How To Use Misreading In A Sentence
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Misreading signals can be disastrous in these situations.
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I just let my misreading of the title steer me in the wrong direction.
Anatomy Of A False Rape Accusation Comment - Part 4
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The buildup has continued, and any misreading of signal - it could be a flash point that could set this thing off - and the consequences are really, they're incalculable.
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The dictionaries are clear that 'toothcomb', although a misreading of the original, is now fully accepted in modern usage.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this looked more and more like a misreading of the situation.
Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
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Lemon and Reis's awful "artfulness" may be due to their misreading "деланье" as Sher thinks they misread it, or it may be due to their completely missing the meaning of the clause and substituting something bland and kind-of plausible.
Languagehat.com: TRANSLATING SHKLOVSKY.
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Have you been misreading the signs all along or unwittingly offended her in some way that meant you didn't make the cut?
Times, Sunday Times
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It's only a matter of time before she goes and spoils it all with an act of self-destructive petulance or a complete misreading of a perfectly innocent situation.
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The users were also responsible for some of these errors, e.g. by misreading the item in the text, especially in cases of English confusables.
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Generously, one can conclude that this wrong approach is responsible for: misguided references to so-called centralisation of power in the state Presidency (when COSATU has called for a stronger Presidency to ensure implementation of AsgiSA), a misreading of the ANC constitution about the roles of the President and the Secretary-General and, to some extent, a presumed orchestrated marginalisation of Parliament.
MANAGING NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TRANSFORMATION
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How can we come within our subdepartment to a common understanding of how we intend to contextualize the students' experience with these texts so that the students will NOT fall into the most obvious and most predictable patterns of misreading, which are all too often created by their desire to reduce any of these complex texts to a sound bite?
Text and Context: The Ongoing Dialogue
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* Former DNC Chair Howard Dean says the pundits are misreading 2010: the mood is anti-incumbent, not anti-Democrat.
Tea Partiers, Jersey, Cheney, Scalia, Guns, 2010, RNC « Gerry Canavan
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The one constant is Mary, who in her fluttery, birdlike way - and through the distorting lens of a perpetually full wine glass - shows a weakness for disastrously misreading casual kindness and winking jokes.
Somewhere between settled and unsettling
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Nothing more distant from the banal misreading of the aesthetic as an apolitical "aestheticism" can be imagined than the arguments to be found in these essays.
Response: Reading the Aesthetic, Reading Romanticism
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Tobolewski might skirt dangerously close to the kind of spaced-out geometric mannerisms that, in a less sensitive artist, would betray a paperback misreading of the cosmic implications of chaos theory.
This week's new exhibitions
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It's only a matter of time before she goes and spoils it all with an act of self-destructive petulance or a complete misreading of a perfectly innocent situation.
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Thomas Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution: I actually find Structure of Scientific Revolutions a bit obscurantist in some respects that encourages misreadings.
Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books
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I may say in passing, that to see my novel Thousand Cranes as an evocation of the formal and spiritual beauty of the tea ceremony is a misreading.
Yasunari Kawabata - Nobel Lecture
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Once, when he finally secured a space close to home, an over-eager warden put a ticket on his car after misreading his valid permit.
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Johnson's study continues the important scholarly work of correcting this misreading.
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At least on my travels I would be misreading the signals for the right reasons, language barriers instead of congenital stupidity.
THE MANANA MAN
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Most important of all, there is a fundamental misreading of the nature of the relationships at work here.
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If you think she has not, you are misreading the signs and there is something wrong with your marriage.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this looked more and more like a misreading of the situation.
Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
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Owing to a misreading of the signature, it was thought to be by the aforementioned bibulous Frans van Mieris the Elder, and was not correctly identified until 1866.
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If you think she has not, you are misreading the signs and there is something wrong with your marriage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Johnson's study continues the important scholarly work of correcting this misreading.
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Have you been misreading the signs all along or unwittingly offended her in some way that meant you didn't make the cut?
Times, Sunday Times
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With all due respect, I think he was misreading my essay.
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Given that the label 'nontrinitarian' is the result of a misreading of Clausewitz, in a sense it is devoid of proper analytical meaning.
Chicago Boyz
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In his case, though, his misreading of the situation was on display to millions.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this label prejudices the case in favor of Aquinas's perspective: it assumes that Marston has been seduced by an Islamic misreading of Aristotle, and it closes off the possibility that Augustine and Aristotle might have more in common than is typically allowed.
Divine Illumination
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In the case of schizophrenics, delusions can arise through misinterpreting other people's actions, misreading other people's minds.
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It says there are a significant number of cases involving people misreading instructions, and accidents involving children overdosing on prescription drugs.
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That might explain why both men find themselves so often misreading the sentiments of the folks back home.
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I think some people are guilty of misreading our logo, mistaking newspaper for newsletter.
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Murti is a misreading for apurti or discontentedness.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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That fat man was probably sitting in his office, spinning in his chair with his hands clasped together in his lap and a huge grin on his face as he imagined me going out there and forgetting the notes or misreading the words.
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Just what I need – increased regulation, higher deficits (and they were plenty high already), a complete misreading of how to deal with Afghanistan (more troops – like the British and Russian campaigns there never happened), and the sclerotic hands of government unions to suck the remaining vitality from the system.
Matthew Yglesias » Zero
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Subsequently described as 'on-off' diplomacy, Obama's hesitancy to provide a stern response resulted in a misreading of intentions from the opposing sides in Honduras, but it became clear that Obama had little appetite to become heavily engaged in a potentially long-running dispute.
Daniel Wagner: Obama's Unfinished Business
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His letter is a collection of false assertions, distortions, innuendos, contradictions, and misreadings.
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In what he apparently takes to be a telling criticism of Bloom's practice as a critic, Benjamin Balint remarks that "We might say that Harold Bloom is the Rashi of misreadings, a kind of contemporary sage who, due perhaps to the excesses of reading itself, himself misreads — sometimes forcefully, sometimes weakly.
Principles of Literary Criticism
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And anybody who sort of thinks that this is sending a message of seeking to cow anyone is really misreading it.
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The series has regularly been described as "fluctuating", a gross misreading of the evidence.
The Ashes 2010-11: Barmy Army in raptures while Australia mourns
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In his case, though, his misreading of the situation was on display to millions.
Times, Sunday Times
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He says that the anxiety of influence comes out of a complex misreading of earlier writers; a creative interpretation that he calls ‘poetic misprision.’
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But thanks for the willful misreading of my intent (without asking for clarification), for accusing me of nativism, and of assuming that I use the category “real Americans” in the “No True Scotsman” vein.dicentra(Quote)
The Volokh Conspiracy » Paul Hollander on the Fall of Communism
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The arguments for genetically modified organisms that have been dinned into us for 15 years are based on an almost sublime misreading of the world's food problems.
