Sentence examples for misguided marriage from inspiring English sources

And as I grew older the unfolding of Dorothea's life became less immediately poignant to me than the story of Lydgate, who at the start of the book has the bold aim to "make a link in the chain of discovery," but who, thanks to his own misguided marriage, becomes a society doctor known for a treatise on gout — "a disease which has a good deal of wealth on its side," in Eliot's pointed observation.

And as I grew older the unfolding of Dorothea's life became less immediately poignant to me than the story of Lydgate, who at the start of the book has the bold aim to "make a link in the chain of discovery," but who, thanks to his own misguided marriage, becomes a society doctor known for a treatise on gout—"a disease which has a good deal of wealth on its side," in Eliot's pointed observation.

Every other family in the area code fell somewhere on the spectrum of West Coast dysfunction, from adultery and plastic surgery to addictions and misguided second marriages.

Her characters, gathered at a housewarming party, discuss the fate of Eliot's Tertius Lydgate, the ambitious doctor whose professional aspirations are ruined by his misguided choice in marriage.

The rest of us aren't waiting to walk down the aisle because we have "misguided" ideas about marriage.

Their efforts, which reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of marriage, are misguided at best and sinful at worst.

And I was reminded that it is my obligation, not only as an elected official in a pluralistic society but also as a Christian, to remain open to the possibility that my unwillingness to support gay marriage is misguided, just as I cannot claim infallibility in my support of abortion rights.

The related suggestion that the freedom to marry violates some uniform "religious" definition of marriage is equally misguided.

Even the Daily Beast story this week quoting Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's misguided notions of rape and marriage and his threats to ruin a reporter seems to have begun as a more traditional vetting piece.

Dish-hurling, name-calling parents were bad for kids, sure, but so were repressed parents who lingered in tepid marriages under the misguided assumption that a mother and father together were always better than either alone.

I have been married for 33 years, but eight years into the marriage I had a misguided fling.