Ugly basketball is really nothing more than stepping up, probably one of the most misused and misunderstood phrases in athletics.
When rumored allegiances and misunderstood phrases came to its attention, the provost marshal's office investigated claims and meted out punishments, all in the name of a more perfect neutrality.
But it turns out she meant that in very constrained context: "People misunderstood that phrase.
Aleksandr Vondra, the Czech deputy prime minister for European affairs, said later Wednesday that Mr. Topolanek, speaking through an interpreter, had been misunderstood about the phrase "the way to hell".
Hannah Arendt's much-debated and much-misunderstood phrase "the banality of evil" takes on a new and less controversial meaning in the light of the spectacles in Sochi and Syria.
Originally published as a series of articles for the New Yorker and later, in 1963, as a book, Eichmann in Jerusalem coins the overused and oft-misunderstood phrase "the banality of evil," an idea that sparked a tremendous backlash against Arendt, with many accusing her of using the concept to humanize and to some degree exonerate Eichmann and others like him.
The critics have not been impressed by Fellowes's own scholarship: the Observer's Mark Kermode dismissed the script as "blingtastic rewritten cod-Shakespeare", while the Telegraph, which awarded the film one star, suggested that Fellowes himself appeared to have misunderstood certain key phrases in the text.
Either admit, "Sorry, I misunderstood" or learn the phrase for "I thought you said something else" (in Spanish, "Pensé que habías dicho otra cosa") so you can bat it away as you would in English.
In a subsequent debate with Hirsi Ali before the Royal Society of Arts in London, Garton Ash claimed that he had been misunderstood, abjured both the phrase and any ill or condescending intent, and announced that when it comes to the principles of a free society, he is himself a fundamentalist.
When a child has persistent fluid problems, the guidelines suggest strategies that can compensate for a child's temporary hearing loss: "Speaking in close proximity to the child, facing the child and speaking clearly, repeating phrases when misunderstood and providing preferential classroom seating," all far safer than surgery.
