Sentence examples for misguided sense from inspiring English sources

It will give you a misguided sense of confidence.

Bert (Matt Oberg) is an insufferable author with a misguided sense of his own importance.

With money flowing in and a misguided sense of omnipotence he went on an acquisition spree.

It was Burgess and Cairncross who "spied out of conviction rather than from some misguided sense of their own importance".

This sense of victimization creates a misguided sense of unity, and it permits the victims to avoid all responsibility.

However, it's easy to enough to see a misguided sense on fairness behind the failure of almost any policy one happens to support.

Zimbabwe's case is the most egregious, disgracing the countries nearby, especially South Africa, whose leaders hide behind a misguided sense of past comradeship and racial solidarity.

Says Klein: "would never question John McCain's patriotism, no matter how misguided his sense of the country's best interests sometimes seems.

No one was armed; most of them, like me, had been lured to Afghanistan by a misguided and mistimed sense of adventure, and were simply trying to make their way home.

It's worth noting that had the 9/11 hijackers been thwarted in advance, they, too, could have claimed that they were lured by a "misguided and mistimed sense of adventure" and had never been on a battlefield.

Dr Rowan Williams' statement to Chatham House earlier this week was misguided, in the sense that it will be used by the Chinese authorities as another example of the west's tacit acceptance of the human rights abuses that regularly occur in the country.