The focus of the book is mostly Rachel's misguided and misunderstood attempts to protect Hilary from a future of high kicks and cartwheels and it is only at the end of the book that we see Hilary's response to her twice-orphaned state.
An allusion to his Hellenic namesake, this description fit a certain poetic license in his work to say one thing and mean another, as well as his often misunderstood attempts at humor, which, like his paintings, allowed multiple interpretations.
That line of research caught the attention of some neighbors, who misunderstood his attempts to see how far squirrels could jump as lessons in how to vault farther to reach distant bird feeders.
Jeffrey R. Holmstead, the lawyer for the electric utility industry who has known Mr. Wehrum for over two decades and who served as his boss at the E.P.A. during the Bush administration, said environmentalists misunderstood Mr. Wehrum and falsely attempted to paint him as a villain.
Designed to allow programmatic access to messages, threads, labels and drafts, the API was initially misunderstood by some as Google's attempt to "kill off IMAP," an older email protocol that offers email access, retrieval and storage.
But to Goldfine, the flight was something quite different--a virtual suicide attempt by a painfully misunderstood youth.
He was defending the so-called "right to be forgotten", attempting to ground its easily misunderstood nature in the daily lives of ordinary people.
For Ms. Griffin the album is an attempt to bring mostly unknown or misunderstood music to pop fans.
Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Traci Goudie Patty Griffin's new album, recorded over five days, is an attempt to bring mostly unknown or misunderstood music to pop fans.
Don't be embarrassed if first attempts at speaking the language are misunderstood.
