Word: misunderstood
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...Sotomayor chided the owners. "The owners misunderstood the case law, and many of their arguments were inconsistent," she said. "One side can't come up with new rules unless they negotiate it with the other." A few sports columnists, offended by the speed with which she reached her decision, offered odd indictments of Sotomayor. "I'm sorry she's not male, so I could say what I really think," wrote Furman Bisher of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "I haven't the time or disposition to deal with NOW [the National Organization for Women] right now." However, the legal community...
...about women and partying. Some people are really offended by the song and its video. I know you've stated publicly that the song isn't meant to demean anyone. What were you trying to say there? I think the handful of people who disagreed with this song really misunderstood what the record was about. What I'm talking about is getting money. I was really trying to point out that Arabs have one of the richest cultures in the world, not just from a monetary standpoint but also a spiritual standpoint. In the United States and North America...
...also notes a key difference between Beliefnet and Patheos: "We're multifaith, but for the most part, people use us to explain their own, rather than learn about other, religions," says Waldman. Which is why Patheos may be well supported among those whose religions have been broadly misunderstood. "Islam is this bogeyman," says Patheos contributor Jonathan A.C. Brown, a professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Washington, noting that people act as though "everyone has achieved some enlightenment, except for Muslims, who are stuck in the Dark Ages." For Muslims, he says, "to have a forum where...
...skills.”Outside of the community that TDS has created for the art form, knowledge and support for rap remains obscure in Harvard culture. OUTWIT competitor Jarell L. Lee ’10 feels that this lack of presence stems from the tendency for rap to be misunderstood. “I don’t think people at Harvard appreciate it enough,” Lee says. “They don’t understand that you listen to it exactly like you listen to poetry—for similes, metaphors and alliteration... Even songs that...
...pleases us immensely that you have responded so favorably to our electronic mail invitation. We must admit that we initially feared our recent decision to open our posh Quincy Street premises to students for a fee might be, well, misunderstood. Taken crassly, reduced to financial terms of the crudest sort. The term “desperate” may even have been thrown out—presumptuously, of course...