Sentence examples for misapprehensions from high-quality English sources.

• The case for Brexit rested largely upon two misapprehensions – or, to put it less kindly, lies.

• Ashbery’s style prizes such mistakes and misapprehensions, as though looking for the word on the tip of the tongue.

• His loss was a severe one to Lee, and compensated in a great measure for the mishap, or misapprehensions, which had fallen to our lot during the day.

• These misapprehensions illustrate the problem with the idea of caveat emptor, or buyer beware, when it comes to retail customers of financial services.

• Given their eagerness to court controversy, it's not surprising that there are misapprehensions about the WBC.

• He’s quite sensitive to how he is or isn’t perceived in the eyes of others, and to the misapprehensions they might make about him.

• I think many of them are beginning to see that lies and misapprehensions and half-truths disfigure their souls, and if they want to save themselves it starts with truth.

• Rather, as Collins (1982, 72) suggests, a good way to avoid such misapprehensions is to offer more elegant translations of Pāli and Sanskrit compounds in which the term self (atta, ātma) is used.

Use misapprehensions in a sentence.

• Mr Williamson—who by then had moved to what is now the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a think-tank—knew better, and proposed convening a conference to correct such misapprehensions.

• At every stage he outlines Russian views of the world fairly, and highlights Western mistakes and misapprehensions, before proceeding to paint the full picture in precise and sometimes scathing terms.

• In Confronting the Classics she is particularly good at explaining how we have come to perceive the ancient world through filters, misapprehensions and bad translations, and, further, what that says about us".

• And health and education departments could do a far better job of teaching their own staff about the sex lives of the disabled, even if it may take time to remove social stigmas and correct horrific misapprehensions, such as that rape is a cure for HIV

• In the brief account of Von Kempelen which appeared in the ‘Home Journal,’ and has since been extensively copied, several misapprehensions of the German original seem to have been made by the translator, who professes to have taken the passage from a late number of the Presburg ‘Schnellpost.’

• 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.