After six months of farcical misunderstandings, culminating in an unexpected funeral, Ken and Lorna belatedly realise that Oskar has taught them a thing or two about life, love and the cosmic amorality of an uncaring universe.
The energy companies wrote to Miliband offering private talks to clear up "misunderstandings" about the causes of rising energy prices.
A series of misunderstandings and a hardening of the government's line towards the miners led Murray to his first important intervention and landed him with a great store of credit.
Now more than ever there is a need for misunderstandings to be avoided and bridges to be built.
Mabanckou also argued that the magazine was simply received in France differently than in the US, and that misunderstandings had resulted from "cross-cultural exchanges: we all belong to one family and we're all committed to freedom of expression".
THANKS to all those who commented on my post about foreigners' most common misunderstandings in Brazil, which generated some media interest here.
An urban Algerian and an urban Jordanian would struggle to speak to each other, but would usually find ways to cope, with a heavy dose of formal standard Arabic used to smooth out misunderstandings.
It's very fair to harbour concern over China's yuan policy, its massive accrued reserves, and the resulting effects on American consumers, but Mr Fallows mistreats the economics involved in order to spin a potential disaster scenario--a rather nasty hypothetical meltdown, if not outright war.The economic misunderstandings are bothersome.
Ms Beard's confident scholarship gives her the licence to shower the acid rain of her humour on many time-honoured clichés, misunderstandings and sentimentalities.
He points out, for example, that the Soviets and Americans maintained a nuclear hotline at the height of the cold war to avoid misunderstandings.
Misunderstandings and disagreements will multiply, even with goodwill on all sides.
