"We are alarmed by the Central Library Plan, which seems to us to be a misplaced use of funds in a time of great scarcity," the letter says.
In other words, this entire micro-scandal is just the result of misplaced punctuation.Let us ponder the paradox of journalists having too little time to check a translation properly, yet so much time that they spend it writing non-stories.
Chairman Swannell insists that it is "utterly misplaced" to call us complacent.
He suggested his trust in the responsibility of banks had been misplaced: "Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity (myself especially) are in a state of shocked disbelief".
In this book, Janse and her collaborator Charles Gerba use (sometimes badly misplaced) humor to alert us to the risks we run from everyday items like our kitchen cutting board ("If you have a choice between licking a cutting board or a toilet seat... pick the toilet seat" p. 50).
Whether that sympathy is misplaced is not for us to say', he remarked wryly.
But that's the gift Twitter has left us: a misplaced sense of entitlement to express one's opinion as soon as it forms.
More generally, modern technology can sometimes help us find misplaced objects, as you know if you've ever had your girlfriend call your lost cell phone, or used that little button on your keys to make your Toyota Camry honk at you.
The fact that the neocons, from their forums in the nation's most respected media outlets, can simply wave the flag and stoke our fear and keep defense spending politically holy, no matter how malignant it is to American, not to mention the rest of the world's, interests, exemplifies "the disastrous rise of misplaced power" Ike warned us about.
I feared the worst: something that sought to tell us just how misplaced our priorities are.
