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Powell's delicacy could not have been more misplaced.

Any hopes that Morsi might leave prison ended there, and the confidence he expressed in the army on 29 June seemed more misplaced than ever.

The city's glass skyline of Pudong skyscrapers on the other side of the river only made this barnacle encrusted, almost Biblical ark filled with slumped, submissive creatures look more misplaced.

There is rarely any nuance, or deeper discussions, even when there is time to do so and I've had more misplaced and incorrect 'facts' about dinosaurs repeated to me from documentaries than from the rest of the media combined.

"What nonsense!" But what McKay is doing, with his sensitive exploration, is surely no more misplaced than the esteemed serial killer authority Brian Masters, with his studies of Jeffrey Dahmer and Dennis Nilsen, or indeed the criminologist David Wilson, with his television documentary about Steve Wright, Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer.

The assumption that multiple realizability "seals the deal" against reductive physicalism and the type identity theory of mind was misplaced initially, and is now even more misplaced after the second wave of recent criticisms.

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Is the Tea Party more than misplaced anger, perhaps?

(John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza have more on misplaced frenzy over last week's budget-talks breakdown).

This soccer incident was more about misplaced aggression than toughness, when a Celta Vigo goaltender attacked his own defenseman during a game.

Professor White said it was more a misplaced sense of morality that was keeping people from making the rational financial decision about a business contract.

More than misplaced desire, she writes, it is "an expression of dominance laced with impersonal contempt, the habit of getting what one wants, and the perception (usually accurate) that the situation can be safely exploited in this way — all expressed sexually".

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