Sentence examples for own misapprehension from inspiring English sources

In taking beauty to be such a critical component of womanhood, it misses, and seals in wax its own misapprehension of, what beauty is.

Ambivalence, oscillation, and plain incoherence further result from the overlay of the biological platform with a cloudy blend of recognition and misapprehension where our own long-term rational interests are concerned.

The wisest among us are capable of being under terrible misapprehensions about our own desires, or those of people around us; but the possibility that this particular honeymoon foundered on the basis of a simple case of erotic cold feet seems implausible.

(The so-called Pindaric ode has had a long and distinguished history in English literature, but it derives from an almost total misunderstanding and misapprehension of Pindar's own style and technique).

Some of the translator's work seems off the mark – I don't think Sayn‑Wittgenstein, on her first appearance, can be described as "this portentous princess" – but other curious misapprehensions must be Hilmes's own.

Yet the same story appeared so ridiculous to the University of Cape Town, staff say, that they did not trouble to deny it.To report this misapprehension is doubly sad, apart from our own regret at being caught up in it.

Ostrander hopes the study will help explode the "huge myth" that sharks are immune to cancer--a misapprehension shared even by "people in my own field," he says.

I long since tired of correcting the misapprehension, while for Andy, the final straw came when his own father once complimented him about that fine piece he wrote for The Independent.

People just assume that you're young and you look healthy so they can't get their head around how 'actually you must be really unhealthy to be on insulin and it must be partly your own fault' and they're thinking that you're type 2 and that misapprehension I found really frustrating … the level of judgment that goes with it.

(#23, man, age 20) People just assume that you're young and you look healthy so they can't get their head around how 'actually you must be really unhealthy to be on insulin and it must be partly your own fault' and they're thinking that you're type 2 and that misapprehension I found really frustrating … the level of judgment that goes with it.

Nor have I ever been comfortable with the presumed fraternity of black writers, academics, and intellectuals: I have spent my entire life trying to come to grips with my feelings for my own family, and had little interest in being adopted by another one with its own provincialism, competitiveness, and misapprehensions.