Sentence examples for perhaps misplaced from inspiring English sources

And yet, as Americans watched scientists struggle to plug the undersea well over the past month, it became apparent that our great belief in technology was perhaps misplaced.

The rather glib adaptation of the (also perhaps misplaced) "Arab spring" label was perhaps a clue that nothing lasting or meaningful was going on.

The Uzbek plov was tasty, though perhaps misplaced among the main dishes, as it consisted mostly of rice, with a bit of carrot and a smattering of sautéed beef and lamb meat.

Chuck Ramkissoon, too, is a man who knows that he is estranged from conventional American success and yet he retains an engaging, if perhaps misplaced, optimism about the way forward.

As we boarded the coaches, there was an overwhelming – and perhaps misplaced – sense of achievement.

However, with my masters degree behind me, I have been thoroughly absolved of that perhaps misplaced belief.

There are occasional reminders - perhaps a misplaced pass allows the ball to roll away, or the action stops - and the spectator's gaze lifts from the players' feet to the unfamiliar sight of footballers wearing eye patches.

Eventually, I chronicled my experiences, and the plight of the family and their comrades, in my upcoming book, Grace Revealed: A Memoir, and recently, as I emerged from a thick Stalin-laced fog, I came across another writer who had also stumbled upon a piece of Polish history that would have been left untold and, perhaps, completely misplaced.

The descent was perhaps sped by misplaced enthusiasm for Wilhelm Reich's "orgone box".

Many pregnant women simply don't seek dental care, perhaps out of misplaced fear or neglect.

For those reasons his mature condemnation of it was perhaps not entirely misplaced.