The name derives from Evelyn Waugh's novel "Scoop," in which William Boot is the nature columnist of a national newspaper who, owing to a spectacular misunderstanding, finds himself shipped off to cover a civil war in Africa.
Maybe you throw her a curveball like, "What's your relationship with your mother?" The game ends when you win, which is to say you reach the limits of Siri's knowledge, get a laugh out of the misunderstanding, and find relief in the valley of intelligence that separates you from it.
Mary Pickford's 1911 short "Their First Misunderstanding" was recently found in an old barn and preserved by the Library of Congress.
His parents invite the boy's parents for dinner to make amends, and after some misunderstandings quickly find common ground.
America's Muslims look forward to our faith community rising above these ashes of misunderstandings to find ourselves welcome as fellow citizens.
I've found misunderstandings about Buddhism to be prevalent in a variety of topics, ranging from Buddhist ideas on life after death to how Buddhists practice in their daily lives.
Upon completion, major errors, such as misunderstanding of duration of symptoms and misunderstanding of vocabulary, were found in 14% of 34 subsequent physician-patient interactions by these residents over 6 months.
Class prejudice appears to play a role at Hylton High School, the Virginia school featured in the article, and I found cultural misunderstanding to be a powerful force in keeping people apart in one Midwestern town.
Are they just, as Chris Matthews likes to call them, "elective procedures?" In fact, in the past two days I have found the misunderstanding about late-term abortion to be widespread even among many of those in the public health advocacy community.
However, research has found more misunderstandings and less patient satisfaction in medical consultations with ethnic minority patients.
