Random Thoughts on the passing scene: Teresa Heinz Kerry's latest loony statement that pro-Bush hackers could have gotten into the electronic voting machines during last year's election gave me my first misgivings about having criticized her.
When it came time for my first seminar meeting, I collected the required materials, printed out the readings and entered with both hope and misgiving.
I slept on it for many nights, and every morning, despite my worries and misgivings, I woke up excited by the prospect of bringing out my second novel myself.
"My only misgiving about living here is there is not enough diversity," Mr. Jacoby said.
My only misgiving was his squalid portrait of the Mahdiya or Mahdist state.
Those weren't my only misgivings.
This phone is a real all-rounder, so despite my earlier misgivings, it won me round.
My parents' misgivings about the inevitable momentum toward reunification ran deep.
"Amid my major misgivings about abortion, I eventually made the gut-wrenching decision".
My further misgivings about this and similar papers are not even criticisms but more philosophical musings about the status of "Why?" questions in biology.
Personally, I find the experience of reading them poignant and melancholy; a rare glimpse into the creative practices of a deeply private and evasive man: the smudges and fingerprints on the cards, the food stains, the imperfect sentences of a perfect stylist, the erasures, misspellings, second thoughts, misgivings, and the loopy and elegant, almost child-like handwriting.
