Sentence examples for of misapprehension from inspiring English sources

Above all, it was propelled by Peter Sellers's inspired portrayal of eternally bumbling Parisian Inspector Jacques Clouseau, whose mastery of misapprehension is hilariously augmented by a proclivity for mispronunciation and preposterously transparent disguises.

But that is not journalism; it is an essentially pointless pastime, equal parts maths and cash-free gambling, and it is part of the great mess of misapprehension and false expectation that defined this election.

One problem, admitted in memoirs subsequently published by several participants, is that the US's acceptance of the AF was based on a mix of misapprehension and bad faith.

It's a cinch, now that Spurling has cleared away a century's worth of misapprehensions and canards.

[www.haroldpinter.org] PINTER -- The impetus came from my secretary, Angela, who said: "You need to correct a lot of misapprehensions and misquotations and fabrications.

"Allonsanfan" turns politics into farce, a comic orgy of misapprehensions and betrayals that ends, inevitably, in the hero's betrayal of himself and a death that hinges on nothing more significant than a stupid mistake.

She claimed that "the most precious and inviolate of entities" is, in fact, a messy jangle of misapprehensions, at best an uneasy truce between powerful solitary fantasy systems… we cannot know each other.

The responses published in the letters page of the Guardian on 18 July (Open access plan is no academic spring) took a uniformly negative view, in large part because of misapprehensions about the recommendations of the report and their implementation.

The idea of infant sexuality and of the Oedipus complex can be accepted with a good deal more equanimity than the idea that the most precious and inviolate of entities — personal relations — is actually a messy jangle of misapprehensions, at best an uneasy truce between powerful solitary fantasy systems.

The great final speech of "The Great Dictator," in which, through a wondrous series of misapprehensions, the Jewish barber takes Hynkel's place on the world stage and delivers a humanistic message of peace in his stead — in which the Jewish barber becomes (through Chaplin's voice) the moral beacon of the era — couldn't have come about had the barber and his people not repudiated Schultz's plot.

We also examine different types of misapprehensions in policy-making and find that an incorrect assessment of the economy׳s true structure by the central bank greatly affects its capability to enforce a determinate and learnable, although suboptimal, REE.