On TV and in the cinema, we are used to thrillers that end by showing that we have been under some misapprehension for much of the preceding story.
Of course, worthy films are passed over all the time, but such puzzling and capricious neglect happens so often that it can be taken as a yearly reminder of the American film establishment's systematic marginalization and misapprehension of much of world cinema.
He'd been at Beatitudes several months when I met him, and though his memory came and went, he spent much of his time under the misapprehension that he was still a practising dentist, stationed at a military base.
Gee's writing is full of such encounters - not major racial flashpoints so much as the unavoidable collisions and misapprehensions that occur when people of different cultures rub shoulders in the street.
Much of it is down to a misapprehension of what it is Klinsmann has achieved in his five years as the USA coach.
The play does have an antiquated preachiness: Jill's cluelessness about the world of the blind seems a bit much, and Don relieves her of her misapprehensions with an annoying condescension.
This misapprehension, this simple ignorance, matters very much in a world where wild plants are increasingly endangered – including, let it be said, many wild relatives of those 30 or so crops, which may be needed to boost resistance to climate change and plant disease in a 21st century where feeding the soaring world population sustainably will be a terrifying challenge.
If this is true then fighting the cuts is going to be much, much harder than just fighting myths and misapprehensions.
"This book represents an exploration into my own confusions about the place and the way in which I grew up, confusions as much about America as about California," she writes, "misapprehensions and misunderstandings so much a part of who I became that I can still to this day confront them only obliquely".
And there are Jacob's intimate relationships with two Czech men, Luboš (a brief affair that founders on misreading and misapprehension) and, later in the novel, Milo (a much happier relationship, which ends — or seems likely to end — only when Jacob returns to America).
