiders!" "They're more scared of you than you are of them!" "You live in Britain – they can't hurt you!" go the thoughtful, but misguided, words of comfort.

Even assuming we recognise and tolerate these misguided feelings of comfort and mutual support, however, the tribal loyalties that sport engenders, the hatred it encourages, and the violence it sanctions far outweigh any positive good it delivers.

One reason many of us feel immune to deception is a misguided sense of comfort within our own environment.

Lots of misguided yuppies have sacrificed comfort and style for the illusion of reliability and performance.

He didn't begin buttonholing restaurant personnel until years later, after being served all manner of misguided variations — with Scotch, Southern Comfort, crème de menthe, lashings of sugar, or a vigorous and disastrous stirring.

This behavior variable should not be misguided with a simple level of comfort.

His manager's attempts to comfort his charge were probably misguided anyway – Treays seems genuinely delighted at his relative obscurity on the world stage.

I get comfort from my beloved stockpile while preparing myself for the next inevitable (misguided) product change.

Although he was critical of radical Islamists, calling their movement misguided, he remained a fervent Muslim, telling an interviewer that the Koran had been his comfort during long years of captivity.

Tina Fey struggled to step out of her acting comfort zone in "Admission" and Liam Hemsworth's "Love & Honor" was a misguided, overly mushy film that presented an unrealistic view of the Vietnam era in which it was set.