Waiters who are too quick to refill wine glasses, or too eager to ask, "How is everything?" Misguided menu language: basil-enthused, homemade ("Who made the rest of this crap?").
Perhaps more important, he has taken to describing Israel's decades-old attempt to impose itself upon the Palestinians as misguided and "inane", language previously the preserve of the hard-core peaceniks.His political supporters, their numbers now dangerously atrophied, call this courage.
Modern poetry for Sartre is, in the final analysis, a misguided use of language.
The existentialists' lack of interest in poetry (which, in the case of Sartre especially, turns into outright dismissal) is based on their view that poets make a misguided use of language.
But this particular approach seems to me a little clumsy, even if representative of how a lot of people handle the topic of diversity: sincerely, but in misguided fashion, seeking easy languages and metaphors for inclusion that nonetheless inadvertently emphasize division and otherness.
Logau resented the forced lowliness of his position, and he directed much of his satirical wit at courtly life, particularly at the falsity of foreign (primarily French) cultural customs he saw adopted by the nobility, and at their misguided contempt for the German language.
Loose talk about genes "for" neurotic or novelty-seeking behavior, sexual orientation or schizophrenia is misguided not only because such language neglects the surely multigenic nature of nearly all characteristics worth studying, but because the phrase puts genes at the command post and ignores the ineluctably packaged, interactive deal that is DNA and its setting at every stage of life.
Highfield, in an open letter published on MediaGuardian, said he was not sure what depressed him most about the BBC report: "The inflammatory language used, the misguided sentiment behind it, or the fact that the BBC intends parking a tank on every local lawn and offering its version of hyper local news controlled from London W1A.
Brent Staples' advocacy of "scientifically proven" methods of teaching reading, as opposed to whole-language methods, is misguided (Editorial Observer, Jan . 5.
The results haven't always been successful; there have been misguided attempts to enforce Latvian-language education, despite the strong minority of Russian speakers, and flirtations with stringent citizenship restrictions.
