Word: misinterpret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dead after the election, that the House could play with matches because the Senate was fireproof, that Monica was more likely to be invited to tea with Hillary than to testify before the heirs of Daniel Webster, we begin a brand-new year full of startling events to misinterpret and fresh expectations to defy. And so on cue the Senate set about defying them, managing to do what no politicians on this stage had done last year: remain calm, act like grownups and find the safest way to an exit...
...glad to hear those words, but I didn't actually believe them. They smacked to me of academic relativism, the sort of thing where any interpretation is valid, where the notion of "truth" is scoffed at, where a skillful (or lazy) reader can manipulate (or misinterpret) an argument, turn it on its head and still be celebrated as a conquering hero...
Malagrifa said making sure Harvard's building infrastructure is Year 2000 compliant is important because a "computer that turns fans on and off for a building could misinterpret its instructions...
Stich's article conveys the understandable frustration with which the dedicated volunteers on this campus have responded to their deprecation by the "activist" left. But Harvard's volunteers should not misinterpret the source of the attacks upon them. Only through the lens of Augustine's critique can we understand such behavior correctly: it is the seed of unseemly compassion, and Harvard should not tolerate it. Rather Harvard should embrace a spirit of true compassion, one that finds suffering reluctantly and honestly looks forward to the day when it will be no more...
...When you first meet someone of the opposite sex, the first thing you say is not 'I'm an organ player," Forger chuckles. "They'll think you're a monk...or they'll misinterpret what you mean by 'organ...