Sentence examples for misguided fit from inspiring English sources

Angelo, resenting Cinquenta's incursions on his mother's affections, leaves home in a misguided fit of abandonment and attaches himself to Nestor, whom he sees as loyal and guiding and even fatherly.

Consider its remarkably forgiving attitude toward its protagonist, Leontes, king of Sicilia, whose anomalous and tragically misguided fit of jealousy causes the deaths of his wife, Hermione, and their young son, Mamillius.

At a time when they seem to be running away from the party's conservation heritage in a misguided fit of political correctness, the Antiquities Act shows what is possible when Republicans apply the traditional conservative ethic of stewardship to statecraft.

Much of Hess's material is drawn from his rather rackety childhood, a time of endless pranks, misguided attempts to fit in and idiosyncratic punishments meted out by his apparently forbidding mother.

In a fit of misguided optimism, the government had christened 2011 as "Population Year" to signal its commitment to a long-overdue national census that would confirm that the population is soaring and, more to the point, urbanizing at the fastest clip in Asia.

Offered up by a PR person in what appears to be a fit of misguided bundling, I find that I cannot recommend GruvMe.com to anyone except the willfully masochistic and the brain-dead.

Most pro-independence campaigners scoff at the idea of the "Braveheart effect", but it absolutely exists, and for years my worst fear for Scotland was that we'd choose independence in a fit of misguided anglophobic rage, or because we were butthurt by the BBC referring to Andy Murray as British when he wins.

"A Fairy-Tale Hero, but Does the Glass Slipper Fit?" (Sept . 6 was misguided.

Women and minorities promoting each other fits into the misguided idea that they are more likely to indulge in selfish favoritism than promote deserving candidates.

"The only thing I can think of is it's a stupid misguided prank," said Harry Kleinman, 63, who fits hearing aids and lives across the street.

It would appear that this latest absurd story about him, as published by OK! magazine in the US, fitted the Star's misguided belief in there being a "romance" with his sister-in-law.