Sentence examples for subtle misunderstanding from inspiring English sources

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A key plot-point at the end of one chapter is delivered in untranslated Italian and, within the English dialogue, there is a subtle misunderstanding between a Calabrian and an outsider speaking Italian.

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Yet in being so subtle, egao risks many netizens misunderstanding the particular brand of humor and subsequently overlooking its core message.

The film features a host of extravagant, exciting performers (including Della Reese and Redd Foxx), and the plot features some outrageous whirligig twists, but the comedy is dead earnest; the movie is filled with casual and agonizing violence, with brutal threats and subtle double-crosses and deadly misunderstandings and deft evasions.

In these consultations the communication barrier may lead to a 'loss' of patient voice (examples 2 and 3 in this paper) or to unresolved misunderstandings arising from subtle differences in speech delivery, word stress and styles of self-presentation.

Such misunderstandings are certainly based on subtle differences in language, but the term CM is ambiguous, as Seshia et al. [9] and Olesen [10] himself recognized, and surely does not help in overcoming them.

But where the situation is more complicated, "as for example, in the matter of the success of a policy, or the social conditions among a foreign people — that is to say, where the real answer is neither yes or no, but subtle, and a matter of balanced evidence," journalism "causes no end of derangement, misunderstanding, and even misrepresentation".

Within this firm framework, Baumbach builds mighty misunderstandings into overlapping streams of clashing dialogue in which sincere declarations, offhanded jokes, deep confessions, and subtle insults go equally overlooked in the torrents of ego.

Surely a misunderstanding.

So, the misunderstanding.

The misunderstanding was fruitful.

Mutual misunderstanding followed.

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