She doesn't make the widespread mistake of looking searchingly into Siegfried's face as he unfolds her at the start of the "White Swan" pas de deux; the drama begins with her reluctance even to meet his gaze.
It was, rather, the use of sentences that began "Bob and me," as in "Bob and me went to play baseball," a widespread mistake that occurred through sixth grade and even beyond.
Save perhaps for the attribution of the F=ma form of the second law to the Principia, the most widespread mistake about Newton's three laws of motion is that they alone sufficed for all problems in classical mechanics.
The most widespread mistake was a failure to include exons encoding TM domains into gene structure prediction.
"To think that the neoimpressionists are painters who cover canvases with little multicolored spots is a rather widespread mistake," wrote Paul Signac in his manifesto of their movement.
Democratic candidates were battling President Obama's forty-per-cent approval rating and a widespread (albeit mistaken) belief that the economy was still in recession.
He said the Treasury's statements tended to contribute to a "widespread, but mistaken, belief that TARP is at or near its end".
There is a widespread and mistaken assumption, Forrest-Thomson argues, that poetry is important for what it tells us about the external world.
On matters of substance, she hits Obama where he is weakest, exploiting the widespread (and mistaken) perception that his policies, and the economic philosophy they are based on, have failed.
There is a widespread but mistaken assumption that metal and its various subgenres primarily appeal to young white males, said Sam Dunn, a Canadian anthropologist who has directed two documentaries about the music scene — "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" in 2005 and "Global Metal" in 2008.
