Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with a video camera, trying to prove that people were manipulating him with psychic messages. "It occurred to me that I was losing my mind, but it was only a fleeting thought," Williamson recalls. "I thought the whole mental-illness line of thought was just a trick designed to mislead and oppress...
...Kosovo, the Clinton Administration has tried to ignite idyllic urges by appealing to our sense of democracy and liberty. They have painted Milosevic as a cruel, maniacal despot and the Albanian Kosovars as the innocent victims. Accurate descriptions to be sure, but they have used these images to mislead and manipulate our sensitivities and consciences. Our bombs, we are told, will bring about "peace" and "autonomy"--two of a politician's most effectively ambiguous words. What exactly are "peace" and "autonomy" in a region as volatile and disparate as Kosovo? And how exactly will bombings from the air accomplish this...
...love to mock the Quad. Indeed, the light-hearted River-Quad banter which colors the annual housing lottery is usually amusing and benign. The danger arises, however, when we mislead others into believing house life can be reduced to such simple terms as location and room size. In the wake of randomization, it becomes all the more important for each class to enter their house with an enthusiasm not just to live there, but to belong there. Only then can house spirit survive and flourish...
...strange quality of his writing and the presence of ambiguity and ambivalence in his texts, Kafka presents here a work that seems to almost define his style and his voice. Full of feelings of alienation and an ostensible hatred for authority, the novel manages both to convince and mislead its readers in a burst of sadness, rebellion and surrender that is quintessentially Kafka-esque...
...stressed she did not intend to mislead the council by filing a grant petition with a finance committee...